LOOKING FOR RICHARD

I loathe Julian Fellowes,” declares Steve Coogan with a virulence that catches Teasers unawares. “The things he produces are love letters to the establishment, which makes me feel slightly nauseous.” Given their respective political persuasions (Coogan is a staunch and public supporter of the Labour Party, while Baron Fellowes of West Stafford sits as a Conservative peer in the House of Lords), a level of antipathy is maybe to be expected.

In Coogan’s case, however, this extends to the creator’s creative milieu: a world of inherited wealth