We American visual media has many writers, but British programmes usually have just one head writer who overseas the whole thing and single people who write episodes, so it's more likely to happen there. I've heard people call Rose Tyler and Gwen Cooper [Doctor Who and Torchwood respectively] avatars of RTD. God damn, I bring everything back to DW @.@

You read my mind! James Bond is EXACTLY who I was thinking about when I wrote about Gary Stus.