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CriticsCritics: Bad Sisters
“This is a fine addition to the growing collection of stories told unapologetically for, by and about women on mainstream television”
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Critics: Britain’s Secret War Babies
“A fascinating, moving, saddening slice of history that I’m ashamed to say I didn’t know enough about”
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The Billion-Pound Savings Scandal; Better Call Saul; The Box; High Heat
“You could sympathise with the sense of anger and humiliation felt by the amateur investors”
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Red Rose; Porn King: the Rise and Fall of Ron Jeremy
“Red Rose captured the internet’s dizzying expanse of possibilities along with the astonishing bleakness of its deepest depths”
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Marriage; A Very British Way of Torture; Afghanistan: Getting Out; The Princess
“Gruellingly honest about the realities of long cohabitation, with its micro-niggles and unaddressed sorrows”
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Football Dreams: The Academy; Cosmic Love; Five Days at Memorial; Ambulance
“The episode’s most unexpected achievement? It (almost) made you want to become a Crystal Palace fan.”
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Shetland; Celebrity MasterChef
“Subtle, unshowy but hauntingly powerful and highly atmospheric.”
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Tom Daley: Illegal to Be Me; Cryptocurrency: Has The Bubble Burst?; Secrets Of The Spies
”Daley is the headline act, the gateway to a difficult and often harrowing documentary that shines a light on other people’s stories.”
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Good Grief; I Just Killed My Dad
“Coles offered well-observed, sometimes funny nuggets of wisdom throughout.”
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Van der Valk; India 1947: Partition in Colour; The Real Windsors: Queen of Steel
“Marc Warren has great presence as the sexily inscrutable Van der Valk”
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Code 404; The Sandman; Arsenal: All or Nothing
“The premise is great, a comedy skit on RoboCop, and it’s got a cracking cast”
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The South Bank Show; The Great; Trainwreck: Woodstock 99; Code 404
“Acosta was a good talker, a generous interviewee who gave proper answers, which meant that Bragg needed to do little prompting”
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Vicky Pattison: Alcohol, Dad and Me; Irma Vep
“Pattison is an absolute gift of a presenter: commanding, charismatic, beadily intelligent, unfailingly honest and unflaggingly articulate”
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Inside the Factory XL: Trains; La Brea; Susan Calman’s Grand Week By The Sea
“Wallace’s manic enthusiasm is the hallmark of Inside the Factory”
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War and Justice: The Case of Marine A; Neighbours
”It carefully examined the case of Sgt Alexander Blackman and allowed viewers to make up their own minds”
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The Resort; The Commonwealth Games: Opening Ceremony; Lancaster; Big Oil v The World
“The show is aiming for an eccentric, Big Lebowski energy that it can’t quite achieve, but at least it has a good go”
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The Great; The South Bank Show; Keep Breathing
“It’s certainly more fun than the turgid series from a few years back starring Helen Mirren”
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Critics: Under the Banner of Heaven
“It’s unflinching in its brutal interrogation of the religion”
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Help! We Bought a Village; Myanmar: The Forgotten Revolution; River
“Combining house-hunting with escapism, this was textbook daytime fluff”
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The Newsreader; Murder In Provence; Million Pound Motorhomes
“The show is excellent at capturing the weird, restrained elation that a large-scale tragedy can bring to a newsroom”
