Surgeons: At the Edge of Life; The Sex Lives of College Girls; Hold the Front Page

“When you watch it, it never fails to blow you away. After last night’s harrowing episode (the first of series five), I’m almost too frit to leave the house. One woman, Jill, who came to the major trauma centre at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge after she tripped descending two (two!) steps outside her caravan, almost had to have her foot amputated. Her ankle break was so severe that the bone was sticking through. It’s hardly as if she was rollerblading or parachuting, is it? Terrifying. The utter brilliance of the surgeons saved it, though, in gory scenes that meant my fast-forward button was deployed to the max.”
Carol Midgley, The Times

“What differentiates Surgeons: At the Edge of Life from other hospital-based shows is the absence of patients’ backstories. In this programme, all we saw of 72-year-old Jill’s life outside of hospital was her out walking, newly restored after her fall from her caravan steps. This lack of human interest may disappoint some, but I found it refreshing.”
Emily Baker, The i

“I must state that it is not porn because I know that’s what you’re thinking. It is the creation of writer, actor, director and production powerhouse Mindy Kaling (The Office, Never Have I Ever, The Mindy Project) and Justin Noble (a writer on Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Never Have I Ever) and is the perfect, elusive blend of truthful, joyful and funny.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“It’s a larky, genial show, which this week took them to the offices of The Yorkshire Post. Their assignments included caving in the Dales, visiting the set of Emmerdale, reporting on the sale of a nuclear bunker, and reviewing a Michelin-restaurant where they were served what the chef termed “a variation on fish and chips, which we call Emancipation”, and which looked like a dust ball just emptied out of the Hoover. Of course, they were hopeless at covering all of the above because this is a comedy show and therefore closer in tone to an episode of The Apprentice than anything fly-on-the-wall (you can insert your own joke here about the fact that Widdicombe was once, genuinely, a journalist at The Guardian).”
Anita Singh, Telegraph