TV critics' verdict on programmes, including the one-off ITV drama Who Gets the Dog, broadcast between the 30th November and the 2nd December 2007.

Who Gets the Dog?, ITV1
“Who Gets the Dog had nothing to do with the title. Instead, it was the mystery of how such a feeble drama had managed to attract Kevin Whately and Alison Steadman to the lead roles.”
James Walton, Daily Telegraph

Who Gets the Dog?, ITV1
“ -was described in the Radio Times as a “one-off comedy drama”, a description that was nine parts scheduler optimism to one-part accuracy. No question about the one-off bit, I’m guessing.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

Who Gets the Dog?, ITV1
“Neither fish or fowl, neither comedy nor drama, you might say, but Who Gets the Dog? Successfully contented itself with the melancholy ironies of real life.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Who Gets the Dog?, ITV1
“Who Gets the Dog? was a truly terrible programme. While the writing either plodded or cartwheeled, the performances swung between adequate and desperate.”
Sarah Dempster, The Guardian

Who Gets the Dog?, ITV1
“A show that had become boring and grating by the first ad break.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Long Way Down, BBC2
“Once again Ewan and Charley plunged into the unknown, equipped only with two vans full of supplies, a full back-up team, a medical expert, a film crew and an apparently limitless budget.”
James Walton, Daily Telegraph

Long Way Down, BBC2
“Where other travelogues look worked up and worked over, this was little more than a video diary, with a commentary that rarely rose above paraphrases of the word “wow”. But they tugged on the leash so eagerly, you were happy to accompany them all the way.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

The Sky at Night, BBC4
“It was unashamedly old-fashioned in format, geared more to astronomy anoraks rather than the general public.”
Patricia Wynn-Davies, Daily Telegraph

The Omid Djalili Show, BBC1
“ -the sketches aren’t quite good enough, and the jokes about Middle-Eastern stereotypes wobble between mocking prejudice and feeding it.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

This is Civilisation, C4
“The only letdown was the soundtrack - dance hits and Jimi Hendrix crowbarred in quite clearly to carry the message: ‘Hey - art history is cool!’ Well, it’s not. It can be interesting - but that depends on the presenter, not the gimmicks.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

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