Summer in February had all the potential to be lovely — admittedly a rainy day, winter warmer, hot chocolate of a film, but lovely. It also had all the correct ingredients: a dash of good looks from Browning, (and, if you are into the military-cum-fisherman aesthetic, from Downton’s Stevens) a pinch of convivial fireside singing…

Matthew Crawley gets out his guns.

First look at Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange.