I've wanted to watch the original for a while, but it's really hard to find, even via piracy. I imagine AMC probably bought the U.S. rights to it so that it couldn't air here before their remake. Maybe it'll turn up at 1 a.m. on Sundance TV someday, since AMC owns that now.

It's still the Mexican non-union equivalent of the late 80s/early 90s syndicated series "War of the Worlds," so it's still not worth watching.

Apparently it IS still on, but it's so terrible that a lot of public radio stations have dropped it, mercifully.

Not quite so hidden, and Netflix may or may not have already recommended it to you, but The Machine, from 2013, starring Caity Lotz of "Arrow," is not a bad story (though not particularly original) and has some very striking visuals and performances.

I believe Bates is a pretty big hit by A&E standards, getting around 0.9-1.3 in adults 18-49. They cancelled their English-language remake of The Returned despite it averaging around 0.6 so I can't see them picking up Hannibal with its recent 0.5s on NBC unless Gaumont basically gives it to them for free.

I find it difficult to see "Shades of Gray" as a real episode. It's just a clip show, which is very much of its era. Just about EVERY American series did clip shows back then. Episodes consisting entirely of terrible NEW material are worse in my eyes.

Hey, at least they could blame that one on a writer's strike. That was a script from the 1970s that they reworked. It was originally intended for a Star Trek TOS continuation series in the 70s that was abandoned in favor of making movies with the TOS cast.

Actually, a surprising number of shows have been rescued in recent years, including some that arguably didn't deserve rescuing (fuck you, The Killing!). Netflix picked up another season of Longmire after A&E dropped it. Yahoo snapped up Community. Hulu picked up that Mindy sitcom. A sitcom called The Game has done…

No. NBC only had the U.S. broadcast rights. Gaumont supposedly brings in a lot of money selling this show internationally and reports indicate NBC was only paying somewhere between $185k and $700k per episode this season, which is a pittance. They probably just need someone else to pick up U.S. rights. Amazon seems…

No way, José. Comparing Whad'ya Know to Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me is like comparing Kim K. to Charles Nelson Reilly. One is cheeseball trash, and one is actually funny sometimes, if repetitive. Whad'ya Know is so dopey that a fair number of public stations have dropped it over the last several years.

After starring in some goddamn decent TV shows with real writers, Anderson is clearly having some trouble readjusting to Chris Carter's throw-shit-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks "writing."

Well, I think ABC Studios is still producing all the Netflix Marvel shows, so the money still flows back to some part of ABC. They just figured, quite rightly, that those shows would be a much better fit for first-run "broadcast" on Netflix than on ABC, but I wonder if they originally thought about putting them on ABC…

Ha ha, yeah right, "10-hour miniseries" my ass. Like almost every other "limited series," if it gets good enough ratings, they'll find a way to splurt out another season. And if not, then they'll use the usual excuse — "it was never intended to be more than one season all along!" This is just trickery to avoid having…

Definitely. I mean, if you're going to have a good old-fashioned mad scientist supervillain, Toby Jones has to be one of the first people on your casting list, right? He played an excellent villain in an episode of Doctor Who a couple of years ago, so he's proven himself there.

Yeah, do you think that even if NBC is getting the show basically for free that it can survive getting an 0.5 in the demo for this episode? That ratings dive seems pretty extreme to me.

"I get what they're doing…."

Thanks for that Wikipedia link. Somehow I missed that.

Any U.S. style guides? Much respect to the Guardian, I read it online frequently, but I'm American and I'm trying to get some freelance proofreading jobs, so this is a semi-professional question for me. If you're a Limey then you have your own kind of thing happening over there. I wish I could join in and put commas…

Geeky proofreader question: Since when is "Internet" not capitalized? This article doesn't. What style guide is AVC using? Are some style guides not into capitalizing that as a proper noun anymore because it's so ubiquitous? I'm inclined to continue capitalizing it. There's just one, and it's THE Internet.

Why should (s)he even bother to see the first Matrix movie? Of course Merve probably isn't an old-school Doctor Who fan, but you and I both know none of the concepts in that flick were even remotely original. I thought "The Deadly Assassin" and Red Dwarf's "Back to Reality" and novels by people like William Gibson did…