TV critics' verdict on programmes - including Channel 4’s new drama Boy A - broadcast on 26 November 2007.

Boy A, C4
“ -this story worked because it was a story, told like a story, with an eye on things like suspense and surprise.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Boy A, C4
“ -a highly watchable thriller.”
James Walton, Daily Telegraph

Boy A, C4
“ -a thuddingly sincere piece of drama.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Boy A, C4
“What made this so involving and watchable were, precisely, its good intentions: Mark O’Rowe and John Crowley, the writer and director, were determined to get the viewer on Jack’s side, to force on you not just the possibility but the certainty of redemption, so that you would feel the full force of his tragedy. But it needed a little more dispassion and ambiguity.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives, BBC4
“ -a fascinating film focusing on the attempt of Everett’s son Mark - the lugubrious lead singer of quirky US rock band The Eels - to understand a father he’d barely known.”
Abi Grant, Daily Telegraph

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives, BBC4
“Despite an involving beginning Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives tried to be in two places at once and found it couldn’t.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives, BBC4
“Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives proved wonderful.”
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives, BBC4
“In another possible world, I didn’t spend an hour of my life on this.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent

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