Schumer is an engaging and impressively confident presence who surrounds herself with an equally talented cast.
Two days later, it would have been an entirely different but equally diverse cast.
The bottom of the Environment Agency's list features an equally diverse cast: ING Bank, Tennants Consolidated and Kerry Holdings.
For an entire week, the music of more than two hundred international composers played by an equally international cast of performers will be heard, with special emphasis on composers utilizing not just digital sound but also visual media.
Joining the architects was an equally stellar cast of critics, philosophers and scholars, many of them influenced by the work of Jacques Derrida and other philosophers of the French post-structuralist school.
Comparisons have obviously been made with The Lord of the Rings, and they're roughly fair enough, but with significantly more naked women (or even women) and better dialogue and an equally fine cast.
Together they, and their British handlers (an equally outlandish cast of Wodehousian and Waughian characters given to sporting metaphors, clever crossword puns, humorous code names and school slang), would save thousands of Allied lives when the Germans fell hook, line and sinker for what its perpetrators claimed was the most ingenious sting of all time — Operation Fortitude.
Donald Runnicles brings the Deutsche Oper with Nina Stemme (who gave arguably the single most impressive performance of last year's Proms as Brünnhilde in Daniel Barenboim's Ring Cycle) singing Salome; the next night, Semyon Bychkov leads an equally outstanding cast in Elektra, featuring Christine Goerke, Johan Reuter, and Felicity Palmer's Klytemnestra.
It's an interesting, truthful little film, and Mills has now followed it up with an altogether remarkable picture set at the time he was making Thumbsucker, and with an equally striking cast that features one of the greatest stage and screen actors of our time, the 82-year-old Christopher Plummer.
But it is also because of the sheer range and scale of scientific programming, she says, that calls for an equally diverse cast of presenters – and a highly demanding audience that increasingly insists those leading a programme know their subject inside out.
