“Rather than being a standard Channel 4 freak show, this film presented the Beaties as a brave and loving pair.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Cutting Edge: The Pregnant Man, C4
“I found it hard to sympathise with Thomas [Beatie] and Nancy.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent

Cutting Edge: The Pregnant Man, C4
“Rather than being a standard Channel 4 freak show, this film presented the Beaties as a brave and loving pair.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Cutting Edge: The Pregnant Man, C4
“It was a failure of the documentary to be so self-satisfied (that it was getting an exclusive, at the expense of the rest of the media fruitlessly banging on Thomas and Nancy's door), that it forgot to actually tell the story.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

The Hairy Bakers Christmas Special, BBC2
“How to make The Hairy Bakers Christmas Special. Take Ant and Dec, fatten them up and age them a few years, taking care not to lose their maddening chirpiness. Add hair, in all the wrong places, and motorbikes. Pour in an extra glug of festive bonhomie - comedy voices, high jinks, tobogganing, spontaneous bursting into Jingle Bells, anything will do. And that's it.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Little Dorrit, BBC1
“It's possible to be worse than Cranford and Bleak House and still be one of the best dramas of the year.”
James Walton, The Daily Telegraph

James Bulger: a Mother's Story, ITV1
“Real life murder stories are a queasy genre where the queasiness is part of the thrill, but this one is still too raw to be exploited for ratings.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent

Secrets of Egypt: Sphinx, Five
“Brilliant.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

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