Prue And Danny’s Death Road Trip; Hello Tomorrow!

“Here was a celebrity travelogue addressing a subject of crucial importance and it’s not often you can say that. Despite its tawdry title, it debated assisted dying thoughtfully. Prue Leith, fiercely in favour after watching her brother suffer “the most horrible death” in “screaming pain”, and her son, the Tory MP Danny Kruger, firmly against with the belief that it should be about “care, not killing”. It was a sensible examination of the debate that made neither mother nor son change their minds. So pretty much reflective of society, really.”
Carol Midgley, The Times 

“Part of the beauty of this documentary is in the fact that it allows decent, adult, respectful face-to-face debate between people who do not necessarily agree with each other to begin with, and may not end up agreeing with each other afterwards. In some ways this feels old-fashioned. We live in an age of emotional politics, and subtlety is no longer a prevalent quality in the realm of public debate. Yet this is a subject that demands empathy and compassion, and here, it is treated appropriately.”
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian

“The film took them from Alabama to Toronto and then to Vancouver Island to look at the various approaches to assisted dying in place around the world today. Ideology clashed with rationality and the reality of individual cases. Both Prue and Danny (who Prue insisted on calling Daniel throughout) thought that they were the rational ones. Both accused the other of scaremongering. But as they thrashed out their differences and, inevitably, foregrounded the evidence that confirmed their initial positions, what was striking was their love and respect for each other. Nestling underneath all of this was the fact that Prue is 82 and, when it comes to it, intends to die on her own terms. She said as much. At the end of the film she sat with Danny and they talked about it, as we all should. He held her hand and said he would not stand in her way – and out of nowhere, a celebrity road trip produced one of the most affecting TV moments of the year.”
Benji Wilson, Telegraph

“This one-off programme was unable to separate the logic from the emotion. Perhaps, with such a provocative topic, this could never be done. It certainly couldn’t be achieved in an hour of zigzagging around America.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail

“The idea behind the show certainly packs a punch. It’s the tale of a duplicitous travelling sales team, who hawk property on the moon. Throughout, it explores the fallacy of the American dream with big shiny rockets and gorgeous costumes. But by the time the three 30-minute episodes that were provided for review conclude, you are not yearning for more. There’s no great cliffhanger that must be answered – or a deep sense of why these characters are worth waiting six days at a time to revisit.”
Leila Latif, The Guardian