All Critics articles – Page 55
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CriticsMichael Palin’s Himalaya: Journey of a Lifetime
“This hour proved there is great merit in revisiting old travel shows”
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CriticsMasterChef: the Professionals
“It managed to produce an entertaining series in which you could barely see the join”
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CriticsThe Real Full Monty: On Ice
“The sort of programme that takes you by surprise simply by dint of its heartfelt tenderness”
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CriticsMortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Christmas Fishing
“These middle-aged men imbued me with the spirit of Christmas.”
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CriticsQueens of the Street
“There seems no limit to how often viewers will happily watch black-and-white clips of Ena Sharples in her hairnet, gossiping with her cronies”
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CriticsThe Banksy Job
“This crowd-funded documentary was like a Guy Ritchie movie without a script.”
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CriticsThe Vicar Of Dibley In Lockdown
“The Vicar of Dibley, even on two cylinders, is pure comfort knickers”
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CriticsGary Barlow’s Night at the Museum
“If ever there was a show begging to be watched on Boxing Day after you’d imbibed several sherries and an eggnog chaser, it was this”
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CriticsNew Elizabethans with Andrew Marr
“At times it felt like taking an acid trip in Madame Tussauds”
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CriticsInside Cinema: Guilt-Free Pleasures
“Catherine Bray’s documentary was an entertaining, authoritative quick-fire romp through classic stinkers”
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CriticsThe Dambusters
“If you could surrender to the Snow effect, embrace the military-magazine feel, then the simple retold facts of 617 Squadron were gripping enough”
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CriticsAnton Ferdinand: Football, Racism and Me
“This was a sober, intelligent reflection on a very ugly problem”
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CriticsSmall Axe: Red, White and Blue
“The real Logan must be pleased with the treatment of his story in a script that was neither sensationalist nor clichéd”
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CriticsThe Repair Shop
“I am not sure there is a more lovely show on television than The Repair Shop”
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CriticsThe Great British Bake Off
“A nation needed televisual comfort from its favourite sweet-toothed treat and it duly delivered.”
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CriticsThe Hijacker Who Vanished: The Mystery of DB Cooper
“This wonderfully entertaining Storyville film goes some way towards finding a convincing account of who DB Cooper might have been”