All Critics articles – Page 157
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CommentTV Critics: Andrew Marr's History of the World?; Kevin McCloud's Man Made Home; Parade's End; Jimmy and the Whale Whisperer
“How did one of the Corporation’s most valued broadcasting assets end up trapped in this mangled wreck?” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Choir; The Audience; Making Faces
“This season, the series lacks an obvious raison d’être.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Imagine; Antiques to the Rescue; Food Hospital
“They seem to be running out of ideas for TV formats.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Love and Marriage; Lilyhammer; Romanzo Criminale
“Heavy on the anecdotes and thin on the insights.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Masters of Money; Panorama; Leaving
“Enough rigour to make it worthwhile, not too much jargon to make it a snooze.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Downton Abbey; The Thick of It; Moone Boy
“You never really get the sense that it’s going anywhere.” Read on for the verdict on the weekend’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Audience; Bletchley Circle; InterCity 125
“I have a strong feeling that Channel 4 is on to something here.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Dead Good Job; Grand Designs; Be Your Own Boss
“One of the finest films about dying this critic has seen.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Lilyhammer; Trouble on the Estate; Vikings
“I assumed it was an American production. That is not meant as praise.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Leaving; 999: What's Your Emergency?; Hillsborough; Gordon Ramsay
“Touching, understated and entirely believable.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Thick Of It; The Scapegoat; China On Four Wheels
“There’s no escaping it: this opening episode is – whisper it – disappointing.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Bletchley Circle; Hilary Devey: Women at the Top
“A goodish plot, a strong cast and some unexpectedly stylish touches of 50s period noir.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Mrs Biggs; Dallas
“I found it impossible to warm to the pair.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Accused; Bad Education; A Mother's Son
“An exemplary, morally-taxing, emotionally-devouring series.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: A Mother's Son, The Treasures of Ancient Rome
“It’s very good – tense, absorbing, thrilling.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Doctor Who; Richard Hammond’s Crash Course
“It fizzes along, sparkling with life, warmth and wit.” Read on for the verdict on the weekend’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Good Cop; Only Connect; British Cycling: The Road to Glory
“It’s almost Scandinavian in its bleakness. A new genre perhaps, north-west noir?” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Paralympics opening ceremony
The theme of the night was enlightenment – not simply in the age of science and art, but also in regard to disability and perceptions of it.” Read on for the verdict on the Paralympics opening ceremony.
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CommentTV Critics: Who Do You Think You Are?; Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies
“Illuminating, moving and altogether rather wonderful.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Islam: The Untold Story; Accused; GBBO
“The absence of evidence only matters to those for whom evidence is a sort of god.” Read on for the full verdict on last night’s TV.