“…sparkling, shimmering, salt-scented.” Read on for the full verdict on last night’s TV.

South Pacific, BBC1
“..sparkling, shimmering, salt-scented documentary.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

South Pacific, BBC1
“It’s just about beautiful South Pacific things, filmed amazingly, with smooth music.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

The Incredible Human Journey, BBC2
“…it is impressive. Everything about Dr Alice Roberts is impressive; she’s the Incredible Human of the title.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

The Incredible Human Journey, BBC2
“Dr Alice Roberts is one of those presenters who makes her way through her shows by asking questions, which makes things a bit irritating. I also wondered from time to time why I ought to be taking any notice of what she had to say.”
Sean O’Grady, The Independent

The Incredible Human Journey, BBC2
“Dr Alice Roberts got in the way of the story a bit, with too much of the vogue for “personalising” documentaries – we didn’t need to see her sleeping in the bush, whispering into a camcorder, to understand early humans were vulnerable to predators.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

The Birth of British Music, BBC2
“I was surprised to see that a programme of this quality was being screened on BBC2 rather than one of the arts-ghetto channels, because that was traditionally what BBC2 is for: to educate philistines like me.”
Sean O’Grady, The Independent

Bring Back… Star Trek, C4
“Of all his series of nostalgia quests, this one had to be the most pointless.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

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