30 Oct, '09

“It was all quite fun to watch, it must be said; but this critic probably won’t be back for seconds.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“Returned with Raymond Blanc, the Hercule Poirot of cuisine, whose English seems to deteriorate the longer he is exposed to England.”
Nancy Banks Smith, The Guardian

“This is like a long limber up for The Apprentice. It is show in the same way, had the same dramatic scheme – but it’s about cookin’, not sellin’.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

“What could be a creepy exercise in voyeurism turns out to be quite the opposite: a gentle, and rather moving portrait of human emotion… A riveting, touching and funny tapestry of contemporary life.”
Alice-Azania Jarvis, The Independent

“Could have been a very sickly offering… Something about the setting, though, seemed to make these sets of couples drop their guard, revealing far more to the camera than they might have done if they’d been sitting up with their trousers on.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“A cavalcade of wittily shot couples in bed talking about their sex lives.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

“So much of her short life has been caught on camera. The shopping channel, fashion modelling, the CCTV footage which shows acid being thrown at her in the street, the film of her waking like a sheeted ghost from midnight nightmares and this singularly staunch film. It is not the way she hoped to break into showbusiness.”
Nancy Banks Smith, The Guardian

“It’s more than a little simplistic, if not for 1960s America than at least for modern-day Britain, where racism assumes a far more varied and multilayered form than simple white-versus-black equations suggest.”
Alice-Azania Jarvis, The Independent

“Elliot’s test didn’t take account of the fact that while her thesis may be sound, the mechanics of racism and the ways that agencies and individuals have been trying to dismantle it have had their own effect.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

“Yet again, a perfect episode.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

“Against all expectations, this is actually something of an improvement on last week’s offering, largely because of the irresistible awfulness of Ms Geldof’s behaviour.”
Alice-Azania Jarvis, The Independent