Disclosure: Care Home Undercover; Perfect Pub Walks; Grand Designs

“The film briefly considers what can be done to improve the sector (such as recruiting more staff), but the truth is that it needs the kind of radical overhaul that would require several hours more airtime to truly dissect. But what it does do – brilliantly, blood-boilingly – is to show us just how grim it can be, and how much money is being made in the process.”
Hannah J Davis, The Guardian

“This series bills itself as an opportunity for chaps of a certain age to talk about their emotions, but Alexander Armstrong’s a light entertainer and crooner, known for joining in a striptease at every opportunity — not for probing questions of a psychological nature. Instead of asking whether James May’s health concerns were real, or merely a touch of melancholy brought on by walking in Bronte country, he challenged May to a stone skimming contest. And then they went for a pint.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail

“Grand Designs speaks to something primal in all of us, a need to create shelter and warmth. And it speaks to a higher calling, too, the human desire for beauty, for art. Every time one of Kevin McCloud’s builders chooses, say, hempcrete over bricks, they remind us that it is worth taking time and trouble to do the difficult thing. There’s still no universe in which I’d attempt something like this myself, but I am very glad that the Sarahs of this world continue to throw caution, savings and sanity to the wind, and in doing so, create something wonderful.”
Marianne Levy, The i