On a related Brit in US note, I'm going to be in New York next week to sort everything out. So don't worry.

Go back to making them in the UK, like the original series. It worked for Star Wars.

Simple Minds' 'Sparkle in the Rain'. From the pristine post-punk pop of 'New Gold Dream' to this over-produced, melody-free stadium bombast with hyperbolic, meaningless lyrics, all 'one million light years away' and 'wheels keep turning, lights keep flashing' etc. There's an appalling cover of 'Street Hassle' too,…

Couldn't agree more.

Me too.

I thought this article was going to say Craig had signed up for the next one, but it didn't so I am sad.

To quote another British broadcaster Alan Partridge: 'If you ignore him he'll stop doing it.'

I only discovered a couple of weeks back that Alison Wright is from Sunderland, a Mackem if you please!

Dark forces have been trying to prevent people in the UK from seeing this since it started. I'm up to date as of last week, so fuck you ITV Encore!

It came out in the UK this year.

Anomalisa, Notes on Blindness, Zootropolis, Finding Dory, Measure of a Man, Mustang.

I've just watched that, which led me to a Benny Hill 'Twilight Zone' Parody, 'One Step Behind' with a demon telly. Top stuff!

The Tories got kicked out of London.

The worst bit of music is the overwrought 'soulful' version of The Beatles 'Golden Slumbers' at the end, just a horrible caterwauling noise.

That sequence when the mum finds ET and the astronauts turn up, and all her reality goes out the window for her, is amazing.
Love the quick jump cuts when Elliott hits the road block too.

Abel Gance's 'Napoleon', thanks to the BFI spanking restoration; South Park series 7 - onwards, which I'd missed for some reason; Bee Gees immediate pre-'Saturday Night Fever' albums, and the Will Powers' 'Dancing for Mental Health' record.

A return to form and a relief after the terrible 'I'm so Excited'.

I'm a card-carrying anti-monarchist who thought the French has the right idea, but I loved The Crown, particularly the episode with the fog. (I called my mum afterwards, who lived in London at the time and she told me how eerie it was going to school). Peter Morgan is so great at evoking a time and place with a few…

He's great as a sleazy PR in the 'State of Play' film.

I laughed when Jennifer Anniston shouts 'I can hear you, you idiot!'