02 March '10

“Regardless of the way its opening scenes so brilliantly injected an air of menace into a train trundling over the Pennines; I and a million or two other viewers, might well end up drifting away, because five solid nights is too much to ask. Call it Five Weeks and I’ll give it a try.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“Gwyneth Hughes’s Five Days is being billed as a ‘mystery drama’ not as a thriller. That’s just as well. The first half of her episode was so slow it felt like on of the passengers stuck on her trans-Pennine train: I was getting bored and bolshie.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“In a strong ensemble cast which also includes David Morrissey and Bernard Hill, Cornell John as Didi is just edging it with a performance that manages to be warm and chilling at the same time.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“A few small gripes aside, including my perennial whinge about intrusive background music, Five Days is as classy a production as you would expect of anything featuring Suranne Jones, fast becoming one of our finest small-screen actresses.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

“An exceptionally powerful hour of television, with about the right balance of analysis and emotion.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

“The documentary-maker Julian Hendy’s moving – as much to anger as tears – Why Did You Kill My Dad? could have been called Who Killed My Dad?”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“It was clear that Hendy’s grief was still raw, but it never overwhelmed the film. Instead, this was the product of the three-year investigation he has undertaken since his father was killed, into how and why such deaths occur.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“It would be unfair to say that Hendy’s film was too personal. It deliberately focused on the stories of many other grieving families and those raw emotions it expressed were handled with dignity.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express