A film adaptation was released in 1971, and the show placed fourth in a BBC poll to find Britain's best sitcom in 2004.
Two films received seven nominations: The Insider, the true story of a whistle-blower in the tobacco industry, and The Cider House Rules, an adaptation of the John Irving novel set in a New England orphanage.
That is why the UK and Australia are committed to scaling up financing - not just after 2012, but now, and why we are supporting the establishment of new funds administered by the World Bank for clean technologies, sustainable forestry, and for adaptation to climate change.
Top Gear took two of the top three spots in a festive iPlayer top 10 which also featured the first part of the Miranda finale, The Apprentice final, David Walliams' adaptation The Boy in the Dress and four episodes of EastEnders, including the Christmas Day edition.
But the biggie was yet to come: she beat all Hollywood's young female acting talent to the headline role of Daisy Buchanan in the $105m £70m -budgett adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
Mulligan's conviction that she could succeed as a performer resulted in an introduction to a casting director through Fellowes and then – to her family's surprise – a small but visible part in the 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, playing the "silly" fourth Bennet sister, Kitty.
Simon Stephens' adaptation of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, named best new play, was the only winner yet to have played in the West End.
Hot on the heels of the US adaptation of Shameless, last night saw the premieres of Skins and Being Human.
He also played a rich boy in The Riot Club, a 2014 adaptation of the play Posh, which has generated internet grumblings that he must come from wealthy stock himself.
In related news, Deadline also reports that Will Smith, Tom Hardy and The Wolf of Wall Street's Margot Robbie are in line to star in comic-book epic Suicide Squad for studio Warner Bros. Robbie's interest may have encouraged Dreamworks to approach Johansson for Ghost in the Shell, as the Australian actor was said to be an early frontrunner to star in the anime adaptation.
Certainly, the greenlighting of The Man in the High Castle, an adaptation of Philip K Dick's speculative history novel exec-produced by Ridley Scott, will come as no surprise to anyone who has viewed all of the most recent batch of pilots.
