Ashes to Ashes, BBC1
“Yup, the Gene genie was back with a bang.”
Gerard O'Donovan, Daily Telegraph
Ashes to Ashes, BBC1
“The format was tired, the replacement lead, now a woman called Alex Drake, couldn't compare, and the tough guy-turned-cult hero Gene Hunt had lost his best lines.”
Helen Rumbelow, The Times
Ashes to Ashes, BBC1
“With all the shock value gone, its sequel [to Life on Mars] can only hover around the same, well-trodden themes: fashion mistakes, confusion over unfamiliar words, gags about children's TV and the price of a pint [... ] Ashes to ashes, of course, is a line from the Anglican funeral service. A fitting title, perhaps, for an idea that's had its day.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
Ashes to Ashes, BBC1
“Good TV ideas never die; they only get spun off into a slightly different format [... ] As David Bowie almost said, I'm moderately happy: hope you're moderately happy too.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent
Ashes to Ashes, BBC1
“... a muddled plot and a premise that was wearing thin in Life on Mars is now stretched to breaking point.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
Who Killed the Playboy Earl?, C4
“A hugely padded and over-hyped telling of the story of Anthony Ashley-Cooper.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent
Who Killed the Playboy Earl?, C4
“What does it have? Pretty much everything: a stately home, an English toff with a far from stately lifestyle, a fortune squandered, hostess bars on the French Riviera, Tunisian call-girls, flesh-eating wild boars, champagne, cocaine, even prize-winning marrows. You couldn't ask for more.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
Who Killed the Playboy Earl?, C4
“The fascination of this documentary lay in the sense of naked greed and appalling inevitability that seems to have surrounded the earl's fate.”
Gerard O'Donovan, Daily Telegraph
A Life Without Pain, Sky Real Lives
“... harrowing documentary.”
Noam Friedlander, Daily Telegraph
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