TV critics – Page 155
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TV Critics: Peep Show, Him and Her; 4Funnies; Return To Forgotten Britain
“Watch-through-your-fingers-make-it-stop stuff.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: The Aristocrats; Falcón
“The film was cursed by an almost embarrassing affability towards its subjects.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Supersized Earth; Bradley Wiggins; Getting On; The Hour
“A fine example of what might be termed ‘Holy shit!’ programming.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Last Tango in Halifax; Fresh Meat
“It triumphed because it wasn’t about old people or even elderly romance, but love.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Stephen Fry: Gadget Man; I Want to Change My Body; The Golden Age of English Food; Four Born Every Second
“It’s the Gadget Show with extra alliterative wit and words.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: The Killing III; The Secret of Crickley Hall; Crossfire Hurricane; Him & Her; Storyville
“I can feel myself being sucked in, accelerating down into darkness. Resistance is futile.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Everyday
“There’s an authenticity to it that I don’t think I’ve ever seen in drama before.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: The Hour; Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
“The writing is tight and the performances are so uniformly good that the minor characters feel every bit as well-drawn as the central trio.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV
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TV Critics: Chateau Chunder; Some Girls; Heston's Fantastical Food; Dara Ó Briain's Science Club; The Mind Reader; Deirdre and Me
“Cheeky, vivacious but with surprisingly complex undertones.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Chinese Murder Mystery; Full English; The First Masterchef; The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler
“Gripping for all the right reasons.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Andrew Marr; Attenborough's Ark; Time Team Special; How Britain Worked; Homeland
“I wouldn’t say he was the wrong man for the job but the job was all wrong from the start.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Great Continental Railway Journeys; Richard E Grant's Hotel Secrets; Kirstie's Vintage Home; The Year The Town Hall Shrank; Young Apprentice
“Portillo has been required to service an itinerary of almost pure cliché.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Secret State; Comic Strip Presents
“It looked great, its pace did not let up and the distractingly starry cast acted its socks off.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Heston's Fantastical Food; Dara Ó Briain's Science Club; Some Girls; Food in England
“If part of art’s job is to make us look at the old world with new eyes, this programme was art.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature; Nigel Slater: Life is Sweets; Nick Nickleby
“It was perfectly entertaining but not scientifically taxing - a combination to which I find myself increasingly susceptible.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Downton Abbey; Obama: What Happened to Hope?; The Late Great Eric Sykes; How Britain Worked
“This series has reached new heights of melodrama, absurdity of storyline and cliched writing.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Young Apprentice; The Year the Town Hall Shrank; The Human Mannequin
“Its big strength is that it doesn’t condescend to its pimply contestants.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Exposure; Getting On; Come Dine With Me Halloween Special; Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
“This wasn’t a story that hadn’t been reported before, but it was told very powerfully here.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Operation Iceberg; Horror Europe with Mark Gatiss; Last Resort
“This was purely and simply great TV.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: 50 Years of Bond Cars; Gay to Straight; How the Devil Got His Horns
“This vehicle was towing a trailer.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.