'The universities - both of them.'

Karen's death scene is incredibly moving. I was glad to see he got nominated for a Best Actor award for that film by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films.

Yes, you do.

Basil: Well, may I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeests swinging majestically. . .
Mrs. Richards: Don't be silly. I expect to be able to see the sea.
Basil: You CAN see the sea. It's over there,…

'Don't you have rats in Spain? Or did Franco have them all shot?' This is a line that went completely over my head when I first saw Fawlty Towers, in the late 1970s.

According to Sachs, the actors were watching rushes of the episode of Fawlty Towers about Mrs. Richards, the deaf guest who refuses to turn up her hearing aid. There's a line where Basil says to her 'Excuse me, is this a piece of your brain?', and Cleese wanted to cut it. Sachs said that he very rarely argued during…

Here in Canada we're facing a bill of some Cdn$36 million to fix up 24 Sussex Drive, the home of the Prime Minister. It's in such dire condition that PM Justin Trudeau and his family haven't taken up residence; they're staying in a home on the grounds of the Governor-General's house.

The Monty Python skit 'The Mouse Problem' (1969) certainly seems to anticipate furries.

I grew up in Canada reading lots of British books aimed at kids (Enid Blyton, the Paddington Bear stories by Michael Bond), and then a lot of books for adults written in (or set in) 19th and early 20th century England, so pretty quickly sorted out the currency (12 pence in a shilling, 20 shillings in a pound, how much…

John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together is my favourite. It's never been repeated on TV (as far as I know), but it's up on YouTube, and the soundtrack is one of my most listened-to Christmas albums. The duet between Denver and Rowlf on 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' is my favourite version of that…

Okay, 2016 can officially just fucking stop already.

Yeah, after the midseason finale of FTWD was when I checked out, too. I watched to that point, and then realised, when the trailers for the second half of season two started, that there wasn't one character or storyline I was interested in following. I skimmed the reviews and comments here, and figured I wasn't…

So that makes: what, five communities to split time between (if we're going to see Oceanside again, and I expect we are)?

I remember driving back to my home in the the interior of British Columbia in summer 1997; I'd been to a Sherlock Holmes conference in Toronto. And as I headed towards Regina, Saskatchewan the news came on the radio: Jimmy Stewart had died. And I felt as if I'd been gut-punched. It was the first celebrity death that…

I watch the Oscars every year, and whenever it comes time for their 'In Memoriam' tribute I always think: why don't they just run 'TCM Remembers' and be done with it? Because 'TCM Remembers' is, hands down, the best tribute out there.

I know that TCM usually does their "TCM Remembers" memoriam in early-to-mid December, but they might want to wait a bit longer this year. Which really sucks.

My dad is a former Mountie, and until Hill Street Blues came along, he always said that Barney Miller was the TV cop show that most accurately portrayed what it was like to be a cop: the camaraderie, the paperwork, the smart-assery, the sheer volume of what they dealt with.

I was already tearing up when John Clare was kneeling at Vanessa's grave, and when those words came up on the screen I just started bawling. But at least John Logan knew when to bring the curtain down.

As a woman who is (if you are between 22 and 32) 20-30 years older than you, I say thank you!

I think, perhaps, that we're supposed to despise Gregory for bowing to the Saviours, while sympathising with Rick for doing so, because Rick (we hope) has or will have a plan take down Negan and his outfit, whereas Gregory shows no signs of planning anything of the sort. He's a coward, as Maggie notes, and seems…