Look out for Eddie Izzard in BBC1's The Day Of The Triffids over Christmas - he's a baddie masquerading as a goodie (sort of). The comic, who plays Torrence in the classic tale of evil plants taking over the world, says: "I didn't want him to be just a bad guy - that's too obvious. I wanted him to be ambiguous.

"The most serious sociopaths often have a magnetic, avuncular thing going on. I made him cute and flirty." That's nice, petal...