Parking Mad

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Parking Mad is a television documentary series about parking, shown on BBC Two.

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It was first broadcast on 2013 with a second series shown in 2015 and is narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt.

Reception

Sameer Rahim in The Telegraph called it highly entertaining and said that it "lightly broached a serious issue". [1] Sam Wollaston in The Guardian called Parking Mad a good documentary that was balanced, gave a voice to all and then sat back and observed as they went at each other. [2]

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References

  1. Rahim, Sameer, "Parking Mad, BBC One, review", The Telegraph, 9 January 2013.
  2. "Parking Mad; Posh Pawn; Protecting Our Parents – TV review". TheGuardian.com . 18 April 2014.