“I’m sure it’s fun for them, but it’s not especially interesting or entertaining to watch. I don’t really understand what the point of it is, to be honest.” Read on for the full verdict on last night’s TV.

The Supersizers Eat… The Eighties

The Supersizers Eat… The Eighties, BBC2
“The Supersizers may have given itself over to Spangles nostalgia this time, but it is a really well-constructed series. It crams in swiftly-delivered information, silly costumes, dodgy-looking grub, quintessentially 80s faces and easy-to-digest snippets of pop culture. Even if you don’t feel especially interested in the subject at the start, it bounces along so amiably that it sucks you in, much like Perkins’ comment on Pot Noodles: you know there’s not much nutrition there but once you’ve started one, you may as well finish it.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

The Supersizers Eat… The Eighties, BBC2
“The Supersizers Eat… had plenty of good moments. Perkins is fun, and it’s always a pleasure to be reminded of the eccentricities of nouvelle cuisine.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

The Supersizers Eat… The Eighties, BBC2
“I’m sure it’s fun for them, but it’s not especially interesting or entertaining to watch. I don’t really understand what the point of it is, to be honest.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

The Secret Life of the Airport, BBC4
“[A] BBC4 approach to recent history: no presenters acting the goat, just a bullish voiceover by Philip Glenister, lots of talking heads and some archive footage. But this sequel to the excellent series Secret Life Of The Motorway was far from dry, exploring the real strangeness of these spaces between places – so identical, so bright and outside normal time or climate – with interesting details and dreamy speculations.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

The Secret Life of the Airport, BBC4
“A thorough but humorous and human study of the development of the airport in Britain - and it was always going to be a winner.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Springwatch Close Encounters, BBC2
“We watched with a dutiful sense of wonder.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

Springwatch Close Encounters, BBC2
“I’ve enjoyed this season of Springwatch, but it has suffered from the absence of Bill Oddie. The others are all nice - Simon, Kate etc - but they’re just a little bit Blue Peter Goody-Two-Shoes. I’m sure Bill is an awkward bugger to work with, but he brought a nice little touch of lunacy to the show. The others are fallow deer, he’s a March hare.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

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