Heroes, BBC2
“Twenty-odd weeks of cartoon capers drew to a close last night with a double bill of heroes, the finest trash TV series since - oh, the last one at least. Things unfolded at the customary breakneck pace.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian
Heroes, BBC2
“Heroes was definitely an exciting piece of escapism.”
James Walton, Daily Telegraph
My Big Fat Moonie Wedding, C4
“We got no sense of why the people we did meet had joined the church or why they’d left. Instead of trying to understand them (which was surely its main job) the programme merely alternated between chortling and sneering at the weirdness of the whole business.”
James Walton, Daily Telegraph
All New House of Tiny Tearaways, BBC3
“ -troubling though it is to acknowledge that TV - a medium of entertainment, after all - might help, yesterday’s 56 minutes was confirmation that it has its place.”
James Walton, Daily Telegraph
Heroes, BBC2
“My favourite character, Hiro, stood up to Sylar but has been catapulted to 17th-century Japan and some kind of face-off between war-lords on horse back. You just know the writer and creator Tim Kring had a riot serving up that baffling epilogue.”
Tim Teeman, The Times
My Big Fat Moonie Wedding, Channel 4
“[With] its silly, BBC Four-style title, and its Eighties pop soundtrack, this programme rapidly announced that it wasn’t intending to take the subject seriously.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
Secret Millionaire, Channel 4
“It’s the solid shining of a spotlight, week after week, on a mostly unseen class of people - people who care, people who give. People who are, for want of a better word, just good. There’s actually a great deal of them, and they certainly outnumber the millionaires.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
My Big Fat Moonie Wedding, Channel 4
“It would have been nice to have a tiny bit more about the Reverend Moon’s continuing contacts with Republican politics and the Religious Right, but even without that, this was a strangely compelling film, the standard derangement that underlies all religions amplified until even the faithful could see how mad it looked.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent
Binge Britain: Diet Doctors Special, Five
“Katharine is going to have to binge drink two bottles of wine every three days, all in the name of science,’ announced the voiceover, a line that prompted a double-barrelled exclamation in our house. First barrel: ‘You’re not seriously calling that binge!’ Second barrel: ‘How come science takes the rap rather than television, which actually procured the crime.’”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent
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