The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, BBC1
“It's still Heartbeat, relocated to Botswana. I still don't like it.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, BBC1
“It never failed to deliver.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, BBC1
“Jill Scott and Anika Noni Rose are fun as the heroine and her stiff-backed assistant. And, yes, it's heartening to see an African location as the site of something other than war or humanitarian disaster. But I just can't feel easy about the whiff of condescension in the comedy, the way in which lack of sophistication underwrites so many of the laughs. It isn't that the drama can't do nuance, because it cuts into the major-chord brightness of the thing with several blue-note touches. But it never quite allows its characters to be knowing or self-mocking, all those attributes we associate with adulthood. It is utterly well-meaning, but I predict we'll look back at it in 30 years' time and mutter, ‘What could they have been thinking!'”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent
The Lost World of Communism, BBC2
“Remarkable.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
The Lost World of Communism, BBC2
“The programme was terrific, a useful reminder of just how appalling compulsory utopias can be.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent
Yellowstone, BBC2
“At times the whole thing feels like a piece of music with some wintry pictures to accompany it.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
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