The Dyers’ Caravan Park; The Zero Line: Inside Russia’s War

“It’s a noble aim and a decent programme. I love static caravans — my wife and I have owned two in our time — but this is a much harder sell to those who don’t really know the world. The resort site is pretty grim, especially in winter (when filming started), and could have done with the bucolic cutaways that light up Clarksonland. So while Dyer’s passion and happy memories are sincerely felt, and however emotional his campaigning rhetoric is, I can’t see too many people hitching their wagons to this.”
Ben Dowell, The Times

“The park is still being run by the Butcher family, who purchased it in the 1950s. And to begin with, Dyer doesn’t invest too much effort, missing the opening day to attend the Brit Awards. He gets stuck in after that, holding a residents’ meeting to ask what improvements they would like to see, and charming the pants off everyone. But it is genuinely awkward when the meeting turns into a litany of complaints against the current management, who sit there in mortified silence. “These are my people,” Dyer says. They’re exactly the sort of working-class people that the BBC agonises over trying to attract. Sky, on the other hand, knows its audience and it knows the appeal of Danny Dyer. For Sky 1, which relaunched this week, it’s a perfect show. As Dyer would say: sweet as a nut.”
Anita Singh, Telegraph

“Donald Trump famously watches a lot of television, and there’s nothing wrong with that. We can only hope The Zero Line: Inside Russia’s War finds its way on to the White House widescreen. No one who watches this brutal, stomach-churning documentary can be left in any doubt that Vladimir Putin’s ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine is one vast war crime.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail