'It all felt a little bit like a Hovis advert'. Read on for more cutting criticism of the weekend's TV.

Lark Rise to Candleford, BBC1
“It's all beautifully observed and splendidly acted [... ] And yet it all felt a little bit like a Hovis advert.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Lark Rise to Candleford, BBC1
“The programme is perfectly fine in its way, but its way is much more that of the calculatedly gentle Sunday-night heart-warmer than of the full-on literary adaptation.”
James Walton, Daily Telegraph

Lark Rise to Candleford, BBC1
"For all the twinkly, rustic loveliness of the various characters, there's something a little soulless about it.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Lark Rise to Candleford, BBC1
 “Whereas Cranford felt convincingly layered, you get the sense that everyone's just pretending in Lark Rise to Candleford, layering on the bucolic twee in great bucketfuls.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

Sense and Sensibility, BBC1
 “In the end, this Sense and Sensibility was perhaps brilliantly competent rather than surpassingly brilliant. Nevertheless, it still proved easily good enough to get the costume-drama year off to a hugely enjoyable start.”
James Walton, The Daily Telegraph

Louis Theroux: Behind Bars, BBC2
“Louis does seem to have grown up a bit. But he hasn't lost his sense of humour.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Louis Theroux: Behind Bars, BBC2
“All too often Theroux's studied cluelessness was obstructive rather than helpful.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

Primeval, ITV1
 “I'm not very good at science fiction, which is probably why I never really know what the hell is going on in Primeval.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Jamie's Fowl Dinners, C4
“It was (along with the Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall programmes that preceded it) absolutely exemplary public service television: interesting, informative and unhysterical in its presentation of the facts.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

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