30 July '10

“Given his earlier disguise, it was hard to take any of it too seriously. Still, The Secret Tourist is an entertaining watch – as a televisual summer fling, it will do just fine.”
Alice-Azania Jarvis, The Independent

“Is it really so bad though, like The Real Hustle the moment you step off the plane, only scarier because it’s in a foreign language?”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

“A show that thinks it is Watchdog filmed as Hustle but is actually Beadle’s About meets That’s Life, stretched to an hour.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“Nick Robinson’s gripping documentary…suggested that Clegg may indeed have some explaining to do when he meets his maker.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“There is no denying that the Artist Residence is now a much, much better hotel, certainly from an inspector’s point of view…But I still can’t help thinking that a little part of it has died.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

“The first few minutes were enough to deter any channel-hopping youngsters from sticking around, so damning was Jones’s yoof bashing. It’s really awful that such levels of ageism are allowed. Throughout, little was offered in the way of qualifiers and even less in the way of concrete statistics…I learned not to tune in next week.”
Alice-Azania Jarvis, The Independent

“This could have been one of the intrusive, morally vacuous shows for which BBC3 has a certain reputation. If it wasn’t, the credit goes to [the subject] Alice.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express