“One of the most powerful hours of comedy-drama I’ve seen of late”. Read on, for the verdict on last night’s TV.
Strictly Kosher, ITV1
“There are comparatively few documentaries you wish had been twice as long; this was one of them.”
John Grace, The Guardian
“Strictly Kosher was definitely from the spoonful-of-sugar school of documentary-making, sneaking in serious messages about repression and rituals behind a cast of absolutely fabulous characters….Interesting. More please.”
Alex Hardy, The Times
“I realised that even in a backstreet in a drab little northern town you could find history, ritual, links to the ancient and faraway. As far as I am concerned no TV programme brought that home better than Strictly Kosher.”
Matt Baylis, The Daily Express
“the I-word was conspicuously absent…Whether this was deliberate I don’t know, but it was a useful omission, because Manchester was the only Promised Land, or at least Land of Promise, that mattered here.”
Brian Viner, The Independent
Sirens, Channel 4
“Last night’s dose was one of the most powerful hours of comedy-drama I’ve seen of late…Neat stuff that will keep you laughing, crying guessing.”
Alex Hardy, The Times
British Masters, BBC4
“On a night of otherwise delicate and non-judgmental documentaries…the iconoclasm all came from British Masters.”
John Grace, The Guardian
The Truth About Wildlife, BBC2
“It was good to hear him [Chris Packham] say that fisherman are too often maligned, and conservationists too often self-righteous.”
Brian Viner, The Independent
The Restaurant Inspector, Channel 5
“No matter how brilliant our inspector is at homing in on the problems and fixing them, he might need a lesson in empathy.”
Matt Baylis, The Daily Express
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