TV critics – Page 103
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CriticsThe Good Karma Hospital; Apple Tree Yard
“This was a holiday for the eyes, a harmless bit of featherlight fluff.”
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CriticsThe Great Pottery Throw Down; Escape To The Wild; Parenting For Idiots
“This is a good show. Maybe Channel 4 should snap it up.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The British Empire; The Great Literary Scandal; Hospital
“It is a bit too diplomatic for such deeply divided and egregious times.”
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CriticsSicily; Tales from the Coast; The Modern British Slave Trade; Further Back in Time for Dinner
“Really it was a posh travelogue, aimed at people who love to boast of the dear little taverna they know in Palermo.”
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CriticsGeorge III; Art of France; French Adventure
“Here was another frustratingly GCSE-level slice of history from the BBC, determined to patronise viewers with bland pedagogic instruction.”
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CriticsFrancis Bacon; Apple Tree Yard; Special Forces; The Brit Who Tried To Kill Trump
“This was a barnstorming arts documentary that paid no lip service to the notion that we need to know about an artist’s technique to understand his work.”
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CriticsThe Cult Next Door; Fortitude; British History’s Biggest Fibs
“Confirmation that Vanessa Engle is the most important and original documentary maker working in British television today.”
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CriticsWomen Who Kill; Who Do You Think You Are?; Witless
“Director Matt Pelly probed a little behind the lurid headlines but not deep enough.”
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CriticsFurther Back in Time for Dinner; Case
“The series is always lovely to watch, whichever period it is set in.”
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CriticsHorizon; Royal Recipes; Reggie Yates; Great American Railroad Journeys
“Your interest in all this was probably correlated to how long you spend faffing in the mirror each day.”
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CriticsApple Tree Yard; Homeland; Call the Midwife
“Apple Tree Yard is adult drama in the best sense – subtle, unsettling and richly rewarding.”
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CriticsHorizon; Spy in the Wild; Urban Myths
“In terms of gripping TV, the programme fell slightly short.”
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CriticsMidsomer Murders; Hospital
“It’s not going to break any taboos, win any awards, or strike any real fear into the hearts of viewers, but it’s good, old-fashioned fluffy telly.”
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CriticsMeet the Trumps; Sugar Free Farm; Revolting; Martin Clunes
“It’s a shame it doesn’t reveal that Donald was actually born in Mexico, but it’s still pretty good.”
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CriticsCoach Trip; Britain’s Ancient Capital; Insert Name Here; Pointless
“This is television for people who find Big Brother too intellectually demanding.”
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CriticsSherlock; Taboo; Endeavour; Walking The Americas
“It certainly got the pulse racing, but it stretched credibility to the limit.”
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CriticsChewing Gum; Spy In The Wild; Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best?
“A big slice of modern working-class urban life shoved rudely, and gloriously, right in your face.”
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CriticsHospital; No Offence; The Lobby; The Reassembler
“An hour of television to leave you worn out and deeply worried.”
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CriticsOur Dancing Town; Islands of Australia; Bright Lights; Dan Snow On Lloyd George
“As people realise what this is all about, they will love it.”
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CriticsThe Week We Went Wild; The Halcyon; The Undateables; The Great Indoors
“It was lazy, corrupt, exploitative of damaged, vulnerable people and altogether shameful.”