TV critics – Page 113
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CriticsTV Critics: Fierce; The Tiny Tots Talent Agency; Tribal Teens
“The more precious the site, the more wondrous the natural wonder, the more the presenter and his voice get in the way.”
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CriticsTV Critics: I Want My Wife Back; The People v OJ Simpson; Pubs That Built Britain
“This felt more situation than comedy, never quite escalating into knockabout.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Horizon; Tom Jones’s 1950s; Michael McIntyre’s Big Show; The Five
“An absorbing and challenging Horizon, an oddly heavyweight option for Sunday evening.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Secret Files; Jungle Animal Hospital; Bargain Shop Wars; British Army Girls
“The Secret Files is a fascinating idea and last night’s selection shimmered with gems.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Normal For Norfolk; Scott & Bailey; What British Muslims Really Think
“A programme which sat somewhere between a Seventies sitcom and an episode of The Apprentice.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Camping; The Tunnel; Britain's Treasure Islands; River Monsters
“There’s no better comedy around at the moment.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Abused; Into the Wild; The Island
“It’s to Auntie’s credit that here on primetime was a programme directly addressing its institutional failures around Savile.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Britain's Got Talent; Home Fires; Hidden Britain by Drone; 11.22.63
Cowell needed Beau Dermot because the rest was repetitive fare”
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CriticsTV Critics: How to Stay Young; Workers or Shirkers?; Army Girls
“It was a thought-provoking hour that will have had every viewer mentally calculating how many years they could add to their life by dropping this, taking up that and eating more of the other.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The People Next Door; Grantchester; The Reassembler
“A glittering puzzle box of a mystery that hinted at dark deeds without ever fully showing its hand.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Drive; How Not to Do DIY; Bake Off Crème De La Crème
“This is going nowhere and I’d rather sit in traffic.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Marcella; James May: The Reassembler; Sex Box
“The whole thing felt untethered to reality, which didn’t do much for its credibility but helped it to work surprisingly well as drama.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Undercover; The Durrells
“I didn’t mind not having a clue what was going on, even if at times it felt like at least three different dramas were playing out in tandem.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Line of Duty; The Secret History of My Family; Mission Survive; Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle
“What confidence Mercurio has in his storytelling – the nerve, to hold it all back until the second episode!”
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CriticsTV Critics: Bake Off: Crème de la Crème; Murdered By my Father; The A Word
“A bloodless, uninvolving affair at once frenetically busy and yawningly free of incident.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Maigret; The Island; Gok's Lunchbox
“Classier than vin ordinaire, but still an early vintage.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Employable Me; MasterChef; Chef vs Science
“It’s warm, human, moving telly.” Read on for more reviews of last night’s television.
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CriticsTV Critics: The A Word; Ross Kemp's Britain; Exposure
“The whole thing feels slightly underpowered so far – but there are nevertheless some fine moments.”
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CriticsTV Critics: An Island Parish; The Tube; The Food Chain
“An Island Parish made me yearn to flick a stone across the flat sea, and spend a sunny morning watching the world while waiting for a bus.”