9 Feb ‘11

“Justin Rowlatt made for an engaging guide to a significant and serious story, presenting a model of the foreign correspondent that couldn’t be more different to the safari-suited solemnity established by John Pilger and others of his generation.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Justin Rowlatt investigated what Chinese influence meant for African countries, nicely skewering racist presumptions about China as he travelled.”
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian

“Justin Rowlatt crossed Africa in pursuit of Chinamen but mainly found himself talking to bemused Africans.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“The latest nation to try its hand at global domination is China, a phenomenon Newsnight journalist Justin Rowlatt is examining.”
Matt Baylis, The Express

“It’s possible then that this account of a subway wilding marked a huge step up in quality, bringing to Sky Atlantic’s hybrid of family saga and cop show (three generations in blue, and various other family members on the periphery) a realism that was missing in episode one.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“A show in which convicted art forger John Myatt flatters the bottomless self-regard of some of Britain’s leading narcissists is a perfect comment on modern portraiture and, therefore, programme-making of genius.”
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian

“Everybody looks 28, making the (sexist, ageist) premise that Courteney Cox is a fortysomething Californian preying on younger men unworkable.”
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian

“Karen Hamilton’s film lacked either the necessary eroticism of legalistic detail or much emotional depth.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“Last night’s debut episode chose to show things under strain from that perennial British problem, the weather.”
Matt Baylis, The Express