Channel 4's Supernanny managed a 2.5 million audience for the penultimate instalment from the naughty step, an 11.4% share.
Testimony to this he announced last month that he has stepped aside from directing the fourth instalment in the Toy Story series which is due to be released in 2019.
And in tomorrow's £0.90 Big Paper: ditties about Life and death step up to the oche in the latest thrilling instalment of 1,000 Songs Everyone Must Here before they die (nb: the "before they die" bit is not in the title, but implied, as everyone is unlikely to hear them after they die).
And yet the new Iron Man film, for which 20 minutes of footage was screened to bloggers and critics earlier this week, is titled plain old Iron Man 3. Did writer-director Shane Black, who's stepping into Jon Favreau's shoes for the new instalment, simply run out of ideas?
This week GROVESTREET, real name Jamie Smith, steps up to the plate for the seventh instalment of London based club label Trax Couture's World Series, errr, series.
The introduction serves a thankless task: getting you up to speed on exactly what happened in the previous three Underworld films, as if a) people would make their first step into a clapped-out franchise by starting with the fourth instalment and b) anyone actually had a personal investment in anything that happened in any Underworld film.
We've covered their globe-trotting World Series series here on THUMP before and the bossman's stepped up to the plate for the ludicrously good 12th instalment.
But as the latest instalment of the super-violent series hits the shelves around the world, many are taking a step back and assessing the cultural impact of a title that has changed not only the games industry, but perhaps even the entertainment business as a whole.
Sure, it's obvious, but it's a step up from the random stream-of-consciousness footage from the previous four instalments.
He now heads the government's financial-crimes agency.Yet the deeper answer is that the choice of Mr Zubkov is just one more instalment in the Kremlin's byzantine manoeuvrings to decide who will run Russia when Mr Putin steps down at the end of his second term next March.
