I think you'd be surprised how utterly disinterested pretty much everyone is in the backstories or contexts of customed heroes they have vague memories of from childhood. Plus, I doubt this is the only time the person in question is stupid.

Hey, that gives me an idea: "Linegirls". It's a sitcom where every week our favorite group of bubbly 20-somethings goes out to a trendy bar way above their social station and spend all 22 minutes waiting in line, interacting with the people around them, people walking by and learning about life, love and belonging.

I'm not convinced this show actually existed; those people could be anyone.

Yeah, when she immediately said she did it just to turn guys on any sympathy evaporated. If you want to kiss a girl to kiss a girl, hey, good for you. You want to do it to get attention, you're just being obnoxious.

"Drama" It's the show where things happen, in a, you know, dramatic fashion.

I think all networks are now contractually obligated to make a play at the Lost/Davinci audience, but since they haven't a clue what the appeal was, you get these bizarre genre mashups that try to pass off their hokum by playing it tediously straight.

She has that "some executive who thinks he/she is way smarter than they actually are is convinced this person is the next big thing and not the next Bonnie Hunt, so get ready to have her crammed down your throat coming and going" feel. Sometimes it sort of works and you get Mindy Kaling or Roseanne Barr, but usually…

I'm moer worried about the 8pm slot, and how that means it needs to be family-friendly. It's one thing to have a show that's targeted towards adults but that kids can enjoy (i.e., tone down the violence and overt sexuality, try not to be too cynical), but if it needs to be heartwarming and simplistic and…

Nah, they should go all-in and have those two as accountants who also beat the shit out of people who owe them money.

There still is a whole lot of money to be made on network TV, and even a lower-tier exietence will pay a lot of bills.

Well, smart people just use DVRs to skip ads anyway, so why the hell are we spending all this cash to make shit we don't like just so those Pointdexter bastards can steal it? Fuck those fuckers. No, let's go for the mouthbreathers who want to see easy jokes and sanitized ribaldry and don't like to have to change…

Either that or every few weeks they check their bank accounts and for some reason they got paid again, so what the fuck - that last idea they pulled out of their ass between martinis was apparently the correct one (again), so might as well just keep at it. Alimony ain't gonna pay itself, you know.

There must be some way I can grammatically justify that, but there isn't, is there?

Hey - we (Seattle) is #1 at streaming, because of rain or something. I'm guessing we don't watch much more live TV than San Francisco, also because of rain.

Comic book characters are for kids, so it needs to be on early before they go to bed. That lots of adults don't want that to be the case is of little concern to TV execs who think it's still 1992.

Is America ready for a hard-R old-people-screwing movie? I say yes, it's time! I won't watch it.

Well, if you saw what that algae was wearing…

Hitlers, like beer, are best purchased packaged in groups of six.

I have less interest in Bunheads than I do learning why old people smell like that, but its kinda fun seeing all the enthusiastic love it seems to get around here.

People that love Mindys and sausages whouldn't watch either one get made. or both, in your case.