“It was good to see his jib out on the road for a change.” Read on for the full verdict on last night’s TV.
The Future of Food, BBC2
“I have always rather liked the cut of Alagiah’s jib, so it was good to see his jib out on the road for a change, albeit in pursuit of evidence that we are heading to hell in a handcart, a handcart shedding nutritious food every inch of the way.”
Brian Viner, The Independent
The Future of Food, BBC2
“A misleading title for this series… because, in a nutshell, on our shrinking, flooding, heating-up little planet, food has no future at all.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
The Future of Food, BBC2
“Neither foodie, nor environmentalist, nor celebrity evangelist, [Alagiah’s] ‘proper journalism’ credentials and mild-man style stripped the programme of any preachy feel.”
Alex Hardy, The Times
The Future of Food, BBC2
“Even in a documentary as potentially chilling as Future Of Food… [Alagiah] smiled his way through it as if it was a pleasant ‘And finally’ item.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman
The Future of Food, BBC2
“George Alagiah does a thoroughly thorough job.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
The Street, BBC1
“This version of The Street was practically Shakespearian in terms of its pathos, bathos, and whatever the Third Musketeer’s name was… If his performance as Eddie doesn’t land [Timothy] Spall a Bafta, then all acting awards should be abolished.”
Brian Viner, The Independent
The Street, BBC1
“It’s not the misery itself that I applaud, but how poignantly it unfolded – because each piece of dialogue, each silence, was a masterwork on how families communicate, or don’t , through mangled relationships, the friction of everyday domesticity and undeservedly cruel twists.”
Alex Hardy, The Times
The Street, BBC1
“When drama is being penny-pinched out of the schedules, [The Street] has become virtually the last hold-out of the single play tradition which goes back to the venerated Play For Today.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman
Brothers In Arms: Basra, Sky 1
“This was beautifully produced, intimate history of the Iraq war, hingeing on the testimonies of soldiers as they prepared to pull out of Basra this spring.”
Alex Hardy, The Times
Bang Goes the Theory, BBC1
“OK, so Jem, Liz, Dallas and Yan are ever so slightly annoying, in a hey-guys-isn’t-this-fun kind of way, but I’ll take annoying over boring (and most probably dead) any day.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
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