“This deliriously silly drama was spun out far too long, wasting the talents of a brilliant cast, who somehow just by snivelling, threatening and crying that bit more classily than their scrappy gangland source material demanded made it work.” Read on for the full verdict on last night’s TV.
The Da Vinci Shroud: Revealed, Five
“After an hour of throwing question after question, thesis after thesis at us, it came to the best conclusion in these know-it-all times: we just don’t know.”
Tim Teeman, The Times
The Da Vinci Shroud: Revealed, Five
“It’s a cheat’s way of making historical documentaries, with standards of proof which would be laughed out of court or academia. Yet these programmes don’t actually lie; perhaps the sensational revelations promised draw in gullible viewers but they do at least get a fair amount of information about the subjects in order to make up their own mind. And, well, they are on Five: don’t expect BBC4 levels of intellectual rigour, because it’s not going to happen. Still, it was disappointing to have been temporarily taken in. Next time I’ll take advice from the theme tune to Five’s other most implausible show, CSI Miami: I won’t get fooled again.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman
Life, ITV3
“The quirks of character that Charlie Crews started out with – a zen fatalism induced by a long stretch in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, the Asperger’s independence of his thought processes – have now stagnated into something just a little too perky and self-satisfied.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent
Nasa: Triumph and Tragedy, BBC2
“It was Blue Peter in space.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
Nasa: Triumph and Tragedy, BBC2
“Plainly and indisputably brilliant.”
Tim Teeman, The Times
The Take, Sky 1
“This deliriously silly drama was spun out far too long, wasting the talents of a brilliant cast, who somehow just by snivelling, threatening and crying that bit more classily than their scrappy gangland source material demanded made it work.”
Tim Teeman, The Times
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