Vicky McClure

Great British Sewing Bee, the show where niceness is always in fashion

Is there a lovelier bunch of people on television than the gang on The Great British Sewing Bee (BBC1, Tuesday)? The Bake Off lot would sell their granny’s soul for a Hollywood handshake and The Traitors are not to be trusted, obviously. But for sheer above and beyond niceness, it has to be the Bee team, led by judges Esme Young and Patrick Grant and new host Kiell Smith-Bynoe (him off Ghosts). The show has been going for 10 years now and it still doesn’t seem a series too long. Maybe it’s the joy that comes from being able to run up a dress in an hour, or knowing what a godet is: whatever the reason, it is working.