'Queer as Folk with phaser guns'. Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Torchwood, BBC2
“Queer as Folk with phaser guns.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Torchwood, BBC2
“It's hard to make the character of a blowfish plausible, let alone villainous, but somehow Torchwood managed it.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Torchwood, BBC2
“... a fantastically un-gripping plot.”
James Walton, Daily Telegraph

Torchwood, BBC2
“It's pointless, but it's jauntily pointless, and may provide comfort for those who now find Spooks too implausible to be entertaining.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

Wonderland: The Secret Life of Norman Wisdom, BBC2
“There should be more old people on TV; old people are cool.”
Sam Wollaston, The Gaurdian

Grand Designs, C4
“Sometimes design gets in the way of good sense.”
Sam Wollaston, The Gaurdian

Green Berets Under Fire, Nat Geo
“War was very real to these journalists, which meant that their film brought the battle into our living rooms more effectively than most.”
Serena Davies, Daily Telegraph

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