Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing; Fake or Fortune? What Happened Next; Professor T

“Hidden camera footage from Boeing’s Dreamliner assembly plant in South Carolina shows anonymised workers averring that nothing – not even a free luxury holiday – could tempt them to fly on the planes they manufacture. There is a vast moral chasm between those determined to do all within their power to prevent further loss of life and the Boeing leadership. The only gap more glaring is the one between two shoddily outsourced sections of fuselage on a 737 Max. This isn’t a horror film, but you’ll struggle to find many movie scenes more nightmarish than Freefall’s reconstruction of the January 2024 incident when a door plug blew out mid-flight (it was missing all four of its crucial bolts) and several passenger oxygen masks malfunctioned. Barnett had warned of this danger years earlier. His concerns were not only ignored, but also he was disciplined for having raised them.”
Ellen E Jones, The Guardian

“I almost like these “what happened next” shows more than the standard ones because they return when the dust has settled to see if the owners carried on the fight and tell us whether the experts got egg on their face. What fun! Although, as [Phillip] Mould said, getting them to change their minds is very difficult indeed. Still, it gave Bruce another trip to France to show off her fluent French (in the original she had acted as a BBC translator, saying things first in French, then in English).”
Carol Midgley, The Times

“Professor T, starring Ben Miller as the highly strung sleuth Jasper Tempest, has worse mummy issues than Tutankhamun. Never mind unravelling the murders and kidnappings – there’s enough emotional puzzles to fill a psychology library. Nearly every male we meet is terrified of women. And it has to be said that the women are fairly formidable. Not content with having Frances de la Tour as Jasper’s overbearing mother, Juliet Stevenson as his bossy therapist and Sarah Woodward as his forthright secretary Ingrid, the writers have added Zoe Wanamaker as his girlishly boisterous Aunt Zelda.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail