“An amazing achievement and a beautiful film.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

The Fallen, BBC2
“An amazing achievement and a beautiful film.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

The Fallen, BBC2
“Given the hazards of this subject matter - the traps of sentimentality and easy tear-jerking that it might have sprung - the film almost never put a foot wrong.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

The Fallen, BBC2
“BBC2's The Fallen was, by some distance, the most ambitious television programme in this year's season of remembrance.”
James Walton, The Daily Telegraph

Outnumbered, BBC1
“Laugh? I nearly booked in for a vasectomy.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Outnumbered, BBC1
“This sharp, affectionate, exasperated ode to family life is easily the best British sitcom since Peep Show. It deserves all the success it can cope with.”
Paul Whitelaw, The Scotsman

Outnumbered, BBC1
“How long the writers Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin can sustain this single joke I don't know but who could dislike a show that opens with the command: ‘Step away from your sister'.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Outnumbered, BBC1
“[It] has deservedly been promoted to a prime Saturday slot.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Looking for Dad, BBC2
“A searingly honest documentary by Charles Russell.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

John from Cincinnati, FX
“The series was cancelled by HBO after ten episodes, but that, I think, just gives it the kind of precious, fleeting charm that makes life itself so special.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

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