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CriticsTV Critics: Digby Jones: The New Troubleshooter; Porn: What's the Harm?; Everyday Eden
“This is quietly confident troubleshooting without all the usual concessions to soapy manipulation.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Under Offer: Estate Agents On The Job; Ian Hislop's Olden Days; W1A
“It’s hard to remember when such a great television find has been so badly wasted.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Call Centre; The Battle for Britain's Breakfast; The Great British Sewing Bee
“You couldn’t shake the feeling that you were caught in a feedback loop of shtick.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Game of Thrones; Undeniable; Treasure Hunters
“A so-so start to a season billed to be the best of them yet.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Crimson Field; The Trip To Italy
“Lavish, performed with gusto, obviously well researched, and historically fascinating.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Real Ripping Yarns; 15,000 Kids and Counting; Jockey School; Hercules The Human Bear
“Real Ripping Yarns provided a novel lens though which to view a major change in British culture/”
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CriticsTV Critics: Kim Philby – His Most Intimate Betrayal; Monkey Planet; Invasion of the Job Snatchers; W1A
“For once in an historical documentary, the re-enactments felt right.”
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CriticsTV Critics: New Worlds; Horizon: Living with Autism; Killer Magic
“This new cast of Skins graduates and ex-models didn’t quite live up to the Devil’s Whore originals.”
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CriticsTV Critics: London Live launch; Our Gay Wedding; Rev; Nigel Farage: Who Are You?
“Night one was amateurish, of course it was, but does everything need to be slick?”
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CriticsTV Critics: Endeavour; Border Country; Louis Theroux's LA Stories
“No amount of Scandi-cool direction from Kristoffer Nyholm could make this draggy script zip along.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Believe; Salting The Battlefield; Mayday; Klondike; Ade At Sea; How to Get Ahead
“[Either]thrillingly mysterious or just lazily underwritten.”
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CriticsTV Critics: MasterChef; W1A; Dead Famous DNA
“After a decade it’s feeling like same old same old.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Missing; Lambing Live; Secrets of Bones; Secrets of the Vatican; Parkinson: Masterclass
“This programme should have taken more risks, instead of allowing so much to remain unsaid.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Rev; The Widower
“The performances are wonderful. It’s clever – smartly written and sharply observed.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Louis Theroux's LA Stories; Martin Amis's England
“This time it was not the pretensions of his subjects being parodied, it was his own over-familiar format.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Turks & Caicos; Arena; Dangerous Dogs
“Turks & Caicos wasn’t a thriller so much as a series of stagey set-pieces.”
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CriticsTV Critics: W1A; Line of Duty; Brakeless: Why Trains Crash
“This mockumentary needs a bit more ‘mock’.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Food Prices: The Shocking Truth; Undercover Doctor: Cure Me, I'm Gay
“It was not shocking, but it was full of interesting points.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Widower; Life and Death Row
“The absolute glue here is Reece Shearsmith as Webster. His was a twitch-perfect performance.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Harry’s South Pole Heroes; Oh Do Shut Up Dear!; The Americans
“It was laughs as well as sheer admiration that made this such inspirational viewing.”