“I asked my son what it was about. ‘It's about dinosaurs coming through an open portal,' he said. This, it turns out, is pretty much all you need to know.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Primeval, ITV1
“Primeval was all cod Egyptology.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Primeval, ITV1
“Before I sat down to watch the new series of Primeval, I asked my son what it was about. ‘It's about dinosaurs coming through an open portal,' he said. This, it turns out, is pretty much all you need to know.”
Tim Dowling, The Guardian

The Real Swiss Family Robinson, BBC1
“More than anything else, the programme proved that the only thing more tedious than camping is watching other people camping, giant turtles or not.”
Paul Whitelaw, The Scotsman

Robin Hood, BBC1
“For the first 40 minutes anyway, he's a clinically depressed Dark Knight Robin.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

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