The BBC put a good deal of effort into trailing four-part JK Rowling adapation Strike: Lethal White ahead of its transmission last Bank Holiday weekend. The crime drama, which follows private detectives Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, is the fourth instalment in Rowling’s Robert Galbraith series.

More than ever this year I find myself coming up against Facebook memories.

Our extraordinary conjuncture mixes pandemic panic with racial activism. Inter alia , it has produced many changes in the way we watch television. One of these concerns the English Premier League, which for the first time in its thirty-year history has been seen live on British broadcast TV. We have also witnessed the unraveling of rules governing political speech in the game. “Black Lives Matter” has transcended politics.

Lockdown continues to be a bizarre experience for us all, and no less so in our household viewing experiences.

So, in conclusion, I don’t think the order really matters. Do you? “Oh, she’s still got the dog in this one”.

‘ In writing you’re always looking for conflict…’ Malcolm Hulke ‘To my mind the basic problem is that writers are by the nature back-room-minded introverts and yet, in the publicity jungle, they find themselves pitted against an army of highly extroverted actors and actresses.

I watch old sitcoms when I can no longer watch the news or news round ups, or even talk shows; when I feel so hopeless and helpless I just need to try and relax enough to be able to sleep and finish up today before the next one starts again.

The attentive amongst you (we know who you are) will realise that I lie to people. For money. Now, I’m not backstriking that as it is essentially true. I work as an actor and performer. I pretend for a living. I lie and you are all willing accomplices in the deceit and artifice that I create.

“They must pay you quite well.” What? “These blogs you do here. They must pay you quite well. I mean, I see you’ve done thirty of them. That would have been a full network season in the mid-Sixties.” I suppose it would. I’d never thought of it like that.

It’s marking madness right now, chaps. Staff usually have fifteen working days from assessment submission dates to get grades and feedback up on the Virtual Learning Environment, but as a result of the current situation students have had their late window trebled to twenty-one consecutive days.