“Horizon was on one of its ‘journeys' that got us nowhere.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Horizon: Who Do You Want Your Child to Be?, BBC2
“Horizon, on the supposedly superior BBC2, was on one of its ‘journeys' that got us nowhere.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Horizon: Who Do You Want Your Child to Be?, BBC2
“The question remains, though, whether any of this interesting science will trickle down to the average classroom - most teachers have enough of a job with the Three Rs.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Holloway, ITV1
“James Cohen's poignant documentary proved, at a time when everybody in TV thinks that you need formats and presenters and story arcs and “journeys”, how effective simple observation can be in explaining our world.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Five
“So what will the series do without him, William Petersen having quit? In this swan-song episode, his replacement - not as supervisor of the lab, but as gravel-voiced father figure - was introduced. Laurence Fishburne seems a good choice, being burly and serious, but his doctor turned criminologist had a quiet beginning, helping out with a case of a copycat killer.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

Mistresses, BBC1
“Mistresses is like eating marshmallows to the sound of musak.”
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian

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