Claire Sweeney - My Big Fat Diet, ITV1
“Unlike many high concept reality shows this contained a salutary lesson.”
Andrew Billen, The Times
Claire Sweeney - My Big Fat Diet, ITV1
“The experiment - if that's what it was - told us nothing about one national sickness (obesity) but lots about another (celebrity).”
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian
Claire Sweeney - My Big Fat Diet, ITV1
“I quite like Claire Sweeney, but this was an unsightly spare tyre of a film, about as worthwhile as the stuff that sputters out of the end of a liposuction tube.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent
The Culture Show: Martin Freeman Goes to Motown, BBC2
“To be honest, seeing this affable ineffectual, largely incoherent bloke interviewing great Motown personalities like Duke Fakir or Martha ‘Vandellas' Reeves was like watching Ross Kemp presenting the Royal Institution Christmas lectures - an insult to the subject, more than a tribute.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
Nicholas Crane's Britannia: the Great Elizabethan Journey, BBC2
“Like Coast, it was as easy on the eye as a roomful of Monets.”
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian
Celebrity Big Brother, C4
“Watching Celebrity Big Brother is a bit like watching a pan of water come to the boil. For ages, you think absolutely nothing is happening, as the politeness of first meeting and the dread of looking bitchy keep all the tensions in check. [ ...] It always happens, but this year things started off so uneventfully that Channel 4 executives must have been bitterly regretting the decision to allow a bed manufacturer to sponsor the programme breaks. At least six times an episode you were getting a reminder of where you'd much rather be: horizontal and with your eyes closed. Finally, though, bubbles are beginning to appear on the pan walls and the temperature is getting close to simmering.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent
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