“The programme never offered up a working definition of the term ‘superfood’”

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Superfoods: The Real Story, Channel 4

“The programme never offered up a working definition of the term “superfood”, but I’m guessing “the sufficient dosage is generally fatal” will not be a part of it. Sorry red wine.”
Tim Dowling, The Guardian

“Programmes like last night’s, for that reason, ought to be very useful. I say ought to be because, with one exception, last night’s concentrated on products and “miracle qualities” that everyone has known about for a long time.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Wentworth Prison, Channel 5

“Apart from the pantomime dame, Wentworth’s only other selling point is the shower block, or rather what goes on there, in a mandatory number of unnecessary scenes.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“It soon became apparent that this isn’t so much an update as a gritty, big budget reboot.”
Tim Dowling, The Guardian

Handmade: By Royal Appointment, BBC4

“While mildly whetting the appetite for more history about the founding father Henry E Steinway himself, there was something innately reassuring about watching the instruments being made with the same techniques as they were 200 years ago. No factory robot could replicate the same logve and care afforded by, say, Jeff Prett in the London Workshop.”
James Jackson, The Times

Great British Sewing Bee, BBC2

“Yet it was as early as when Esme Young explained to Claudia Winkleman what this actually meant that I zoned out, idly wondering instead of which of the pair had the most precisely ironed and symmetrical fringe.”
James Jackson, The Times