All Critics articles – Page 162
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CommentTV Critics: The Making of a Lady; The Killing; SPOTY; River Cottage; Him & Her
“There’s something of Hunderby about it… Only this doesn’t have the laughs.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Hour; Wrestling's Golden Age; The 15-Stone Babies; Pensioners Behind Bars
“It may not match the best of the crop on the other side of the Atlantic. But it’s ours and it really is awfully decent.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Miniature Britain; Weight Loss Ward; The Town; Rome; The Hour
“As uncomplicated as a Victorian lantern lecture but none the worse for that really.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s show.
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CommentTV Critics: Cuba with Simon Reeve; Last Tango In Halifax; Inside Guinness World Records
“A steady, wordless rebuke to the dream of a centrally planned economy.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Poison Tree; Little Crackers; Inside Claridges
“It has all the ingredients of an intriguing thriller and yet I find myself entirely not intrigued by any of it.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Rome's Lost Empire; Westminster Abbey; The Trouble with Aid
“It wasn’t so much a documentary as an adventure in time and space.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Madeley Meets the Squatters; Jamie & Jimmy's Food Fight Club; A Young Doctor’s Notebook
“For most viewers the unintentional Partridgean comedy would have been the best reason for watching.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV,
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CommentTV Critics: The Town; China's Ant People; Rome; The Inbetweeners USA
“Special enough to give the comedy-drama genre back its credibility.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: My Monster and Me; Great Land Rush
“A mesmerising presence who seems to speak in perfect sentences.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Fear, Inside Claridge’s
“It ends up resembling a men’s coffee table magazine.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Alien Investigation, Solar Mamas, The Secret of Crickley Hall
“90 per cent of the programme was the equivalent of a freak show’s painted promises.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Secret Life of Rubbish; Captive; Falcón; Great Continental Railway Journeys; The Aristocrats
“This was an interesting and provocative documentary.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV/
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CommentTV Critics: Poor Us; Goodnight Britain; Supersized Earth; The Hour
“You were richer for watching it.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Dark Ages; Park Avenue; Fresh Meat
“A programme whose art, and indeed arguments, dazzled.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Curious Case of the Clark Brothers; Dying for Clear Skin; Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler; Gadget Man; Britain's Best Bakery
“It must rank as one of the most unremittingly distressing things I have ever seen on television.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Peep Show, Him and Her; 4Funnies; Return To Forgotten Britain
“Watch-through-your-fingers-make-it-stop stuff.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Aristocrats; Falcón
“The film was cursed by an almost embarrassing affability towards its subjects.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Supersized Earth; Bradley Wiggins; Getting On; The Hour
“A fine example of what might be termed ‘Holy shit!’ programming.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Last Tango in Halifax; Fresh Meat
“It triumphed because it wasn’t about old people or even elderly romance, but love.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Stephen Fry: Gadget Man; I Want to Change My Body; The Golden Age of English Food; Four Born Every Second
“It’s the Gadget Show with extra alliterative wit and words.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.


















