“A really rather good account.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Hadrian, BBC2
“He's [Dan Snow] not daft, he's not hard to watch either, but whatever happened to the learned expert?”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Hadrian, BBC2
“Dan's good. He has his dad's contagious bounding enthusiasm, a real passion for his subject, as well as the authority and gravitas to make you sit up a listen.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Hadrian, BBC2
“[A] really rather good account.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Hadrian, BBC2
“Snow delievered his presentation at a breathless pace.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

The Seven Wonders of the Muslim World, C4
“A rare treat.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

The Seven Wonders of the Muslim World, C4
“It wasn't a great documentary unlike Antony Thomas's Qur'an film [... ] That was searching and intelligent; this one appears to have been made by Islam's PR department.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

The Seven Wonders of the Muslim World, C4
“The Seven Wonders of the Muslim World was driven by proselytising energy.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

Casualty, BBC1
“In one of its phases of ‘superior' writing.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

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