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A SELECTION OF PRESS COMMENTS One of the most inspired and effective uses of airtime yet devised. The Guardian At a time when even serious talk shows seem to have exhausted every
possibility, The Times The best talk, entertainment and drama of the weekend. The Evening Standard After Dark has proved the only way of doing serious subjects justice on television. The Independent After Dark: the most intelligent, thought-provoking and interesting programme ever to have been on television. The most extraordinary three hours on television. The Daily Mirror You can be sure that whatever the outcome it will be worth watching. Time Out Compulsive for late-night viewers. Variety After Dark triumphantly broke all the rule from the beginning. Financial Times
EQUINOX: SECRETS OF THE PSYCHICS This is the FIRST show anybody should see on the supernatural. It's so cool, calm, and clear. You deal with believers with sympathy, but gradually lead us to understand and despise charlatans. I think this is the most damaging program ever inflicted on superstition. Teller (of Penn & Teller) Secrets of the Psychics was an Equinox programme for Channel Four and was, I think, the first show ever to take on the notoriously litigious Uri Geller. They showed how all his parlour tricks could be easily duplicated by jobbing magicians without any help from paranormal powers….will this excellent expose stop David Frost using him? I doubt it. Simon Hoggart in The Spectator Nowhere near enough people will have watched Equinox’s Secrets of
the Psychics, Thomas Sutcliffe in The Independent. A comprehensive and compelling hatchet job Daily Telegraph. Expansive and exhaustively researched. Sunday Times The wonderful Equinox: The Secrets of the Psychics…I simply commend a programme which showed two things very clearly. Fist that there are – and have always been - some extremely clever and ruthless illusionists out there. And – second- that there is an exceptional desire to believe that what these hoaxers tell us is actually true. David Aaronovitch in the Independent on Sunday.
ISRAEL 50: Channel Four’s Israel 50 strand has covered an impressive range of aspects of that nation’s life and history, but this must have been the most chilling… a string of former supreme heads of Israeli Intelligence, heads and deputy heads of Mossad and former agents talked with disconcerting frankness about their operations…..This was a sympathetic film which began with a haunting visit to a secret Mossad memorial in the form of an elaborate maze. Here the names of agents tortured, killed or simply disappeared are carved in shaded stone walls. Their daring, efficiency and inventiveness were celebrated. Paul Hoggart in The Times If you had thought Mossad is to spying what Ray-Ban is to sunglasses, this dour documentary painted an altogether different picture. It highlighted pointless assassinations, botched operations and poor morale among the agents…the whole spy industry was put neatly in perspective. Jennifer Selway in the Express.
Intriguing mix of breath-taking illusion and ruthless exposure….a sophisticated entertainment cum magazine programme, pulling together seemingly boundless permutations of illusion, trickery and the occult. City Limits. Strange, different and daring Daily Telegraph. Mr Drake is able to recreate, even in hardened and cynical adults, the sense of wonder that can overwhelm a child on first encountering ‘magic’. What makes it all work so well is that the lighting and sound are brilliantly done, and the camera work is almost revolutionary……If you’ve never seen it, make a point of watching The Secret Cabaret. It’s sheer magic. The Daily Mail. Trendy, enjoyable magic and illusion series. The Independent. Bizarre and macabre. The Guardian. Light entertainment with a snarl on its face. Time Out. Consistent, intelligent, adult content…quirky and imaginative. City Limits. This programme is excellent. It is fast-moving, slick and breathtaking. The Sun. Camp and kinkily futuristic. The Independent.
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