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#2 seems incredibly high for someone I primarily know as Keeley Hawe's husband. Is Ripper Street that popular?

Considering this very site seems to have trouble remembering that Gatiss is one of the creators of Sherlock, it doesn't surprise me that much.

I decided to include Taskmaster on these even though the panelists don't change until the next season. I only recently started watching it but I'm all caught up. And permanently traumatized by Jon Richardson's "Three Blind Mice" music video. It's a lot funnier than the premise looked and it helps that everyone is…

It's been a while but I would say An Artist of the Floating World is closest to Remains of the Day, minus the romance angle.

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I think Coogan is still considered niche, despite his best efforts. I'm not even sure the Alan Patridge movie got a wide release over here.

I really hope this does well for her because she's an actress that deserves a lot more recognition. I was so angry she wasn't even nominated for an Emmy for Parade's End.

I saw the movie in high school with a bunch of friends. Looking back, I'm not sure why we chose that one. I think the presence of Claire Danes may have played a part.

I applied for that scholarship too! But I didn't really understand what it was for and basically wrote a critique of the book. I didn't get any money…

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No direct ties but definite references. Hill said in an interview that partway through writing it someone pointed out that he was basically writing The Stand but with spontaneous combustion. He had to decide whether to hide that or go with it and he went with the latter. (He also said he thought he was writing a…

Finally finished The Fireman which I enjoyed, especially the details about the disease itself. I liked most of the characters, although the one that registered the least with me was the title character. Shamefully, I didn't pick up on the connections to The Stand until I was reading some interviews with Joe Hill…

Yes, Mononoke is a bit too intense for me to relax to. Even Nausicaa is a bit much. But Kiki's Delivery Service is a nice warm blanket and Spirited Away is the most soothing movie involving extensive projectile vomiting I know.

Would I Lie to You?, QI, Miyazaki's children films

Poor Kurt Andersen gets his name spelled wrong even more than I do.

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I'm willing to take remastered over rebooted.

I don't have time to watch the whole thing. Can someone spoil the ending for me?

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