Is that article seriously reading into a 30 Rock cutaway gag that much?

still possible to do a great spoof. Look at Black Dynamite.

Homer: Whew, I'm beat. And after work I've got to dedicate a new Jiffy
Lube and cohost the Ace Awards.
Lenny: Wow! Jiffy Lube!

but they were lumped together into some sort of Masterpiece Theatre anthology thing & it was technically that that got included.

Utopia, though technically it only had 6 episodes, so it's ineligible. That would also rule out Southcliffe.

Leave those poor beards out of it, it's not their fault their masters are ignorant.

The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug: Being seemingly one of the few people that enjoyed the first one, this continued that trend. Didnt bother with the HFR this time. Also an improvement.

On the plus side, if they're faithful to the source material, there's basically no scope for sexy vampires or love triangles with werewolves. If anything the majority of the vampires are more like zombies, and there's no show doing that at the minute.