“Borderline loony dramatic reconstruction.” Read on for the full verdict on last night’s TV.

1066: the Battle for Middle Earth, C4
“It doesn’t really amount to much: the script is pretty excruciating, there’s no character development, and to be honest, when they’ve got all their clobber on, it’s hard to tell who’s Leofric and Tofi, and who’s Snorri and Ealfrith. Hard to care, really. No, this was more battle re-enactment than drama.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

1066: the Battle for Middle Earth, C4
“Borderline loony dramatic reconstruction.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

1066: the Battle for Middle Earth, C4
“One big history lesson.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

The Trouble with Working Women, BBC2
“What is The Trouble with Working Women? Maybe that we have to put up with programmes such as this, which treat such an obvious fact of modern life – actually, scratch that modern bit, since the vast majority of women have worked in every culture in history – as a quirky curiosity.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

The Trouble with Working Women, BBC2
“Sophie Raworth and Justin Rowlatt’s amiable ramble round the badly framed question ‘why can’t a woman succeed like a man?’”
Andrew Billen, The Times

The Trouble with Working Women, BBC2
“The programme puttered along limply and nigh-on unwatchably.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

Divided, ITV1
“This show is not about making friends. And there’s something slightly dubious about a game that appears to breed hatred. But hey, it’s quite good fun.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

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