This film version of Hamlet is three hours long, so scheduling it in the early evening of Boxing Day, during television's famously competitive Christmas season, represents a genuine act of determination by Janice Hadlow, the Controller of BBC Two. Other insights included how an arras turned into a shattered mirror (much to the discomfiture of the director of photography), and how there's less difference between acting to camera and acting to a live audience than tradition insists. On stage to answer questions from Front Row presenter Mark Lawson were Patrick Stewart - whose exceptional rendition of Claudius is one of the glories of the film - and the director Greg Doran, who revealed he'd dropped the Act V, Scene II appearance of Fortinbras mostly because he doesn't like it. What we hope will be a wider audience still can see it this Christmas on BBC Two on Boxing Day at five past five in the afternoon.

It came after the first public screening of Hamlet the movie - the RSC's magnificent performance, starring David Tennant and Patrick Stewart, adapted for the BBC by John Wyver's production company Illuminations. 'Whatever happened to Fortinbras?' was just one of the questions preoccupying a packed Q&A session at the BFI on London's South Bank on Monday night.

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