“Hall is a very funny man, when he's being funny.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

How the West was Lost, BBC4
“When it comes to a film-studies audience, quite a bit of the interpretation will already be familiar.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

How the West was Lost, BBC4
“Hall is a very funny man, when he's being funny. When he's reeling off lengthy essays about the Western as modern myth and so on, he sounds like... well, someone who's reeling off an essay.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

How the West was Lost, BBC4
“Hall was never less than witty, but in an epigrammatic Alexander Pope way rather than a comical stand-up Alexei Sayle way.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Doctor Who, BBC1
“It's great [... ] Tense and claustrophobic, and it gnaws away at you. Possibly not one for the youngest in the family.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Commercial Breakdown with Jimmy Carr, BBC1
“It may have been amusing back in the 1880s when Jasper Carrott started it, but it's wearing a bit thin now.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Commercial Breakdown with Jimmy Carr, BBC1
“Can there be an attention span in the land that can't cope with a programme in which no sequence lasts longer than 30 seconds?”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

50 Ways to Leave Your TV Lover, Sky One
“50 Ways to Leave Your TV Lover is scraping the bottom of the barrel that has already been scraped well and truly clean.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

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