“Something between a rural romp and teen soap.” Read on for the full verdict on last night’s TV.

Land Girls

Land Girls, BBC1
“Not exactly covering unfamiliar ground… it was something of an achievement to cram so many wartime clichés into the first 45 minutes.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

Land Girls, BBC1
“Land Girls were early reality-TV contestants: Attractive young city women with soft hands who went to the countryside to fall in the muck and rolling the hay, like Rebecca Loos. Except that this was for real, and during the war.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Land Girls, BBC1
“Reduced the home front to something between a rural romp and teen soap.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Blue Murder, ITV1
“Murder has never seemed less frightening… It’s about as gritty as baby food.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Blue Murder, ITV1
“This is telly to iron to, I fear.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

9/11: 102 Minutes That Changed America, Channel 4
“What must be asked, eight years on, is what can be gained by replaying the footage indefinitely.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Clever v Stupid, BBC3
“The glamour models sadly conform to stereotype and expectations by losing to a team of speccy geeks.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Clever v Stupid, BBC3
“The title is the least crass thing about it… My wife wondered whether anyone not professionally obliged to sit through it would suffer more than five minutes before reaching for the remote.”
Brian Viner, The Independent.

Celebrity Four Weddings, Living
“The ‘celebrity’ part is used in the (Rebecca) loosest possible sense.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

A Portrait of Scotland, BBC4
“All praise to Capaldi, who not only presented with actorly panache and humour but wrote an intelligent, pacy script.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Football Behind Bars, Sky 1
“Ian Wright Wright Wright gets a bit muddled with the words but is totally carried by his passion, so it doesn’t really matter.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

America’s Toughest Prisons, Five
“The idea that anyone, after being banged up 24 hours a day in one of these battery-farms, could come out ‘corrected’, or even vaguely in possession of their sanity, is a farce.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Big Trouble in Tourist Thailan, Bravo
“Quite entertaining – so much more so than those Wish You Were Here-style travel shows.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

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