High Society: Cannabis Café, Channel 4 review - pointless investigation into drug-taking

★★ HIGH SOCIETY: CANNABIS CAFÉ, CHANNEL 4 Pointless investigation into drug-taking

Watching people get high for no purpose

This was the first of a two-part investigation into... well, I don't know what. The voiceover of High Society: Cannabis Café said it was an experiment “to test the alleged benefits of weed” and the people featured all had “a personal motivation for getting stoned” as they visited an Amsterdam coffee shop, where dope is sold legally.

Sink or Swim, Channel 4 review - the Channel awaits for these celebrities

★★★ SINK OR SWIM, CHANNEL 4 The Channel awaits for these celebrities

The latest celebrity format lacks tension or conflict

Is there any challenge that television producers haven't filmed celebrities doing? They won't be happy until they've followed a bunch of them snowboarding down an Alp while baking a cake, conducting an orchestra and researching their family history. And if it involves a little sob followed by a group hug, bonus!

Train Your Baby Like A Dog, Channel 4 review - an animal behaviourist tackles tantrums

Who's a good boy then? Children are just like dogs - or are they?

Animal behaviourist Jo-Rosie Haffenden, who lives in Spain, has some very good dogs (and a charming toddler, who knows how to sit). Can she transfer her training skills to three-year-old Graydon in Bristol, who has six tantrums a day, and 14-month-old Dulcie in Croydon, who has never gone to sleep in her cot? “Kids are more like dogs than people think,” she says in Train Your Baby Like a Dog, a new parenting programme called “dehumanising” in a Change.org petition asking the network to cancel the show, signed by nearly 25,000 people this week.

Kathy Burke's All Woman, Channel 4 review - warts and all

★★★★★ KATHY BURKE'S ALL WOMAN, CHANNEL 4 What is beauty, and why is there so much pressure to achieve it?

Comedy legend asks what is beauty, and why is there so much pressure to achieve it?

What’s the next level above national treasure? We’ll need a name for it by the end of All Woman, Kathy Burke’s new Channel 4 documentary.

This Way Up, Channel 4 review - hilarity with a dark undercurrent

★★★★ THIS WAY UP, CHANNEL 4 Hilarity with a dark undercurrent

Funny or die: Aisling Bea stars in her self-penned comedy series

“Get those worksheets in by Monday or I will Brexit the lot of you,” says turbo-charged teacher Aine (Aisling Bea: The Fall, Gap Year) to her London TEFL class. Her students have just enjoyed a stimulating lesson built around the Kardashian family tree. “Kim is the…” Aine waits for the answer. “Yes, well done, the second eldest. And Khloé is the…yes, the middle one. She was the youngest until along came Kendall and Kylie.”

Drag SOS, Channel 4 review - absolutely fabulous

★★★★ DRAG SOS, CHANNEL 4 Absolutely fabulous

Being the best you can be with the Family Gorgeous

According to the Manchester drag collective the Family Gorgeous, “drag should be for everyone.” And on the evidence of Drag SOS (Channel 4) , engagingly voice-overed by Hugh Bonneville, the British public is eager to embrace them in all their spangly, fantastical glory.

The Virtues, Episode 4, Channel 4 review - a bitter redemption

★★★★ THE VIRTUES, EPISODE 4, CHANNEL 4 Gripping climax to Shane Meadows' harrowing series

Gripping climax to Shane Meadows' harrowing series

Shane Meadows has said that he always wanted to make a film where people didn’t talk. It’s homage to the European cinema he loves, with its preference for atmosphere over action, ambiguity over resolution, but it is also a way to confront an experience that lay dormant within his own life for too long. That is the trauma of the sexual abuse survivor, who is locked in silence and trapped by what cannot be said.