Alone at Home review – teenage brats prove strangely tough hate figures

Channel 4’s latest kid-doc gave us two mollycoddled sisters forced to fend for themselves. But viewers weren’t so spoiled

A moment’s pause is required, I think, when you realise you are watching a programme predicated on making you hate children. Specific children, I mean. A general animus against them is fine – very much my thing, in fact – but holding up a particular one, or two in the case of last night’s Alone at Home (Channel 4), for derision and loathing seemed a touch de trop.

Unlike Channel 4’s previous mining of this seam, where they have generally favoured putting several children in a house together and watching the dynamic play out via hidden cameras, this one gave the premise a new, duller twist by sending the parents of sisters Laurel (13) and Milly (16) away for a long weekend and letting the girls, monitored by 27 cameras and a production team who were assuredly not being paid enough to listen to the endless shrieking, singing and bickering, stay in the family home together, along with stepbrother Ethan (14) when he turned up on the Saturday. The kids had £210 and not a clue among them.

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