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Jeffrey Wright, an Emmy winner for “Angels in America” in 2004, channeled the Washington, D.C., world he grew up in to create a portrait of a dutiful government employee.

Just as Charles was once held up as the antagonist against his beloved ex-wife Diana, Meghan has been cast as the inevitable adversary of dutiful and popular Princess Kate.

Watching Bean’s dutiful lord be torn apart, body and reputation, by a nest of vipers is an altogether different experience.

There is just one clock that is spared his dutiful hands - the electronic weather station that takes pride of place on the centre of his living room wall.

Dull and dutiful could be a successful recipe once more in 2026.