“It was broadbrush stuff but then Starkey has been teaching in Jamie’s Dream School for a while.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

WILLIAM AND KATE: ROMANCE AND THE ROYALS, CHANNEL 4

“There are few people better at trouncing an idea into a cocked hat than Professor Starkey…So to no-one’s great surprise he demolished the fantasy about Wills and Kate with reference to 800 years of history.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“Last night he explicitly invited us to engage with an argument. He injected reason into all the chatter about this week’s nuptials, which is drowning in emotion.”
Amol Rajan, The Independent

“It was broadbrush stuff but then Starkey has been teaching in Jamie’s Dream School for a while.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE, BBC2

“Even though last night’s denouement was ostensibly a (serious face) critique of Victorian gender politics and class stratification – oh I can’t keep it up. It was too silly… I’ve not read the novel, but if it’s as unwittingly funny as this, I will.”
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian

“Most of the series’ women leads were either dead or heading in that direction. A shame, it was otherwise, very satisfying.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

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