29 Mar '12

“Astonishingly, both teams came up with quite neat ideas. Both teams then turned their backs on their lightbulb moments and went with a manifestly half-baked alternative instead.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

 “If ever a franchise was dying on its feet, its this. Fans will no doubt say the show is not about entrepreneurship, it’s entertainment. The trouble is, it’s no longer much fun for anyone.”
John Crace, The Guardian

“There was no doubting [Pips Taylor’s] empathy with the various rape victims. What was less clear was what her film actually added to our knowledge of the issue.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“There is something strangely compelling about the shows colourful blend of stupidity and greed, of sex and lawlessness, of compassion and the zeal for justice. The scripts are sharp and sleep, and spiced with a welcome dollop of humour.”
Debra Craine, The Times

“While this programme did its best to argue the case I’ll never be quite convinced. I might have been brought around had the film not consistently proved this cache of leaked cables to be one of the least amazing caches of leaked cables anywhere.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“One of the lasting impressions has been the decency, compassion and professionalism of the ambulance crews who frequently risk their own livelihoods and health to move super-sized patients around.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“This was yet another of those programmes that BBC4 does so well; it will be a crime against intelligence if the Beeb decides to do away with the channel as part of its cost-cutting.”
John Crace, The Guardian