“Confusing? Intentionally so. Addictive? Yes.' Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Gossip Girl, ITV2
 “Confusing? Intentionally so. Addictive? Yes.”
Helen Rumbelow, The Times

Gossip Girl, ITV2
“It's so hard to resist a teen drama, even (or especially) when the teens involved are so horrid. Maybe it's due to it being a world totally alien to my own, but I found it fascinating.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Gossip Girl, ITV2
 “At first sight Gossip Girl comes across as a junior version of Sex and the City.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent

Sleeping with My Sister, C4
 “... thought-provoking film.”
Gerard O'Donovan, The Daily Telegraph

Sleeping with My Sister, C4
“This film could so easily have been the usual sensationalist Channel 4/Five freakshow: The Boy Who Shagged His Sister, something like that. In fact, the actual title does suggest it might be along those lines. It isn't. It's a sensitive and sympathetic film, treating the subject with the delicacy it requires.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Ashes to Ashes, BBC1
 “Overall though the series was always watchable, often intriguing and usually highly amusing.”
Gerard O'Donovan, The Daily Telegraph

Ashes to Ashes, BBC1
“You watch it for DCI Gene Hunt and his old-school views on women, ethnic minorities and gays. By now, though, that particular joke has worn a little thin.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent

A Cook's Tour of Spain, C4
“... this is a simple show, without the gimmicks of her previous series, The Wild Gourmets.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

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