Rory's dad was entirely Chibnall's creation. He only appeared in the two Chibnall episodes.

Chibnall looks vaguely ginger when the light hits him just right.

Was Hungry Earth/Cold Blood really any more boring than Aliens of London/World War Three, Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel, Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks, The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky, The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People, or Under the Lake/Before the Flood? It feels very much of a piece with…

I think I'd kind of want it to be Gatiss the most. He's not great, and I've not loved any of his Who episodes all that much, but of the three, he's the one who clearly just really loves Doctor Who.

Some of his Torchwood episodes were perhaps awful (I've not rewatched them, but I found the whole show a joyless slog), but I really don't think any of his Who episodes are terrible. Mind you, I don't think any of them are great either, but they just feel very paint by numbers Doctor Who to me - decent stuff with…

Moffat has had twice as many women writers on the show as RTD did.

And "42". And I liked Dinosaurs on a Spaceship!

Well, yes, that one episode was not all that good, although I'm not sure why "making an episode with Hitler in it that wasn't really about Hitler" qualifies as evidence that the whole era is bad.

Yes, they are going to entrust one of their biggest shows to an anti-social weirdo who's never written for television, has made a ridiculous number of enemies, has spent the last 6 years brutally attacking the current showrunner, and hasn't written any kind of commercially published fiction in a decade or so.

Hugely popular? The spotlight? A "hot" item? I am dubious that any of these things are especially true of Californication.

Californication was on Showtime, which is not particularly considered the quality network.

Except that Anderson and Duchovny have had pretty comparable success in their post X-Files careers.

She's done a ton of British TV.

Except that he's not a bigger star than she is in any way that I'm aware of?

I don't see how this is true at all. They've both been working consistently, Anderson in a much larger number of different projects. Anderson's most recent TV projects, Hannibal and The Fall, have been at least as visible as Duchovny's "Aquarius," which I'd never heard of before just looking up his IMDB page.

An actual instance of the internet doing a great job with something! Remarkable.

Yeah. If I'd been in her position I'd have bet $2000 or $3000, so as to guarantee victory if they both got it wrong.

Viola Davis has never won an Oscar.

Kevin Costner as Alyosha!

William Shatner isn't your preferred Alyosha?