We know the BBC’s new boss prefers The Killing to Borgen. But how to pick a favourite between Holby City and Casualty?

We know hugely more about George Entwistle, supreme commander BBC, than we did a week ago, before the new DG popped out of purdah. We know he failed the 11-plus, was rejected for two BBC training schemes, worked as a temporary clerical bod at the DHSS and subbed copy for five years at Camera Weekly and other Haymarket magazines. No Oxbridge silver spoon there.

We know he’d like another woman on Today, but not his defeated rival for the job, Caroline Thomson, to continue as chief operating officer: she departed on Friday night after 15 glorious years (including leading the last charter renewal). Oh! and neither her post nor her department exist any longer. George may be a “nice bloke”, sure enough. But he makes Roman Abramovich look like Santa Claus.

We also know that the new boss hymns “creativity” beyond all other virtues – and, thanks to a Radio Times interview, that he likes The Apprentice more than Dragons’ Den, The Killing more than Borgen and Radio 3 more than Radio 2. But what about the really tough creative choices? Holby City or Casualty? Cash in the Attic or Homes Under the Hammer? Antiques Road Trip or Antiques Roadshow? Total Torpor or A Quick Zizz?