First on court is the latest instalment in one of the rivalries that will shape these Games, with England playing Australia in the group stages.
It is difficult to say which is more unbearable: another instalment in the Kevin Pietersen saga, or watching England play cricket.
Then he wisely attached himself to the slumping Fast/Furious franchise, a move that paid off earlier this year when the latest instalment coolly pounded a billion bucks out of the global box office.
The economies of many African countries are growing faster than anywhere else in the world – and agriculture, which accounts for a third of Africa's GDP, is poised to be the next instalment of the "Africa rising" narrative.
With government coffers almost at nil and Athens facing a monumental €770m (£560m) loan instalment to the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday, it is the last act in a crisis with potentially cataclysmic effect.
The Irish finance minister, Michael Noonan, reportedly said: "I think everybody should pay what's due and abide by the rules in Europe but I have no objection to the British government settling their account by way of instalment over 2015.
"If they pay the capital amount on an agreed instalment basis, that should be sufficient".
It was down from the 6.1 million viewers (25.1% share) who watched the opening episode on Bank Holiday Monday, which fell to 4.5 million (19.4%) for its second instalment on Tuesday.
Related: Eurozone pins hope on long-awaited economic rebound But last Wednesday Greece managed to scrape together €200m for an earlier instalment to the IMF.
The judgment is the latest instalment in the long-running battle waged by a Queensland father, Ron Williams, against commonwealth funding arrangements for the national school chaplaincy program.
No wonder Moffat tweeted of the opening instalment of Episodes: "It might be a specialised market, but dear God, those scenes with the execs aren't even exaggerated".
