TV Critics: This Old Thing; Jesus Town USA; The Hotel Inspector Returns

“Despite [Dawn] O’Porter’s bubbly presence, the programme felt worryingly like What Not to Wear and other makeover shows from the past”.
Terry Ramsey, The Telegraph

“The programme imparted some Sewing Bee fashion history and tips, but the uneasy paradox remained: the guinea pigs did not discover fashion originality; it was thrust upon them”.
Andrew Billen, The Times

“I doubted at first whether there were people in the world so poorly equipped in the reason department that they needed such information”.
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“It was a gentle, warm-hearted portrayal of a rural community in a peculiar corner of America, in a style that despite Pinder’s determination to milk any drama with a melodramatic background of choirs was languorous bordering on the soporific”.
Terry Ramsey, The Telegraph

“You could argue in this age of Kardashian and Towie audiences are sufficiently media literate to understand such artifice. It seemed like cheating to me”.
Andrew Billen, The Times

“The original broadcast is tidily compressed into highlights, and the intervening gap provides a reveal worth revealing”.
Tim Dowling, The Guardian

“Polizzi’s operation seemed less like a business makeover, more like the saving of souls”.
Matt Baylis, Daily Express