“About as interesting as sitting through a real day in a district court.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Law & Order: UK, ITV1
“A dull, dragging affair resting on whether a landlord had maintained a gas boiler properly. About as interesting as sitting through a real day in a district court, unfortunately.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

Law & Order: UK, ITV1
“Will ITV's domesticated Law & Order: UK be any more successful? On yesterday's showing, I guess that it will. Again, it was what had been removed from the traditional British procedural that made the difference: no lengthy expositions, no establishing shots, no car chases, no guns.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Law & Order: UK, ITV1
“Even though it's not exactly new - it feels like a breath of fresh air.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Storyville: Maradona - In the Hands of the Gods, BBC4
“I enjoyed Gabe and Ben Turner's film, although it was not without flaws. Unless I missed it there was no explanation of how five lads from all over England came together in the first place, and the suspicion lingered throughout that a documentary-maker in urgent need of a commission had hand-picked them, boy band-style, and promised them a night-and-day camera crew if only they would pretend that their life's ambition was to meet Maradona.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

Storyville: Maradona - In the Hands of the Gods, BBC4
“The film is too long as it is, and a bit raggedy. But that's kind of in the spirit of the thing - it's a long and raggedy story. It is beautifully shot and has an excellent soundtrack, as you'd expect from a documentary in the Storyville strand. What really pulls it, though, is the boys themselves.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

MasterChef, BBC2
“In our house we have watched it with rapt delight since the very first scallop was seared in round one.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

Who Do You Think You Are?, BBC1
“This obvious subject did make the programme more like a celebrity profile than the series's usual format [ ...] But it was an interesting story nonetheless.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

The Real Casino Royale, C4
“The very best of C4's Toffs and Crims season.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

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