My favourite move fact concerns this version: Rossano Brazzi, who was Italian (obviously) but due to the 1940s' lax interpretation of foreignness played the German professor without changing his accent at all, dubbed himself for the Italian release. However, you will be aware that an Italian accent is far harder to…

Can we please have Michael Fassbender as the professor? His dad is German and he speaks it fairly fluently, so I'll go ahead and assume he can do the accent. He's the right age and he's sufficiently attractive to ward off Laurie convincingly in the viewer's heart.

Spermjack to the Future

I echo Tina Fey's sentiment. Of my favourite ten or so sketches, at least 4 are from the Carol Burnett Show (the Astaire/Rogers spoof, the budget airline sketch, the Girls in Prison one, and of course the infamous Gone With The Wind spoof). One of the sharpest tacks in the comedy drawer, and a classy, thoughtful lady…

The girls here, and their (lack of) reaction doesn't surprise me at all. I remember how incredibly callous I could be then, although thank god it never manifested as prolonged persecution of others (I was slightly too geeky to pull off bullying tbh). I seem to recall an immense shame and uncomfortableness around…

I haven't seen a lot of the shows mentioned, as I generally prefer my TV a little more to the boring side, but I love Boardwalk Empire and it gets my vote hands-down, not only for having quite a bit of sex but also for having a lot of downright weird sex stuff. Erotic asphyxiation, voyeurism, incest, and that's just…

Gabriel Byrne, specifically in the Winona Ryder version of Little Women. I still kind of blush when I hear/read his name, just from... residual intensity, I guess? Thank GOD I more or less kept it to myself as this was the pre-Tumblr era, otherwise my digital thumbprint would probably be disastrous.

"HOW... did I end up in this situation?"

Wow, that sounds very trippy. "

As long as it's the proper one and not TCM UK which is just wall-to-wall terrible Westerns. Generally I love a Western, but TCM UK really functions to remind us that for every High Noon there were ten White Comanches (starring Bill Shatner!). And I kind of want to marry Horton in Holiday.

Some of the prissy, peevish camp of Edward Everett Horton would have been appreciated, to be honest. Most of the Yanks who plagued Bertie were just foghorns in coats.

I know from Americans - they would keep turning up at Bertie Wooster's friends' houses wanting to turn them into hotels.

I love the fact that at first when Al slipped against Willie (erm...so to speak) it was like "oops, this is awkward and funny" and then he's just totally happy. I don't think he was even listening to half of what Nick Offerman was saying.

My first thought was a semi-surprised, slightly-indignant 'This is our (by which I mean the BBC's) thing! Acknowledge that we invented Getting On!'. My second was 'Does this mean Jo Brand is getting a stack of cash from some fur-coated Yankee executives?' and then I was pretty happy. The original was a little more…

I find this really funny for some reason. It's like Fielding is reminding us that she comes from a more sensible era before the hysterical micro-fanning of Tumblr and she can kill Darcy off if she fancies and she doesn't care how many devastated gifs you post about it because, for goodness sake, it's only a silly…

I don't say this enough, but I truly love the world we live in.

I recommend Tunnelbear. It's extremely easy to use and gives you the option of choosing a US or a UK ip address, so if you're not in the UK you get the bonus of BBC iplayer. The only downside is a free account will only get you a handful of full episodes per month, but it makes watching TV clips from network sites or…

I want to be mad, but I just keep thinking of this bit from Manhattan Murder Mystery and laughing like a lunatic

I was reading the April one and couldn't stop thinking of her in costume as Janet Snakehole going "My husband kept me in the finest clothes from Bergdorf Goodman, you know!"

No spoilers, but... when I got round to reading Eight Cousins and Rose In Bloom I was 20 and really thought I'd missed out forever by not reading them as an impressionable and excitable kid like I did with Little Women. And yet, when a certain character died, I was fighting back the tears like a sentimental eleven…