“[It] was probably meant to be going out a couple of days before another heroic England semi-final.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

Gazza’s Tears: The Night That Changed Football, ITV1

“[It] was probably meant to be going out a couple of days before another heroic England semi-final. Oops. It also seems to be pretty much exactly the same film as One Night in Turin, which had a cinema release a couple of months ago.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

“ITV1’s film about that match in the 1990 World Cup wasn’t going to waste a single opportunity for preposterous sporting hyperbole.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Urban Fox Attack, More 4

“[It] was fun. Well, the event to which it’s pegged, the vulpine assault on young twins, obviously wasn’t fun at all. But this is more about our relationship with urban foxes – more specifically middle-class north London’s relationship with them.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

How to Build… a Jumbo Jet Engine, BBC2

“They are, in their way, very beautiful objects, machined to tolerances of just microns from raw materials that have themselves been engineered by Rolls-Royce boffins to be superior to the standard issue.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

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