Doctor Who (2005)

Showrunner years: 2010 to 2017, with Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi Where Russell T Davies built the revival around big emotions, Moffat ran it as a fairy tale with a timer: arcs seeded episodes in advance, paradoxes and payoffs that only made full sense at a series finale. Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor gets the storybook version; Peter Capaldi's Twelfth gets darker, more intimate stories. The 50th anniversary special, The Day of the Doctor, set a Guinness World Record as the largest simulcast of a TV drama. The arcs can get tangled enough to need a diagram, so start with Smith's first series in 2010 if the mythology is new to you.