Seinfeld is long gone, but some of the traditions started by the show still live on. Every year, during the year end holiday season, many people celebrate Festivus, “the holiday for the rest of us”.

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If you’ve only seen the current iteration of the Doctor Who series, you’re not missing much. Just kidding. Whole generations have grown up on Doctor Who, and it’s amazing to think that there has been hundreds of hours of this TV series.
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In the TV show, the book Heat Wave is shown as a thick tome, comparable to latter Harry Potter books. In reality though, it’s a quick read that has about as much content as an episode of Castle. That’s not actually a bad thing.
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Next to reality TV, the next most popular (i.e. numerous) type of TV show is the police procedural. How many different versions of CSI, Law & Order or NCIS do we need to see? And do we need to have yet another procedural on TV? Based on its premise, Castle doesn’t add anything except for a mystery writer tagging along with our detectives. What makes it work, is that the awesome Nathan Fillion plays that writer.