TV critics' verdict on programmes - including last night’s helping of BBC2’s Nigella Express - broadcast on 10 December 2007

Nigella Express: Seasons Eatings, BBC2
“Still, it was a fittingly tipsy end to a series that wallowed, unapologetically, in self-indulgence, its ‘message’ - that eating is the ultimate in self-reward/ aspirational smuggery - curiously exacerbated by the fact that we couldn't actually make any of the ensuing Hot Eating Action out. How very... Nigellacious.
Sarah Dempster, The Guardian

Nigella Express: Seasons Eatings, BBC2
“Nigella Express: Seasons Eatings served up festive schmaltz in lashings unheard of since Val Doonican’s Bumper Yuletide Songbook swept all before it in the great Christmas TV ratings battle of 1965.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Monarchy: the Royal Family at Work, BBC1
“BBC1’s Monarchy: the Royal Family at Work will presumably go down in history as The One with the Fake Trailer. Which, as it turns out, is rather a shame - because the programme itself is a fine royal series of the kind that a couple of decades ago would have been unthinkable, but that now shows up fairly regularly.”
James Walton, The Daily Telegraph

Never Had It So Good?, BBC4
“While many of these points were well made, in the end the programme was unmistakeably wistful for a vanished, more optimistic world. It was also none the worse for that.”
James Walton, The Daily Telegraph

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