That's the one where they get lost in Detroit in one scene and ask for directions back to the freeway, right? The TV edit has a funnier bit of dialogue than the original R-rated version.

Usually a lot of false info circulates about those. In reality, people overseas don't give a shit about American football. I doubt it gets more than a couple of million overseas viewers.

That's great for you, but some of us hate kids.

NBC may not own the rights to any of those shows anymore. They didn't even own some (all?) of them in the first place. Some (all?) of those are Warner Brothers shows. WB only licensed them to NBC for first-run broadcast, plus two free reruns of each episode within a year or two. Now they're locked into syndication…

Your example is invalid! Every episode of 24 was filmed in L.A.! How dare you imply it was filmed in Vancouver! :P

Isn't Gatiss too persistently retro to take over? Can you really see him doing anything interesting with the show? Where does it go under him? All of his scripts are so old-fashioned that Robert Holmes would probably roll his eyes. Old-fashioned is OK for a stand-alone episode here and there, maybe, but all of the…

Gatiss as showrunner? Are you kidding? All of his scripts are boring, overly simplistic, and unambitious. This one and "Unquiet Dead" had their moments but mainly because of the acting, direction, and production values. "Night Terrors" is much more representative of Gatiss. Gatiss also wrote several VERY BORING Doctor…

An expiration date of next TC isn't very interesting because that's almost just like a regular immunity idol won in a competition, except that it's secret. Plus then we'd have endless searches through the jungle for an HII in every episode, and the producers would have even less incentive to hide them well. But maybe…

Why not throw a vote at Reynold for plausible deniability? If the idol were to have gotten played correctly (and it almost did, if not for Eddie causing Andrea to freak out and go paranoid), he only needed three votes to get Andrea out. He didn't have to vote her out himself. I think Malcolm was worried THIS would…

Yeah, did she do something to piss the producers off? WTF to the max.

I'd say there's definitely too much Earth and humans in modern Who. Some stretches of old Who did that too, though (all of 1970, all of 1989, almost all of 1971, just for example). These days, even with a relatively big budget, it's probably because they're afraid of alienating the average British viewer with…

Fortunately, YES! 2.1, 1.6, 1.3, 1.2! Beaten by Univision in the 10 p.m. hour!

Nah, the problem is volume. Moffat is obviously a writer who can't keep up the quality when he has to write 4-6 episodes per season instead of just one, or just a two-parter, not to mention also working on Sherlock. A lot of writers probably can't scale up like that. I wish the UK unions would allow writers' rooms.…

No, and this wretched tendency might be an overreaction to the first 24-25 years of Doctor Who, which had the opposite problem. It had virtually no emotions at all, none, zip, zero, except for a couple of brief moments like the second Doctor talking to Victoria at the start of "Tomb of the Cybermen" about her…

I'm surely in the minority but I don't think S1's effects and production values are all that lesser than S5's, other than the first three episodes produced for S1, "Rose" and "Aliens of London/WWIII," which look pretty terrible, because they were still on a learning curve and those were like the rough drafts. Actually…

Agreed that "Voyage of the Damned" (the one with Kylie M.) was completely appalling. That's down there with "Fear Her," "The Gunfighters," and "Twin Dilemma" for worst episodes of all of Doctor Who.

Really? Then you're doing TV wrong. I've heard people say this about The Wire too. I just ignore all the slobbering fanatics and enjoy shows like Buffy and Firefly on their own merits — not the best things ever made, but quite enjoyable. No need to pay even the slightest bit of attention to the fans unless you're…

Yeah, when I look back on it now, the inter-character dynamics were SO poor.  The characters' friendships didn't grow or evolve in any particular way, and we rarely got any sense of the characters' inner lives, but then that was the way of most non-soap TV in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, unfortunately.

@avclub-79557cb93066f4470b8cee6e9110f757:disqus Four in the TARDIS is too crowded. In season 19 they couldn't figure out what to do with Tegan, Nyssa, *and* Adric. And no, it wasn't just because Adric was lame. It's just too many people. It only worked in the first Doctor's first two seasons because they had so much…

Unfortunately this is standard procedure in TV today. Many shows do this now — assuming we can't remember some crap that they just introduced 30 minutes ago and giving us ridiculous spurious flashbacks.