I get two PBS stations over the air using my HD antenna. One is the regular PBS and the other runs almost exclusively foreign language dramas and English language news from foreign countries.

@persia2:disqus agreed. There's a great comment somewhere on the Sherlock DVD commentary where Mark Gatiss says they ask themselves when writing an episode, "Does John really need to say this line, or can Martin convey this with just a look?" And the answer nine out of ten times is just to let Martin Freeman do his…

Sesame Street also taught an entire generation what to buy when you go to the grocery store.

Ah, but Michelle Rhee wasn't giving rewards to schools based on grades, but on performance of the DCAS (D.C. standardized testing). It was something like $10,000 to the principal, $9,000 to the grade teacher and $1,000 apiece to the other teachers to the school that had the biggest increase in DCAS scores in a year.

You seriously thought The Reichenbach Fall sucked? Care to share with the class?Because to me that's like saying "The Suitcase" (Mad Men) or "The Weekend" (Homeland) sucked ass.

HBO already had their panel.

@zebbart:disqus , I don't know about Downton, but when PBS held a NYC premiere screening/Q&A for A Scandal in Belgravia last year (months after it aired in the U.K.), they were overwhelmed with something like 10,000 people vying for a tickets in a 200 person theater. Sue Vertue (producer of Sherlock) asked the…

1) The U.S. doesn't know or care who Jimmy Savile is, and the scandal has gone largely unreported here.

Since AVC seems to have stopped reviewing Frontline (boo-urns!), this is as good as place to any to ask if anyone else saw The Education of Michelle Rhee? They built up to it during the whole episode, but I was still stunned at the last act reveal where the new principal at the "star" high school that had done so well…

It's Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman's movie schedules that are the issue. I don't care what juggling the production has to do to accommodate them, as long as it keeps those two in those roles. Does Cumberbatch want a gold monkey? Give the man a gold monkey.

The producers have said repeatedly that the airing of season three isn't delayed, just the production. That's been pushed back to March but they'll still have it completed by the end of summer and ready for the original fall airdate. It's Cumberbatch's starring role as Julian Assange in Bill Condon's The Man Who Sold…

Are you Judd Apatow? He was just begging Mark Gatiss (creator of Sherlock) for more Sherlock on Twitter today.

Going by Google News' entertainment headlines, lots of people do. The Under the Dome release date and the headlines about CBS wanting Angus T. Jones to continue with Two & Half Men got very brief play yesterday but then were immediately buried. That's why I wondered if CBS deliberately wanted to avoid any press from…

Who schedules the TCAs? It seems odd that CBS would have its panels on the Saturday before the Golden Globes, not only because I presume that would make some its bigger stars (like Ashton Kutcher or the Big Bang Theory crew) unavailable, but I would think a lot of the TV journalists present would be busy with Globes…

It was funny to come here and read this account of Tassler's presentation after reading The Hollywood Reporter's own accoun. Unlike the AVC, which saw a confident Tassler, THR saw one with barely contained defensive rage at the fact that CBS is #2 and cheesed off at the fact that CBS has no hits from the fall to tout,…

I find it a pretty big cliche (the hero avenging his dead lover may, in fact, be the oldest cliche in fiction, or at least in comic books). It's almost pretty much an exact copy of House, who used drugs and frequented prostitutes for a sexual outlet to dull his physical/emotional pain, including the loss of his One…

I think Myles is referring to Jane's motivation against Red John being to avenge his wife's murder, and Holmes's motivation against Moriarty being to avenge Irene's "death." That's not something that has any connection to Doyle's Moriarty at all (who was a criminal mastermind resentful that Holmes was interfering in…

The thing I like best about the Milverton story is that it's not Holmes coming in and white knighting it: it's him stepping back and letting Milverton's victim fight for herself. He just makes sure she gets off scot-free.

Joan is staying simply because she doesn't want her remarkable friend to fall into madness… and to try and forestall the monstrous possibilities if he does.

I didn't like it, either. As Caroline wrote, "the obsessive, eerily cold bloodlust in Sherlock's eyes suggests a no less powerful rush. Joan had seen more horror with Sherlock than she had ever known, but as she stared at Sherlock in his focused rage, it was clear that this version of him scared her most." Why would…