TV critics – Page 106
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CriticsTV Critics: Planet Earth II; Poldark; China: Between Clouds and Dreams; Tutankhamun
“This kind of jaw-dropping, eye-opening television is exactly what makes the licence fee such a bargain.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Gun Shop; Conspiracy Files; Bublé at the BBC
“It made me very, very relieved to be living in a country that has strict gun control.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Television’s Opening Night; This Time Next Year; Unarmed Black Male
“The 80th-anniversary documentary was overlong and over-technical, but brilliantly recreated the tension of that first night.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Choir; Storyville; The Moonstone; Ordinary Lies
“By the time Mums in Durham are at the miner’s welfare centre belting out Billy Joel’s She’s Always a Woman to Me to their weeping children, husbands and nans, I’m sold.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Dark Angel; Moonstone; Ice Train To Nowhere
“This is what Downton might have been like, if its creator Lord Julian Fellowes had been an Islington Leftie.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Young Pope; For The Love Of Dogs; The Fall
“The Young Pope defies all rational description. However bad you imagine it could be, it’s immeasurably worse.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great British Bake Off; The Missing; Gogglebox
“This was a curious final. Not just for the elephant the size of Paul Hollywood’s pay cheque that lurked in the tent, but for the oddly low-key tasks.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild; Fatal Experiments
“This was gripping enough, but the sideshow of director v subject made for equally fascinating viewing.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Cold Feet; Saving Africa’s Elephants: Hugh and The Ivory War
“Seven million viewers, in this age of about six million ways of watching TV, aren’t easy to come by.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Harry Hill’s Tea Time; Poldark; Born Free
“There’s an old-school charm to Hill’s persona”
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CriticsTV Critics: Black Mirror; Surviving Aberfan; Anne Robinson’s Britain
“Mark Evans seems to be constantly surprised at the basic premise of his own show.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Crazyhead; Him; Puppy Secrets: The First 6 Months
“Crazyhead is Buffy the Vampire Slayer but with bad language and a down-to-earth attitude to sex and romance.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Ordinary Lies; Married at First Sight; Who’s Spending Britain’s Billions?
“The episode was far less ordinary than the lightweight, primetime acting made it seem.”
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CriticsAndrew Marr’s Paperback Heroes; SAS: Who Dares Wins; Raw Recruits
“If the script really called for so many accents, they should have got Rory Bremner.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Nature’s Weirdest Events; The Apprentice; The Fall; Zapped
“This series often feels like a show you might stumble upon while flicking through the high numbers on the set-top box.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Missing; The Aberfan Young Wives’ Club
“It is utterly gripping and intriguing, and will have you lying awake puzzling and worrying.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Divorce; National Treasure; Damned
“The show is set in a bitter upstate New York winter and every time it makes you smile your lips get chilblains.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Victorian Slum; Reggie Yates; Morgana Robinson
“The odd moment of unintentional humour aside, it managed to provide some valuable and forceful insight.”