Nate Berkus is the only Oprah spinoff who isn’t an utter fraud so of course his show is the one canceled.

I think TMZ mixed up their Empire spin-off stories. (Unfortunately, all I can find are stupid sites that repeat bad reporting when I Google so all this is memory.) IIRC, this summer Lee Daniels was talking about an Empire spin-off that would be a prequel. Later he also announced he’s working on a show about a girl…

Because he doesn’t hang out with the political elites on TV, who tell people who the serious candidates are.

A Clinton/Sanders ticket is as likely as a Obama/Clinton one was in 2008.

I remember seeing a review of gambling strategeis once with a professional gambler. His advice for Baccarat was that you basically had three choices and always go with one particular choice and never stray from it. Made sense but like all the really effective gambling techniques, it was the one that sounded like the…

Seeso also has no ads, which is an attractive feature if you were considering the $8 Hulu tier to get some of these shows.

Well, Court TV is now a channel of comedic reality shows so I’ll only accept them as a subject of an Adam Ruins Everything tirade.

There doesn’t seem to be any downside to not helping defend the settlements. If I’m busy doing something interesting, I don’t bother.

Trump supporters would tell you that’s being tough, not whining petulantly.

True Detective is already following the AHS mold, just with the subtitle for every season. They’ve come up with a new story every year.

My one memory of the Mrs America pageant was seeing one broadcast (as a kid I loved beauty pageants, I think the non-sports competition appealed to the part of me that also loved game shows, plus it came with regional tribalism). The part I remember came when Gladys Knight (I loved “Midnight Train to Georgia” from the…

One of Chuck Barris’ short-term successes (according to him) was $1.98 Beauty Pageant, where each week there was a beauty pageant featuring six competitors (sometimes including drag queens). Then they’d have a contest to pick a winner when the previous winners were matched up, eventually leading to a winner of the…

The job seems to be amazing at turning GOP “rising stars” into sinking ships, which makes me optimistic that we won’t have to pay attention to Haley after a little while.

As I recall, Laura Bush’s guac recipe uses lemon.

If Morgan Freeman’s busy, I’ve become enamoured with Keith David’s narration voice.

I haven’t seen it but most of this is in the trailer. I probably won’t watch it unless I want to bust a vein from what it’ll do to my blood pressure.

...and he wasn’t around for the whole thing! As a comforting thought, think about how Chris Colfer has enough money that he seems to just do stuff that sounds fun (like appearing on Hot in Cleveland, to get to work with that cast and appearing in the final filmed episode where Carol Burnett appeared) and…

Yeah, I think a lot of people underestimate the power of having a bunch of money-sucking sycophants around you. Even a minor celebrity has a few (enough to do some good damage), I can’t imagine the kind of reality-free bubble someone as huge as Michael Jackson lived in.

Oh. Right. That’s what started people calling Rivera “crazy.” I just remember thinking it sounded stupid at the time but can’t remember why I roll my eyes whenever I see some stupid “There’s Naya Rivera being crazy again” story.

Sadly, from what I’ve read about the topic, the parents of the children in the pictures probably wouldn’t want to do violence to him.