“This is good telly, not least because of its forthright presenter and its frilly subject matter.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

Mary’s Bottom Line, C4

“This is good telly, not least because of its forthright presenter and its frilly subject matter but it’s never going to change the nation’s underwear or anything else.”Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“Making quality knickers at a marketable price requires the ability to sew a straight seam and turn up on time. Making watchable television programmes needs a very different set of skills.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“It is very good TV. Her apprentices are great, a bunch of lippy Mancs with backstories to make you cry.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Love Life, ITV1

“The jokes were so lame that it would be safer to define it a rom-dram. The only reason Joe won’t end up with Lucy will be if ITV decides to stretch this thing out into a second series, but it won’t.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“As a whole it is pure emotional bubble bath – frothy with contrived encounters and convenient outbursts, fragrant with incompatible yearnings and regret.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“The characters are two-dimensional and predictable. It’s all predictable. There is a tweeness to it, a lack of conviction and of passion. It’s all a bit, well, ITV drama.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

White Heat, BBC1

“All we’re really seeing so far are the standard soap opera fare of love triangles and unrequited crushes. Someone needs to turn up the heat before we go cold.”Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“White Heat gets three stars because, against some odds, the actors make it watchable.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

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