20 April '11

“You don’t get a lot of moral philosophy on BBC3 but that’s essentially what this was, as Jono [Lancaster] wrestled with his own doubts (“I could just sit in a corner and argue with myself all day long”) and explored his options.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Rudge creatively used Lancaster to discuss the ethics of reproduction when you have a hereditary condition and of genetic science. For a while the pair got nowhere, with Lancaster admitting that he could not argue with himself all afternoon.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“It explored another grey area – the blurred boundary between private compulsion and art. It told the story of Mark Hogancamp, who was left badly brain-damaged after a beating in a bar and worked out his own form of rehabilitation by creating an imaginary town called Marwencol, populated by customised Barbie dolls, GI Joes and action figures.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Quite what possessed the Ministry of Defence to get involved with Kyle is obviously classified, but I’d guess the MoD realised that a 12-part documentary about learning to drive military vehicles was potentially extremely dull – imagine a 12-part series about trainee bus drivers – and hoped Kyle’s unique brand of parasitic stardust would detract from that.”
John Crace, The Guardian

“Apart from the CGI overkill and Snow’s annoying lapses into hyper-enthusiasm – I don’t need to be shouted at to know whether something is interesting – this has been a fascinating factual mini-series about London, Paris and New York.”
John Crace, The Guardian

“Seeing an older man in the pub with a teenage girl, the other residents of the square naturally assumed he was trying to seduce her and set up a lynch mob. Just an average day in Walford.”
Matt Baylis, The Express

“More confusing to me was that it felt like two different programmes awkwardly bolted together as, in between being “down with the kids” about condoms, Anna Richardson was doing something much more worthwhile by highlighting the sexualisation of children by trying to get high-street shops, such as Primark, to stop selling padded bras and bondage trousers to under-10s.”
John Crace, The Guardian

“The campaign against sexualised kids’ clothing resulted in a few lame stunts by the presenter, Anna Richardson, against Primark and Matalan, and more are promised tonight.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“Now it’s over, I’ll say there were times when I adored it and there were times when I wished it was on another channel, far, far away.”
Matt Baylis, The Express