“Hats off to whoever does the foreign buying for More 4.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

John Adams, More 4
“The few sad geeks like me who did tune in to the Emmy-laden John Adams found Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney acting their historical socks off in an intelligent drama.”
Andrea Mulanney, The Scotsman

John Adams, More 4
“Hats off to whoever does the foreign buying for More 4.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

James May's Big Ideas, BBC2
“James May's Big Ideas is really just a vehicle (ho ho) for him to present himself as an amiable idiot while trying out wacky gadgets, like a flying car.”
Andrea Mulanney, The Scotsman

James May's Big Ideas, BBC2
“James May's Big Ideas turned out to be surprisingly bearable.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

James May's Big Ideas, BBC2
“Utterly compelling.”
Virginia Blackburn, Daily Express

Manufactured Landscapes, Sky Arts
“Horribly suspicious.”
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian

The Great Russian Art Boom, C4
“Instead of nailing what this art boom means, he [Marcel Theroux] padded the show with digressions.”
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian

Merlin, BBC1
“Merling continued its strangely unsatisfying run on Saturday, this time because the writers appeared to have forgotten to give it a plot.”
Virginia Blackburn, Daily Express

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