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These are among the TV shows I call toothless and vapid
Published 24 September 2023
Peyton Place, Dick Van Dyke, Perry Mason, The Munsters, Bonanza and Dr. Kildare don’t suit Milton Shulman
He’s nasty and he’s a stoolpigeon yet a great many viewers like to see him
Published 17 September 2023
Milton Shulman takes a penetrating look at The Informer
Please don’t call me Emma pleads the eminently whistleable at Diana Rigg
Published 10 September 2023
Critic Milton Shulman takes Diana Rigg out for lunch. It must’ve been thrilling for him.
The sporting life could be the death of us
Published 16 July 2023
Milton Shulman sounds a warning note on television sport
This is television nowhere else in the world can match
Published 9 July 2023
Milton Shulman takes a biting look at television
‘Mogul’ needs a new look at its womenfolk
Published 18 June 2023
Milton Shulman on the business types of television
18 hours of old films in one week’s viewing is much too much
Published 4 June 2023
Milton Shulman lets himself go
That Eamonn Andrews show – Is extermination too good for it?
Published 14 May 2023
Milton Shulman loves Eamonn Andrews! Just kidding, he hates him
The drivel and gush of the television serial
Published 16 April 2023
Soap operas: nobody likes them, so why are they top of the viewing charts, asks Milton Shulman
Frost warning; so the message is pull your socks up
Published 2 April 2023
Satire with David Frost on BBC-1? Milton Shulman isn’t a fan
I liked the garlanded Nelson play, but…
Published 19 March 2023
Television plays: yay or nay? Nay, says Milton Shulman
Oh, that maladjusted sense of humour!
Published 12 March 2023
Roy Hudd in a silent comedy commissioned by Frank Muir: sounds good, right? Wrong, says Milton Shulman
A matter of a three letter word
Published 12 February 2023
Milton Shulman loves hating arts programmes
Oh! those awful earbashing programmes
Published 5 February 2023
Talk shows: aren’tcha sick of ’em? asks Milton Shulman
Ready, Steady, Go runs into imaginative paralysis
Published 29 January 2023
Kids these days, growls Milton Shulman as he refuses to give them their ball back
In a TV year That Never Was these were my worst programmes
Published 13 January 2023
Milton Shulman picks his way through the viewing offerings of 1965
Hail the B.B.C. – It’s the most prolific comedy factory in the world
Published 14 September 2022
Milton Shulman prefers BBC comedy to ITV comedy… sometimes
Some of the things Burke (of Burke’s Law) can teach Sherlock Holmes
Published 31 August 2022
Milton Shulman compares Sherlock Homes, Public Eye and Burke’s Law
Five pop shows on television to every two where they talk about politics
Published 17 August 2022
Milton Shulman wants less Ready Steady Go! and more Panorama
What a pity Mr. Jonathan Miller should lose his nerve
Published 3 August 2022
Milton Shulman vents his spleen at arts programming in general and Jonathan Miller in particular
Just for a change why doesn’t Panorama etc get out of the rut?
Published 20 July 2022
TV critic Milton Shulman turns his withering eye on current affairs programming
All these talk programmes – they’re getting worse
Published 6 July 2022
Milton Shulman rages over the quality of TV chat
Is this the root of the trouble with Tonight?
Published 22 June 2022
Milton Shulman, splenetic TV critic, looks at what’s wrong with the BBC’s flagship news show Tonight
BBC ‘Colourful One’
Published 15 November 2019
It’s C-Day! The Controller of BBC-1 and an array of newspaper critics look at what colour will bring to the channel
Can TV’s ‘lost weekend’ be brought to life?
Published 13 May 2019
The leading television critics from the broadsheet newspapers gather in July 1968 to discuss what ITV should look like on weekends when the contracts change
Destination 1974
Published 12 February 2018
The strike over, the TVTimes looks ahead to the new-look ITV in 1968 and beyond