It's a timing issue. For example, as the article touches on, Christmas is a ratings event in U.K. but Christmas through New Year's is a dead period for U.S. television. There's no way a major series in the U.S. would air a season finale on Christmas, as happened with Downton Abbey last year.

It's not from the series itself. Moffat said that a New Scotsman interviewer asked him what would the characters on Coupling say today, now that they're in their 40's and having been married, etc. He said the interviewer then used the quotes he gave her for how the characters would respond to her question and…

That quote is actually the character Jeff from Coupling, a deliberately ridiculous asshole. While technically Moffat wrote it, the Moffat haters on the internet deliberately stripped it of that context and slapped his name on it as if those are his personal views and not a character (who Moffat himself has made fun of…

-12 Years a Slave. I'm excited that there's actually a film about slavery coming out that's directed by a black filmmaker and is rumored to pull no punches in the brutality department. And what a cast (Chiwetol Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Alfre Woodard, Sarah Paulson, Benedict Cumberbatch and Brad Pitt). 
-Nebraska.…

I sense you are a Mark Gatiss fan and I wholeheartedly approve.

BTW, the little kid who became friends with Al in "Another Mother" was Troian Bellisario, the daughter of Donald P. and QL writer/producer Deborah Pratt who's now on Pretty Little Liars. They also used her name in the episode "A Portrait for Troian" where her RL mother Deborah Pratt played a character named Troian.

That's the point, though, @drdarke:disqus . The small audience there is for procedural dramas on cable is dwindling and not being replaced by new viewers, not to mention that the older a viewer the more useless they are to advertisers. But CBS has continued to invest in those types of dramas with an eye to syndication…

I loved this show. To continue with the Doctor Who comparison, QL and DW are the two science fiction shows that were/are most unafraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves. That means both often veer off into cheesiness, but damn if they're not also refreshing at the same time in being so warm-hearted and optimistic…

@drdarke:disqus that's the outdated reasoning I'm talking about. The fact is that, of the top 25 syndicated shows this past week, only three were hourlong dramas (Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU and Castle). The rest of the chart is talk shows, game shows and sitcom reruns. The week before that: only 4…

CBS and Moonves are fascinating in their way as examples of, "We're going to do this, because we've always done this!" Moonves' response about the dominance of cable shows at the Emmys was that of course cable shows do better, because they spend more money and take longer to shoot. But the fact is, if you break it…

Fun fact: the number of total viewers a show gets in the ratings is meaningless in television land. The Simpsons has survived because it still gets consistently the best demo rating on television. About 50% of its total audience is still in the advertisers' sweet spot of viewers age 18-49, an astronomical figure. That…

Groening has little to no actual involvement in The Simpsons so probably yes, Jean ignored him.

Well it's interesting, because you can compare Freeman with other actors so easily, like Jude Law as Watson or John Krasinski as Jim. And I like both Law and Kraskinski in those roles a lot, but there's no question that sometimes they lapse into smugness and unlikeability. But I feel like Freeman always brings a depth…

What was the best news to me is that Gatiss and Moffat (at the SDCC panel, NerdHQ panel and on the press line) really emphasized that the season three premiere will be about John's reaction to Sherlock's return and the emotional ramifications of. Gatiss (who wrote it) said on the press line that Cumberbatch and…

Just to clarify, PBS and the BBC are co-producers of Sherlock. Doctor Who is entirely a BBC production, but it airs here on BBC America which is an American network owned by BBC Worldwide, which is the commercial company that markets BBC shows and products to the world (and also shows from other U.K. channels). BBCA…

Orange is the New Black is the second show ever to have a trans character in a recurring role played by an actual transgender person. The first was Dirty Sexy Money on ABC from 2007-2009.

I loved how you saw him half-falling asleep while doing Damon's face surgery.

It was there because Abrams works with a charity that helps Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

The Khan yell has become such a punchline that I don't think there was any way to do it and have it taken seriously by the audience. And there's no question in my mind that Zachary Quinto is a much better actor than William Shatner.

I don't think Marcus knew Khan would target the commanders' meeting but he was definitely playing Khan. He resurrected Khan in the first place to have him help develop weapons for the Klingon war. It was a case of Marcus playing with fire and getting burned.