When James Murdoch launched a scathing attack on the BBC in his MacTaggart lecture at this year's MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, the most memorable response came not from director general Mark Thompson, or BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons, but a 40-year-old actor who looks rather smaller in real life than you'd expect. Yes, it's Jimmy McNulty himself, Dominic West, picking up the only slightly unpromising sounding best non-terrestrial programme of the year prize on behalf of Baltimore cop drama The Wire at the Edinburgh TV conference. "I accept this in contempt of the Murdoch doctrine!" Gosh, ain't he posh! And what on earth has he done to his hair?
