All the President's Men. Felt like an essential watch after the news of Robert Redford's death. Only flaw is it should be twice as long - it feels like half a story!

I haven't got to the books yet as I want my first experience of the story to still be the TV show but I've heard enough to suggest that it was always going to be tricky to adapt without losing Rebecca Ferguson for a huge chunk of eps so think the show did as well as it could. And Steve Zahn is fun!

My big argument in favour of a challenge system has been that it takes the pressure to spot mistakes off officials and puts it on managers and their staff. Plus it might mean refs at the monitor actually making their own decision rather than being led to agree with a colleague

I think he's said in interviews that he very much handed over control when the rights were sold, so assume most of the blame lies elsewhere. Given Spielberg optioned the rights initially it's a shame not to see what he might have done with it

I could see it working for some people as a light comedy of obvious jokes up until the point Helen Mirren coerces someone into murder-suicide

It really is an awful adaptation. Fails as a mystery, fails as a character study. Anything the book was trying to say gets lost in the changes. I'd maybe argue there's only one scene in the whole film which actually works.