A lot of actors don’t bother, or actively avoid, source material or previous adaptations for a much more basic reason — it’s not their job. To take one recently re-watched e.g., when Mads Mikkelsen was cast in Hannibal he said the one thing he deliberately avoided was reading the books or watching Anthony Hopkins and…

September 2003 feels like an awfully long time ago, for better and worse. :)

And a bloody good point it is too - a life lived in fear of upsetting the readers of Britain’s most grotesque tabloid (which is truly saying something) is a life not lived at all. :)

Which, like it or not, is pretty irrefutable. And honestly, I think Moffat likes trolling in interviews too much for his own good, far too often.

FFS, I’m really showing my age here, but I remember the tabloids and the more... shall we say, reactionary Whovians losing their shit from the moment the Beeb announced Russell T Davies — you know the openly gay man who best-known project at the time was Queer as Folk — had been hired as head writer and executive…

Uh, Steven, you do remember the tabloids losing their shit when your close friend Russell T Davies was announced as the head-writer and executive producer of the Doctor Who revival? You know, the camp as fuck openly gay dude whose highest profile television work to date was the tabloid-baiting Queer as Folk? (Which…

Hum... I’m probably engaging in a lot of wishful thinking, but I’m hoping this is a case of “Captian Cold is dead, long live Citizen Cold / “Call me Leo” Snart (on a recurring basis)!”

Gee, thank you for abuse-’splaing a man who never even told anyone he’d been sexually assaulted for over twenty years and still wouldn’t even consider pressing charges.

How is American Gods even approaching that budget?

All shows on subscription cable and streaming services, by definition have a “limited audience” And if the reported US$10 million an episode budget is accurate (always take this kind of reporting with a pound of salt & a case of tequila of course), then American Gods is actually comparable to other genre shows with…

Jesus, this is the most egregious hot load of idiocy I’ve seen on the internet today - and that’s really saying something.

Moffat himself — and yes, it would have been absurd but the simple reality is that when you have nobody under contract as the day you have to start production to hit the locked down and immovable transmission date? it’s your damn job to make sure you have a Plan B, and backups all the way to Plan X.

Fair enough - but what’s just a minor bug to you can be a system-destroying virus to others, and there’s no right or wrong here.

Yeah, I would take that with a giant grain of salt. I’m not Stephen Fry’s biggest fan, but I don’t think he’s that precious about work for hire. I’ve seen precisely zero evidence that Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Phil Colinson would think twice about going Full Metal Dalek on scripts they weren’t happy with.

You can say the same thing about Jane Austen — her six novels have been continuously in print for two centuries and managed to pull off that remarkable feat without a single rape scene.

Because the constant use of rape as a narrative device to “raise the stakes” for women or “show how terrible a villain” is a lazy and degrading go-to.

Nope, it isn’t. I’m all for dragging GoT for its pervy, creepy AF bullshit (and there’s a lot of material to get through) but it’s a symptom of a lot of bullshit rape/abuse tropes that have been in fantasy and science fiction for an awfully long time before GoT came along.

It’s a depressing (and grossly offensive) fantasy/SF trope that’s been around for an awfully long time. Damn it.

Wow, talk about responding to silly hyperbole in kind. I know twenty-twenty hindsight is a fine thing, but let’s remember the success of an expensive, high-profile revival of a show that went off the air before most of the target audience was born was very far from a foregone conclusion. It was a huge gamble, but it ne…

No, it’s ‘Who I don’t much like’ which is OK, but there’s no need to be a dick about it.