“Unwatchable nonsense.” Read on for the full verdict on last night’s TV.

The Fixer

The Fixer, ITV1
“The Fixer is merely squalid, the baddies are preposterous and all the action takes place in some completely unpopulated part of London where you can get away with spraying bullets everywhere. Other than that, it was ace.”
Tim Dowling, The Guardian

The Fixer, ITV1
“Kudos had promised to fix The Fixer. In a misguided bid for cred, it has turned it into unwatchable nonsense.”
Andrew Billen, The Times,

The Fixer, ITV1
“If it struggled a bit harder it might deliver something that the average BNP member would enjoy a good deal less.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

The Fixer, ITV1
“The Fixer has been criticised for its unremitting gloom but it is actually highly atmospheric, shot in half-light, with the characters themselves clearly torn about their role in dealing with undesirables in a way that the law can’t.”
Virginia Blackburn, Daily Express

The Choir: Unsung Town, BBC 2
“The fun of these transformational reality shows is usually in the setbacks. There were signs last night that the programme-makers were padding the hour with stunts.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

The Choir: Unsung Town, BBC 2
“Few mission-style programmes pin quite so much hope on the public’s co-operation. If you attempted to improve school dinners you might well fail, but at least there’s footage of you trying.”
Tim Dowling, The Guardian

Jamie’s American Road Trip, C4
“A curious format required him to work in ethnic American restaurants and then cook variations of their own food back to their staff.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Jamie’s American Road Trip, C4
“I don’t recall seeing a single shot of the Hollywood sign in the whole thing, though I may have missed it while I was writing a note about the programme’s exemplary aversion to cliché.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Jamie’s American Road Trip, C4
“The trouble is that while Oliver excels on matters food-related, we don’t actually see a huge amount of it here. Instead, he pronounces on social issues, thus highlighting the fact that no one, including Oliver, really knows where to go from here.”
Virginia Blackburn, Daily Express

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