The best part about this news is that it'll free up Victor Fresco to do something new and — hopefully — weird.

The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit was the first Doctor Who that I ever watched, and I was hooked on the show pretty much immediately. I'll have to remember to post some thoughts on what I found compelling about it when we get to it in a few weeks.

The characters were "adapted" from the previous two movies, so apparently it doesn't count as sufficiently original for "original screenplay".

As far as I can tell, the legal means to watch the show (other than just watching it on cable) in the USA are as follows:

I do hope that Season 4 will show up on DVD (or on Netflix Streaming) at some point. I can't quite bring myself to buy it via Amazon Streaming, which is the only way it seems to be available right now.

That's the main reason I clicked on the headline.

The B-side to "Jingle Hell" is a cover of Frank Sinatra's "My Way."

I'm glad that I'm not the only one more fascinated by Jonestown than Jamestown.

There were issues with the load time on the old site? I never once noticed that.

It looks like the default format is the same, with the show name in all lower-case and spaces replaced with hyphens. So:

In which we ask the aliens politely for our independence, and they gradually give it to us via a series of legislative acts over the next 115 years.

The speech would be meaningless in the context of the story if it was just some generic stuff about graduation. It's moving because it's personal.

Does anyone know why the spin-off was going to be called "Windward Circle"? I don't remember that phrase coming up at all in "Here Comes the Son".

You need great determination and excellent light.

In Amy Sherwin-Palladino's planned season finale, Rory and Lorelai would have been put on trial for violating Good Samaritan laws. The final words would have been "Hey, you've been great. See you in the cafeteria."

I did quite enjoy the moment with the marching band, though; I thought it was set up nicely.

Agreed. Seriously, trying to persuade the lawyer to sell the property to them while he's acting as a pallbearer for the property's former owner? That level of self-centeredness would fit in well on a show where we're not supposed to sympathize with the main characters (Arrested Development or Seinfeld, say), but…

Lorelai comes off as downright predatory in that last scene with Max in "Keg! Max!" She effectively chases him around the room, invading his personal space and not taking no for an answer, while Max desperately tries to get away without being rude. All I could think of while watching it was, "Wow, this scene would…

It was highly entertaining to see Bob Clenendin as one of the Poe impersonators. I really think that Bill Lawrence needs to produce a Cougar Town episode where Tom starts impersonating Poe.

I'll concede that Rory's sudden decision to go to Yale makes sense from the perspective of pulling the narrative where it needs to go for the series to continue. But that doesn't mean that I can't be annoyed by the abrupt visibility of the strings. Watching through the series for the first time, it seems like a very…