'... winner of my nomination for most objectionable programme title of the year.' Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Snog, Marry, Avoid?, BBC3
“No part of this primetime progamme, I realised forlornly, was intended for the likes of me, although happily I have a 15-year-old daughter, so I was at least able to enjoy it vicariously. Eleanor loved it.”
Brian Viner, The Indpendent

Snog, Marry, Avoid?, BBC3
“... the winner of my nomination for most objectionable programme title of the year.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Identical Triplets: Their Secret World, ITV1
“I sat through this for an hour, eventually to be told by the narrator, John Thomson, [... ] that ‘we've discovered that they're alike and unalike in many ways'. It was a conclusion that didn't quite repay my investment of time.”
Brian Viner, The Indpendent

Wimbledon 2008, BBC1 and BBC2
“It's basically a two-week celebration of middle-England mediocrity. And there's no one better to bring it into our own living rooms than Sue Barker.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

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