“If anything, Ordinary Lies is a victim of bad timing: there’s been an awful lot of duplicity on TV recently.”

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Ordinary Lies, BBC1

“Ordinary Lies appears to be a collection of self-contained playlets, rather than a multi-layered narrative becoming more convoluted week by week. Inevitably it felt rushed. And without a cliffhanger, there’s less incentive to tune in next week. Writer Danny Brocklehurst should have halted Marty’s story halfway and switched into the next plotline.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail

“The success of the first episode of Ordinary Lies, a new six-part drama set in a car showroom, depended on a suspension of disbelief. It’s a noble endeavour – trying to show there’s as much story in life in the middle as there is on the margins. If anything, Ordinary Lies is a victim of bad timing: there’s been an awful lot of duplicity on TV recently.”
Benji Wilson, The Telegraph

Back in Time for Dinner, BBC2

“The lesson is plain. We need Mary Berry running Britain. It isn’t too late for her to lead a coalition of Bake-Off enthusiasts into the election: with a Victoria sponge topped by a candle as their emblem, they could call themselves the Birthday Party.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail

Fighting the System, BBC3

“As often happens with the lesser breed of BBC3 documentary, Fighting the System made me so tired of listening to drawling children putting question marks onto the end of every sentence that I almost gave up.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

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