TV Critics: Mission To Mars; Simply Italian

“Horizon’s engrossing film will surely have added to the numbers of those anxiously waiting to find out if they get to the finish line.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Staggering, revolting amounts of money being channeled into a whim. Are we going to Mars because we need to or because we can?”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“The tree-shakers, bush-beaters and dead horse floggers charged with supplying new material to old, old formats have found us all a new chef in Simply Italian.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“Michela Chiappa’s father defied all known precedent by replying: ‘It’s very good… but it’s missing a little salt.’ That man is a hero and if he doesn’t feature in every episode I’ll want to know why.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“It is hard not simply to regurgitate the vast numbers of astonishing, appalling figures, facts and attitudes that scrolled across the screen in the course of a programme that was basically one 30-minute-long howl of despair.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“The Monkees’ story was a sharp reminder to those who moan about today’s engineered, money-hungry music industry: things were never any different.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express