“Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle provided the most intelligent half hour of stand-up you will see on television this year”. Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, BBC2
“Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle amounts to very little more than Lee doing his stand-up comedy act in front of an audience but with a camera pointing at him.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, BBC2
“Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle provided the most intelligent half hour of stand-up you will see on television this year - outside, one trusts, the next five episodes of this series.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Dispatches: Pakistan's Taliban Generation, C4
“Don't know what Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy wanted to be when she was a 10-year-old girl growing up in Karachi, but she ended up as a journalist, and bloody good at it she is too. It's shocking really, that someone who sits on a sofa and watches telly for a living is also allowed to call himself a journalist, while she's out there telling it like it is.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Dispatches: Pakistan's Taliban Generation, C4
“Her brave programme, the braver for being made by a woman, was almost infinitely depressing.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

America's Toughest Prisons, Five
“It's all a bit melodramatic, in a Channel Five kind of way. Prison porn.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Grow Your Own Drugs, BBC2
“I like this series. It is intended pragmatically, but like most cookery and home-makeover programmes it is largely aspirational. It's great to watch Wong turning pine resin into a deodorant, lovely to know it can be done, but we'll doubtless all carry on buying Lynx.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

In Search of Wabi Sabi, BBC4
“I stuck with his quest for the meaning of wabi sabi for as long as I could without being tempted to commit hara-kiri.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

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