I may write a longer response and some point but two things about an earlier reference

I would have put Madness of King George on my list of films that the Oscar should have recognized over Forest Gump. I did see and I thought it was superb: funny, ribald and sometimes moving. I don't agree that Hawthorne should have won Best Actor (I would have chosen Newman or Freeman) but in another year he would have been the right choice. The scene near the end where George reads a passage from King Lear was one of the most moving scenes in all of 1994.

tO the other point I have seen Yes Minister and much of the follow up Yes, Prime Minister. PBS showed a lot of britcomes when I was in my college years and I saw that along with Red Dwarf, Black Adder and a fair amount of As Time goes By. (I believe America has an original sin of not taking notice of Judi Dench until she was 60.) I thought the entire series was sublime, from the opening credits on. And I loved Hawthorne's work. I mean, TECHNICALLY, he was the heavy of the peace - he was making sure reforms never took place - but Hawthorne was just so damn charming that you loved him even as he ripped it to shreds. "Yes, Minister" indeed.