“It's Top Gear with yeast: perfect, male fantasy TV.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Neil Morrissey's Risky Business, C4
“It's Top Gear with yeast: perfect, male fantasy TV.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Neil Morrissey's Risky Business, C4
“That's how this show goes. Wahey, let's buy a pub and make beer! Beer! Wahey! How do you make beer? Dunno. Oops. Let's drink lots of beer first.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Neil Morrissey's Risky Business, C4
“It's a chance to watch two middle-aged men getting drunk, an advert not for real beer but male bonding. It is Top Gear with booze.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Neil Morrissey's Risky Business, C4
“It's amiable enough.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Neil Morrissey's Risky Business, C4
“There's an artificial deadline, of course, jaunty music and a chortling narrator referring to them as "the boys" (they are both in their 40s). But it's all been done before - most recently with Channel 4's own very similar Chateau Monty - and I don't believe that they really did as little preparation and research as shown.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

Neil Morrissey's Risky Business, C4
“Despite the title, Neil Morrissey's Risky Business ultimately lacks what, in TV circles, tends be called ‘jeopardy' - or, in more ordinary language, ‘any real point'.”
James Walton, The Daily Telegraph

The Troubles I've Seen, ITV1
 “A powerful and thoughtful film.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

The Troubles I've Seen, ITV1
“Pretty decent.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

Nature Shock: The Whale That Blew Up in the Street, Five
 “It was actually quite interesting.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Imagine: Jay-Z - I Came, I Saw, I Conquered, BBC1
 “intelligent hagiography.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

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