Well, if The Writer's Tale is anything to go by RTD-the-writer got slapped around on a regular basis by the tag-team of showrunner-RTD and Julie Gardner. And that's before anyone went to BBC management, who (quite rightly) weren't going to re-jig the prime time schedules on their flagship station without a lot of…

Wow. Cross this movie off my watch list, I'd rather not like to watch two hours of Chinese propaganda.

What? I'm assuming this is referring to a particular recording/arrangement of the Étude itself, right?

pretty much all of the episodes Moffat's written over the last year would have been better at 90 minutes rather than 45

First, apologies. That was meant more as a general observation and not a direct slam on you at all. And you're quite right — the politics of film production, distribution and censorship in China are hellishly complicated, opaque and sometime hair-trigger sensitive. But in a weird way, at least the Chinese…

The most annoying thing about The Neighbours is the premise could easily end up in a really interesting place — if someone with actual wit and affectionate tough-love for the tropes of both science fiction AND cheesy family sit-coms was within a hundred miles of this reeking stool pit.

unless they do like American Horror Story

Now I'm thinking how amaze-balls a Kavalier & Clay mini-series would be. Mad Men meets the Tod Haynes-Mildred Pierce, with all the period coolness of the former and none of the tedium of the latter.

Yeah that's true, although it seems more and more American movies are using British actors.

Yes. I'd also note I didn't recall anyone complaining how "childish" it was when Warners and DC shut down the Sydney production of Green Lantern (incidentally putting hundreds of local technicians and crew out of work) and moved to New Orleans, where the tax concessions were more attractive.

I love how China is so childish, "Well, if you want our money you HAVE to film some scenes in China... Plus we want a longer version... and all of the characters need to speak Chinese"

Well, the production meetings would be a blast. "Bloody hell, Peter, what part of "FORTY MINUTES NOT FOUR HOURS" was hard to understand? ONE episode not a trilogy! " :)

"I always liked the idea that ['Hills Have Eyes' director] Alex [Aja] and I are in kind of similar places, where everybody is very willing to put us both in boxes and assume that there are certain things we do and certain things we don't want to do. I think we're both very keen to flex new muscles, both of us."

Which is actually a nice place for a show to be. Warehouse 13 and Alphas aren't perfect, but they're perfectly acceptable ways to pass an hour without feeling like you wasted an hour of your life you'll never get back. Not everything has to be The Wire or Breaking Bad; but light(er) entertainment doesn't have to be…

Whereas Alfred is the most perfect bromance ever — he cooks, he cleans, he does laundry and a little light fetish tailoring between field surgery. Oh, and he's totally cool when you're out all night with that Joker skank.

One thing I quite like about The Ponds, and which hasn't been commented on, is that for companions they seem to spend more time away from The Doctor than with him. (Not just because for a man with a time machine The Doctor's epically crap at keeping appointments, but by choice.) It would be nice if, somehow, they…

I am. The mere possibility of a film being worse than an Uwe Boll join would require burning the internet down in a virtual murder-suicide pact.

However, if they get to raise River (who regenerates as a child in NY), how does that square with what happened with River/10?

What's your favourite colour?