| Benefit Busters | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Studio Lambert |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Channel 4 |
| Release | 20 August (2009-08-20) – 3 September 2009 (2009-09-03) |
Benefit Busters is a British documentary series, broadcast on Channel 4 during August and September 2009.1 The series has three episodes.2
Reception
Gary Day wrote in Times Higher Education, "Billed as a documentary, the programme played as propaganda" and "facts and figures were in short supply."3 In a positive review, Helen Rumbelow of The Times called the series "powerful, incendiary even, but most of all it was a comic masterpiece, darkly lit".2 The Guardian television critic Sam Wollaston said that the lead of the first show, Hayley Taylor, is "both wonderful and appalling" in that "she's someone you want on your TV screen, but not in your life".4
References
References
- Jarvis, Alice-Azania (20 August 2009). "Last Night's Television: Benefit Busters, Channel 4. Dolce Vito – Dream Restaurant, Channel 4". The Independent. Retrieved 4 February 2026.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - Rumbelow, Helen (21 August 2009). "Benefit Busters; The Funny Side of Animals". The Times. Archived from the original on 4 February 2026. Retrieved 4 February 2026.
- Day, Gary (27 August 2009). "Daytime TV: Moved to action". Times Higher Education. ProQuest 2393370909. EBSCOhost 44465096. Archived from the original on 16 July 2025. Retrieved 4 February 2026.
- Wollaston, Sam (21 August 2009). "Review. Last night's TV: Benefit Busters". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 4 February 2026. Retrieved 4 February 2026.
External links
External links
- Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 4 January 2010)
- Benefit Busters at IMDb