Overall a thumbs up but I did think the casting was a bit limp-wristed. Visually stunning production, though I have to say my overall sense of enjoyment was obfuscated by the intrusion of thinking about the reality of them all crapping and pissing in the palace corners. Must have been quite a disconcerting sort of…

“The reaction from viewers wasn’t quite so amused. Sample Twitter reactions viaThe Mirror include: “OMG #ThisMorning were just discussing sex toys. Even showed the ‘tester’ who ‘just’ rated the vibrators. Disgusted in Halstead!!!””

On the contrary, that person is very amused and playing on a long-running joke in the…