Networks still air shows produced by studios owned by other companies. Warner Brothers produces all of Chuck Lorre's shows, which all air on CBS. How I Met your Mother is produced by Fox, Community is produced jointly by Sony and Universal, etc. It's just now Networks CAN air shows produced by the same company, and…

The "dancing down the aisle cooing at adorable babies" era is also worlds away from good TV.

It's Marta #3.

Is that Portia for beautiful? Or is it Marta? It's hard to tell with the picture so simplified (like it would be in such a dictionary).

Guest cast on shows can be paid up to (on very rare occasions) $50,000 per episode. And that's for big name quest cast—it's usually much lower than that (there are man more in the $10,000 range if they're a known name or reoccuring character, and $1,000-$5,000 for one off or no name people—it also will change based on…

I think the OP is missing the most obvious solution—just buy The Wire box set. You know it's worth the money. Look, it's only $75 on Amazon marketplace: http://amzn.to/rr5Tby

Holy crap I didn't even realize poobala.com is a massive archive of TV crossovers. That's both amazing and scary.

Remembering all of these crossovers and theme things reminds me of that absolutely awesome website proving that like 90% of all Network TV actually is the idle daydreams of that autistic kid from St. Elsewhere.

anya - Yeah! I remember all these ridiculous promos of Liz Taylor forlorly talkin aobut her missing necklace (or whatever jewelry it was). I think she hadn't lost anything yet in the episode of Murphy Brown I saw, though.

I don't know why I remember this, but Elizabeth Taylor guest starred briefly in all four sitcoms on CBS Monday night back in the 90s (I think the only one I actually saw with her in it was Murphy Brown, but I remember the promos).

I agree with Buck Dharma Initiative. That thing is monumental genius/a ridiculously bad piece of shit.

Do you think he was replaced by a session bass player the label threw at the band, a la That Thing You Do?

Damnit, you're now colorblind, not your now colorblind. Oh well.

I'll be going as well and say that Training is my favorite episode. It's just so incredibly funny, with so many laugh out loud moments (it is both the episode I show to others to get them into the show and the episode I first saw).

You're argument is a little intriguing, but I think the main problem with it is that you act like this is a new phenomena. Why would the success of the Voice in particular have any effect on the TV landscape (other than giving a hit to network that hasn't had one since Friends went off the air). The reason you give…

::Raises hand::

Obligatory mention of The Wire and it's awesome ass thee song/title sequence.

I never thought Lily was a bitch. She was just wild, and a teenager. That leads to, you know, bad decisions and fucking around and all that, but I don't remember anything really bitchy (at least to anyone other than her parents)

My college sports teams were called the Yeomen. Yes, also a liberal arts school.

Yeah, the only one who calls Lindsay unattractive is Lucille, and she just does that because she's unfathomably hateful.