Somehow, Jenkins then managed to introduce an endorsement for his bank from the Lord himself – or at least one of his representatives on Earth, in the form of the show's star guest, Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury.
A series of increasingly eye-catching screen roles followed, including Ada in the BBC's Bleak House, a guest shot on Doctor Who, the best friend in an ITV drama of another Austen, Northanger Abbey (playing second fiddle to Felicity Jones), and that stellar Seagull at the Royal Court, also in 2007.
In the next few decades, Bergen was hardly ever off the small screen, however, as a guest star in series such as Dr Kildare and The Love Boat, and on game shows including Hollywood Squares and To Tell the Truth.
Thor: The Dark World will be released on 30 October, followed by Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians Of The Galaxy next year, with Joss Whedon's The Avengers: Age Of Ultron and Edgar Wright's long-awaited Ant-Man scheduled for 2015.
Dead Man's Shoes, the eviscerating 2004 revenge drama that he co-wrote, may still be his calling card, but he long ago proved his versatility with comic performances in Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's Hot Fuzz and The World's End, and, respectively, understated and then wildly overstated roles in Richard Ayoade's Submarine and The Double.
After settling in Britain in 1966, Hornery also had guest roles on television in The Troubleshooters (1967), the sitcoms George and the Dragon (1966) and Dad's Army (1973), Doctor Who (1979), Sapphire & Steel (1981) and many other programmes.
Lahiri is way too witty to be an actual ditz (see her failed romance with a skater bro, guest star Timothy Olyphant: "My body is very attracted to your body but when you speak, my brain gets angry"), and too optimistically hopeful to be truly loathsome.
As guest host Jack Dee read out the final scores, he told viewers: "Of course the scores have always been hotly contested on this show.
It is a mark of the 60-year-old architect's immense standing in German society – in contrast to the quiet, if growing, respect for him in his native Britain – that last year, when David and Samantha Cameron visited Angela Merkel in the chancellor's country residence, Meseberg, he was also on the guest list.
Courbet looks like a character in one of Edgar Allan Poe's stories, his mind unravelling in a way the first modern artists were fascinated by.
Pillay, the first non-white woman to serve as a high-court judge in South Africa, made the comments in an interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee on a special edition of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, which the inventor of the world wide web was guest editing.
