TV Series · 2013 · TV Series · 2010s
Count Arthur Strong
Scored from 26 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Michael Baker, a diffident writer, arrives in North London to research a biography of his late father, the variety comedian Max Baker, and seeks out his father's old double-act partner, Count Arthur Strong. Arthur — a self-important, malaprop-prone retired entertainer with an unreliable grip on memory and reality — is useless as a source but impossible to shake, and Michael is absorbed into the circle of regulars at Bulent's café. Created by Steve Delaney and Graham Linehan from Delaney's radio series, this BBC sitcom builds each episode around Arthur's petty schemes and misunderstandings spiralling through the neighbourhood.
Released in 2013, Count Arthur Strong is a comedy television series. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Episodes run about 30m.
Only 26 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 26 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s television series — 3,236 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Count Arthur Strong lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2010s (3,236 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 26.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
