“Crews has lots in common with the new generation of oddball cops and heroes such as Monk and House, and with the multi-stranded mystery of what landed him in jail there is a hint of 24, too.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Life, ITV3
“Crews has lots in common with the new generation of oddball cops and heroes such as Monk and House, and with the multi-stranded mystery of what landed him in jail there is a hint of 24, too.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

In Love with Barbara, BBC4
“Things improved as the story unfolded.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Russell Brand's Ponderland, C4
“Highly entertaining.”
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian

Russell Brand's Ponderland, C4
“In Ponderland Russell Brand proves how very funny he is.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Russell Brand's Ponderland, C4
“Making fun of stupid old film clips is hardly cutting edge - Denis Norden's been doing it for years - but he certainly throws himself into it.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

Dead Set, E4
 “Dead Set operates on the principle that you're never more than four minutes away from the next scene of a zombie either being violently killed or violently killing, which has certainly given it pace. There's so much running around in panic that a certain lack of characterisation doesn't really matter, though it also helps that Big Brother contestants don't generally have much depth to them anyway.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

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