You can always tell when Christmas is round the corner – financial analysts queue up to tell us that next year won’t be as good as we thought it might be. Like some shadowy figures from a Dickensian era, they see the chips you’re holding and, with well-practiced aim, douse them with a recycled saline solution.

The television schedules are packed with great movies… that you’ve seen 30 times before – or, as an alternative, you’re stuck with the faces of overhyped nobodies like Kim Woodburn gurning into your living room on a nightly basis.

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