That's exactly how Directv has done it for years now. Subscribers are able to choose which channels they want to appear on their "guide" and eliminate those they never watch. I, for example, have eschewed all the foreign-language, shopping, music, religious, and SD channels. Beyond that, the channels are sorted in a…

I'm going to have to disagree with your police work there, Todd!

Not since the glorious, Lorne-Michaels-free, Dick Ebersol years. The Eddie Murphy seasons stand head and shoulders above all the rest, except 1984-85, SNL's true high-water mark, with a cast that featured Martin Short, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, Martin Short, Rich Hall, Tim Kazurinsky, Julie Gross, Julia-Louis…

I've tried to get used to the new site, but it's just terrible! Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. On every level.

I took Sean Walker's buying of the "story" from Mickey as him actually buying Mick's silence. That's why Sean kept reminding him that he was purchasing the "whole story" and it would then "belong to him." I believe the whole arrangement is, in fact, extortion, but that the characters were just speaking in subtext.

I believe you meant "torx" screwdriver. Perhaps you were thinking of a "torque wrench"? And Phil should know that you never buy just one torx screwdriver because they always come as a set. At least that's what Uncle Fred told me during intermission at our local theater…