All Critics articles – Page 172
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Comment14 Aug '12
“A mood-killer greater, even, than George Michael doing his new stuff.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment13 Aug '12
“The coverage has been perfectly pitched, the pace, momentum and excitement managed with the finesse of a conductor’s baton.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Wonderland: Young, Bright and on the Right
“Initially looked like straightforward twerp anthropology… It became something richer.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: A History of Art in Three Colours; Fatima Whitbread
“Interesting, memorable, thought-provoking and lingering,” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Girl Who Became Three Boys
“This gift of a subject was well served by the programme makers.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Horizon; The Hit Factory; Jimmy’s Forest
“This proved what I have long suspected – that an attendant television crew is one of the most powerful aides to willpower in existence.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Exploring China; The Simpsons; The Zoo
“Gok Wan did a similar thing recently. But this has more chopped spring onions and fewer histrionics and tears, tantrums and OMG-ing.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Hairy Dieters; Amish: A Secret Life; The Churchills
“There’s something not quite right about the Hairy Bikers dieting.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Vexed; Celebrity Bedlam; Olympics 2012
“This is a parody from telly people with a deep grudge against Eighties TV.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Olympics; The Midwives
“Slightly bland, lacking attitude, character, and characters.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Mission To Mars; Simply Italian
“Staggering, revolting amounts of money being channeled into a whim.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World
“David Attenborough on acid.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Churchills; Obsessive Compulsive Hoarder
“Starkey is not a likable man…But you don’t have to like a teacher to learn from them.”
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CommentTV Critics: Bert and Dickie
“If this was art imitating life then life was imitating a rather corny 1950s B-picture.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Bad Boy Olympian; Twenty Twelve; Jon Richardson: A Little Bit OCD
“I kicked myself for not having seen this brilliant, tender, decent-hearted film months ago.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Ruby Wax's Mad Confessions; Absolutely Fabulous
“Wax is good at making mental illness funny without making light of it.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV critics: The Hollow Crown; Girl Power: Going for Gold
“These four films have been the best thing about the summer.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment20 July '12
“The film was always warm enough to raise a smile.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment19 July '12
“When it comes to sporting soap opera she’s surely unbeatable.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment18 July '12
“The drama wobbles unsteadily in ways that are entirely to the good.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.