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Hole in the Road Inspectors was so boring that anyone still watching by the end must have been comatose, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
Code of a Killer is chilling in comparison to other detective dramas while Fiona Bruce was chasing clues of her own in Antiques Roadshow Detectives - a new series on every evening this week.
The brown gabardine in Vera (ITV), though it looks as if the costume department found it in a skip outside a charity shop, is different because the star doesn’t wear it as a coat at all.
Thank heavens for box sets. Last night a DVD binge was almost the only alternative to watching a cartload of political pygmies squabble and posture for two hours.
Newzoids is a satirical puppets with a very 21st-century twist. Instead of being moulded from Latex, like the hand-puppets of Spitting Image in the 80s, these have been 3D printed
Someone needs to give DCI Banks (ITV) a slap because even the murderers who roam the Yorkshire Dales are getting depressed about him, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
Everything about Back In Time For Dinner (BBC2), not merely the food but the details of decor, the soundtrack, even that cleverly punning title, is born of happy obsessions.
As the flawed but decent boatbuilder Noah in The Ark, former Shameless star David Threlfall wobbled between being an inspiration and an embarrassment to his sons.
Mark Gatiss channels the undead soul of Peter Mandelson when he plays Mycroft Holmes, the brother of Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Inside No.9 was febrilely inventively written while The Truth about Calories was the 'queasiest sight on screen last night.
The star of BBC2's Pest Detectives turned out to be Alfie the spaniel, while over on BBC4 Griff Rhys Jones revamped TV classic Animal, Vegetable Mineral, with new show Quizeum.
Burger Bar to Gourmet Star (pictured): 'Painful to watch' and Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure 'really lacked was a script' writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
To hear the creators of Raised By Wolves (C4) tell it, you'd think there had never been a comedy that starred women before, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
Who cares about the election, the euro crisis, the Ukraine, the icecap... there’s only one headline causing sensation today. Cap’n Poldark whipped off his shirt and a nation swooned.
Imagine the cast of Downton Abbey in an Aussie soap melodrama directed by porn baron Hugh Hefner, and you'll get half an idea of how awful this is.
ITV supplied a twist on the popular mother-and-newborn genre, by focusing on three sets of first-time parents who were all expecting a full-size family in one delivery, writes Christopher Stevens
Billion Dollar Chicken Shop was not a documentary, it was a corporate video extolling the one-big-family ethos of the U.S. fast-food giant, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
Back in Time for Dinner was an hour of nostalgia, with a sharp reminder that no one needed gastric bands or the 5:2 diet back then, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
Like many Beeb shows, Fair Cop: A Century of British Policewomen was tangled up in right-on agenda through a leftie lens,writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
The new Poldark drama should come with a fire hazard warning as producers seem to want lead actor Aidan Turner to 'act hot' by smouldering, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
Sir Terry Pratchett's final tweet reading simply 'The End' was typed by his daughter Rihanna - seven years after the 66-year-old fantasy author was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Dear Lily suffers with her back, a bit of a disc problem. Feeling sorry for her? Thought not. Here’s the thing that will change your mind: Lily is a miniature dachshund, write CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
British diners fantasise about new tastes offered by today's adventurous celebrity chefs - but we end up ordering the same as always, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
You can’t see the join, as Eric Morecambe used to say admiringly when he lifted Ernie Wise’s fringe, checking for a toupee writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
Telly in the 21st century needs a classic Sherlock Holmes, and Arthur And George (ITV) is testing the ground, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
Other shows might be content to pick a single theme each week. Call The Midwife grabs a fistful and plaits them ingeniously, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
Banished isn’t bad, but to screen it this week is potty — the schedulers’ equivalent of promising to take your family for fish and chips, then stopping at a burger outlet , writes Christopher Stevens.
News presenter Jon Snow tried skunk, the genetically altered strain of dope, and ended up in tears, paranoid and shaking. He was joined by former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond.
Super-Powered Owls promised to be an original documentary about the beautiful hunters, but much of the footage was rehashed from old shows, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
The chilling pleasure of Arthur And George (ITV) was to realise how frightening a hate campaign must have been before social media came along and made vendettas so much less personal
Matt Lucas is aiming to get the whole family chortling with Pompidou (BBC2), but after half an hour, I hadn’t raised more than a wan smile, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
Prince Harry In Leaked Sex Tape Scandal! That’s not exactly the headline Buckingham Palace was hoping for when they approved a documentary writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
For years the Beeb’s flagship entertainment format, Strictly Come Dancing, has been slowly foundering, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
The laziness and foul-mouthed bickering of the staff revealed on Mary Portas: Secret Shopper (C4) was horribly typical of modern British manners, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
If you find yourself lately standing at the top of the stairs with a blank look on your face, you might have contracted Broadchurch disease, by CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
Although The Casual Vacancy was an instant best-seller, it didn’t end up on the big screen. Perhaps there’s an explanation: the book is a stinker.
If there was any justice, Julie Walters would have been on stage last night to collect a long overdue Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
You'd have to be a space colonist on Mars to have missed all the build-up, as The Shouting Cockney Show got set to celebrate 30 non-stop years of sex, shootings and scandal in Albert Square.
Lucy Beale wasn’t the only murder victim on the Beeb. Fellow soap star Michelle Collins got herself killed not once but twice, on Death In Paradise (BBC1).
These days, party political broadcasts last half an hour masquerading as sitcoms such as Democracy Dealers on BBC3, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
Someone ought to warn Matt that if the wind changes he’ll be stuck looking like that, says CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviewing BBC1's 'hapless' and 'one-sided' programme' The Gift.
The second series of Broadchurch should have been rebranded. Maybe they could have called it Broadchurch II: Wrecking The Legacy, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
The one reason to keep watching Indian Summers (C4) is Julie Walters (pictured) who plays Cynthia, the madam of the Royal Simla Club.
It’s the result of seven years’ painstaking work by the foremost tiger cameraman in India, Subbiah Nallamuthu, known as Nalla, who followed Sundari for five years.
Rob Delaney and co-writer Sharon Horgan, a 44-year-old Irish comedy veteran, star as versions of themselves in Catastrophe, a six-part Channel 4 sitcom earning plaudits from viewers and critics alike.
BBC2's 24 Hour Parcel People examines City Link, featuring customers Gaz and Mark (pictured), but the documentary is a 'shambolic, aimless, wasted hour of viewing'.
You wouldn’t want to cross Dame Edna Everage. Paul Hollywood did, in The Great Comic Relief Bake Off (BBC1), and regretted it writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
EastEnders has given us many of TV’s most memorable scenes since the soap first hit our screens thirty years ago. Three decades on many of Walford’s original stars are still household names.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. These words are engraved on our national conscience, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.
As soon as the characters in Broadchurch start talking, we wake up from the dream — and like all dreams, it looks pretty silly, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS.