TV critics – Page 18
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CriticsThe Traitors; Willow
“Such a deliciously devious game that it will eliminate every shred of faith you have in human honesty”
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CriticsTrailblazers; We Are Not Alone; Secrets of Playboy
“It’s a random trio, and I’m not sure any of them qualify as trailblazers as per the programme’s title, but their dynamic works”
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CriticsSimon Schama’s History of Now; I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
“A sober history, elegantly delivered, in which Schama speaks of his own experiences but manages not to make the programme all about him”
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CriticsThe Secret Genius of Modern Life; Brian Cox: How the Other Half Live; The Confession
“Fry’s series is a jolly, cerebral programme that wears the pop science lightly enough to make it entertaining as well as educational”
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CriticsInto Dinosaur Valley; The Ice Cream Wars; Adrian Dunbar: My Ireland
“This 90-minute, one-off documentary was crammed with entertaining anecdotes”
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CriticsTokyo Vice; You Won’t Believe This; Wednesday
“It’s a curious series — thoughtful and vividly detailed, but not without cliché”
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CriticsJews Don’t Count; Our Universe; Ghosts US
“An entertaining and educational polemic that should lead to the conversations Baddiel says aren’t happening, particularly among progressives”
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CriticsGhosts US; The Ghost of Richard Harris; Why Ships Sink; Wednesday
“This is what snobby British viewers assume all US comedy remakes will be: the original with the kooky rough edges – the best bits – sanded off”
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CriticsBrian Cox: How the Other Half Live; Oti Mabuse: My South Africa; Three Mothers, Two Babies and a Scandal
“It was an excellent film made even better by Cox’s patent lack of interest in the ostentatious houses he looked around”
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CriticsDIY SOS The Big Build for Children in Need; Grand Designs; Two Doors Down
“Upbeat telly where the celebratory ending, if expected, was entirely deserved”
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CriticsThe Great British Bake Off; Louis Theroux Interviews …
“The stale franchise needs to get back to its core values of cake and kindness”
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CriticsTulsa King; Hong Kong’s Fight for Freedom; Imagine… Douglas Stuart
“While it may be a Stallone vehicle, it also proves that the 76-year-old movie star is roadworthy in a TV series format”
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CriticsYoung, Black and Right-Wing; Hurst; The People’s Piazza
“It was fibrous, challenging stuff, putting some right-wing voices front and centre on Channel 4 of all places”
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CriticsThe English; Mammals
“It is a bold, brutal Western with moments of beauty and ugliness to put it in the top ranks of this year’s television dramas”
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CriticsTwo Doors Down; Fifa Uncovered; The Crown
“The charm of this sitcom is the way it takes the smallest variation on a theme and makes something unique from it”
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CriticsSave Our Squad; Alexander Armstrong in South Korea; Miriam and Alan; Mariupol: The People’s Story
“There really is nothing like a sporting underdog story to lift the spirits and this one has drama in spades”
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CriticsMade in the 80s; Royal Mob; Save Our Squad With David Beckham
“This engrossing documentary, the last of three, found a new way of looking at the 1980s”
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CriticsDangerous Liaisons; SAS: Rogue Heroes; Black Sands
“Park your brain at the door and enjoy the ride”
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CriticsHow to Survive a Dictator; Blockbuster; Lost Worlds; The Russell Howard Hour
“How to Survive a Dictator with Munya Chawawa not only worked, it worked very well”
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CriticsFirst Contact: An Alien Encounter; The Horne Section TV Show
“Popular science is a difficult nut to crack, but this did the job admirably”