TV critics – Page 109
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CriticsTV Critics: The 80s; The Supervet; Full Steam Ahead
“This was a hugely entertaining way to get your thoughts provoked.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Three Day Nanny; Versailles; Man Down
“This show can offer useful tips…but only if it’s being honest with us.”
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CriticsTV Critics: An Hour to Save Your Life; First Dates; Wasted
“Contained a jolt of delayed-action inspiration”
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CriticsTV Critics: Brexit; Brief Encounters; Mascara Boys; Naked Attraction; Eden
“It was impossible not to get sucked into the insider titbits.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Van Gogh’s Ear; Flying to the Ends of the Earth
“Neither dismantled the myth nor really solved any mysteries”
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CriticsTV Critics: The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook; Mo Farah: Race of His Life
“It’s not worthy, furrowed-browed analysis. It’s bold, cheerful, there is knitwear and jokes”
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CriticsTV Critics: Suspects; Granny’s Guide to the Modern World; Gogglebox: Brexit
“Semi-improvised style resembles a hard weekend at film school”
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CriticsTV Critics: Borderline; Inside The Factory; Child Genius
“It felt like a comedy that had chosen its moment well”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Girl From Ipanema; Naked Attraction; The Musketeers
“Enough facts to fill ten minutes, stretched thinly across an hour”
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CriticsTV Critics: Ken Loach; Tom Daly; 1966; The Secret Agent
“As absorbing an arts documentary as has been made recently”
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CriticsTV Critics: Hugh’s War on Waste; Roger Bannister: Everest on the Track; Full Steam Ahead
“Unlike an Amazon parcel, this programme was densely packed – with good fact-finding, attention-grabbing stunts and solid campaign journalism”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Three Day Nanny; Masters of the Pacific Coast; Long Lost Family
“Even if you don’t totally believe this happy-families journey, Three Day Nanny does have some good advice and tips.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Wasted; Inside the Factory
“It’s very funny – in a way that might occasionally make you ashamed of yourself for laughing.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Naked Attraction; Coach Trip: Road to Ibiza; Dispatches: How School Bosses Spend Your Millions
“By the time bisexual Mal revealed ‘what kind of vagina she liked’ with an anatomical description you could feel your brain starting to desiccate.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Robot Wars; Keith Richards: The Origin of the Species; The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl
“Silly, this certainly was. And probably pointless, too. But you couldn’t help thinking that Robot Wars’ time has finally come.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home; The Investigator: A British Crime Story; Fleabag; Full Steam Ahead
“This moving documentary has given human faces to a camp we usually only see from the air.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Joy of Data; Long Lost Family
“Fry made data seem like some magical and benign force wafting around all of us: magnetic, unthreatening, a bit sexy.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Horizon; The Search for the Lost Manuscript; Imagine
“Dumbed down, sexed up, a tad dishonest and, at times, plain daft.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Swim the Channel; The Somme 1916 – From Both Sides of the Wire; Forces of Nature with Brian Cox
“It was like the 40 Minutes docs of old (remember those?), the slightly offbeat feel somehow adding up to a deeper understanding of a very British subculture.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Secret Agent; One Night in 2012: An Imagine Special
“The television of 1996 was evoked as much as the London of a 100 years earlier.”