9 Nov '11

“The second is that this, the first (I believe) reality show to concentrate solely on transgender people, is certainly one of the funniest, warmest and thought-provoking reality shows you’ll see this year.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“Even some of those participating expressed doubt about whether it was wise to expose themselves so openly to a world that, in their experience, had largely proved unkind and contemptuous. But in the event, it’s only bigots who could feel uncomfortable watching.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“The best of the programme often came not in the ensemble scenes, in which everyone pretended to be jollier than they were, but in the one-on-one interviews. These contained more misery than merriment.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“It’s a show, you feel, that is aware of its own naffness and prepared to have some fun with it. Nor is the power of a pretty view to be underestimated. Many a viewer will have found themselves there for no reason other than the weather but once they’re settled in then found other things to appreciate.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“This one, by contrast, is butterfly-stroking its way back and forth across the Channel. That’s good in one way but the action’s so intense I, for one, wouldn’t mind a night off.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“It’s almost too exquisitely cruel a set-up.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardia

“Unsullied perfection.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“If albums came with DVD commentaries, as films often do, this is what they would look like. Interviews with pretty much every significant person involved in the creation of the LP and a track-by-track analysis of how its songs came together.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Garfunkel even ticked his interviewer off for probing too deeply into the ‘essentially private, cherished thing’ that is/was their friendship.”
Andrew Billen, The Times