Kate Garraway: Finding Derek is ITV's biggest single doc in three years, it pulled in 4.5 (23.8%) million. 

**** “It is hard to capture how magnificent – wholly unshowily so – she is. Garraway is a strong communicator, which you might expect from someone in her line of work. But here she is stripped of studio artifice, as she chats to the director, to us, the viewers, to people online and outdoors. She gathers information about the impact of long Covid on sufferers and their families, and you are reminded that being able to hold and diffuse attention on camera, in the right proportions, is a gift., it is a documentary that knows what it is doing and does it well. It knows what a natural asset it has in Garraway and puts her to good use.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

***** “What a remarkably warm, honest and resilient person Garraway is. Practically minded down to her tinted roots, she also has a capacity for laughter that was just as striking throughout. Television is awash with stories of resilience and fortitude, often told by celebrities showing us what nice people they are. Yet this was love and steadfastness made flesh and in the raw from a person using her public profile for wholly positive and selfless ends.”
Ben Dowell, The Times

****“ Filmed video diary-style by director Lucy Wilcox, the documentary was unflinchingly intimate. It didn’t gloss over the domestic chaos of parenting during a pandemic or the mundane reality of family life being put on hold for a year.”
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph

**** “It was a candid look at a brave woman who is barely beginning to come to terms with her grief — who doesn’t yet know exactly what she has lost or what disabilities her husband faces in the years ahead. For all her positivity, there’s no happy resolution and little that can be said except how unutterably awful it must be for that poor family.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail

**** “Finding Derek is tough to watch and, as such, should be compulsory viewing for all mask refuseniks, Covid deniers, vaccine conspiracy theorists and bloviating newspaper columnists who look at the current lockdown rules as an assault on the human right to host dinner parties.”
Fiona Sturges, The Independent