TV critics – Page 112
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CriticsTV Critics: Going Going Gone; Hidden Killers; The Making Of An Ice Princes
“You did not need to share Broomfield’s nostalgia to admire these two sad, belligerent portraits of communities that were allowed to die.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Rovers; Last Whites of the East End; The KKK: Behind the Mask
“Evo-Stik league comedy: too depressing to be amusing.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Storm Troupers; Eating Well; I Want My Wife Back; Secrets of The Nazi Occult
“I would never have forecasted that the history of weather would yield such a spellbinding hour.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Wallander; Alfie’s Boys; Love, Nina
“A slow and predictable story. Even the great Kenneth Branagh found it hard to more than wander through it.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Going Forward; The Truth About Dementia; At Home With The British
“The characters are glorious. This is humour with a heart.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Lose Weight for Love; Handmade on the Silk Road; A Man for All Seasons; Ultimate Rome
“The premise of Professor Tanya Byron’s experiment seems impractical unless you’ve got a loitering television crew to keep you honest.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Locked Up; Zoo Quest in Colour; Marcella
“If you enjoy Prisoner: Cell Block H, all this melodrama might appeal.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great British Sewing Bee; Upstart Crow; Eating Well With Hemsley And Hemsley
“Despite the lack of tension, Sewing Bee is nice, gentle and aesthetically pleasing to watch.”
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CriticsTV Critics: A Different Brain; Mum; The Hollow Crown; Stupid Man, Smart Phone
“Raw and sometimes unbearable, this was a brave piece of television.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Billions; Grayson Perry: All Man; Betrayed & He’s Going To Pay
“Hell it’s fun though, even if I feel ever so slightly naughty – guilty even – for enjoying it so much.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Killer Women; Cunk on Shakespeare; Nature’s Epic Journeys
“There’s something a bit murder-porn about it all.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Hairy Bikers; Children of the Frontline; Penguin A&E; Sun, Sea and Supersavers
“Three hours of the most effortful, least edifying reality documentary I have seen for a fair while.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Upstart Crow; Very British Problems; Life That Glows
“Elton’s new show slipped by as smartly as Blackadder once did and enabled us to forget things he’d written in between.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Hollow Crown; Attenborough at 90; Hillsborough
“This is top-notch swordsmanship, cut with great thought and precision to leave no scar. There will probably be complaints from a stuffy old scholar or two. Not from me, though.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Grayson Perry: All Man; Peaky Blinders
“Intelligent, not mawkishly sentimental and no pointless background music: this is how factual television should be.”
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CriticsTV Critics: HMP Norwich; Horizon; Never Seen A Doctor
“Her Majesty’s Prison: Norwich was a deliberate heartstring-tugger. But interesting stories lurked behind the off-the-peg style.”
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CriticsTV Critics: In The Club; Conspiracy Files; Penny Dreadful
“This series has charm by the bucketload, but more inner conflict is needed.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Posh Neighbours at War; Veep; Marcella; Paul Merton’s Secret Stations
“Amusing to watch, but it’s also quite frightening how something relatively petty can get so out of hand.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Line of Duty; What Would Be Your Miracle?; The Extraordinary Case of Alex Lewis; The Hairy Bikers
“Extraordinary, intense, butt-clenchingly gripping television.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome; Normal For Norfolk; Caravanner of the Year; Plebs
“A thoughtful and resolutely British series that, like its predecessors, deserves to draw in viewers by the million.”