22 June '10

“The dirtiest puppet show since Zippy made a foreskin joke on an in-house Christmas edition of Rainbow.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“Mongrels is a thing of great imagination in its own right…I still don’t know how long the joke will last, whether it’s got the legs to run and run, but like Margaret’s moggies, I’ll go back for seconds.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

“It does have its laughs, though, because the script isn’t entirely about crass shock value… Puppets, yes. Funny, yes. But not really for grown-ups.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“This programme had some noble motives behind it…and you’d have to be highly sceptical to say that it didn’t succeed.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“The problem with fatherhood documentaries is that they’re all too likely to tell you what you did wrong 10 years ago…You may not have been entirely satisfied with the “experiments” Laverne Antrobus conducted in The Biology of Dads, all of them short on controls and sample size.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“It’s really hard to believe that programmes like [it] are still out there. For years they’ve been peddling the same old tale.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“The series in which dissatisfied women go halfway around the world to be dissatisfied in a different location.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Hit and miss then, as you’d expect from a show like this. But still a lot less annoying than James Corden’s World Cup shambles on ITV.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian