'Like Big Brother but not so boring'. Read on for the critics' full verdict on the weekend's TV.

Horizon: Total Isolation, BBC2
“It was like Big Brother but not so boring.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Horizon: Total Isolation, BBC2
“They got very bored, and that we didn't [... ] was to the credit of the producer Charles Colville, who gave plenty of gothic topspin to the disused nuclear bunker in which the experiment took place.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

Horizon: Total Isolation, BBC2
“A seriously underwhelming programme.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Horizon: Total Isolation, BBC2
“A copy of this film should be sent to everyone who makes the decision to put prisoners into solitary confinement.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Medicine Men Go Wild, C4
“I have rarely sat before a programme in a greater state of anxiety and frustration.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Medicine Men Go Wild, C4
“It quickly got sidetracked into the sort of muscular-posh-boys-doing-survival-skills thing we've already seen Bear Grylls and Bruce Parry doing a dozen times over.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Medicine Men Go Wild, C4
“... the twins' fear that they could get struck down by some new deadly disease at any moment always felt like ill-advised TV hype - and the least interesting aspect of last night's episode. Much more absorbing was simply what they found among the Bayaka (tribe) and how they reacted to it.”
James Walton, The Daily Telegraph

Medicine Men Go Wild, C4
“... there's something likeable about the pair of them, occasionally bickering over medical ethics, hesitating queasily over the boiled monkey, but ultimately boys in the wood having fun.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

Ladette to Lady, ITV1
“... the scene when the staff 'innocently' left their charges alone with several bottles of wine felt not merely choreographed, but really badly choreographed. Then again, so did the rest of the programme.”
James Walton, The Daily Telegraph

True Stories: No End in Sight, More 4
“... this was a first class piece of analysis.”
Serena Davies, The Daily Telegraph

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