TV critics' verdict on programmes - including Channel 4’s one-off drama Exodus - broadcast on 18 November 2007.

Exodus, C4
“It was clearly a well-intentioned production, but desperately uninvolving.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

Exodus, C4
“The desire to draw a parallel between the persecution of the Jews and our modern-day treatment of refugees felt forced, principally as a result of constant repetition, lack of humour and any sense that more could be achieved with subtle hints instead of what felt like a sledgehammer.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Exodus, C4
“If the set-up led you to expect a neat, liberal parable of the oppressed versus The Man, then you’d have been wrong. Last night’s drama proved far more complicated and interesting than that.”
James Walton, The Daily Telegraph

Exodus, C4
“Exodus was simplistic and, to anybody who’s read a moderate amount of science fiction, numbingly unoriginal.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent

Exodus, C4
“Good on the 600 Margate residents who had a whale of a time making community theatre this summer. But bad luck on us that it was filmed and filled two long hours on Channel 4 last night.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Nigella Express, BBC2
“She [Nigella Lawson] is starting to look like a car-show model on the bonnet of an Audi at the Birmingham NEC.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

Nigella Express, BBC2
“Nigella Express is starting to feel like a teensy bit of a rip-off.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Can Fat Teens Hunt?, BBC3
“In the end it revealed itself as voyeurism dolled up as social commentary, unlikely to help in a practical way.”
Jod Mitchell, The Daily Telegraph

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