Favourite TV show: X-Files or Simpsons, does it really matter?

15 minutes of fame: "Frak!" for the BBC Computer, 1984

Best bribed with: limited edition Simpsons cast prints

Appearance: the beardy vegetarian programmer that he is

Favourite TV show: Babylon 5, or anything half-decent on past 1am

15 minutes of fame: "Spindizzy" for 1000 8-bit machines

Best bribed with: anything in the Brugge Bear or Chocolate Line

Appearance: bedraggled refugee from American cultural imperialism

Favourite TV show: Voyager ("God, that’s going to look sad")

15 minutes of fame: would rather take the money and run

Best bribed with: home furnishings (but nothing with Dilbert on)