The Estate: TV Choice, TV Highlights, Pick of the Day and Reviews

29 Jul 2009

Reviews of Clarity Productions' latest 16-part series of short documentaries, "The Estate", which began on Channel 4 on Monday 13th July and transmits until Thursday 6th August 2009

THE HERALD: TV Highlights, Tuesday 28th July 2009

"Channel 4's micro-sized vision of life in Sighthill in Glasgow... Small can be beautiful, of course, and this series may just change your opinion on a part of the city that's labouring under a bad reputation and a shrinking population"

THE SUNDAY TIMES: TV Choice, Monday 13th July 2009

"This series of perfect, three-minute vignettes serve to create a tantalisingly beautiful elegy to Glasgow's Sighthill..."

THE LIST MAGAZINE:

"...one of the most compelling, fascinating television programmes onscreen this year. ...a series that finds visual and social beauty in an area where almost no-one else would think to look".

THE DAILY RECORD: Pick of the Day, Monday 13th July 2009

"Small but perfectly formed, this documentary is compulsive viewing..."

THE SUNDAY HERALD: TV Choice, Monday 13th July 2009

"Filmed over a year...an affecting portrait of the estate and its community, as both begin to disappear".