'... managed to serve up an interesting mixture of the reassuring and the strange.' Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Painted Babies Growing Up, BBC4
“... it was nowhere near as powerful as the original.”
Gerard O'Donovan, Daily Telegraph

Painted Babies Growing Up, BBC4
“... this film managed to serve up an interesting mixture of the reassuring and the strange.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Painted Babies Growing Up, BBC4
 “Painted Babies Growing Up was derailed by the participants simply not being that interesting.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Female Hoarders: Hidden Lives, Five
“... the makers of this programme, [... ] promised to tell us why so many women have hoarding issues. Instead they just showed us the worst aspects of such behaviour, and it wasn't a pretty sight.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Cutting Edge: Gridlock and Road Rage, C4
“Cutting Edge didn't know if it was whimsical and personal or investigative and serious, so surfed unsatisfactorily between the two.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Come Dine with Me, C4
“There's no disguising that Come Dine with Me is a daytime show over-promoted to prime time.”
Gerard Gilbert, The Independent

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