Bond farewell to the last of a spying breed

AND SO farewell then, James Bond. And also Doctor Who. After 60 years with the Broccoli family, 007 has passed into the hands of Amazon, while the Doctor seems to have landed his Tardis on Planet Indifference.

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In some weird psychological melodrama that we will probably never understand, Russell T Davies quite brilliantly revived the show in 2005, but seems to have spent the last few years trying to destroy it. Gay rights, trans issues, a female Doctor - guess what, folks? The viewers hated it and have been deserting it in droves.

Whoda-thunk it? Although they are such different characters - a lothario assassin versus a humanity-loving space traveller - Bond and the Doctor have always had a strange link in the public eye. When a new one was announced, it made headlines, apart, perhaps, from the Doctor's most recent incarnation in Ncuti Gatwa, below.