9 July ‘09

Taking the Flak, BBC2
“Taking the Flak cares so much that you feel almost embarrassed when you don’t laugh as often as you’d like to.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Taking the Flak, BBC2
“Begins promisingly enough.”
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian

Taking the Flak, BBC2
“It was sporadically funny - particularly the character of a moon-eyed, Sloaney children’s charity worker and only the occasional glimpse of any actual war or unrest going on - but it told us nothing we hadn’t seen before on Drop the Dead Donkey and other similar shows.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Mischief: Britain’s Embarrassing Emissions, BBC3
“The problem with the Mischief strand is that it buries otherwise valuable revelations under layers of chronic sub-Mark Thomas wackiness.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

The Grandparent Diaries, BBC4
“While the programme didn’t offer any profound insights into the shifting role of grandparents in society, or even what it means to be a grandparent generally, its warm portrayal of family ties was reward enough.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

The Grandparent Diaries, BBC4
“So simple, charming and just LOVELY it had you smiling and cooing into your cocoa; sweet without being tooth-rotting and gently illuminating about the differences, and ties that bind, between generations - and a rare wholly positive advertisement for the nourishment of family life […]This was a brilliant gem: inquiring and cheering television.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Getting On, BBC4
“Getting On is in the tradition of The Office and The Thick of It, rather than Only When I Laugh or Green Wing. You can feel the grit of real events inside the comedy.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Getting On, BBC4
“A comedy set in a geriatric ward, which happily proved excellent.”
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian