Now you're going to have the SeaQuest fans after you….

So it's… um… April.

Nah, because Sorkin's biggest mistake there was not showing the end product (or, at least, not understanding what the hell the end product was supposed to be).  Here, they're too reliant on the end product to carry the show - you can tell that most of the effort goes into staging the musical numbers, with little…

Well, the show this was initially compared to in its pilot was West Wing, and it did have that feel (if with 0.0000001% of the talent involved outside of Jack Davenport), And that was a network show.

Yeah, part of me wants to lock the idiot writers behind that particular plotline in a room with Brian Burke and let them explain that particular cliche to him.

I said it last week, but I'm 90% convinced it's only in there because they think it'll draw in older female viewers. There's really no other explanation as to why there's such a massive lead weight dragging down the show.

The point is that most of the bad behaviour is the inevitable result of putting 14 catty, desperate women into a room with one guy.

Wileetay, I'm ashamed by what I'm about to write, and the fact that I know this:

On a somewhat related note, one of my favourite gags ever was when Michael Sheen was being interviewed on Top Gear, and got Clarkson confused about whether a relative of his was an impressionist or a look-a-like:

Unless it goes the other way - Ernie and Bert appeared on the Muppet show.

We got that scene instead of a Swedish Chef skit.

Berle quite famously had the biggest dick in Hollywood, and had no shame about whipping it out.

I think it's the first time that one of the girls was smart enough to realise that there's more money playing in the villain.

Yeah, Jacoby's been great with Simmons this year. He's really nailed Courtney's character in his articles about the show, as well.

KennyHerzog - they already did the show you want.

No matter what happens, she (as a former model) was smart enough to realise that she was going to be a VERY rich woman (if she wasn't already from her former life as a model) as a result doing what she did.

Or, you know, it's fascinating because it provides fodder for Grantland's continually entertaining series of articles and / or the fantasy league.

They desperately need to stick Julia and her clan on a bus to Mandyville. I know that the family drama probably has a legitimate, focus-tested reason to exist (the whole bit with the adoption is flagarant pandering to older single women), but the show's clearly at its weakest in that whole mess.

I thought the most telling point from the book was when people suggested that Palin was going through a severe bout of postpartum depression right in the middle of the campaign and that, combined with a vain decision to engage in a bout of Atkins dieting (in the middle of a political campaign - about the dumbest thing…

It might've been true at the time they were released, but the show was heavily syndicated throughout the 80s while the movies, obviously, weren't as widely available until VHS sales picked up much later.  That gap accounts for why characters that get relegated to mere cameo roles in the movies (the Chef, specifically)…