“A succession of voluminously dressed tambourine-players, gay crooners and almost-strippers.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT, ITV1

“There’s a lot wrong with Britain’s Got Talent. Well, Piers Morgan - he’s wrong for a start. If you’re going to be unlikeable, you need to bring something else to the table: be funny, or interesting, or at least right. But he’s none of those things.”
Sam Wollaston, the Guardian

“I wish I could have pulled a sickie and got out of watching this succession of voluminously dressed tambourine-players, gay crooners and almost-strippers.”
Andrew Billen, the Times

THE PRISONER, ITV1

“Unexpectedly, I’m hooked.”
Andrew Billen, the Times

“A tale of an ordinary New Yorker transplanted to a tiny and inescapable dystopia governed by an inscrutable dictatorship should be sufficiently intriguing to make fantastic Saturday night fare. Instead, there’s just tedium.”
Archie Bland, the Independent

Louis Theroux: AMERICA’S MEDICATED KIDS, BBC2

“No one influential got asked any difficult questions, and no conclusions were reached; instead, we were left with an awkward sort of medical tourism.”
Archie Bland, the Independent

“We’re not sure it’s right to give antidepressants to minors but Louis Theroux could surely do with a pick-me-up.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

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