The week in TV: No More Boys and Girls: Can Kids Go Gender Free?; The Big Family Cooking Showdown and more

A documentary about gender and the Beeb’s Bake Off wannabe weren’t quite as described on the tin. But Valkyrien zipped along furiously

No More Boys and Girls: Can Kids Go Gender Free? (BBC2) | iPlayer
The Big Family Cooking Showdown (BBC2) | iPlayer
Valkyrien (C4) | All 4
Dangerous Borders (BBC2) | iPlayer
Quacks (BBC2) | iPlayer

Pointlessly unwieldy title of the week – against, as we shall come to see, some stiff competition – was No More Boys and Girls: Can Kids Go Gender Free? Managing to combine foot-in-mouth length and borderline dystopian threats with that irreducibly twee ‘kids’, it turned out to encompass nothing more sinister than an exploration of simple equality: the first of a rather splendid two-parter in which Dr Javed Abdelmoneim aided by some impossibly sunny children and teachers on the Isle of Wight, sought simply to address the balance in expectations among seven-year-olds, depending on whether they’re a boy or a girl.

The presenters of Cooking Showdown looked like they’d first met that morning in the lift between floors

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from Children | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2vdgcBF