'A drifting, melancholy film about a whole world I'd never heard of.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Flipping Out, Israel's Drug Generation: Storyville, BBC4
“... made a welcome change.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Flipping Out, Israel's Drug Generation: Storyville, BBC4
“... touching, if at times incoherent, documentary.”
Gerard O'Donovan, Daily Telegraph

Flipping Out: Israel's Drug Generation: Storyville, BBC4
“A drifting, melancholy film about a whole world I'd never heard of.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent

Flipping Out: Israel's Drug Generation: Storyville, BBC4
“Was the point that the soldiers were so unhappy or broken by their experience they were smoking shedloads of cannabis? If so, it was a point invalidated by the testimonies of the soldiers who said they had quite enjoyed army life.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

The Artful Codgers, C4
“There's nothing quite like a story in which the posh and the pretentious get duped by the wily underdog.”
Gerard O'Donovan, Daily Telegraph

The Artful Codgers, C4
“The real thing, subtle and funny and sad.”
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian

Jonathan Meades: Magnetic North, BBC2
“... the broadcaster and critic took the concept of ‘northerness' (in the European sense) and shook it until all sorts of spellbinding speculations and conclusions fell out.”
Gerard O'Donovan, Daily Telegraph

Magnetic North, BBC2
“The BBC should be proud of this beautifully directed, intelligent series.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

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