'Clarissa Dickson Wright is the antidote to Nigella Lawson.' Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Clarissa and the King's Cookbook, BBC4
“Clarissa Dickson Wright is the antidote to Nigella Lawson.”
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian

Clarissa and the King's Cookbook, BBC4
“I couldn't help but feel that she rather ducked a challenge.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

Child of Our Time, BBC1
“When it concentrated on its brief, which was the hard-wired differences between the sexes, this programme was unfailingly fascinating.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Child of Our Time, BBC1
“There was a scientific point to Sir Robert Winston's Child of Our Time, I'm sure, but there was also an element of “Children Say the Strangest/Funniest Things”, about owning pet frogs and being fat.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Child of Our Time, BBC1
“The programme definitely offers plenty to chew over, and is often good fun in a Kids Say the Darnedest Things kind of way. Yet, in the end, those claims to scientific rigour are undermined by its own main quality. It gets such revealing interviews with the children (and their parents) that the participants come across as a group of completely different individuals rather than as a collective example of anything. As a result, most of the evidence we're given feels firmly in the realm of the anecdotal.”
James Walton, The Daily Telegraph

Al Capone and the Untouchables: the True Story, Five
“A mostly interesting account.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Great British Menu, BBC2
“As food programmes go, Great British Menu isn't bad [... ] But it's hard to imagine watching it every day without being driven mad by the redundancy of the format.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

The Apprentice, BBC1
“Format fatigue is a problem with The Apprentice.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

The Apprentice, BBC1
“More, more, more!”
Tim Teeman, The Times

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