TV critics – Page 8
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CriticsThe Great British Bake Off; Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins
“This isn’t quite a show-stopping opener, but a hugely promising start”
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CriticsThe Long Shadow; Pete Doherty, Who Killed My Son?; Who Killed Jill Dando?
“Unavoidably harrowing and bleak, but it was also brilliant. It is set to be one of the dramas of the year”
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CriticsHamza: Strictly Birds of Prey; The Woman in the Wall
“Yassin was a likeable host, passionate about what he does and very good at it too”
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CriticsSex Education; Picasso; Still Up; The Continental
“Sex Education’s final series is by some way its worst”
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CriticsCelebrity Race Across The World; Chris Packham: Is it Time to Break the Law?
“This version of Race Across the World is just as compulsive and wonderful as the one about normos like us”
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CriticsThe Super Models; Rise of the Nazis; Secrets of Our Universe with Tim Peake
“It is a feast of nostalgia for anyone over a certain age”
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CriticsSex: A Bonkers History; Juice
“It was like watching a Carry On film produced by the Horrible Histories team”
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CriticsRussell Brand: In Plain Sight; George Michael; The Read; Picture Slam
“Being able to see and hear the words spoken lends every awful detail alleged a piercing immediacy”
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CriticsScrew; Helping Our Teens; Sort Your Life Out; Wilderness
“It was far-fetched but you can’t say that this finale was short on action”
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CriticsWilderness; Domina; Welcome to Wrexham; The Morning Show
“Wilderness is one of those easy-to-digest thrillers perfect for a Friday night”
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CriticsLiving Next Door to Putin; Welcome to Wrexham; The Other Black Girl; The Morning Show
“An insightful, delicately handled portrait of eastern Europe’s anxieties”
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CriticsMy Mum, Your Dad; Laura Kuenssberg: State of Chaos
“Full of genuinely poignant moments that had me laughing and crying more than once”
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CriticsMrs Brown’s Boys; Alone; Jamie Cooks the Mediterranean
“If you never liked Mrs Brown’s Boys to begin with, it’s unlikely that this reliable chug along the same old tracks will change your mind”
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CriticsThe Lovers; Helping Our Teens; Love & Death; The Changeling
“It feels like a grownup entry to a genre that can seem whimsical and even fantastical”
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CriticsTop Boy; Britain by the Book; Geordie Hospital; Decoding Turner
“In its final season, Top Boy delivers six tense, kinetic and moving episodes”
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CriticsBake Off: The Professionals; Storyville; Dispatches
“The show was full of overpowering good cheer”
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CriticsThe Inheritance; Ukraine: Holocaust Ground Zero; You & Me
“The Inheritance turned sibling conflict into a cheesy thriller that more than hit the spot”
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CriticsMortimer & Whitehouse; Countryfile; Is She the Wolf?
“I’m delighted to report that watching the comedians wade through Britain’s rivers has not lost any of its magic”
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CriticsSecrets of the Female Orgasm; Andrew Tate: The Man Who Groomed the World?
“It remains a rewarding watch, despite – or maybe because – it doesn’t reach the climax you expect”
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CriticsHeart of Invictus; Screw
“The mix of humanitarian documentary and royalty-watching never coheres”