TV Critics: Our Zoo; Horizon

“What with a menagerie of cute monkeys and nasty bank managers it could have been a bit too sweet but Matt Charman’s script is instead full of unexpected delights”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“It wasn’t quite animazing, and it wasn’t quite mid-week, either, but it was almost shamefully watchable.”
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian

“Although shown after the watershed on a Wednesday night, the first episode of this pre-knackered period drama could hardly be more sentimentally Sunday school, or more childish.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“While Our Zoo had all the period sentimentality you’d perhaps expect – and it certainly felt more Sunday Night than Wednesday Night to this seasonsed All Creatures Great and Small watcher – it was still enjoyable.”
Will Dean, The Independent

“Our Zoo was a classier, flat-capped version of ITV’s popular Stephen Tompkinson vehicle Wild at Heart or soppy Hollywood film We Bought a Zoo. It felt like it belonged on Sunday nights, where it would surely thrive in the Call the Midwife slot. Presumably, though, the BBC were hoping it would inherit a large audience from a certain hit baking contest.”
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph

“Horizon is frequently on the money these days and with Inside the Dark Web it alighted on a topic even hotter than it might have hoped.”
Andrew Billen, The Times