I have no idea how it crept under my radar (a seemingly appropriate phrase for a program about a spy franchise), but I’m now quite giddy after finding this excellent documentary on James Bond. I found a reference to it here, and looked it up. At ninety minutes, it is quite long, but I found it very thorough and engaging, full of pieces of trivia which daw you in further. Everything Or Nothing goes through the history of the phenomenon, from it’s origins to present. I’m fascinated by it: the success of the franchise, the character, the history. No other character – not even, say, Luke Skywalker, or any comic-book hero – holds such a dominant cultural position; while it is not mentioned in this program, what other fictional person could escort a monarch or world leader to an Olympic opening, and indeed reuse/reference one of the franchise’s most iconic moments in doing so? As I wrote here, I find it truly intriguing, and watching programs like this only intensify that fascination.