“A tourist with a typewriter… rarely getting dirty himself.” Read on for the full verdict on last night’s TV.

Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth

Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth, BBC2
“Theroux risks becoming the Alan Whicker de nos jours, a tourist with a typewriter, peering into these other lives but rarely getting dirty himself.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth, BBC2
“Theroux didn’t probe too hard about the economic underpinning of a £100-dollar-a-day habit.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth, BBC2
“It’s such a bargain-basement drug that Theroux found it hard to pinpoint where the problems of poverty ended and those caused by the crystal stuff began.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth, BBC2
“He looks like a little schoolboy who’s come across some bigger boys doing something naughty in the playground, something he finds both fascinating and scary.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Jam and Jerusalem, BBC1
“This Dibley/Summer Wine/Ab-Fab cowpat of a show has returned for a third series.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Jam and Jerusalem, BBC1
“Now stitched into a whole hour, Jam & Jerusalem on its return felt a bit long and a bit slow, but I seem to remember it did at 30 minutes too. What saves it are the surrealist touches and, actually, Dawn French.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Single-Handed, ITV1
“For the second week running [it] contained much to teach our own trivial cop shows.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Grizzly Bear Face-Off: Austin Stevens’ Adventures, Five
“He likes to get up close to the animals, have a fight if they’re up for it.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Revelations: Talking to the Dead, C4
“[Film-maker Richard] Alwyn’s gentleness with his subjects came across as tender-hearted rather than dumb.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Engineering Britain’s Super-weapons, More 4
“It was all pretty interesting, in a big boys’ toys kind of way.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Rock’n’Roll Hotel, BBC1
“A jolly-enough study in character.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Girls Aloud: Out of Control
“I learned that I would very much like to be in Girls Aloud. Somehow I don’t think it’s going to happen now, for so many different reasons.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

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