TV Critics: Shopgirls; Alison Steadman's Shetland; Love Your Garden

“This was an unexpectedly engaging but never entirely earth-shattering hour”.
Gerard O’Donovan, The Telegraph

“Cox didn’t labour (Ha ha! Do you see what I did there? Do you see?) the point, but the programme provided a fine study of the law of unintended consequences”.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“More such lively interviewees and a less chronological approach might have made Dr Cox’s Shopgirls a livelier watch, but it was insightful all the same”.
Ellen E Jones, The Independent

“This was more revealing and unexpected, the story of the emergence of a new class of urban woman and, I fear, a better class of prostitute”.
Andrew Billen, The Times

“Nobody seemed to have warned her how cold and windy it can get up there “even in April”. Nor had anyone done her the courtesy of writing a decent script”.
Gerard O’Donovan, The Telegraph

“I do grouse about the use of celebrities instead of experts on TV but sometimes that matters less than whether the frontman or woman is doing something they love, somewhere lovely”.
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“Just as a house is never just a house in DIY SOS: The Big Build, so a garden is never just a garden here”.
Ellen E Jones, The Independent

“The show might as well be called Love Alan Titchmarsh”.
Andrew Billen, The Times