“Wonderfully, compulsively bad.” Read on for the full verdict on last night’s TV.

Location, Location, Location, Channel 4
“Crushed dreams were the name of the day… with two new couples shuffling into the jaws of the property market to be sorted out by gurus Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer.”
Rob Sharp, The Independent

Location, Location, Location, Channel 4
“Sometime over the past series or two L, L, L has gone bad, wonderfully, compulsively bad.”
Helen Rumbelow, The Times

Who Do You Think You Are?, BBC1
“We should be primed for some pathos expectant of some clean cut, sugar-coated epiphany, something life-affirming and revealing about one of telly’s hottest names. It never arrived.”
Rob Sharp, The Independent

Who Do You Think You Are?, BBC1
“You could see the producers think “no tears? Who does he think he is?””
Helen Rumbelow, The Times

Who Do You Think You Are?, BBC1
“Following Kim Catrall’s oddesy last week in search of her bigamous grandfather, Freeman’s tale was always going to look tame. It did however, remind us that the skeletons often pop out from where they are least expected.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Taking The Flak, BBC2
“Taking The Flak…deserves applause for coming to such a neat conclusion”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

The Cell: The Chemistry of Life, BBC4
“There was much for the viewer to learn…But…It was as ever the incidental anecdotes about the pioneering investigators that lodged most firmly in the mind”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

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