“The programme also provided a guide as to what can happen when a seriously and well-intentioned campaign is hijacked by a television programme looking for cheap laughs.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

The WI Guide to Brothels, C4
 “The WI, for all their sponge cakes and raffia work, have grasped that the safety of vulnerable women is an important social issue. Shame the documentary-makers weren't as switched on.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

The WI Guide to Brothels, C4
“The programme also provided a guide as to what can happen when a seriously and well-intentioned campaign is hijacked by a television programme looking for cheap laughs.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

The WI Guide to Brothels, C4
“Channel 4's [reporting] last night was trivial, mean-spirited and misjudged.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

The WI Guide to Brothels, C4
 “Wonderful.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Agatha Christie's Marple: Towards Zero, ITV1
 “In this age of scientific CSI slickness, there's something quite comforting and reassuring about a good old-fashioned Agatha Christie drama on a Sunday evening.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Sprint, BBC2
“Drawing a film about a race that takes 10 second out to 90 minutes, that's too much.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Tonightly, C4
“A distant desecendant of The 11 O'Clock Show [... ] Tonightly lacked edge and it lacked laughs. It has three weeks to find bothly.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

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