Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters is TV without bite
ITV’s bid to combine marine conservation and entertainment is a slender concept stretched thinner with each episode.
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Rachel Cooke
Rachel Cooke was a journalist who worked for the Observer, the Guardian and the Sunday Times. She was the New Statesman’s television critic for almost 20 years.
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The BBC’s new therapy show left me with a full-body cringe
I demand that no one is ever again allowed to commission a series as poor and as dubious as…
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Louis Theroux: The Settlers is a deathly warning
In this documentary, Theroux allows ultra-nationalist Israeli settlers to speak with perfect openness. It is chilling.
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I, Jack Wright is a riot of a show
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Your Friends and Neighbours is doomed to languish unloved and unwatched
Jon Hamm’s Apple series could be a kind of cut-price update on John Updike’s Rabbit novels – if only…
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Ben Miller’s social media satire Austin misses the mark
This new BBC sitcom is no Colin from Accounts.
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This City Is Ours: a highly superior Scouse Dallas
This series, starring Sean Bean, is the perfect combination of menace and farce. And the accents, the clothes, the…
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