“The richest irony about Here Comes Honey Boo Boo may be the name of the channel that brings it to us – TLC. Formerly The Learning Channel, which began life delivering educational content in the States but later discovered a far more prosperous existence as a feed-pipe for low-brow reality swill.” 
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

”It was a mid-brow piece of fluffy entertainment. The subject matter was the NHS, and issues such as men with dementia and seven-year-old girls in cardiac arrest, so the flimsiness of the characterisation and cheap-and-cheerful plotting felt woefully inadequate.”
Jake Wallis Simons, The Telegraph

“I think Frankie, the lead character in Lucy Gannon”s new drama about a Bristol District Nurse, is meant to be saintly and charming — a cup-half-full type for whom nothing is too much trouble. I wanted to kill her from about twenty minutes in.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“There just aren”t enough hours in the day for Frankie. To be fair, Frankie was always going to struggle for attention as she”s up against so many TV documentaries about hospitals and healthcare, in which real life-and-death scenarios carry so much more impact.”
John Crace, The Guardian

“The most interesting aspect of this show is the twisted relationship between Will Graham (Hugh Dancy), the disturbed FBI criminal profiler, and Hannibal Lecter. Shame then, that we get so little of Graham and Lecter together and that so much of the budget has been spent on such explicitly gross scenes.”
John Crace, The Independent