TV critics – Page 121
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CriticsTV Critics: World’s Busiest Railway; Muslim Drag Queens; Soup Cans And Superstars
“Watching three people trying to board a commuter train will never be landmark television.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Time Crashers; Country Strife: Abz on the Farm; Zeb’s River Journey Thailand
“It is purely old-fashioned entertainment of the kind I worried television had stopped making.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Building the Ancient City: Athens and Rome; Who Do You Think You Are?; Trapped in a Cult?
“This mix of wonder, backed up with actual knowledge, is all I ever want from a documentary”
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CriticsTV Critics: Return of the Giant Killers: Africa's Lion Kings; Britain’s Spending Secrets; Horizon: First Britons; Top Coppers
“Make no mistake, this was a beautifully shot, brutal look at the circle of life.”
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CriticsTV Critics: School Swap – The Class Divide; Terror on Everest: Surviving the Nepal Earthquake; New Tricks
“A touching, optimistic appraisal of state education as it faces unprecedented pressures.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Scandalous Lady W; Revenge Porn; Show Me A Hero
“A cliché of female emancipation when greater insights and complexity beckoned.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Abz on the Farm; The Saturday Night Story; Zoo
“It’s entertaining and as fresh as a cowpat.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Very British Problems; Who Do You Think You Are?; The Unbreakables
“Straining to seem socially anthropological, the show often forgot to be funny.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Horizon; Supervet In The Field; The Great British Bake Off
“This was a balanced assessment. It was also, surprisingly for a medical-focused film, evocatively shot.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Christian Louboutin; Aquarius; The TV That Made Me; Scrappers
“You didn’t have to be overawed by Louboutin’s creative process to find this year-in-the-life snapshot amusing.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Brits Behind Bars; The Last Man on Earth; Britain’s Nuclear Secrets; Plant Odysseys; Epilepsy and Me
“I’ve seen documentaries about grocery shops with less access than this.”
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TV Critics: Atomic; Partners in Crime; Sinatra; From Venice to Istanbul
“This was not an informative piece of film-making: it was an art installation masquerading as television.”
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CriticsTV Critics: If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World; Sex in Class; Wonder Of Britain; Flockstars
“If Katie Hopkins Rule the World was a mixed bag: part game show, part tabloid talk show, part gaseous deposit of horse droppings.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great British Bake Off; Earth's Natural Wonders; Horizon: The Trouble with Space Junk
“Pruning two days of footage into a gripping hour is no mean feat and this was tight as a marquee guyrope.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Are Our Kids Tough Enough?; New Tricks; Hunt For The Arctic Ghost Ship
“The trajectory of the documentary felt as repetitive as a Chinese lesson plan.”
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CriticsTV Critics: A Very British Brothel; Flying to the Ends of the Earth; Travel Guides; Life In Squares
“A fascinating snapshot of the more responsible end of a largely hidden world.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Tut; Humans; Partners in Crime; Nature Nuts
“It has enough colourful costumes, large-scale battles and exotic harem-set scenes to make it one of Channel 5’s most promising acquisitions since Gotham.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Prince Philip; Flockstars; Atlantic
“This was interesting both as a biography of this eccentric royal and as a record of the behind-the-scenes machinations of an influential 20th-century figure.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Signed, Sealed, Delivered; Witnesses; The Day They Dropped The Bomb
“There’s a trend in TV for these corporate documentaries. They’ve become predictable, with the distinct whiff of a PR exercise.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Three Day Nanny; Taskmaster; Child Genius; Brits Behind Bars
“To succeed as television, extra infusions of tantrums and teeth-gnashing were urgently required.”