“Strange that such an important matter was shoehorned into a half-hour slot”
“The half-hour of What Happened at Hiroshima, marking the 80th anniversary of the bombings, feels like a rushed, crass thing – a duty done, a commissioning box ticked and a presenter, the journalist Jordan Dunbar, required to try to make up for its slightness by emoting instead.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian
“Strange that such an important matter was shoehorned into a half-hour slot before Fake or Fortune?. Dunbar didn’t have time to dig deep into the terrible damage done to human bodies, their skin hanging off like black seaweed, and for many of those who survived, the hellish death from radiation sickness, but we did hear some of it.”
Carol Midgley, The Times
“Some of the episode themes are a little neat – toxic masculinity and the manosphere, cultural appropriation – but Hank Hill has become a fascinating figure through which to view modern America. The man out of time may just have found his perfect moment.”
Chris Bennion, The Telegraph
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, Channel 4
“The physical challenges involve lots of running up mountains with rucksacks, as ever, but I can’t help feeling that a lot of the tears and terror are manufactured for the cameras.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail
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