TV critics – Page 8
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CriticsAnna Richardson: Love, Loss & Dementia; Heartstopper
“Richardson does a good professional job of warning what a diagnosis looks like for those further down the track”
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CriticsCast Away; How to Survive a Dictator: North Korea
“Revealing study of what happens to an entitled TV star, fuelled by a belief that the public adores them, when the adulation is taken away”
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CriticsJoan; State of Rage; Paddy and Chris
“The serviceable script doesn’t ask too much of the strong cast, but they produce as solid a piece of entertainment as you could ask for”
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CriticsThe Great British Bake Off; Into the Jungle With Ed Stafford
“On this evidence, there’s still plenty of life in the old sponge yet”
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CriticsSmall Town, Big Riot; Industry
“It might be an insight into the reality of boots-on-the-ground journalism, but it didn’t exactly make for fascinating television”
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CriticsApples Never Fall; Celebrity SAS; Mortimer & Whitehouse
“It’ll sate anyone wanting their latest fix of waspy families and their scandalous secrets, but has little original to offer”
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CriticsAll Creatures Great and Small; Frasier
“All Creatures Great and Small is back, comforting as a hot buttered crumpet”
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CriticsAgatha All Along; Celebrity Race Across the World
“It’s the perfect show for Halloween season, but an absolute treat any time at all”
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CriticsA Very Royal Scandal; Jamali Maddix: Follow the Leader; M&S: Dress The Nation
“It is not perfect, but it is highly entertaining”
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CriticsMozart: Rise of a Genius; My Mum, You Dad; In My Own Words: Hanif Kureishi; The Wives
“It is all here. But the composition needed a lot more care and thought”
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CriticsThe Grand Tour; Emily In Paris; Grand Designs; Billionaire Island
“Slowly, quietly and with surprisingly little shouting, a TV era is over”
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CriticsWaterloo Road; Ross Kemp: Mafia and Britain
“Jason Manford doesn’t quite manage to bring new life to the programme in the way I (and surely producers) had hoped”
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CriticsThe Teacher; Jack Whitehall: Fatherhood with My Father; Mr Bates vs the Post Office: The Impact
“This sequel to the 2022 drama of the same name is worth tucking into”
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CriticsFunny Woman; Joan Rivers at the BBC; Big Cats 24/7
“This second series is sweet and nostalgic – but a little more edge wouldn’t go amiss”