The Virtues; Crisis in Care; Black Monday; Victorian Sensations

“The Virtues isn’t for everyone but, for those who can take it, its combination of courageous performances, raw truth in the writing and completeness of its directorial vision is something to treasure.”
Gabriel Tate, The Telegraph

“Alcoholism, child abuse, teenage pregnancy – The Virtues should frankly be repulsive to watch. But the gift of all those involved is to make such a story compelling and to induce great compassion in the viewer.”
Sean O’Grady, The Independent

“As funds, focus and manpower continue to be sucked into the Brexit vortex, other worsening national imbroglios are sidelined or ignored. The first episode of a profoundly bleak but absolutely necessary two-part Panorama, highlighted just one of them: the adult social care system on the brink and in dire need of reform after years of austerity.”
Gabriel Tate, The Telegraph

“I wonder if we are not now at the point when social affairs programmes must go beyond raising consciousness of the latest horror and start calling the perpetrators to account. There are precious few other ways, it seems, for their increasingly vulnerable victims to fight back.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“Silly, politically incorrect, loud, puerile and relies on lots of penis gags. Obviously I enjoyed it.”
Carol Midgley, The Times

“Paul McGann’s time machine consisted of a typewriter, a metal chair and the cut-glass stopper from a crystal decanter. The BBC props department budget was being stretched to the full.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail