TV critics – Page 35
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CriticsThe Great; The South Bank Show; Keep Breathing
“It’s certainly more fun than the turgid series from a few years back starring Helen Mirren”
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CriticsCritics: Under the Banner of Heaven
“It’s unflinching in its brutal interrogation of the religion”
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CriticsHelp! We Bought a Village; Myanmar: The Forgotten Revolution; River
“Combining house-hunting with escapism, this was textbook daytime fluff”
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CriticsThe Newsreader; Murder In Provence; Million Pound Motorhomes
“The show is excellent at capturing the weird, restrained elation that a large-scale tragedy can bring to a newsroom”
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CriticsBig Oil v the World; Who Stole Tamara Ecclestone’s Diamonds?; The Thing About Pam; Bangers And Cash
”The documentary was compiled meticulously, exhaustively and without gimmicky dramatics”
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CriticsCritics: Maryland
“A blisteringly eloquent roar, a fluent polemic proving that some of the best things are written quickly”
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CriticsBritain’s Tourette’s Mystery; Darcey Bussell’s Royal Road Trip; Mountain Vets; A Year in Bloom
“Moffatt has a gift for inserting herself into potentially challenging scenarios without coming across as prying or prurient”
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CriticsWitness Number 3; Super Surgeons: Long Lost Family Special
“Captures and distils the atmosphere of constant fear pervading the country”
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CriticsThe Control Room; Murder in Provence; Better Things
“The three-part serial is thick with nightmarish atmosphere.”
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CriticsSuper Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the Universe; James May: Our Man In Italy; Our Great Yorkshire Life
“The programme showed similar restraint to the scientists, not getting carried away with gimmicks and melodramatic background music”
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CriticsThe Real Mo Farah; Camilla’s Country Life; Sneakerhead
“You get quite bruised from this hour of jaw-dropping television”
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CriticsBetter Call Saul; Resident Evil; Night Coppers
“One of the most riveting – and bleakest – dramas of the streaming age”
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CriticsAckley Bridge; The Invisible Pilot; Resident Evil
“All the grit that made the show great has been replaced by pure soap”
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CriticsPaul Hollywood Eats Mexico; The Girl from Plainville; Trom
“The show was a fun snapshot of Mexico City”
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CriticsThe Baby; Black Bird; Ghislaine Maxwell: The Making of a Monster; The Undeclared War
“The idea that a cute, gurgling baby could be a malevolent force isn’t wholly original, but it was executed with wit and style”
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CriticsGeorge Clarke’s Remarkable Renovations; 999: Critical Condition; The Baby; Girl in the Picture
“The bit we’re really waiting for is the big reveal. And the result was fabulous”
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CriticsGhislaine Maxwell: The Making of a Monster; Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams
“The three-part series delivers a gripping profile of Maxwell without slipping into grubby prurience”
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CriticsThe Extraordinary Life of April Ashley; Big Zuu’s Big Eats; 24 Hours in Police Custody
“Here was a film which humanised the experience of feeling that you were born in the wrong body”
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CriticsFreedom: 50 Years of Pride; My Life As a Rolling Stone; McDonald & Dodds
“This was precisely the sort of bold but accessible, distinctly British programming that Channel 4 should be making”
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CriticsThe Undeclared War; The Terminal List; Stranger Things
“Broad in scope and rarely letting go of its in-built tension, The Undeclared War feels like a fresh take on political drama”