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Last night on TV: what Telegraph reviewers made of Hunting Paedophiles and Darcey Bussell's Wild Scotland

Telegraph Writers
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Undercover Police: Hunting Paedophiles
Undercover Police: Hunting Paedophiles

Here is your morning round-up of the best Telegraph reviews of the latest TV shows . For all the latest TV news, reviews and upcoming episode guides, including interviews and features with your favourite celebrities, click here.

Undercover Police: Hunting Paedophiles, Channel 4

★★★★☆

Sitting through 90 minutes of Undercover Police: Hunting Paedophiles (Channel 4) was gruelling. For the officers involved in this kind of work, the toll it must take is unimaginable. “Simon” spends his days in an online chat room talking to paedophiles, posing as a father who wants other men to join him in abusing his daughter. It is grim stuff.

Other officers wade through the material found on the computers and phones of offenders. Posters on the wall of the operations room warn of the need to take regular breaks – “a maximum of four hours grading/viewing indecent images”. Simon described it as the best job in the world, because it results in convictions. But he has seen some things that he can’t bear to describe.

Read the rest of Anita Singh's review here

Darcey Bussell's Wild Coasts of Scotland, More4

★★★☆☆

Darcey Bussell's Wild Scotland
Darcey Bussell's Wild Scotland

‘Ever since I was a child I’ve yearned to visit the islands of Scotland’s west coast,” said Darcey Bussell at the beginning of her new travel series. To which the obvious question was: well, why didn’t you?

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The Isle of Bute – the destination for this four-part trip – is only 33 miles from Glasgow and 35 minutes from the mainland by ferry. Perhaps Bussell isn’t one of life’s intrepid travellers. Still, that didn’t stop Channel 4 commissioning Darcey Bussell’s Wild Coasts of Scotland (More4), the latest celebrity holiday show off the conveyor belt.

Read the rest of Anita Singh's review here

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