“A testosterone-fuelled channel Five game show.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Unbreakable, Five
“I think, intentionally, the viewer is subjected to a similarly gruelling exercise. Can he or she emerge from watching Unbreakable with mind, spirit and indeed television intact? Can he or she suffer a sustained assault on the senses of such derivative, manipulative, undignified twaddle and not end up a gibbering wreck?”
Brian Viner, The Independent

Unbreakable, Five
“A testosterone-fuelled channel Five game show.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Unbreakable, Five
“Five has come up with the keenest satire on reality television since The Year of the Sex Olympics 40 years ago [... ] What if this were not a satire on reality telly but actually reality telly? Well then, I would have to withdraw the stars from my rating. That's right. All of them.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Amazon with Bruce Parry, BBC2
“One of autumn's great treats.”
Brian Viner, The Independent

The Story of Maths, BBC4
“Marcus Du Sautoy explained every sum at a breakneck speed and with no concessions to the slower members of the class. Where was he when the high drives decreed the dumbing down of television? Yet his incomprehensibility was reassuring.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Eli Stone, Sci-Fi
“This was Ally McBeal meets Touched by an Angel and was not just witless but dated.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

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