21 July '11

“[A] desultory bit of schedule padding.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Along the way it gave a lesson in the shifting power balance between the papers and the box.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“This is the kind of documentary at which BBC4 excels and there were wonderful moments of archive film dragged out on to the screen for the first time in 40 or 50 years.”
John Crace, The Guardian

“Could there have been a duller title for a more delightful programme?”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“Though clearly coat-tailing on new drama The Hour, [Regional TV] had a lot to say for itself as it charted the history of a TV slot that pulls in seven million viewers a night.”
Matt Baylis, The Daily Express

“Like many retrospectives, it veered towards the rose-tinted.”
John Crace, The Guardian

“We didn’t, sadly, get the full Billy Elliot emotional climax.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Pure bubblegum television. It begins with a great burst of synthetic flavour and steadily gets more boring.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Indpendent

“It’s brave, experimental, quirky.”
Matt Baylis, The Daily Express