....Then there are the deliberately funny spoof "remakes" (or, rather, extracts of remakes). My particular favourites are Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders' versions of "The Sound of Music" and "Titanic", but the greatest masters of this have to be Victoria Wood and Julie Walters. Has anyone else seen her wonderful version of "Brief Encounter" (with guest appearance by Michael Parkinson as the northern stationmaster ?) and "A Christmas Carol" (with Derek Jacobi) and a superb spoof of all those Emma Thompson historical dramas: "Come, Clarissa, fetch me my writing mittens !" The trouble is, I can never, ever watch "Brief Encounter" again (one of my favourite films of all time) without now thinking of the Wood version: "It was such a long time since I had eaten a mince pie, I accidentally poked it straight into my eye."...Great stuff....