11 Aug '10

“The endless footage of random green fields, barely intelligible 11^th-century calligraphy and Baxter walking around medieval ruins speaking intensely to camera was all a little bit too Open University.”
Tim Walker, The Independent

“History as breaking news. It didn’t just fill the gaps for the casually uninterested, it rewrote history for the academics.”
John Crace, The Guardian

“The format was pretty much identical to Homes from Hell… To be fair, Beeny did help Nick and Becky get the worst faults fixed, but you couldn’t help feeling she would have been better off taking them to a good lawyer.”
John Crace, The Guardian

“Is it possible, I wondered, that all the people who’ll applied to appear on the show are the same ones who were too busy watching Property Ladder and dreaming of their second property to think about maintain their first?”
Tim Walker, The Independent

“Have these people never heard of surveyors?”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“The documentary, for my taste, suffered from its tabloid commentary but its subject, madness not motorways, was provocative.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“Disturbing, partly because it felt so voyeuristic – did we really need to see the footage of them being hit by traffic so many times? - but mostly because of the absence of any explanation for the women’s behaviour.”
John Crace, The Guardian

“What a service the once derided BBC Three does for its target audience (and me) by using celebrity to open eyes to the awful variety of teenage experience.”
Andrew Billen, The Times