All Critics articles – Page 156
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CriticsTV Critics: Horizon; Quick Cuts; Hollywood Me; Dates
“Deep in the substrata of the film lay padding.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Route Masters; Something for Nothing; Gibraltar; The Call Centre
“Watching people trying to untangle traffic jams turns out to be only marginally more interesting than actually sitting in them.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Rick Stein's India; The Borgias; The Greatest Shows on Earth
“The culinary wonders of this most magical of countries constantly rang out loud and clear.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: The White Queen; Agatha Christie's Marple; Goodbye Granadaland;
“This is history airbrushed and sanitised, prettified and tidied up, glamourised and un-nuanced.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Horizon: The Secret Life of the Cat; Compare Your Life; Happy Families; Life Savers
“It’s an impressive experiment… deathly dull television, though.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Iraq War; Dates; The Apprentice
“As one narrative of events, The Iraq War proved depressingly convincing.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Child Genius; Agnetha: Abba and After; The Call Centre; Dates; Gibraltar
“The tone of the series is about right. Not snarky or sneery, more celebratory but still able to see the funny side.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Fall; Dates; Precision: The Measure Of All Things
“A gripping, slow-burning, brilliantly constructed tease.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Returned; Terror in the Skies; BGT Live Final; The Voice; Operation Snow Tiger; Poirot
“It looks beautiful. It’s naturally performed, artfully directed, understated, cool. Of course it is – it’s French.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: David Walliams: Snapshot in Time; The Most Dangerous Man in Tudor England
“I would strongly suggest that you only watch this if you happen to be David Walliams.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Love and Marriage; The Apprentice; D-Day
“The jokes will hopefully improve. In the meantime, the drama should keep people tuning in.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Call Centre; Mad Dogs; What Do Artists Do All Day?
“Rarely for such documentaries these days, The Call Centre didn’t look down on anyone.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The People's Coronation; The Fall; Food Unwrapped; Simon Hopkinson Cooks; Mechanical Marvels
“Some might feel that the Beeb has been taken over by a bunch of lefties, but it’s during programmes like this that its establishment credentials come to the fore.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Americans; Spying on Hitler’s Army; Les Dawson
“The Americans was pacy and smart, with enough sex and action to attract casual viewers.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Psychobitches; Up The Women; Cargese; Henry VII: Winter King
“This is very funny women at their very funniest.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV
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CommentTV Critics: The Iraq War; Confessions of a Male Stripper; Mothers, Murders and Mistresses
“The programme-makers showed that you can make 60 minutes of gripping TV about a subject that is exceptionally well known.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Shameless; The Apprentice; Words of Everest
“The script still crackled with the sort of literate, intelligent humour that once set Shameless apart.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Story of Now; The Queen; The Fall; My Hero; David Bowie; Skint; Secrets of a Suffragette
“At no time did anyone appear to feel anything other than confected enthusiasm.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Last Days of Anne Boleyn; Scott & Bailey; Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs
“Even better the disagreements of historians and novelistswere put at the centre of the thing.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Apprentice; Bankers; Great Artists in Their Own Words; Parks and Recreation
“This week’s task is to hang, disembowel each other and sell the entrails to the highest bidder on the black market. No, not really. Just a little dream I had.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.