Babylon Hits Channel 4 - Has The Danny Boyle Comedy/Drama Impressed?

Danny Boyles name is enough to get people up and interested in a new project, so when his new TV series, Babylon – on Channel 4 – was announced, attention was fixed firmly on the police comedy-drama. But has he managed to make the grade with the critics?

The Telegraph’s Ben Lawrence decided the show deserved 3 stars, suggesting “Channel 4's Babylon would have worked better without Danny Boyle,” in his review. “While it had many strengths, Babylon was not quite as great as the sum of its parts and the problem lay in Boyle’s direction. He may be Britain’s most-lauded director but his filter of coolness was at odds with the very British, rather dyspeptic dialogue of Bain and Armstrong.”