“Where there is beauty, there is often great ugliness, a line that neatly sums up this show.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
“It’s a show stripped of all pretence at pleasantry. It’s all about bluff and nerve and mind games, people staring each other out and devising strategies. Where there is beauty…there is often great ugliness, a line that neatly sums up this show.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
“A kind of Dragon’s Den for overpriced bric-a-brac… The dealers all strike you as variations of Harry Enfield’s “I Saw You Coming” character.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent
“There’s some interesting stuff about things people like to collect (not just boring brown furniture either). And there’s also a tension to it that Antiques Roadshow possibly doesn’t achieve.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
“It is fiddly, but it has its moment.”
Andrew Billen, The Times
PRINCE PHILIP AT 90, ITV
“[Titchmarsh] misses every chance to make the interview better. And all we’re left with, I’m afraid, is a horrid old goat. That’s the Duke. Titchmarsh is a goat suppository.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
“The Duke’s rudeness is so fabulously royal and unspun that it is almost refreshing.”
Andrew Billen, The Times
“Naturally, it couldn’t be quite as bad as I’d feared, even though it was hardly a forensic appraisal of the Duke’s character.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent
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