Mr & Mrs Bin Laden, BBC1
“The commentary remained wildly naïve or, more charitably, faux-naïve. The marriage, Alleway sagely noted by way of summary, was “odd”.
“Of course, it may be that she was either too polite or too frightened to be rude in public about the frankly scary Jane [Mrs bin Laden] - and, to be honest, I know how she feels. As a result, I’ll just say that last night’s documentary was so timid as to be ultimately baffling -and that if I were Omar’s father I’d advise him to run for his life.”
James Walton, The Daily Telegraph
Mr & Mrs Bin Laden, BBC1
“The weakness of Alleway’s film was that we did not get close enough to Jane Felix-Browne, a character strong and bonkers enough to earn herself a place in the I’m a Celebrity - jungle next year.”
Andrew Billen, The Times
Mr & Mrs Bin Laden, BBC1
“I didn’t have a clue what was real and what was made up and didn’t much care either.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent
Kizzy: Mum at 14, BBC3
“Young viewers were hopefully deterred, though I wasn’t filled with optimism. In Torbay, teenage pregnancies are confounding government plans by actually rising. What did we hear from its youth? There’s nowhere to go and nothing to do, except drink, take drugs and have sex.”
Patricia Wynn Davies, The Daily Telegraph
Kizzy: Mum at 14, BBC3
“This sensitive film was a distinctly superior offering from BBC3 and I was at once pleased and saddened to see it had been made by Tricia Williamson, who died in a car crash last month.”
Andrew Billen, The Times
CSI: Miami, Five
“Virtually every line is soaked in B-movie cheesiness. Even more surprising for a high-profile American drama, the acting is hopeless - especially from David Caruso as team-leader Horatio Caine, who often seems to be going for a parody of a gruff American hero from the lower end of 1940s Hollywood.”
James Walton, The Daily Telegraph
Earth: The Power of the Planet, BBC2
“Earth: The Power of the Planet is a thoroughly informative programme, even if the numbers are too big, and it all feels a bit like GCSE geography.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
Death Race 2007: Tonight, ITV1
“These idiots film themselves with mobile phones, then post the clips on websites for other idiots to watch, instead of being filmed by professionals and put on BBC2 for other idiots to watch.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, C4
“The Curry Lounge looked like the inside of a lava lamp - or a Torvill and Dean costume circa 1981.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
Sex in the Noughties, C4
“Since literary pornography doesn’t really damage anyone - there wasn’t anything to get very outraged about here, but the claim to sexual revolution seemed a tiny bit excessive to me, and nobody was on hand to say how boring most of these blogs were once the novelty had worn off.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent
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