TV Mini Series · 2004 · TV Mini Series · 2000s
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Scored from 46 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2000s (259 peers).
Summary
Framed as a shelved 1980s horror series finally being broadcast, this six-part Channel 4 comedy is presented as written by, directed by and starring the fictional horror novelist Garth Marenghi (Matthew Holness). Its episodes follow Dr. Rick Dagless, M.D., at Darkplace Hospital in Romford, a facility built over a gateway to Hell, where the staff contend with a monstrous eye-child, a colleague's telekinetic rages and assorted mutations. Between scenes, Marenghi, his publisher-turned-producer Dean Learner (Richard Ayoade) and co-star Todd Rivers (Matt Berry) deliver straight-faced present-day interviews about the work they regard as a lost classic. Deliberately botched dubbing, continuity and effects sustain the parody.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004) is a miniseries IMDb files under the comedy, fantasy and horror genres. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Episodes run about 25m.
Only 46 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 48 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s miniseries — 259 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Garth Marenghi's Darkplace 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 Mini Series · 2000s (259 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 46.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2000s
