Didn't Bravo start off as a highbrow arts channel? Or am I thinking of something else?

Another one who didn't know they were divorced. There goes my imaginings of family gatherings at the Fox household with Billie Piper and Richard Ayoade (who is married to Fox's sister.)

Either that or someone said, "Hey, Tiny Toon Adventures was a really popular cartoon, Let's have those same people make another one."

Look, if it doesn't have Ringo Starr, Sammy Davis Jr. and Carol Channing, I'm not interested.

I was imagining a more individual approach rather than species wide. I suppose yours makes more sense, in as much as anything about this show makes sense.

So did they cover all 72 Cutest Animals in Season 1? Or did they hold back because they're expecting a second season?

Is that the same Alex Masters who wrote Stuart: A Life Backwards?

Yes, it's mainly essays with a few fiction snippets. My mind constantly links him with Michael Chabon, probably because I read Kavalier and Clay and Fortress of Solitude so close together. And my brain has arranged them so that Chabon has moved from coming-of-age, realistic novels to genre stories and Lethem has…

Finished Jonathan Lethem's The Ecstasy of Influence, a lot of which covered subjects and themes familiar to anyone familiar with Lethem's work. Although finding out one of his first cousins is married to Saad Ibrahim was a surprise. The most compelling section was his Rolling Stone article on James Brown. I wish…

All of Halberstam's books are worth a read but that one in particular is important. If only to remind people how much of Vietnam started in the Kennedy administration.

The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses - Richard III — A great end to a great series. It's an incredibly intense performance from Cumberbatch and one of his best. My only wish is that they had kept the longer hair he had during the previous plays. I understand with the shorter hair you could see just how much he…

"According to the Daily Mail" — Come on, AV Club, you can do better.

I'm sorry to hear that. He really was a fixture of TV journalism for as long as I can remember.

More Hollow Crown although the last episode was bit too much "Have Battle —> Kill Character —> Repeat." But we got our first look at Cumberbatch as Richard III and he's clearly having a ball. I can't wait for this week.

About 1/3 of the way through The Ecstasy of Influence, a Jonathan Lethem book of essays. I appreciate that he's trying to tie everything into the theme of influence and that it's not just a random assortment of essays.

Pushing Daisies - I have unanswered questions about Ned's father! And it would have been nice to finally see Chuck and her aunts interacting.

I read an interview with Robert Sean Leonard where he said he only did Swing Kids so he get the opportunity to work with Kenneth Branagh and convince Branagh to cast him as Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing.

Saturday was a study in contrasts. I started off with Eurovision. As others have said, it was a pretty boring year. I was promised a naked man singing with wolves but apparently he didn't make it to the finals. I really like the new way of giving results and was plesantly surprised to see Richard Osman giving the…

Yeah, that's a completely unfair question. If he had been asked to recite the entire passage, I bet he could. In a face-to-face match up, my money would still be on Colbert.

I considered linking the whole episode but decided on a clip. (Actually, what I was searching for was the lecture Iannucci did on Stalin for The Unbelievable Truth but it looks like those clips were taken down.)