“It does feel a bit like sitting on flat-pack furniture after you've grown used to a Chesterfield.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Minder, Five
“Only time will tell if this gloss-job means something's lacking from the heart of the show - on first impressions, though, it does feel a bit like sitting on flat-pack furniture after you've grown used to a Chesterfield.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Minder, Five
“Minder passed off predictably enough with Terry and Arfur, opps sorry Jamie and Archie, helping the nice landlady against the evil property developers. The off-kilter chemistry between Archie and Jamie is lightly played, but the swaggering ghosts of Cole and Waterman loomed large because Richie and Shrapnel were slightly paler imitations.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Minder, Five
“I'm happy to say that if you want cheeky-chappie malapropisms, then Shane Richie is perfectly capable of delivering them, and Lex Shrapnel is a good deal less cartoonish than his name suggests [ ...] But the script is risible in quite the wrong way, marred by a Beano crudity.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Minder, Five
“The reworked version of one of the 80s' most popular programmes was a lacklustre affair.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

The World's Most Enhanced Woman and Me, C4
“The likes of Mark Dolan and Dawn Porter, however, are neither dogged nor engaging enough to really dredge up anything other than the most superficial observations.”
Paul Whitelaw, The Scotsman

Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimer's, BBC2
“[A] vivid, spiky, informative, funny documentary.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

Gossip Girl, ITV2
“Entirely mesmerising in its own special way.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

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