The return of RTD has resulted in a greatest hits of representation that is going to blow the minds of the right wing commentariat.

It may not be feature length but he also directed this classic.

He is - he owes his career to having been mates with Peter Kay at school.

Turns out the facts are as “true” as the world running out of pink paint because of the Barbie set.

I haven’t seen the film yet so can’t comment on anything beyond what you see in the trailer, but Jodie Comer seems unstoppable, and if she doesn’t win for this, she’ll win for something else in the next few years.

Move them up - other than the feature length Curse of the Were-Rabbit they are all just 20-30 minutes long.  Your soul depends on it.

Ah - you haven’t seen the movies!  That means your soul is still salvageable.  Go and watch the Wallace & Grommit films immediately. 

You have no soul.

The Paul McCartney book of photographs he recently found that he’d taken in 1964 is well worth the price,

In the final sequence of Rush there’s a clip of the real James Hunt playing football. That was from the TV show Superstars where sporting stars would compete against each other in a variety of sports. The story goes that the night before filming, Hunt took everybody out and they all ended up at his club, absolutely…

As with Drive to Survive, I think it played up the rivalry and played down the friendship between the two men, but the monologue at the end kind of made up for that.

All sounds a bit Brideshead Revisited with added shenanigans.

I keep meaning to watch Senna but never seem to get around to it.

I believe his performance freaked Lauda out a bit with how well he portrayed him.

For anybody who doesn’t have a good grasp on the history of F1, I can recommend Rush with Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl about the epic 1976 season and the duel for the title between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. It’s a throwback to the days when track deaths were not uncommon.

Did they? Given that they didn’t have the song writing credit for most of their big hits, and the fact that there always seemed to be about a dozen of them on stage, I always assumed that they wouldn’t have been overly financially successful.

I don’t think the judges were laughing at the contestants. This is Bake Off, so they were laughing with them. I suspect it would have been stressful for each contestant seeing their puddings collapse as soon as they came out, but the feeling would not have lasted long, as they realised everybody’s was doing the same,…

I loved the first season of Staged, but there are seriously diminishing returns in seasons 2 and 3 as it disappears up its own arse.

That scene where he wipes Donna’s memory was utterly heart-breaking, especially with the late great Bernard Cribbins’s contribution. Thankfully Cribbins filmed some scenes for the specials before his death, so will be returning posthumously.

For those of us of a certain age, it was that Cruel Summer.