Cat Burglar; Moors Murders: The Witness; The Real Dirty Dancing

“The chief pleasures of Cat Burglar aren’t really the interactive ones at all. Rather, the joy comes from the brilliantly observed homages to cartoons of the golden era before health and safety became a thing and cartoon violence was of exquisite imagination. The incidental music, too, is a note-perfect nostalgia trip for screwball cartoon fetishists. The credits don’t read Tex Avery or Fred Quimby, but their spirits haunt the show.”
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian

“Cat Burglar is at its most enjoyable when it isn’t trying to be clever or ironic and instead replicates the eyes-on-stalks energy of classic Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera animations. But then, every so often, along comes the interactive bit as a reminder you’re still trapped in the Brookerverse. The questions are, alas, silly rather than challenging and leech all the fun away. Netflix has ended up with a giddy pastiche to the golden age of American animation with an iffy video game tacked on.”
Ed Power, The Telegraph

“Streaming TV can sometimes feel like opening your laptop, turning off your thoughts, and letting the pure content sandpaper your brain until it is as smooth as a little egg. Cat Burglar is a fun corrective that nudges you to think about how passively you consume – while also trying to frantically remember the names of the kids in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
Luaren O’Neill, The i

“To my mind, we have long stripped the Moors murders of anything valuable they can teach us. To rake these murders up again at this point in history requires a strong justification to defend against charges of simple salaciousness, titillation or ratings-chasing. Perhaps this will emerge in the remaining two episodes. I hope so.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“The question is, do we need any more documentaries about the Moors murders? I don’t think so, grimly watchable as they are.”
Carol Midgley, The Times

“The vivid opening testimony of David Smith, Myra Hindley’s brother-in-law, was certainly riveting. But the interview with Smith was recorded in 2003 (he died in 2012) and he recounted events with a practised air. The programme muddied the waters over what was new and what was not.”
Anita Singh, The Telegraph

“Hosts Keith Lemon and Ashley Roberts injected just the right amount of irreverence to appease cynics. Sure, the word ‘real’ is a weird choice for a show in which glossy celebrities emulate scenes from a film, but it’s hard to be annoyed when something is this much fun.”
Emily Watkins, The i

“With so many celebs on board, it all becomes very repetitive very quickly, and it is about half an hour too long (being generous). Unknown even in their own households as many of them must be, it is harmless enough and nearly fun. There’s plenty of Motown and Phil Spector, and Lemon’s constant and impressively committed pelvis thrusts and outsize personality just about carry the burden of presentation.”
Sean O’Grady, The Independent