Based on a true story, its stars McConaughey as an AIDS sufferer who smuggles drugs for other patients to treat the HIV virus in the early days of the disease in the 1980s.
The Museums at Night festival, now in its seventh year, has gone from just 50 events to 650, all hosted at night and often under the stars.
The next series of another homegrown drama hit, the BBC's Torchwood, is being co-produced with US cable channel Starz – adding American stars including Bill Pullman – while Episodes is itself a co-production between Showtime and the corporation.
Sweaty, musical, melodramatic and political, Cairo Station stars ballsy writer-director Youssef Chahine as a homicidal newspaper seller in Cairo's vast railway station.
All sports have their ups and downs of course, and cricket is not alone in producing sports stars with depression.
As soon as you arrive on the Amalfi coast it's easy to see why high rollers, writers and film stars have been drawn to this idyllic stretch of coast for the past 200 years.
Now it's as though only designs featuring the liberal application of gradient, southern cross stars and random colour splotches get a gig.
It's easily the most confident and coherent of this batch of pilots and, crucially, is killing it in customer response: it currently has an overall rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars.
It's their business whether they aim for the stars or the gutter.
As PriyankaV wrote: I felt that an important theme of the book was the vantage that flying provided him, both literally and metaphorically – whether it included looking down at the earth and up at the stars or the distance from people that the job entailed.
They signed to Polydor, part of the Universal Music Group, in June 2012 – the night they played a London show given five stars by the Guardian – and were named as winners of the BBC's Sound of 2013 poll in January.
