Christopher Stevens

Daily Mail TV critic. Author: Written In Stone, how prehistoric words evolved into English. Biography: Kenneth Williams and Galton&Simpson. Memoirs: A Real Boy

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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Outrageous

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Christopher Stevens

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Outrageous: This Downton Abbey with added fascism is frightfully unconvincingBy CHRISTOPHER STEVENS, TV CRITIC FOR DAILY MAIL Published: 19:34 EDT, 19 June 2025 | Updated: 19:34 EDT, 19 June 2025 How odd that no one can do a 1930s BBC accent any more. Any performer who attempts it sounds like Mr Cholmondley-Warner, the plummy twit from Harry Enfield’s sketch show. The pre-war radio announcements in Outrageous sound like stilted send-ups.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews: Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Christopher Stevens

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews: Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace: Davina's DNA search show's been left behind by the march of scienceBy CHRISTOPHER STEVENS, TV CRITIC FOR DAILY MAIL Published: 18:37 EDT, 18 June 2025 | Updated: 18:37 EDT, 18 June 2025 Rating:Science that seemed miraculous a few years ago is now commonplace. We would be disappointed if a complex paternity riddle couldn’t be solved with a single DNA swab.
Kim Woodburn's shove and harsh words to Aggie MacKenzie revealed: Truth about How Clean Is Your House fallout as TV star's 'deep pain' over abuse, violent husband and hateful mother revealed | Daily Mail Online

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Christopher Stevens

Kim Woodburn didn't hold back. Her scouring judgments on just about everyone who dared cross her were caustic enough to strip the skin – 'verbal Vim', as one critic described them. This is Kim unleashing a tirade in the jungle on I'm A Celebrity in 2009, her victim the former glamour girl Katie Price: 'You're what I thought you'd be. You're a publicity-seeker. You live and die for publicity.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Storyville - The Contestant

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Christopher Stevens

The Contestant - Storyville (BBC4) Rating:Back in the days when we laughed openly at foreigners and their peculiar ways, the strangest sight on television was a Japanese game show called Endurance. Contestants, all of them male, volunteered to undergo inventively sadistic tortures, with Clive James On TV airing the goriest excerpts every week to the astonishment and delight of ITV audiences.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Christopher Stevens

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: You have to admire the understaffed police solving this brutal gang killingBy CHRISTOPHER STEVENS, TV CRITIC FOR DAILY MAIL Published: 19:29 EDT, 16 June 2025 | Updated: 19:29 EDT, 16 June 2025 Rating:Two days into a murder investigation, DCI Mark Bellamy wasn’t mincing his words: ‘Looking around this room, there ain’t enough staff, not for what we’ve got on.
The makers of this puff piece should have read the Mail... CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Savoy: Great Hotels Through Time

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Christopher Stevens

The makers of this puff piece should have read the Mail... CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Savoy: Great Hotels Through TimeBy CHRISTOPHER STEVENS, TV CRITIC FOR DAILY MAIL Published: 19:27 EDT, 12 June 2025 | Updated: 19:27 EDT, 12 June 2025 The Savoy: Great Hotels Through Time (Ch5) Rating:We’ve all been tempted to do it — slip a fistful of hotel toiletries into our suitcases before checking out. The truly shameless will swipe a bathrobe or a pillow.
The man who invented the Sound of Summer: He was the genius behind The Beach Boys, but his abusive father drove him to years of ruinous drug addiction - until he was saved by the love of his second wife, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS | Daily Mail Online

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Christopher Stevens

Pop music has never been sweeter and the rock 'n' roll life has never been darker. Brian Wilson, the genius of The Beach Boys whose soaring falsetto gave the world Good Vibrations, endured a life of horrific mental torment. From his brutal childhood – beaten so badly by his monstrous father that he was deaf in one ear – to his decades of paranoid, drug-addled seclusion, he fought a constant battle against the world. Yet few songwriters have created a greater catalogue of timeless music.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Race Across The World: I could win Race Across The World's £20,000 first prize - and here's how

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Christopher Stevens

Why not just hire a car? The rules of Race Across The World prohibit air travel, but taxis and hitch-hiking are fair game . . . so there can’t be anything wrong with renting your own wheels. As contestants neared the finish line at India’s southern tip, after a trek via train, bus and tuktuk from the Great Wall of China, all of them had cash to spare.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Surviving Syria's Prisons

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Christopher Stevens

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Surviving Syria’s Prisons: Bravery of two brothers who exposed the atrocities of Assad’s evil regimeBy CHRISTOPHER STEVENS, TV CRITIC FOR DAILY MAIL Published: 19:02 EDT, 10 June 2025 | Updated: 19:04 EDT, 10 June 2025 Surviving Syria's Prisons (BBC2)Rating:What a strange power the television camera exercises over people. Point a lens at them and they will confess to crimes that, in court or under police questioning, they’d deny to their dying breath.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Jamie's Dyslexia Revolution on Ch4

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Christopher Stevens

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Jamie's Dyslexia Revolution on Ch4: All fired up like an angry Aga, chef Jamie gave the minister a roastingBy CHRISTOPHER STEVENS, TV CRITIC FOR DAILY MAIL Published: 18:27 EDT, 9 June 2025 | Updated: 18:27 EDT, 9 June 2025 Jamie’s Dyslexia Revolution (Ch4)Rating:Has Radio 4's Amol Rajan been coaching Jamie Oliver on how to grill politicians?

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8 May 16

RT @AboutTheBBC: 2016 #BAFTATV Fellowship recipients Galton & Simpson. A critical part of some of this country's greatest comedy. https://t…

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17 Feb 16

RT @NordicNoirTV: “If you like crime stories set in tight-knit communities, from Broadchurch to Fargo, you won’t want to miss this.” @infam…

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