“The stories it tells are powerful enough to stick in the memory”
“Perhaps fittingly, this documentary feels somewhat frantic in places – it’s as jittery and frenetic as a caffeine-fuelled workout. It would probably have benefited from fewer voices, a little more analysis and a clearer narrative through-line. However, the stories it tells are powerful enough to stick in the memory, as warnings from recent history.”
Phil Harrison, The Guardian
And Just Like That, Now TV
“Really, it deserved something bigger, sillier and camper, instead of this sad, heavy-handed farewell. Still, at least they didn’t bring Che back to pay their respects.”
Hannah J Davies, The Guardian
“It ran out of road, and ideas, a long time ago. But money talks, and I can easily imagine Carrie Bradshaw returning in 15 years’ time to put the sex into septuagenarian.”
Carol Midgley, The Times
New Lives in the Wild, Channel 5
“The frustrating aspect of New Lives In The Wild, which returns for its 20th series, is that Ben rarely probes too deeply.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail
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