23 April '10

“This was just an excuse for class warfare, and an opportunity to show everyone at their most snide.”
John Crace, the Guardian

“Not, despite its hilarious title, the next big sitcom but merely the last drops being squeezed from the formatted-reality genre.”
Andrew Billen, the Times

“As Come Dine with Me, the ostensible subject of the programme – dinner parties in one case and the hotel trade in this – is not really the subject  at all. It’s simply a disclosing agent for one of our favourite subjects – class.”
Tom Sutcliffe, the Independent

“The oddness of the average guest house is a major part of this show’s appeal. That and watching people get upset with each other.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“Whether you’d get me to spend six months on North Uist with Monty Hall is another question. If, in, his Great Hebridean Escape, the remote colony took a bit of getting used to, so did Hall and his exclamations of “fantastic” as yet another Scottish summer’s day dawned dull and drizzly.”
Andrew Billen, the Times

“The brain training I’d like to implement now is for whoever chooses the music for the soundtrack. Here’s a sequence set in London, so let’s have ‘London Calling’ by the Clash. Here’s a race between radio-controlled cars so let’s fire up the Fleetwood Mac track they use for F1. A bit of lateral thinking please.”
Tom Sutcliffe, the Independent

“It was fun but basically still a long-winded way of saying: “No, you can’t train your brain, at least not with brain-training game”.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express