TV critics' verdict on programmes - including BBC2’s Arrange me a Marriage - broadcast on 22 November 2007.

Arrange me a Marriage, BBC2
“It makes top-notch telly.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Arrange me a Marriage, BBC2
“A Blind Date for the new millennium.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

Arrange me a Marriage, BBC2
“This was extremely like a number of other dating programmes in recent years, such as Channel 4’s Perfect Match.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent

The Street, BBC1
“What other television show serves up such a cocktail of credible dilemmas and solid moral outcomes? It’s like Z Cars scripted by the Vatican.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

The Street, BBC1
“In some ways, this works well: the acting is brilliant, the gloomy milieu perfectly rendered, it’s got a bit of the kitchen-sink intensity of a Cathy Come Back in Anger to Have a Taste of Honey. Yet it’s also just as archaic as Hugh Grant in an embroidered waistcoat.”
Helen Rumbelow, The Times

River Cottage: Gone Fishing, C4
“While Gordon Ramsay may be unbeatable in Kitchen Nightmares mode, Nigella an expressway to high farce, and other TV chefs tasty in the manner of the proverbial curate’s egg, for sheer all-round watchability Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall still takes some beating.”
Gerard O’Donovan, The Daily Telegraph

30 Rock, Five
“It’s the most consistent pleasure Thursday night TV has to offer.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent

Californication, Five
“An hour of dirty, sexy, grown-up fun.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

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