“It has moved so gloriously beyond parody.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, BBC2
“It has moved so gloriously beyond parody.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, BBC2
“What is fantastic,' she exclaimed, ‘is that it is rich and boozy but fresh and fruity at the same time.' Just like Nigella.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, BBC2
“If you'd closed your eyes, you could have been forgiven for thinking you'd tuned in to an Andrew Davies costume drama. It was a treat, the first of the festive season.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, BBC2
“It's aspirational, to use the word beloved of TV channel controllers, meant to show us how we could all be living if we weren't so lazy and useless.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

Spectacle, C4
“This gem of a programme was thrown away at 12.05 this morning.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Spectacle, C4
“It could have been a schmaltzy love fest or nerdishly technical. It wasn't. It had lightness to it, as well as a sense of occasion.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n' Roll: The 60s Revisited, Five
“The fascinating interview footage has been strictly rationed throughout the series, and this final instalment was no less padded with uneducative clips of archive material to accompany boringly basic facts about the era.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

Chosen, C4
“It wasn't about entertainment, it was about telling the truth.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

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