All Critics articles – Page 178

  • Operation Mincemeat
    Comment

    6 Dec ‘10

    2010-12-06T10:32:00Z

    “It was like tailoring a bespoke suit without taking any measurements from the client or bothering with the tedious process of sewing the bits together before delivery.” Read on for the verdicts on the weekend’s TV.

  • At Home With the Georgians
    Comment

    3 Dec ‘10

    2010-12-03T10:52:00Z

    “It may have been massaging the truth or using only carefully chosen examples but it suggested things were mighty different in Jane Austen’s day.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Mad Men Don Draper
    Comment

    02 Dec ‘10

    2010-12-02T12:22:00Z

    “If ever television drama attained high art, it was that episode.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Nick Griffin in The Battle for Barking
    Comment

    1 Dec '10

    2010-12-01T11:01:00Z

    “A tragic-comedy in which everyone felt oppressed by everyone else.” Read on for the verdict of last night’s TV.

  • Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Godders
    Comment

    30 Nov '10

    2010-11-30T11:10:00Z

    “Hislop is turning into a rather good TV social historian.” Read on for the verdict on last nights TV.

  • Donald Trump: All-American Billionaire
    Comment

    29 Nov ‘10

    2010-11-29T12:00:00Z

    “It was a passably interesting look at an American success story but based on the illusion that there was an enigma beneath it all.” Read on for the verdict on the latest TV shows.

  • Can't Bully Me
    Comment

    26 Nov ‘10

    2010-11-26T11:43:00Z

    “One of the most worrying elements to emerge over the course of the programme was the correlation - entirely unremarked upon by the narrator - between young carers and bullying.” Read on for the verdict on last nights TV.

  • Fry and Laurie Reunited
    Comment

    25 Nov '10

    2010-11-25T15:02:00Z

    “It’s quite something to make more of a pig of the English language than Sugar does himself, but Jamie somehow manages.” Read on for the verdict on last nights TV.

  • Peter Mandelson
    Comment

    24 Nov '10

    2010-11-24T10:59:00Z

    “Better are the moments that aren’t orchestrated by the man himself, like the time Rothschild catches him with his trousers down.” Read on for the verdict on last nights TV.

  • Dispatches: City of Fear
    Comment

    23 Nov '10

    2010-11-23T11:43:00Z

    “This film followed a year in the lives of the victims of the bombings and the Islamabad police force and what emerged was a portrait of resilience and resignation.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Any Human Heart
    Comment

    22 Nov '10

    2010-11-22T13:29:00Z

    “Looks set to be the Brideshead Revisited of the 21st century.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Beeny’s Restoration Nightmare
    Comment

    19 Nov '10

    2010-11-19T10:34:00Z

    “I like Sarah Beeny: she’s jolly and fun – an enthusiastic labrador of a presenter.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Edwardian Farm
    Comment

    18 Nov '10

    2010-11-18T10:31:00Z

    “We can never know how the original people felt about it.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • The Family
    Comment

    17 Nov '10

    2010-11-17T10:48:00Z

    “It’ll never get boring because no two families can ever be the same.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Accused
    Comment

    16 Nov '10

    2010-11-16T12:00:00Z

    “A compelling dissection of the fragility of ordinary lives, but you did long for just a little light and shade.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • garrows_law.jpg
    Comment

    15 Nov '10

    2010-11-15T10:38:00Z

    “The only pity is that, just as the last one was, this series is lamentably short.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • edwardian_farm_a.jpg
    Comment

    11 Nov '10

    2010-11-11T12:09:00Z

    “Expecting viewers to hang in for 12 episodes is overdoing it rather.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • london_zoo.jpg
    Comment

    10 Nov '10

    2010-11-10T12:51:00Z

    “It was really about the passion of the upright apes.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Giles and Sue Live the Good Life
    Comment

    9 Nov '10

    2010-11-09T12:02:00Z

    “A genteel confection designed to amuse first and inform second.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • the_walking_dead1.jpg
    Comment

    8 Nov '10

    2010-11-08T11:13:00Z

    “The whole thing is deeply uncomfortable.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.