The new series has always been fairly dodgy. Have to have a big arc plot you'll stop every story to rub in the viewer's faces, which is stupid. Have to have a female companion whining about how the Doctor doesn't love her, which is painful (though, Tate's character skipped that, and Amy isn't too bad...she's got the stock stupid BF, though).
Consistently rubbish endings pulled out of nowhere, and although some episodes have good ideas, they are just thrown at the screen rather than developed.
It seems to me they're assuming the audience has no attention span, if they keep things going fast enough, nobody will notice that nothing makes much sense. How often over the last few seasons has one character described someone (usually the Doctor) gushingly, rather than show them being any good? How often when they've actually decided to show, not tell, something about a character have they used any subtlety or believability?
The Neil Gaiman one worked because they put time into developing the Idris character, and adaquate (if only barely) time into developing the House et al. Not alot, but enough for it to be worthwhile.
