“They are plums in a very duff pudding.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

“The makers have assembled a quality cast round their quality lead…but they are plums in a very duff pudding indeed.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“There is much that is pleasingly different about Luther.”
Andrew Billen, the Times

“It is, then, an almost wholly unrewarding hour – thin, repetitious, unperceptive – for viewer and participant alike.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“A refreshingly novel kind of travel programme, in which you see a culture at work, rather than just pandering to Western leisure.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Sweepingly superb stuff.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“When did it become the norm to start programmes off with a long explanatory overture that, maddeningly, never changes?”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“The unique beauty of this series is the way it so genuinely combines science and history in a way no others have done.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

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