“We tune in to learn the surprising details… it was rather effective”

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The Great Fire of London With Rob Rinder & Ruth Goodman, Channel 5

“We tune in to learn the surprising details — how King Charles II ordered houses to be torn down with giant iron billhooks, for instance, to create firebreaks… The film used shots of modern London with firedrops super-imposed like flakes of red-hot snow. It was rather effective.”
Christopher Stevens, The Daily Mail

Trump: Moscow’s Man in the White House?, Channel 4

“There will be no clean punches here, no definitive proof of anything. You will end the hour with minimal new information, and your mind will remain profoundly unchanged. In other words, what a weird shrug of a show this is.”
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian

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