Shivers is a damn good film.

Well, a couple of years ago Cronenberg revealed he wanted to make a quasi-sequel to The Fly, but the studio nixed it.

Oliver Stone… Oliver's Tone.

Genesis Torpedo!

Archibald Leach, Bernard Schwartz and Lucille LeSuer are three people who were never in his basilica.

Looking at that episode now, I feel like it was pretty tactless on Peg's part to tell BJ that their daughter called Radar "Daddy."

Nickolas Grace was fantastic as the Sheriff of Nottingham. He had the whole eye-rolling, perpetually exasperated/pissed-off thing down years before Alan Rickman in Prince of Thieves. Actually, the constant bickering/incompetence of the Sheriff and Gisburne was kinda like Krang and Shredder.

I think the producers were pushing to make the show more dramatic earlier on, but the studio was against that - "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet" was the most melodramatic episode of the early seasons, and I think the producers had some trouble being allowed to get it out. Blake's death was definitely the moment that…

Admittedly, no one - apart from Picard and, to a lesser extent, Data - came off well in the first season. It's entirely possible that Tasha Yar would have become a better character had Denise Crosby stuck it out, but at least Yar's death meant Worf got her position on the ship and therefore had more to do.

At least Shelley Long left after being part of the better half of Cheers' run. Poor Denise Crosby's tenure on ST:TNG was almost entirely awful.

I'm of two minds re: Michael Praed leaving halfway through Robin of Sherwood. One the one hand, Praed was a much better lead than Jason Connery. On the other hand, the episode in which Robin died was brilliant. Plus, replacing the lead did, serendipitously, allow Richard Carpenter to weave both of the two major Robin…

This might be an urban legend, but I read somewhere that the Floyd wouldn't like Kubrick use their music in 2001, and years later, Kubrick got his own back by refusing to let Roger Waters use audio clips of HAL in Amused to Death.

I guess there's some kinship between The Wall and Caddyshack, in that both feature a judge who's an asshole.

Speaking of Cheers, I hate how TV Club Classic never went past the second season.

I'm amused by the fact that Harold Ramis and Douglas Kenney - in all seriousness, according to producer Jon Peters - wanted Pink Floyd to provide the soundtrack for Caddyshack.

Spacey hates women!

Mickey Rourke had a pretty terrific run of movies in the 1980s - Body Heat, Diner, Rumble Fish, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Year of the Dragon, Angel Heart, Barfly… He coulda retired on all that!

I enjoyed Falling Angel, which I got around to reading after I'd seen Angel Heart a few times.

Peri I think was pretty good with the Fifth Doctor. They had a sort of Fourth Doctor/Sarah Jane thing going in The Caves of Androzani. Some playful jibing, and you knew the characters care about each other. But then after the Doctor regenerated into a colossal asshole, Peri became a whining ninny and we got the worst…

I believe Tat Wood talked about it and Rob Shearman has disputed it. Which I only know because Dr Sandifer writes about it here: http://www.philipsandifer.c…