“Kirstie's Homemade Home takes in all the flim-flam about the renaissance of crafts and knitting, adds the spice of recession, and leads Kirstie Allsopp to an extended jolly around the country.” Read on for the full verdict on last night's TV.

Kirstie's Homemade Home, C4
“Kirstie's Homemade Home takes in all the flim-flam about the renaissance of crafts and knitting, adds the spice of recession, and leads Kirstie Allsopp to an extended jolly around the country diving in and out of skips and learning how to sew cushions in order to furnish a dilapidated home which will become, ta-dah!, a showcase for British design.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Kirstie's Homemade Home, C4
“Much the best way of furnishing your place on the cheap is to get TV to stump up. If you can spin it out into a five-part series, it should pay for the Aga, which will create that really warm, fireside feel. And a nice inner glow.”
Nancy Banks-Smith. The Guardian

Kirstie's Homemade Home, C4
“Kirstie's Homemade Home represents a similarly canny sidestep by the erstwhile princess of the property show, Kirstie Allsopp. [ ...] Gone is the ceaseless pursuit of profit and instead it's hello to simple pleasures, like a well-made chair or a quirky cushion cover.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Professor Regan's Diet Clinic, BBC2
She's very sensible, the professor. She's like the sensible man's Gillian McKeith [ ...] who is determined to uncover which, if any, of the "miracle" weight-loss products actually work. She does loads of different experiments, including a painful-looking one with an overweight Canadian and some maple syrup, though things got really impressive when she invented her own diet pill.
Alice-Azania Jarvis, The Independent

Professor Regan's Diet Clinic, BBC2
“Her shows are more about equipping us with the ability to see through the pseudo-science than showing off her big clever science brain. She does things like having her own body fat measured, too - a step you can't imagine the priggish Professor Richard Dawkins taking, even if it did irritate some Christians along the way”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Horrible Histories, BBC1
“It was everything that Blue Peter isn't: fun, filthy and genuinely engaging in a peer-to-peer way.”
Alice-Azania Jarvis, The Independent

My Life as an Animal, BBC3
“This documentary was so astonishingly crass and weird, and inevitably so compulsive, that if you chanced upon it you might have thought that it was a late April Fool, especially given the goggle-eyed, insane pronouncements of the presenter Rebecca Wilcox.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Missing: Race Against Time, C4
“Missing: Race Against Time was a moodily beautiful documentary about three of the 300 people who are reported missing every week in Greater Manchester.”
Nancy Banks-Smith. The Guardian

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