TV critics' verdict on programmes - including Dave Cameron’s Incredible Journey - broadcast on 20 December 2007

Dave Cameron’s Incredible Journey, BBC2
“ -this portrait was less intimate and revealing than we’ve come to expect from Cockerell at his best.”
Gerard O’Donovan, Daily Telegraph

Dave Cameron’s Incredible Journey, BBC2
“ -if this programme achieved anything, it was to convince more people to disengage from politics, on the very valid and proven grounds that it’s nothing more than tactics and spin.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Dave Cameron’s Incredible Journey, BBC2
“The programme was inevitably slightly behind the times. You can trudge around after a politician faithfully for two years as Cockerell did and then, without warning, excrement arrives like a mudchute and the whole landscape changes.”
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian

Dave Cameron’s Incredible Journey, BBC2
“There was no great revelation here, and no little revelation either; this was rehash with a little comment sprinkled on top - no better, albeit a little classier, than a well-edited film of old TV clips.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Dave Cameron’s Incredible Journey, BBC2
“ -the film made little attempt to scrape away the veneer; and what used to be the essential questions, about policy and underlying philosophy, were almost completely ignored.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, More 4
“It was a sweet and good natured ending, but also lacklustre, portentous and beached in its own navel; a worthy epitaph for Studio 60, axed after just one season, itself.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Skint, BBC1
“This, surely, is the new Opportunity Knocks.”
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian

Whistle and I’ll Come to You, BBC4
“I would like to thank BBC4 for showing a classic ghost story every night this week. Particularly MR James’s Whistle and I’ll Come to You with it’s wonderful performance by Michael Hordern.”
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian

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