2 May '12

“We were promised “the inside story of how William and Kate have stolen the nation’s heart”. We got a cheap-and-cheerful clip collage glued together with the spurious authority of “royal experts”, a branch of scholarship that can get very gluey indeed.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“There could not be anything less “fairytale” about the marriage of William and Kate. It was just two people coming together in a way which, apart from Westminister Abbey, the TV cameras and the odd sword, was utterly common and modern.”
Matt Baylis, The Express

“It was cleverly scheduled to go out exactly a year and two days after the happy occasion, is, we’re told, “the inside story of how William and Kate have stolen the nation’s hearts”. Rough rides all round, then.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

“One day soon there will be a gung-ho film about the day a year ago the Special Forces got the al-Qaeda leader. But The Hunt for Bin Laden was not it. It was a two hour inquest into all that had gone wrong until then, not just after 9/11 but from the moment bin Laden attacked the World Trade Centre for the first time in 1993.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“A sober and detailed account of the attempts to find and kill America’s public enemy number one and it was – if truth be told – just a little dull, a chronological recap of fairly well-known material that necessarily pushed the consummating moment of success into the last few minutes.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“More inspiring than the BBC’s roots-researching show Who Do You Think You Are?, the programme’s starting point is people who, owing to a reserve more common in former generations, never talked about what they did in the war.”
Matt Baylis, The Express

“Oh I see, like Who Do You Think You Are? but with extra Blitz spirit and giving Fritz what for.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian