“Gave old fans a chance to revisit visual treats.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

Coronation Street

Coronation Street: 50 Years, 50 Moments, ITV1

“It demonstrated just how hard Katherine Kelly, who plays The Rovers’ 50th barmaid, will have to work to ensure Becky makes it into the 100th birthday clip show.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“This gave old fans a chance to revisit visual treats such as Kevin Webster’s moustache, Martin Platt’s hairdo and the one where Karen went for Tracy in the church with a stiletto.”
Matt Baylis, The Express

The Joy of Stats, BBC4

“A programme that was smart, witty and unselfconsciously exhilarated by its own intellectual content.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

Natural World Special: Panda Makers, BBC2

“Even the jobbing scientists of the Chengdu Research Base in China, which breeds pandas for eventual release into the wild, croon at their charges helplessly.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“One quickly got an idea of how little help pandas are when it comes to panda breeding. It’s not that they don’t like sex, said David Attenborough – that’s a myth, apparently – it’s just that captivity puts them in the wrong mood.”
Tim Dowling, The Guardian

“For an audience conditioned to think mankind id the source of most problems in the animal kingdom the panda’s story was quite an eye opener.”
Matt Baylis, The Express

 I was Osama bin Laden’s Bodyguard, More 4

“It was genuinely intriguing, interleaving interviews with a Yemeni taxi-driver who called himself Abu Jandal with the story of what happened to his brother-in-law Salim Hamdan, who was employed as a driver by “the Sheikh” and ended up in Guantanamo.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Whatever you want to call it, this was a beautifully knit-together piece of work, disquieting on many levels and, in its determination to illuminate the humanity of everyone it came across, just a little bit reassuring.”
Tim Dowling, The Guardian

Imagine - Bruce Springsteen: Darkness Revisited, BBC1

“The original material took us incredibly close to a bizarrely intense creative process. A concept album largely about Springsteen’s blue-collar roots and a tribute to his father who lost his hearing in the plastics factory where he worked, it was the product of its own work ethic.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

CSI: Miami, Channel 5

“A whodidn’t more than a whodunit.”
Matt Baylis, The Express

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