The company recently announced it is to produce a version of The Voice for Middle Eastern broadcaster MBC and 60 further episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond for the Russian market.
Of the unseen Top Gear footage, Shillinglaw said it would definitely make it on to BBC2 – although not enough had been shot for three full one-hour episodes.
Though the US terrestrial networks still employ big writers' rooms, to churn out annual runs of 22 episodes, award-winning cable shows now often rely on the creative vision of a single writer (such as Vince Gilligan for Breaking Bad, and Matt Weiner for Mad Men).
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.
Peppered with stars such as Daryl Hannah, Lost's Naveen Andrews and Cloud Atlas's Doona Bae, all 12 episodes are ready for your next binge.
So much of the final two episodes depicts quite graphically what the thick of battle is like.
The women recall being given a tour by Maglio, who showered them with praise, and then – in a series of eerily similar episodes – would offer them a special wine or tea.
British "national interests" required the covering up one of the most scandalous episodes in the history of arms dealing.
Little is known about the project beyond that it will be written and directed by Allen, and will be in 30-minute episodes.
But there's none of that with Two and a Half Men – just the same four storylines on rotation and Sheen giving the same monotonous, lifeless, straining-to-read-a-cue-card delivery to each line until all the episodes blend into a great, big, disorientating Kafkaesque nightmare.
"There's plenty of stuff out there in TV and movies about 'pig people'," she said, suggesting Routh could have got the idea from episodes of the Twilight Zone, Seinfeld or the Discovery Channel show Boss Hog.
