3 August, '09

Single-Handed, ITV1
“I do hope the Connemara tourist board didn’t get their hopes up too high with regard to Single-Handed… but the drama, unexpectedly, given the slot it’s in, is worth a visit.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Single-Handed, ITV1
“Neglecting to overload its plot with corpses, keep it coincidences down to essentials, more like a psychological study than a crime procedural, Single-Handed was anything but bog standard.”
Andrew Billen, The Times 

Single-Handed, ITV1
“Distinctly classy. At times, Single-Handed does spell out its issues a little too clearly… Still, it’s not often that the only real flaw in an ITV drama is a tendency to excessive serious-mindedness.”
James Walton, Daily Telegraph

Happy Birthday OU – Forty Years of the Open University, BBC4
“The film was not quite sure if it came to praise of patronise the OU, but it certainly covered the ground from its wonky cardboard atomic models to the lives they liberated.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Happy Birthday OU – Forty Years of the Open University, BBC4
“I got a bit teary a couple of times.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Man on Wire, BBC2
“By the end, I can’t imagine many viewers not sharing the view of Petit’s team that they had achieved something ‘magnificent, mysterious and beautiful’.”
James Walton, Daily Telegraph

Classic Goldie, BBC2
“He’s great but the compositional process – Goldie hums a handful of notes and various mentors look panic stricken as they wonder how they can get it to fill seven minutes – is sometimes unintentionally comic.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent