“No one who took part had anything interesting to say.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n' Roll: the 60s Revealed, Five
“It should have been wonderful. But we never saw more than a few seconds of any of the original interviews. Instead an inane commentary kept reminding us how the Sixties had been swinging and time was wasted with generic archive footage.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n' Roll: the 60s Revealed, Five
“And the interviews, which were watched by the interviewees themselves, revealed little except what 40 years of stardom does for the bank accounts of cosmetic surgeons.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n' Roll: the 60s Revealed, Five
“No one who took part had anything interesting to say.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n' Roll: the 60s Revealed, Five
“Unfortunately the result is not all that it might have been - the decision not to show the interviews in full but to chop them up and edit them into a wider, clichéd history of Sixties pop culture was not a good one - but some of the “then and now” contrasts are amusing.”
Gerard O'Donovan, The Daily Telegraph

The Story of the Costume Drama, ITV3
“[It] advanced the notion that there is a kind of lineage to bustle-and-bodice sagas on television, that The Forsyte Saga begat Poldark, and that Jewel in the Crown sprang from the vigorous loins of Brideshead Revisited. I'm not at all sure about that, but there were enough old clips to keep me happy.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

This World: Forced to Marry, BBC2
“What Saira Khan's film showed us was our own past, as much as Pakistan's present.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

WWII: Behind Closed Doors, BBC2
“The programme is based on new archival material and is brought alive by re-enactments that, for once, do not look absurd. I'll be watching the final two programmes, probably in horror.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

The Ascent of Money, C4
“His [Niall Ferguson] script assumes an intelligence on the part of the viewer that is highly flattering, even if this viewer doesn't always understand what he's on about.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

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