Bloods; Huge Homes with Hugh Dennis; Naked Attraction; Off the Hook; House of Hammer

“Jane Horrocks’s voice hasn’t become any less irritating (I think that’s deliberate; I hope it is) and I’m very bored with the Darrell and Darryl double act, which is too ridiculous to be funny.However, I could watch a whole episode just featuring dull Lawrence (Julian Barratt) and prickly, uptight Jo (Lucy Punch) and their disastrous courtship…Bloods is decent comfort TV if, like Lawrence’s work colleagues, you just tune out the boring bits.”
Carol Midgley, The Times

“Sadly the strong cast couldn’t conceal a mediocre script. You’ll find superior gallows humour in the BBC’s factual equivalent, Ambulance. There was the odd decent quip, but generally the characters were under-drawn. Bloods felt like a string of disconnected scenes, rather than a coherent vision. Stand clear. Someone needs to shock this flatlining patient back to life.”
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph 

Did our host only land the job because his first name sounds like “huge”? Were Eddie Large and Sex and the City’s Mr Big on the shortlist? Either way, Dennis made for an excellent guide: wry, inquisitive, fast forming a warm rapport with everyone he met. His other TV gig, panel show Mock the Week, might have been axed but he has a future presenting quirky property programmes. Or house-cleaning at stately homes, at least. Gently enjoyable, this was Grand Designs on a grand scale. Even the scene-stealing dogs were whoppers. Bumble the Newfoundland and Grimsby the deerhound were both the size of ponies. Well, there’s plenty of room for their baskets by the fire.”
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph 

“The concept of “dating in reverse” — ie you see your potential partner’s genitals before you see their face — is one of those ideas that probably sounded “brave” and “progressive” to sharp-suited executives in a glass office six years ago (for, yes, this is how long it’s been going), but it all now looks tackier than a willy warmer from Poundland. I’m no prude but this hyperfocus on the human groin area prompting remarks such as “That’s a beautifully kept bush” and “Ooh, circumcised” is just sad, depressing and sometimes makes me wish we could uninvent television if this is what we do with it. The people taking part are overgrown toddlers with an exhibitionist streak showing each other their rude bits and thinking it’s daringly “authentic”. Plus, let’s be honest, many of these naked bodies are not a pretty sight, with love handles and low hanging fruit everywhere you turn.” 
Carol Midgley, The Times

“This is a silly, knockabout comedy. It shouldn’t have to be an oracle of wisdom. Its observations are mostly familiar: a young YouTuber is a showoff; a man who compulsively reviews stuff cannot think without assigning everything a star rating. It sees a world in which being without a phone is akin to public nudity, but it doesn’t push much further than that. The idea of deliberate disconnection from the digital realm has been fodder for plenty of articles and books before, but I am not sure that putting the concept through its paces in a sitcom format has been done.”

Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian

“Vucekovich’s story seems absurdly naive in the retelling, but that’s her point. Her account appears courageous and valuable because it demonstrates how, if true, anyone could be vulnerable to coercion and abuse. She is a smart, articulate, successful woman who says she nevertheless ignored what she now believes to have been the reddest of flags…These big names are thrilling but for British viewers there’s a sudden chill of recognition when Prince Charles and Lady Di appear. A sticky tale plays out about large charitable donations, glittering galas and the PR drive that meant Occidental largely got away with the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster, which happened on one of its rigs in the North Sea.Armand Hammer was a man for whom money bought impunity. His life story, combined with that of his unwanted, bitter son Julian, who ran his LA home like a less avuncular Hugh Hefner (and whose own son, Michael – Armie’s dad – would grow up determined to destroy him, according to Casey) suggests Armie Hammer’s background as one where extreme privilege was both the cause of and, in reputational terms, the solution to some horrific conduct. Logan Roy et al have nothing on them.”
Jack Seale, The Guardian