“He’s the man who makes cracking good food; each recipe absolutely bang-on for foodies who want to be pushed.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
CHRISTMAS WITH GORDON, C4
“Our host’s trademark jittery manner (“yes?”) combined with the ADHD of the wobbly camera action certainly gave rise to occasional motion sickness. But mercifully still visible was who the real Ramsay is. He’s the man who makes cracking good food; each recipe absolutely bang-on for foodies who want to be pushed, without being Heston.”
Alex Hardy, The Times
“The programme, though, had fully signed up to the mood of can-do bonhomie that infects the airwaves at this time of year.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent
“Oh how their oddities will prime you for the coming days, in which we’ll be bloated as much by family frustrations as by food.”
Alex Hardy, The Times
“This show is built on exactly that mix of stock characters…Based on those four templates, be they celebrities, soap starts or ordinary Joes and Josephines, offering each other dinner and competing for a prize, this show can go on for ever. In fact, it feels like forever already.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
“Something of a hostage to fortune, underlining the fact that thew snap doesn’t work in all of them and the jokes are sometimes a bit duff. But Bill Bailey’s “Car Park Babylon” was very satisfying.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent
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