Once Upon a Time in America at twenty-fucking-four? Jeez, he’s had some career.

Fuhgeddaboudit was right there dude!

Arthur Smith’s greatest gift to comedy was challenging Tony Hawks to the bet that led to Hawks’s excellent book Playing the Moldovans at Tennis.

His normal kind of film is not the kind that I tend to watch, so I was only tangentially aware of him. But he was just brilliant in Spy.

Perhaps because they got it into their head that he might be prey to less scrupulous people around him, and therefore it was in his best interests for them to fulfil that role. That’s what I mean by rationalising your own behaviour in a way that gives you the end result you want. Just because they shouldn’t have done…

Statham in Spy FTW.

It’s unlikely to be as, err, black and white as is being made out.

I think Cox had done a bit more than the others beforehand, but said from Day 1 that she felt it was an ensemble show and was happy with that.

Like Martin Sheen?  (But yes, it’s a fair point).

Wasn’t he in the wilderness (for, err, reasons) when he got cast in the West Wing? Why would he have expected to be the star of a prestige drama?

No Pete & Dud/Derek & Clive?

Go Bluey!

Endeavour is played less for laughs than the others mentioned though. But even the various Christie adaptations often contain a good dollop of humour.

Personally I’d throw the Lost Boys in there, but I may be in a minority here.

Britain has been filling its schedules with this kind of stuff for years. Death in Paradise, Midsomer Murders, Father Brown, Rosemary & Thyme - it’s never ending.

But, to be fair, his performance was fantastic.

Blunt & Krasinski have the apartment directly below Damon’s in Brooklyn and they apparently socialise extensively.

Well played. (Both you and him).

I struggled with some early scenes (which were sound stage scenes, not New Mexico wilderness scenes, incidentally) but it was mostly OK for the dialogue.

The Martin Sheen scene in Part Deux kills me.