TV favourites

Buffy Summers is the blonde girl who walks into a dark alley in the first reel of a horror film and dies.

Daenerys begins the first novel as a thirteen-year-old sold into marriage by her brother to buy an army.

Scully was written as the sceptic, and the structural inversion is the show's best idea.

Eleven is a character built almost entirely out of restraint.

Jon Snow is the series' most conventional fantasy protagonist.

Kermit was built in 1955 from Jim Henson's mother's discarded coat and two halves of a ping-pong ball.

Michael Scott is an adaptation of a considerably crueller original.

Miss Piggy started as a background chorus pig with no lines and became the show's most forceful presence.

Saul Goodman was written as comic relief for three episodes and became the centre of a six-season prequel…

Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed literary character in film and television history.

Peaky Blinders takes a real Birmingham street gang of the 1890s.

Vince Gilligan described the project as turning Mr Chippendale into Scarface.

Wednesday existed as an unnamed cartoon child for twenty-six years before the 1964 sitcom required names.