“It's a bit like Black Beauty, only real.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Horse People with Alexandra Tolstoy, BBC2
“As the title suggests this is sniper, rather than shotgun broadcasting, aimed at a pretty tight bull that doesn't include me. This week, they got a horsey porn flick, with an unusually flushed Alexandra observing the process by which a Spanish stallion is divested of its lucrative seed, after being worked up on a horse fluffer.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Horse People with Alexandra Tolstoy, BBC2
“It's a bit like Black Beauty, only real.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Deliver Us From Evil, More 4
“The channel which screens the best documentaries on TV, last night showed [ ...] Amy Berg's brilliant Oscar-nominated 2006 assault on the Roman Catholic diocese of Los Angeles, which for more than a decade allowed the plausible Oliver O'Grady, ‘Father Ollie', to molest hundreds of girls and boys. Their stories retold in adulthood but, saturated with the pain of ruined childhoods, were agonising.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Gok's Fashion Fix, C4
“Gok's got a brand new mantra, and, as it happens, a brand new bag. The mantra, which was repeated at least four times and possibly more was “Shop less but wear more”. Got that? Shop less ... but wear more. Or as the presenter of Gok's Fashion Fix put it, “Ok, ladies, hold on to your hats, scarves, coats and knickers ...credit-crunch couture is here.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Gok's Fashion Fix, C4
“It's a few months late, but Gok's Fashion Fix is really a belated pantomime.”
Paul Whitelaw, The Scotsman

Horne and Corden, BBC3
“It contained a lot to smile about, for sure. With their guitars and glazed-over eyes, the spokesmen for the Young People's Church were a perfect mickey-take of the modern, try-hard Christians. Xander, the posh-train-wreck of a man who treated a children's birthday party to partial nudity and a sermon of barely-suppressed hate, was a character bordering on a tragedy and truth.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

All the Small Things, BBC1
“It's an acapella version of The Archers.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

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