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Channel 4's Homeland has proved that it's not just costume drama that makes for brilliant Sunday-night viewing.

The dinner party conversation makes for brilliant satire, with secret infidelity, drunken shouting and tears around the table, it's a kind of contemporary Abigail's Party.

Watching professionals sweat as if their lives depended on each last glob of sea buckthorn puree, or slice of beetroot presented on a light-up dancefloor, makes for brilliant telly, even if they clearly have their priorities all messed up.

He makes for brilliant fake headlines in The Onion ("Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am in White House Driveway") and easy late-night comedy (when Michelle Obama told David Letterman how her dog, Bo, puts his paw on her leg and starts barking, the host interjected, "Is that what Biden does?").

The essays are resoundingly intelligent, often unexpectedly funny, questioning, fearless and peerless, as Wang makes for brilliant company on 13 difficult walks through largely uncharted territory.

Reading interviews with her highlights the ephemeral and winding quality of her correspondence her writing rings true to the human experience and makes for brilliant fiction, but it's probably challenging to tackle in the edit booth.

So much of the cinema we were offered at Cannes was variously stylish, oblique, affectless, shocking, funny — all of which can make and did make for brilliant film-making.

As Mark Stokes pointed out recently, turning to TV to fund these experiments doesn't always make for brilliant science.

Dappy was quite taken aback with Simon going, 'Who the hell are you?', and making fun of his hat, but the tension made for brilliant TV.

It made for brilliant theater, no doubt, but it becomes great filmmaking, as Guitry's precisely modulated voice and cascading gestures make every moment of the journey perfectly visible in the spectator's mind.

With the two current genius sitcoms, The Office and Phoenix Nights, providing a Blur v Oasis north-south divide for our times, these tapes prove that creating a great sitcom doesn't necessarily make for brilliant stand-up tapes.