“It was like the distant shout of class war across the EPG, but the Tatler terrarium is mercifully double glazed.”
“At heart this was an old-fashioned documentary about the inner workings of a magazine, but with a fresh and knowing edge that fully embraced its access to the rarefied world of the aristocracy and the super-rich. There was much talk of exclusivity but little of snobbery. And much to raise a smile.”
Gerard O’Donovan, The Telegraph
“Posh People isn’t just about posh people; it’s also about posh journalists, a group that the posh journalists who make TV have a lot of sympathy for. Funny, that.”
Ellen E Jones, The Independent
“It was like the distant shout of class war across the EPG, but the Tatler terrarium is mercifully double glazed.”
Julia Raeside, The Guardian
“How vulgar, one might cry, with tongue firmly in one’s check. How foreboding that this fly-on-the-wall would be the upper-class counterpart to the poverty porn that is described elsewhere on the schedules.”
Alex Hardy, The Times
“It’s easy to laugh but the good folk in Tatler’s pages are among the last tribe to possess rules and rituals and many of us secretly envy them for it.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
“On Monday night, this series exploded into life. There was no Bush Tucker Trial and no Dingo Dollar Challenge; there was simply an almighty clash between two completely different, but equally fiery, characters. As always, it is the contestants, rather than the tasks, that make reality television so compelling.”
Rupert Hawksley, The Telegraph
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