Timothy Dalton's debut outing as 007 - succeeding Roger Moore - is on ITV at 3:50pm. Stuart Heritage makes like M and debriefs on this unsmiling attempt to revamp a character who'd become 'a wiggly eyebrow Sellotaped to a cassette tape of crap puns'

Critical and popular hit means James Bond tops British film charts for first time since The Living Daylights in 1987

Les Roopanarine: Timothy Dalton's monogamous, deadpan 007 brings a more nuanced interpretation to the central character, whose relationships evolve in ways rarely seen in the earlier films