'The idea was simple and original.' Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV

Cutting Edge: My Street, C4
“The idea was simple and original. The touch was light and understated.”
Helen Rumbelow, The Times

Cutting Edge: My Street, C4
“... there's no subject more fascinating to us than the lives of others, and no better way of peering into them than with a camera.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Cutting Edge: My Street, C4
“You felt unexpectedly cold, as if there were a hole in your sole.”
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian

That Mitchell and Webb Look, BBC2
“Comedy duo David Mitchell and Robert Webb showed no signs of difficult-second-series syndrome as characters new and old romped onto the screen to, if anything, even greater comic effect.”
Gerard O'Donovan, Daily Telegraph

That Mitchell and Webb Look, BBC2
“... the sketch show has gone from having perhaps a 50 per cent hit rate, to something close on unbeatable, or at least while they're still fresh to us.”
Helen Rumbelow, The Times

Jonathan Meades: Magnetic North, BBC4
“Listening to Jonathan Meades: Magnetic North is like hearing Dr Johnson laying down the law. You are damn glad Boswell is making a shorthand note of all this because, frankly, you could use subtitles.”
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian

Jonathan Meades: Magnetic North, BBC4
"Magnetic North has a sweep, an intellectual confidence and a sense of mischief you won't find anywhere else on TV. Meades is an artist of television."
Robert Hanks, The Independent

Ashes to Ashes, BBC1
“... the longer the writers try to flog this once-appealing format, the more obvious its faults become.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

The Smoke House, BBC1
“A bit of social engineering masquerading as children's TV.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent

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