Piers Morgan on ... Dubai, ITV1
“You'd think a former newspaper editor would be a good interviewer, but I'm not sure about some of Piers's techniques.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
Piers Morgan on ... Dubai, ITV1
“Morgan was so seduced by this ridiculous, shallow-looking playground that he failed to properly analyse how Westernised Dubai could become beyond the protective shell of one's own home or the hotels where the partying goes on. He orbited around issues of media censorship, and raised but didn't answer what effect the recession would have on the place. You couldn't disagree when he called it “the land of make-believe”: sadly he failed to penetrate the shimmering illusion.”
Tim Teeman, The Times
Jamie Saves Our Bacon, C4
“Watchable but peculiar [ ...] A riotous magazine-style affair that was rather like TFI Friday but with pigs.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
Jamie Saves Our Bacon, C4
“Although typically well-intentioned, ended up as a muddled, overlong melange of hard, unsettling facts, standard Oliver cookery gubbins, and fatuous light entertainment.”
Paul Whitelaw, The Scotsman
Jamie Saves Our Bacon, C4
“Jamie Saves Our Bacon was another fantastic programme in C4's food season and one that really shouldn't have worked: it must have been a lively meeting that conceived a show which switched from the disgusting conditions pigs are kept in to how to cook a shoulder of pork; that zipped from tail docking (triple ouch) to a supermarket test that showed just how misleadingly products are labelled.”
Tim Teeman, The Times
Skins, E4
“As before, it is slickly made, but I remember the earlier series being more nuanced.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent
Vodka, Homework and Me, BBC3
“The concentration on positive outcomes rather diluted the programme's shock value, and I think shock is probably a necessary component of any discussion of 11-year-olds regularly going on the piss.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent
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