“Fry’s series is a jolly, cerebral programme that wears the pop science lightly enough to make it entertaining as well as educational”
“Fry’s series is a jolly, cerebral programme that wears the pop science lightly enough to make it entertaining as well as educational. As a study in how we let listening devices into our homes first then think of the consequences later, the programme wasn’t half bad.”
Carol Midgley, The Times
“Even Professor Hannah Fry, an eager advocate for all things sciency, is having her doubts about the advisability of some technologies, in her six-part series The Secret Genius Of Modern Life. She looked less than comfortable when an Amazon boffin told her excitedly that he’d programmed a synthesiser to imitate her voice. The ‘deep fake’ Hannah sounded more like Dame Edna Everage. I don’t think impressionist Rory Bremner need worry about his job just yet.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail
Brian Cox: How the Other Half Live, Channel 5
“My favourite bit of part two of Brian Cox: How the Other Half Live was when a grumpy Cox, confronted with a man’s brand new Rolls-Royce, was rudely but genuinely unimpressed. Good series, but it could have done with more probing.”
Carol Midgley, The Times
“Brian’s face is perpetually crumpled, like a shirt that’s been at the bottom of the laundry basket for a month. It’s hard to tell when he’s happy, but he certainly didn’t seem overjoyed to meet Polish-born model Carolina, 21, in Miami. Carolina is an ‘influencer’, posing beside swimming pools for fans on social media. Greeting Brian at a seafront villa, she explained she didn’t own the place, but had rented it for the day after Googling him to learn about his lifestyle. Brian started to explain that he wasn’t billionaire media mogul Logan Roy, he just played him in Succession.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail
The Confession, Prime Video
“This is one of those true-crime shows where the person we’re encouraged to conclude is guilty has agreed to be interviewed. It’s a ballsy move. So what is he like? He may not now have the almost laughably creepy look seen in the show’s archive stills and video – in the early 90s, Keith had the lank, sandy bowl-cut of a 70s wrestler or disgraced Top of the Pops presenter – but the present-day Keith Hall is, like Michael Peterson in The Staircase, maddeningly ambiguous.”
Jack Seale, The Guardian
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