I'd like to remind you all that the Israeli Interior Minister recently proclaimed that Israel is for while people only and implied that black people are subhuman.

It was, actually. IIRC this is about blocking a reprint

It was, actually. IIRC this is about blocking a reprint

Okay. Here's what's up with the BBC, and why it is most likely doomed.

Okay. Here's what's up with the BBC, and why it is most likely doomed.

@TheMogul:disqus It's not just an ideological move. Look at the manufactured controversy about the BBC's commercial wing buying Lonely Planet. The fact is that the BBC competes with the other television companies for viewers, but not for dollars. Opposing the license fee or demanding that the BBC divest from BBC…

@TheMogul:disqus It's not just an ideological move. Look at the manufactured controversy about the BBC's commercial wing buying Lonely Planet. The fact is that the BBC competes with the other television companies for viewers, but not for dollars. Opposing the license fee or demanding that the BBC divest from BBC…

@avclub-0592cd603d4801529227f55223d0d612:disqus If you want, once I'm done regging my courses I can kinda explain how it works, although it is depressing because the BBC is kind of fucked.

@avclub-0592cd603d4801529227f55223d0d612:disqus If you want, once I'm done regging my courses I can kinda explain how it works, although it is depressing because the BBC is kind of fucked.

@avclub-0592cd603d4801529227f55223d0d612:disqus Lemme lay it down for you: Regardless of the status of Wallace and Grommit, this will not help Who. Here's why:

@avclub-0592cd603d4801529227f55223d0d612:disqus Lemme lay it down for you: Regardless of the status of Wallace and Grommit, this will not help Who. Here's why:

@avclub-0592cd603d4801529227f55223d0d612:disqus Then why'd he mention Wallace and Grommit, which is a series of films?

@avclub-0592cd603d4801529227f55223d0d612:disqus Then why'd he mention Wallace and Grommit, which is a series of films?

@avclub-0592cd603d4801529227f55223d0d612:disqus That's different, because those are films and the plan is to invest in the film industry at large. The TV tax cuts require that the work pass a serious cultural test. The example there is Downton Abbey.

@avclub-0592cd603d4801529227f55223d0d612:disqus That's different, because those are films and the plan is to invest in the film industry at large. The TV tax cuts require that the work pass a serious cultural test. The example there is Downton Abbey.

I kinda doubt it is. If anything, I'd actually say it's bad news for Who since it's not one of those big prestige dramas, and it's on the BBC. So it's giving a leg up to the BBC (and by association, Who's) rivals.

I kinda doubt it is. If anything, I'd actually say it's bad news for Who since it's not one of those big prestige dramas, and it's on the BBC. So it's giving a leg up to the BBC (and by association, Who's) rivals.

So it's sort of like when Don supported Betty when she wanted to go back to work even though she only got the Coke gig because of Don's professional success and that other firm's desire to poach him? It's the same thing, really. Don's wife lands an advert because she's married to Don. They're even similar in that we…

So it's sort of like when Don supported Betty when she wanted to go back to work even though she only got the Coke gig because of Don's professional success and that other firm's desire to poach him? It's the same thing, really. Don's wife lands an advert because she's married to Don. They're even similar in that we…

I dunno, I think her increasingly childish behavior over the course of the season and the other parallels to Betty (both are aspiring in nominally artistic fields where they're judged for their looks, Don marries both because he thinks they'll help him be the kind of man he wants to be, both have fathers who…