Strange question. The two most watched sitcoms last year were The Big Bang Theory & Two and a Half Men (and that's with repeats only from February to May factored in). So yes, there is a future.

Whatever the reasons, the character ended up doing nothing significant for pretty much the entire second half of the series. They had him join the Strike Team one year, and even then he didn't really do anything. It reached a point where I couldn't even figure out why they were keeping him around.

The globe
I'd have preferred that the alien perform a dance with the globe like Chaplin.

Hey, he was only in the first Saw, sir.
And he was godawful in it. Show some respect!

My favorite one …
"me, david simon and frank darabont are meeting at home depot to rent chainsaws and woodchippers."

So just to make sure I understand this correctly, what you're saying is that 3rd cast 2011 leaving end at season won't be back 4th graduating 2012?

CBS and Viacom split about five years ago.

No way. The way they killed off Wallace was one of my favorite things the show ever did. To bring back the main character's arch nemesis after a two year absence, make it seem like they're building to some big final encounter, only to have her die off-screen halfway through the episode was a truly brilliant misdirect.

"while the melodramatic stories of Short Cuts … are occasionally undone by inadequate performances"
Oh quit being coy. We all know you're talking about MacDowell ("You bastard!") & Modine ("Do you wanna have a go at it!?"). But hey, only 2 out of 25 ain't that bad.

When TNT airs the L&O crossover episodes of Homicide, they show it in HD widescreen.

I remember the Welles quote. I think the play he compared it too was called "Mr. Wu"

Kellerman's arc is pretty much identical Bayliss' arc, only condensed down to three seasons.

Pet peave of mine regarding Homicide
Ever since The Wire became such a critical darling, many writers have casually referred to Homicide: LOTS as an early David Simon project even though he barely had anything to do with it — aside from it being a loose adaptation of his and writing a couple of freelance scripts early…

How many poor people are there on The Good Wife?
Not to dismiss your case out of hand, but if at the very outset, you have to concede something such as, "It falters in portraying the plight of the lower classes," you might be in trouble. A pretty strong case could be made that "portraying the plight of the lower…

The VOD episodes won't be available until Monday the next week, so you're going to have to be pretty patient.

"It's like a whole scene based on that rake gag in the Cape Fear homage episode of The Simpsons"
The rake gag was a whole scene.

I highly doubt that there was much of a paycheck for Talk Radio.

He threw the fight.
I can't think of any other logical dramatic reason to show Morales making eye contact with Brennan just before starting the second round.

I don't count voice work. Paul Newman's last film was Empire Falls, which is a pretty good one to go out on. Jack Lemmon's final film was The Legend Of Bagger Vance.

Yeah, the blurbs seriously hurt the sketch. I wouldn't been so much better if the joke went completely unacknowledged until the very end when the girl says, "What?" That moment should've been the punchline, but it was ruined by all those "Do you get it?" nudgings.