TV Critics: Naked Attraction; Coach Trip: Road to Ibiza; Dispatches: How School Bosses Spend Your Millions

“Isn’t it awful the way things such as personalities and, I dunno, clothes get in the way when you’re trying to find a partner, asked nobody ever apart from whichever commissioner somehow got this made? Let’s all go back to basics, strip ourselves of all the ephemera we hide behind and show some penises on
the telly.”
Esther Addley, The Guardian

“In spite of some entertaining moments, Naked Attraction essentially reduced human attraction to a kind of game show meat market. And it would be naïve to think that anyone at Channel 4 commissioned this show – or any of other nudity-flaunting formats on Channel 4 this summer – for the sake of breaking down barriers.

“Naked Attraction is in the schedules because Channel 4 wanted a quick and easy ratings boost. And that really is the bottom line.”
Gerard O’Donovan, The Telegraph

“By the time bisexual Mal revealed ‘what kind of vagina she liked’ with an anatomical description you could feel your brain starting to desiccate.”
James Jackson, The Times

“Coach Trip moves from Channel 4 to E4, and declares its ultimate destination – Ibiza! – in the title. And instead of a mix of ages and social types, we get 14 people in their early 20s who might well want to win a luxury stay in Ibiza at the end, but most of whom wouldn’t mind copping off in the coach toilet along the way.”
Esther Addley, The Guardian

“This was good, old-fashioned, challenging investigative journalism, as well as a startling reminder of the challenges which new Secretary of State for Education Justine Greening faces regarding fiscal accountability. Gold stars all round, I’d say.”
Gerard O’Donovan, The Telegraph

“Forces of Nature with Brian Cox drew to its close, and four episodes of this spectacularly dressed bit of science has been enough. We are by now in absolutely no doubt that the world is ‘beautiful…but complex’”
James Jackson, The Times