TV critics – Page 158
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TV Critics: Paralympics opening ceremony
The theme of the night was enlightenment – not simply in the age of science and art, but also in regard to disability and perceptions of it.” Read on for the verdict on the Paralympics opening ceremony.
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CommentTV Critics: Who Do You Think You Are?; Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies
“Illuminating, moving and altogether rather wonderful.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Islam: The Untold Story; Accused; GBBO
“The absence of evidence only matters to those for whom evidence is a sort of god.” Read on for the full verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Hunderby; Citizen Khan; New Tricks
“Accessibly intelligent and beautifully made.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Just Around the Corner; Whatever Happened to Harry Hill?
“Despite a promising scenario, it turned into a bit of a one-show gag.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Revolution Will Be Televised; Secret Interview
“I was squirming, and tied up in knots inside, with tears – of fear and laughter – running down my face.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Queen's Mother in Law; Them From That Thing; Bad Education
“She was clearly a woman of astonishing bravery.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Ian Brady: Endgames of a Psychopath; Our War; Toast of London
“Surely one of the best-researched, most revealing documentaries of the year.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Last Weekend; The X Factor; The Function Room
“Surely the best writing in TV drama since Steven Moffat’s Sherlock.” Read on for the verdict on the weekend’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Best of Men; Jennifer Saunders; Russell Brand
“It was the most profoundly boring programme I have ever seen.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Who Do You Think You Are; The Flowerpot Gang; Death Camp Treblinka
“The problem of putting actors into this format is that they never stop acting.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment14 Aug '12
“A mood-killer greater, even, than George Michael doing his new stuff.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment13 Aug '12
“The coverage has been perfectly pitched, the pace, momentum and excitement managed with the finesse of a conductor’s baton.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Wonderland: Young, Bright and on the Right
“Initially looked like straightforward twerp anthropology… It became something richer.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: A History of Art in Three Colours; Fatima Whitbread
“Interesting, memorable, thought-provoking and lingering,” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Girl Who Became Three Boys
“This gift of a subject was well served by the programme makers.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Horizon; The Hit Factory; Jimmy’s Forest
“This proved what I have long suspected – that an attendant television crew is one of the most powerful aides to willpower in existence.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Exploring China; The Simpsons; The Zoo
“Gok Wan did a similar thing recently. But this has more chopped spring onions and fewer histrionics and tears, tantrums and OMG-ing.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Hairy Dieters; Amish: A Secret Life; The Churchills
“There’s something not quite right about the Hairy Bikers dieting.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.