“Fun this might have been but ain't nobody does it better than Jane.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Lost in Austen, ITV1
“I marvelled at the sharp yet frothy, subversive-yet-utterly-respectful-of-Austen brilliance of it all.” The performances and the music zinged. It all zinged.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Lost in Austen, ITV1
“Fun this might have been but ain't nobody does it better than Jane.”
Virginia Blackburn, Daily Express

Lost in Austen, ITV1
“A time travelling comedy, was bundled up into a suitcase last night with bits hanging out. Einstein could probably get the hang of it.”
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian

Desperate Housewives, C4
“What wouldn't I give for a weeks stay on Wisteria Lane? You'd have enough gossip to last you the rest of your life.”
Virginia Blackburn, Daily Express

Dyke on Nye Bevan, BBC4
“It was avowedly a deromanticising project, which touched on Bevan's self-defeating bloody-mindedness as well as honouring his astonishing effectiveness as minister of health and minister of housing.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

The Family, C4
“The Family was a massive downer. An hour of rumbling anger, flouncing exits and soft-based mood swings. The Hugheses are just so bloody, terminally miserable. Their conflict-fest is supposedly “reality”, whereas in truth the programme is as edited and selective as any reality show.
Tim Teeman, The Times

Who Do You Think You Are? BBC1
“I suppose you can find flagrant criminals in any family [Jodie Kidd] if you spread the genealogical net wide enough but to have two such flamboyantly black sheep in such direct line of descent seemed a little greedy to me. Perhaps hoarding is in the DNA.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

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