“A mighty disturbing piece of TV.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

PANORAMA: SPOILT ROTTEN, BBC1

“This was a mighty disturbing piece of TV although, being based in one distinctive city hospital, it did give the unfair impression that the problem affected only people with Scouse accents.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“All of this was indeed wearing, and a miserable portrait of Britain, but you couldn’t help feeling that the underlining causes of these problems – a lack of education, the potential intervention of social services, were not properly addressed.”
Rob Sharp, The Independent

V, SYFY

“A remake of a programme that originally appeared in the 1980s, has more sci-fi clichés in its first 10 minutes than most of the last 10 years put together.”
Rob Sharp, The Independent

“It is just like an American mini-series from the early Eighties, called V (as in “not v good).”
Andrew Billen, the Times

GREAT ORMOND STREET, BBC2

“Here was medicine in the raw: doctors working at the limits of science and frequently coming up short; doctors struggling with parents who have bought the TV myth that every condition has a cure, and are both furious and distraught that their child might die.”
John Crace, The Guardian

OLYMPIC DREAMS, BBC1

“The film-makers followed fiver Tom Daley and heptathlete Jessica Ennis. You don’t have to be a big sports fan to know that both are current world champions, as the papers were full of their successes last year – so the “will-they-won’t-they-make-it-to-the-top?” format fell completely flat.”
John Crace, The Guardian

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