'I'd watch it in far less confusion if they got rid of half the cast.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV

The Palace, ITV1
“I'd watch it in far less confusion if they got rid of half the cast.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

The Palace, ITV1
“The Palace is like toothpaste which some flunkey has forgotten to stop squeezing.”
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian

Damages, BBC1
“Damages is schlock, of course, but it is highly superior schlock.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

Damages, BBC1
“What is it about American shows that compels them to insert a cheesy rock ballad at the very moment where it's least welcome.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

City of Vice, C4
“Powerful, beautiful, abstruse and very hard on the dentures.”
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian

Curb Your Enthusiasm, More4
“Funny as it was, [Seinfeld's] ‘The Contest' was funnier.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

Wild Tales, BBC2
“... the photography is beautiful in an old-school kind of way.”
James Walton, Daily Telegraph

Coronation Street, ITV1
“Corrie, like life, goes on - which meant that yesterday it did spend a bit too much time for my liking on the cultivation of future plots, such as the will-they-won't-they? wedding between Liam and Maria.”
James Walton, Daily Telegraph

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