On multiple fronts, Considine appears to be making up for lost time; he typically wakes at 6am to fit it all in.
Thirty-three yeafterfter he left the Mossad, Israel's external intelligence arm, one memory sometimes wakes Yossi Alpher at four in the morning.
Educating Yorkshire showed viewers that yes it's hard, yes it's graft but it's absolutely worth it because of those moments when a student has an epiphany or a breakthrough, wakes up to problem and sorts it out.
Bewildered secret service agent Matt Dillon wakes up bloodied and bruised in a small town in Idaho, where the requisite secrets lurk just beneath the picture-perfect surface.
How perfect that when Odysseus first wakes on native ground he can't recognise his homeland and wonders: "What are they here – violent, savage, lawless?
One of the people scared by the ramifications of all this is Patrick Okello, the man who wakes to see ghosts.
She has a very loud cry and she wakes us up through the night, but that's how it should be".
Often at the end of a day's rehearsal I've experimented with getting the cast to perform a scene in an accent, and it's extraordinary the way it wakes the scene up.
Blindspot, which gets the coveted position on Monday night behind The Voice, is about a Jane Doe who wakes up naked in Times Square covered in tattoos and each tattoo contains clues to a mystery.
Related: New year's resolutions: cycle to work, run a marathon and drink less coffee Sometimes I spend the whole night in front of this glare or a sudden loud noise wakes me up when I've just drifted off.
Despite the late nights, he says he wakes up feeling "fresh, revitalised", happy because if he "was waking up in London, 3-0 down in an Ashes series, I would be waking up with a severe headache".
