Writer Mark Gatiss definitely has his fans, usually folks who like a retro-type story, or the "trads" (traditionalists) on the "rad vs. trad" scale. But hey, Chibnall, the next showrunner, is definitely also "trad", so you've got that to look forward to. The rest of us are, uh, maybe not so much looking forward to…

My educated guess is that chances for a fourth season are very low. Episode 5 only got 254,000 viewers live on regular-flavor Showtime. That's a big drop-off from 506k live viewers for episodes 1 and 2. Now, that's just on "linear" (old-fashioned TV). That doesn't give you the full picture, because there's also…

YES I AM NOT ALONE

I used a VCR in the 90s, and like Canadave, I often watched episodes in portions because I needed a break partway through.

But that was the whole problem, and a continuing problem for the show: They were so underdeveloped and thinly characterized that we can only assume that they didn't take over for reasons that were cultural (religious? philosophical?) in nature. That's barely even hinted at; we're really just speculating. Yes, it would…

I don't have any spoiler info, but having heard that this is supposed to be a "non-standard" regeneration, and that Moffat would love to surprise us even though everything inevitably gets spoiled, I imagine we'll get a regeneration that will happen out of order. Moffat loves that sort of thing. So, I'm speculating…

They didn't always use the locations to great effect in every episode (especially not Berlin or London) so I wonder if they could have made it cheaper, and thus more appetizing to Netflix, by consolidating locations a little more. But that just didn't seem to be the Wachowski style, from what I could tell. I mean,…

I usually agree with critics on most things, but occasionally they will get snowed and fall for a dumb prestige project specifically engineered to appeal to them and to win awards. In this case Netflix did it by adapting a much better British show and by including a supposedly irresistible big name, Spacey, wildly…

There are rumors that Netflix has already done that in the past with shows they've picked up second-run — for instance supposedly they've pressured the CW to conclude all of its programs properly and never end them on a cliffhanger, which might be why the CW picked up the low-rated Nikita (cool show BTW) for a very…

As a Doctor Who fan, I assure you we are not merely pretty dumb. We are the worst.

First season is awful. It's so different from the rest that a couple of the characters are barely recognizable as they were retooled later. Everyone should skip straight to season 2. In fact I wish Netflix would give producers the option to reorder or restructure the episode layout so that people wouldn't try to watch…

Fox is so pathetic right now that Gotham is one of its highest-rated shows in the young adult demos. Though not by much, admittedly.

ER? Pretty sure Warner owns that one. Like many shows of yore, it was only licensed to NBC for first-run. NBC cannot rerun it at will.

Ugh. I'm sorry I ever said anything, because it means I had to read that. (vomits)

Well, that was a blah ending. The editors really fucked this one up by making Sarah's win too obvious. Why didn't they do as good a job as they did on the last few seasons? It wasn't clear at all that Adam or Michelle would win. Has there been a winner as obvious as this from the edit since the dreaded season 30?

I'm still puzzled that people think Moffat is sexist, but I'm not the best person to mount a counter-argument on that one. I'm sure plenty of other people, like that guy with the TARDIS Eruditorum website and gazillion other Whovians on the web, could make a better pro-Moffat argument than me.

What, so you would have preferred to have Chibnall step in a year early? He's so boring! At least Moffat takes chances and tries crazy things, even if only some of them work (e.g. "Heaven Sent") while others fail miserably (e.g. "Hell Bent"). Chibnall is just terminally dull. That Silurian two-parter… zzzzzzzz.. "42"……

Definitely check out that spoiler-free ranking at the link that SQ posted and avoid watching the worst seasons. I don't agree with every ranking given there, but I doubt many would deny that Nicaragua is an appallingly terrible season, and most of the other low-ranked ones on the list are, indeed, wretched and very…

The problem with no idols is that then you have no incentive not to just tell someone to their face that they're the next person to go home. Trying to keep the vote secret is much more interesting and dramatic and makes better TV. Now, has the show become far too addicted to having blindside after blindside after…

Good point — but why spend the extra money to advertise these on a prime-time show when you can do it much more cheaply and get the same older audience by advertising during the early evening news, game shows, cable news, daytime TV, and cable reruns of NCIS, etc. That is the real reason the advertisers pay a premium…