He should be quite old though, don't you think? I always wanted David Duchovny to play Bond, although he's probably too old.

'What's Bond's age?'
'Well, you know. Whips and restraints and things.'
'No, I mean, how old is Bond?'

James Lee Burke is a beautiful writer, even if he's been retelling the same story for a decade pretty much, by now. I also like Michael Connelly, though his relatively pro-cop viewpoint might grate given current events.

The 'cosy crime' genre is quite weird, I think, especially given that the crime involved is almost always murder. I like reading Christie, even the later books where she seems to develop some crazy conspiracy theories about the future of the world, and I like the TV shows too, but I don't really know why. I suppose…

My apologies. My personal experience was limited to irritation with my parents for boycotting McDonalds because of a story that they provided funding.

I suppose. Looking back the IRA seem almost quaint compared to the things we worry about now.

I loved The Day Today so much. I think when you're growing up there's always a need for TV of a kind that allows you to feel different to the older generations, because they 'don't get it'. For me this was one of those things, along with Shooting Stars.

Is the one in Herald Square the Manhattan Mall? The first time we went to New York I bought a Nintendo 64 there which exploded when I tried to use it back in England.

It must be strange and also frustrating for the people involved, knowing that to some extent they were less successful than they should be because they were so ahead of their time.

Oh wow, I loved murder one! Teddy! He left after the first season, right? And then they had Anthony LaPaglia.

I think I'd agree on the ones I've seen from the list, although it's interesting to try and imagine what your reactions would have been if each show had been cancelled at the end of season one. I would have been gutted about Homeland; even thought the first season could have ended as a great one-off story I don't…

Ha! I know this will probably make me seem either a liar or hopelessly naive but I didn't think of that when I wrote it.

If you had to eat Taylor Swift, what part would you choose? (Clearly not her heart, which is shrivelled and small from being broken repeatedly by awful men)

Good to see yet another brave soul claw their way to success via the unlikely route of an Eton education. Surely acting, at least, should be more egalitarian than this.

Wow, that is positive. I will certainly watch the series - there are so many talented people involved that even if it doesn't work it will be interesting.

What did you think of that? I thought the tone was really weird and hard to pin down, although perhaps part of that was because I went into it knowing the Peep Show team were involved and so had certain expectations.

Boris from The Goldfinch (I don't know if he was given a last name), although I doubt I'd last the night.

In the various interviews I've seen, Natalie Dormer says consistently that she is playing Margaery as sincere in her interactions with others, but when I watch her I don't really buy it. Perhaps it's just that she has such a mischievous face.

I really like Melancholia and thought Dunst was great in it, but that was 3 years ago and she hasn't worked much since then (though perhaps she's had a kid?). I'm sure that it's largely her choice, I just meant that from my perspective, as someone who enjoys watching her act, I wish that she would do it more often.…

Though the McConaughey parallel doesn't totally work, how about Kirsten Dunst? She played the child or teen in pretty much every film or tv show I grew up watching (only the female ones, I think - she's not that versatile) then was in tons of really good stuff, then seemed to have 'troubles', and is now back but with…