“Getting experts together to talk to one another may be discredited as a television format, but, as a means of progressing and challenging arguments, it still works very well.”
“Not only was it funny, but it demonstrated that getting experts together to talk to one another may be discredited as a television format, but, as a means of progressing and challenging arguments, it still works very well.”
Andrew Billen, The Times
“The ‘wacky’ music and intrusive visuals left me bracing myself for an hour that would be as much fun as root canal work. But, like a child with a fit of the giggles, the programme eventually settled down – and discovered all you need for a good documentary is to let clever, enthusiastic people talk about things that fascinate them.”
Jeff Robson, The i
“I suppose to such experts it doesn’t really matter what people, lab rats or chimpanzees are laughing at, as long as they laugh and we can measure the consequences. To jokers like me, however, that was the missing link. If laughter is universal why don’t we all laugh at the same stuff?”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
First Day at Big School, Channel 5
“It’s fabulous. What we’re witnessing is such a key stage, even if it isn’t officially quite a Key Stage, in a young person’s life that it can only be fascinating, funny and moving.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
“In my day, the First Day At Big School was a strange mix of nightmare and mundane. As this glimpse inside Walton Primary Academy showed, the schools of today are lovelier places, where they talk about feelings, view children as individuals and reward the good rather than just leathering the living daylights out of the bad.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
Victoria, ITV
“Tom Hughes, in a subtle yet intense and frankly rather magnificent performance, conveyed a sensitivity to Albert that was all but irresistible. For those who feared that with the ebbing of Rufus Sewell’s role as Lord Melbourne the series would no longer be able to compete sexually with Poldark reckoned without Hughes.”
Andrew Billen, The Times
“A waltz, in which the world receded as the young royals consumed each other with their eyes, was gloriously done. It’s just a shame that the mood was ruined by Albert ripping his shirt open with a knife in order to place the queen’s corsage next to his heart. This is a scene, I suspect, that will have had most viewers rolling off their sofas in helpless merriment.”
Gerard O’Donovan, The Telegraph
Poldark, BBC1
“Despite all the build-up, Poldark’s big moment in court certainly fizzled mightily but didn’t quite deliver on the bang.”
Gerard O’Donovan, The Telegraph
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