“It sits uneasily in a semi-comfort zone between Teachers and Grange Hill.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
WATERLOO ROAD, BBC 1
“[It] sits uneasily in a semi-comfort zone between Teachers and Grange Hill and Burton’s casting pushes it a little further back towards cosy.”
Andrew Billen, The Times
“The only difference between a new term at a real school and a new term at Waterloo Road is that the latter is something to look forward to.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
“It’s just a handy container for a set of storylines, which are presented to us in an embarrassingly frictionless way….virtually nobody behaves as if they are in a public space and subject to the judging inspection of everyone around them.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent
CHURCHES: HOW TO READ THEM, BBC4
“Our presenter, the writer Richard Taylor, is just authoritative enough without being covered in chalk dust.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
EIGER: WALL OF DEATH, BBC4
“The only pity about this absorbing chronicle of one of the world’s great climbing challenges is that the conditions aren’t right for [mountaineers] Cool and Brodie.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
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