GRJ did the Hardy programme I watched the other week, and SF is fronting a programme about the Guthenburg printing press which I've downloaded but have yet to watch. I doubt it's their fault, and likewise the actors I keep coming across time and time again. It's a bit bloomin boring though, isn't it? Programme (and film) makers have a tendency to home in on who is popular then saturate our screens with these people till we're sick to death of them.

I was reading an interview with the director (I think) of the new Brideshead Revisited film who said that he had to cast Emma Thomson in the role of Lady Marchmain despite not thinking she was right for the part because the film's financiers wanted her. He also said he was only allowed to cast three unknowns for much the same reason.