Disney Connection: In 1989 Disney chairman Michael Eisner launched Hollywood Pictures to bring more live action productions to Disney. Its poor record - starting with Arachnophobia and including the likes of California Man and Super Mario Bros - coined the phrase ‘If it’s the Sphinx, it stinks’, referring to the Egyptian-themed logo. But Robert Redford’s broadcasting drama bucked the trend.

Disney Influence?: More fairytales - many of the details of the quiz show fixing scandal which the film features were shifted and tweaked to make them more dramatic. “Otherwise you might as well have a documentary,” argues Redford. Well...

If It Was A Cartoon: John Turturro’s nervous rabbit character would become best friends with Ralph Fiennes’ tittering, modest lion and the pair would stroll into the sunset and away from network television producers forever at the end.