Pleasantly surprised, I was chuckling consistently throughout. I've always thought Anna Faris was a highly likeable and watchable lead, even though she's been in some real dross. Most new multi-cameras make me cringe, not necessarily because they're bad but because the shiny fake sets and the canned laughter seem so…

That Ron Livingston's a handsome fella, isn't he? Never really noticed before, but the outfits are really bringing out his classical-era good looks.

Gotta be realistic - a home extension is a valuable investment and pilot season only comes around once a year. A Moroccan holiday is syndication money, dude!

It seems ABC execs have a pretty short televisual memory, so I'm midway though pitching them a sitcom about a wacky housewife's zany attempts to break into showbusiness.

The fact the Marcia Gay Harden and Margo Martindale both have starring roles on a network sitcom this year makes me exceptionally happy (and Alison Janney, but she seems more widely appreciated). I hope they build a home extension or a totally sweet sunroom with that money.

I must admit I never really got Mama's Family either, although I do like some of the sketches. It gives me that itchy feeling that something is being spoofed but I don't know what it is. Maybe being American helps…

Yeah, forgot to mention him. His song about 'Puttin' on a neck-brace' etc is a superb send-up of the corny metaphors so beloved in 1930s musicals. And the 'perfectly swell romance' duet with Burnett. Damn it, the whole thing.

The perfect time to bring up one of the Carol Burnett Show's finest sketches - an Astaire/Rogers parody mixing the plots of Top Hat and Swing Time and featuring spot-on spoof songs and a truly astounding Edward Everett Horton impression from Roddy McDowall: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Put it this way - that brazen Plymouth hussy will think twice about raising her voice in a public highway next time.

I live in the Westcountry and most of the old people here speak a lot like this, further confirming my suspicion that little has changed here since the 1500s.

Thrilled to see Boardwalk back, even though this was a very slow burner. I'm still a bit confused about where Harrow fits in the picture these days - I wasn't sure why he was killing those people, but I was sure glad he was (after all, I'm only human).

I had to check IMDb to make sure I wasn't being a total pervert, but I had been looking forward to the return of Will, who features high on my list of "surprisingly sexy minor characters on Boardwalk Empire", along with the dumb guy Gilian murdered, Chalky's son and his daughter's boyfriend. This dude…not so much.

Kathy Brier is fabulous, I'm so glad I discovered her through this show. And Stephen DeRosa is always a treat as Eddie Cantor - that hilariously awful song he sang in series 1 about loving girls to be as dumb as possible still makes me laugh in awestuck horror.

"People will still look at you funny if you tell jokes in Negro dialect"

I think it's fair to say that the majority of people who seek out Amos 'n' Andy based on its notoriety find themselves surprised at its tameness, especially if they have been exposed to the far more grotesque ways in which black people were exploited and ridiculed in 19th/early 20th century popular culture. Andy's…

Broadchurch is set and was filmed about 10 miles from me so I feel like you Yanks are practically coming to my house for tea. I have spent many a happy hour guzzling fish and chips on that sinister murder scene. Take the accents with a pinch of salt, though - they lean a little on the broad side.

Even though my head tells me that Woody's made better films, this is the one I return to time and time again. I just love it, it's so warm without losing any comic edge. I have to watch it in private because I grin like a loon from start to finish. Thanks for this, a great summary of what makes it so winning and…

And every single British person hopes 30 Rock was making an extremely obscure reference to this: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

This looks awesome. Movies very rarely acknowledge the existence of free black communities and educated black people before the war. In a way, I think the unique selling point of this compare to other slavery movies is that you're going to feel that sense of Solomon's being ripped away from normal life and cast into…

Imagine the jokes!