'This was tosh, and lazy, derivative tosh'. Read on for more cutting criticism on last night's TV.

Trial and Retribution, ITV1
“This was tosh, and lazy, derivative tosh; but, and this is crucial, slick, expensive-looking and straight-faced lazy, derivative tosh. I have a horrible feeling I'll be tuning in again next week.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent

Trial and Retribution, ITV1
“Original? No, not very. Convincing? Hardly. But involving? Absorbing? Yes, most definitely.”
Gerard O'Donovan, The Daily Telegraph

Trial and Retribution, ITV1
“Victoria Smurfit as DCI Connor is fabulous.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Fairy Tales: Cinderella, BBC1
“It's charming, just as last week's Rapunzel was.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Fairy Tales: Cinderella, BBC1
"The whole thing was utterly feeble: cartoonish characters, weak jokes, and a mind-numbingly implausible background.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent

Fairy Tales: Cinderella, BBC1
“The audience was left as unchallenged and happy as after a Boxing Day matinee.”
Helen Rumblelow, The Times

The Convention Crasher, C4
“It's one part Louis Theroux and three parts all those reality television shows in which an amateur is challenged to do something ridiculous, complete with lots of familiar lines.”
Helen Rumblelow, The Times

Never Better, BBC2
“What modest potential the show evinced last week had evaporated in the interim.”
Gerard O'Donovan, The Daily Telegraph

Jamie at Home, C4
“Lovely jubbly, as a certain TV chef used to say.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

The 1970's: Pop on Trial
“The clips are wonderful, of course. It's what comes between that I'm not so sure about: the chat with Stuart Maconie, Pete Shelley, David Quantick and Gaz Coombes [... ]. It's like being in the pub with four really boring blokes.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

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