'A kind of edible-circus-performance-art-madness thing.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Heston's Victorian Feast, C4
“It's a kind of edible-circus-performance-art-madness thing.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Heston's Victorian Feast, C4
“ ...although the timing of this series could have been a little less awkward, it's still a wonderful advertisement for the kind of edible hallucinations that are his hallmark.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Gladstone and Disraeli: Clash of the Titans, BBC4
“Huw Edward's film about the pair, concentrated on sharp contrasts rather than shades of grey. What a great story it is, though, and what flashes of colour it contains.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Gladstone and Disraeli: Clash of the Titans, BBC4
“Questions occurred and remained unanswered.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Mistresses, BBC1
“Into the lavishly ridiculous but enjoyable caregory comes Mistresses.”
Sam Leith, The Guardian

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