Britain’s Tourette’s Mystery: Scarlett Moffatt Investigates; Darcey Bussell’s Royal Road Trip; Mountain Vets; Kew Gardens: A Year in Bloom

“This film was sincere and sensitive – although not without moments of levity…As the narrative disappeared down this rabbit hole, the programme suddenly felt like it belonged on BBC Three. In her documentary debut, Moffatt made for an emotionally intelligent, engagingly warm guide. Unfortunately, the film ultimately fell between two stools. It didn’t explore her own condition in sufficient depth to be a personal odyssey. It didn’t probe the wider problem rigorously enough to be a weighty documentary. ”
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph 

“This element of observing Tourette’s patients – the undeniably exciting possibility that it is liberating a forbidden part of their brains – intensifies when Moffatt examines the phenomenon that sets this documentary apart: Tourette’s is huge on social media.When Moffatt meets a gang of social media creators with Tourette’s, the sense of community is powerful, as is their shared disgust when she puts forward the programme’s most disturbing idea”
Jack Seale, The Guardian 

“Britain’s Tourette’s Mystery: Scarlett Moffatt Investigates also had its unavoidable comic moments…While all parties amiably laughed this off, the thrust of Moffatt’s intelligent and compassionate investigation was that the comedy some associate with the condition might be part of the problem… In the end there was little that was funny about this thought-provoking film. I hope it wins awards.”
Ben Dowell, The Times 

“Just like Stacey Dooley and Louis Theroux, Moffatt has a gift for inserting herself into potentially challenging scenarios without coming across as prying or prurient. And she brought huge reservoirs of empathy”
Ed Power, The i

“Darcey Bussell’s Royal Road Trip brought into sharp relief how strange these sorts of programmes are. Seventy years of service, keeping your own counsel … and then a former ballet dancer and Strictly judge visits your favourite haunts like a posh superfan in a riding jacket. Still, it worked, partly because of Dame Darcey’s seductively blue-blooded air and also because she took us to some interesting places” 
Ben Dowell, The Times 

“This lovely series is a reminder that, despite what we usually see on telly, there are vets in other places just as beautiful as the Yorkshire Dales…The most heart-warming story saw the birth by Caesarean section of six Rhodesian Ridgeback puppies. Gentle coaxing with a blanket rubbed them all to life and they squealed and squawked for their first feed. I could never get tired of watching that.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail

“We saw the magnolias in full springtime display, the trees lit up with their bulbous, candle-like petals.Narrator Bill Paterson explained there’s no other plant like them, because magnolias started to evolve differently from every other flowering tree 150 million years ago. Now that’s old-fashioned.” 
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail