TV critics' verdict on programmes - including the follow up to last year’s Evicted on BBC1 - broadcast on 28 November 2007

Evicted Update, BBC1
“ -on the upside, at least most of them now have addresses at which you can now call.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

Evicted Update, BBC1
“Last night’s documentary promised to fill us in on what’s happened to the families from last years evicted. In the event, though, the new material was only tacked on right at the end - and then in a surprisingly, and even outrageously half-hearted way. The rest of the time all we got was a straight repeat.”
James Walton, Daily Telegraph

Evicted Update, BBC1
“There were some explanations as to how these families had found themselves on the street [ -] but the explanations were a little sketchy.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

The Nature of Britain, BBC1
“It’s all so weird, so intricately pieced together and performing like some perfect machine - it hardly looks like Britain at all.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

The Nature of Britain, BBC1
“It is not as awe-inspiring as when David Attenborough does his funky thang, but it is beguiling, and very restful.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

How to Look Good Naked, C4
“ -for continuing to inject a small measure of sanity into the female population on a weekly basis we must thank him [Gok Wan].
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

The Blue Revolution, Sky One
“It was a relentless, full-on Chelsea supporters’ recruiting video.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

The Secret Millionaire, C4
“What The Secret Millionaire didn’t make clear - and what it should - was what these people thought a camera crew was following George [secret millionaire] around for? What did he tell them initially? Didn’t they suspect his nosiness just a little? Maybe not, and anyway [ -] not a dry eye in the house.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Love Trap, C4
“Love Trap didn’t so much build to a climax as dribble away to nothingness.”
James Walton, Daily Telegraph

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