Yeah, Winter Olympics generally fuck with the schedule more than summer ones. Though it's never been quite this bad. Everybody's afraid of the ratings power of sports.

Olympics are taking everything off the air but a couple of cable shows this year.

Most networks are going to take the next few weeks off. I know that all of the shows I cover aren't on, outside of Girls.

It's possible HIMYM is really big outside of the top 30 markets. But that seems unlikely.

Binging seems to do more to help dramas than comedies, at least at this early stage of the game.

It's based on a terrific novel that was long thought unadaptable. From the trailer, I'm guessing Akiva Goldsman proved that conventional wisdom correct.

Yes. Rusty is not the world's best person.

The film actually touches on this in the case of a woman who returned to Amish country for a funeral and was invited to eat with her family, but at a separate table.

These will start next week.

It's not coming back for three weeks?! Todd is sleepin' 'til March!

To be fair, this is also why TVOTI fans ship Libby and I.

When casting about for a Halloween-appropriate 100 Episodes last fall, I hit on the idea of doing Marble Hornets, before being stunned to learn there weren't 100 installments of the main series. But i plan to write about it one way or another at some point.

Season one is still the best rated. Season two was way down, but it didn't have the Game Of Thrones lead-in. This season is up over season two so far, but it has a True Detective lead-in (though TD is also slumping quite a bit). It doesn't really matter because HBO has inferred many times in the past that it does…

But they're probably a boutique publisher that doesn't have enough money to do something like that. They're certainly not a Random House.

There's no way Her is going to win. I've been thinking this long stretch between the nominations and the awards, with all the precursors, is the point where all the Oscar voters slowly convince themselves to vote for 12 Years A Slave, even though it's been the frontrunner since September. (This happens all the time,…

From what little I know of publishing contracts, she's probably not going to have much recourse, unless Mill Street is willing to play ball. And they're probably unlikely to, while her new publisher would probably be unwilling to shell out a bunch of money to buy the rights for an unknown.

Most new posters (and most of the people "helpfully" pointing these things out are new) default to oldest first. So they're just seeing the community grade stuff.

I don't think the superpowers are necessarily a great idea, but I think everybody wanting Scully's baby for some reason gives the characters an investment in the mythology they wouldn't otherwise have.

Not "guidelines" so much as suggestions we give our writers for how to grade the shows. It's also why we give out so many B's.

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