I had so many series that were good for a few seasons then the writing went stale
Justified was top of the list.
Deadwood was good for 3 seasons, I cannot remember beyond that. Same with Homeland, and House of Cards. There was a one-season show called Rubicon that was excellent, but didn’t get renewed. Mr Robot, somewhat similar.
Wishing they’d been able to keep Newsroom going.
It stopped for 15 years and then did a one off film.
some of the writing in that show was Gold. Ian MacShane was the perfect cast for Al.
Sorry if I missed the thread history but Arthur Shelby is one of the great characters.
It’s actually kind of surprised me how little interest I have in House of the Dragon, to the point that I will probably not even bother with it. The cast isn’t especially inspiring and after the car crash of GoT’s final season, it’s just not even on my radar.
Did anyone else see the announcement of the new Doctor Who yesterday:
Not sure what everyone thinks but I reckon he’s a great choice. He seems to be best known for the Netflix series, Sex Education, but I’ve seen him pop up a few times on BBC Scotland programmes. He’s mainly a comic actor from what I’ve seen so that may suit Russel T Davies’s writing style but I’m curious to see what he makes of it.
Anyway, one happy Whovian here.
I’m actually more interested that Davies is coming back rather than on who the new Doctor is.
I finally started Hunters, the Al Pacino Nazi Hunter one on Amazon. Only 2 episodes in, but so far it is awful. Just a weird mess of a show. Like a high school kid watched 2 Tarantino films and just tried copying them…in a show about the Holocaust 
Didn’t realise s3 of Barry had started. Now catching up with that.
The 50-50 with Christobal scene makes me randomly crack up laughing even now.
Didn’t even make it through one episode.
Episode 3 or 4, there was a scene in which everyone at a theme park joined the main character in a dance sequence to some snappy 70s music. Why? Fuck knows. It’s a scene ripped from a completely different show. Just tonally incoherent.
Finished 2nd series of We Hunt Together, love it.
Any views on Dopesick?
Chapelwaite?
Severance?
Dropout?
The Long Call?
Stay Close?
Landscapers?
Brilliant. I mentioned it earlier in the thread. I was dubious about it because its something I’ve already read and listen to a LOT about so wasnt sure what a dramatization of it would add, but it was great.
Severence I honestly didn’t get. I kept hearing about how amazing it was from people whose opinions I respect, and it just left me empty. Very interesting premise, but I’m not sure what it thought it delivered (or what the people who loved it thought it did, other than tripiness). I had a really strange experience with the last episode as it ended at such an unfinished point. It was really unsatisfactory, but I accepted it as little different than Id come to expect from what this show delivers. Turns out Apple was doing serialized release (not used to that on streaming platforms) and there was 1 episode left, but it speaks volumes that I was willing to believe that they’d end it at such a strange ending point.
Landscapers - really didn’t like it. It wouldn’t say it was too “arty”, but it seemed it was arty for the sake of it at the expense of actual story telling.
It’s both brilliant and very hard to watch, quite an emotionally draining one but worth it.
Result! - Just found out Peacemaker is available on my tv package!. Havent watched the last Suicide Movie so am not sure what to expect - but i’m a couple of minutes into the show and it looks funny as hell 
I just watched the unseen bits episode from Series 15 of would I lie to you BBC iPlayer - Would I Lie to You? - Series 15: 10. The Unseen Bits
…and it occurred to me; how do they do the scoring for each regular episode? Do they choose at the time which ‘stories’ are going to be left out for that particular episode or is it done later and Bryden has to read out several different scores for the editors to pick from later?
If you tallied the points up from the unseen bits and added them to their corresponding regular episode how different would the scores be and would it affect the overall series score?
Basically, is it a fix?
Isn’t it one of those things like QI where nobody really cares about the points?
The points aren’t the point.