Darren Aronofsky was developing Oryx and Crake for HBO, but I can't find anything more recent about that than 2014.

I actually think that Hannibal as it was only could have existed on a network like NBC that was incompetent and/or didn't give a shit about it. Or maybe an upstart like Netflix that has a crazy number of shows. FX, AMC, and HBO have brands to maintain and I believe they would have sanded down Hannibal's weirdness at…

Though J.J. Abrams wasn't actually a creator of POI. Just an executive producer.

Those are my two favorite long running sci-fi dramas. I'd say Farscape is ultimately a little more successful, but I find Fringe more compulsively watchable.

Jeff Pinkner wrote a thing for ESPN about the sports differences between the worlds. Buried in there is that George W. Bush was a baseball commissioner rather than president.

Seems like confirmation that there's even less of a correlation between comments and pageviews than we thought?

I'm pretty sure they actually tried something like this a while back. Rather than a full review, there was just a short paragraph or something like that. I think they were dropped for lack of interest. (Or at least I'm pretty sure I'm not imagining this.)

I think I'm only seeing "Prophets" mentioned once, but I thought that was a real standout.

I've only seen part of the 1st season, so I don't really know.

Okay, slightly different question: what was the last sci-fi show to get a 6th season? Because in this thread we've got several stuck at 5.

Wikipedia informs me that Lucia Aniello is his girlfriend.

Because you watched The Assassin, you might enjoy The Ridiculous 6.

In case you actually want to know, there was a Grantland article from a couple years back about the economics of this:

I mean, I don't really care and I knew that this was a Netflix show beforehand anyways. I just thought that the OP made a somewhat valid complaint?

Still, you've gotta scroll down a few paragraphs to get there, and it's in a font color which is very close to the background (at least on my system). Plus, I usually don't read captions.

That's not really what this article is?

That's not very good either :/

So based on these suggestions do we really have to go back to MASH to find something that really counts a major hit in terms of ratings? What I'm seeing here range from solid performers (Buffy, Fargo) to bad ratings but managing to survive (Hannibal). Maybe Stargate counts by cable standards? I know that it moving to…

She was born Anna Torv, unless Wikipedia is lying to me.

The track record of first time film directors on movies budgeted at over 100 millon dollars is pretty bad.