Maybe you need to combine it with some other pursuit. Enjoy a record with a glass of fine scotch perhaps?

My criticism is thus: If you run a home for 'the dying' in India, those people are a lot less terminal than they are in the US. To continue to keep it as a hospice is to ignore the fact that what these people really needed was free medical care.

Mother Teresa largely used the money donated to her to build more convents.

Yeah, I do hope the mention how she got $150 million dollars in donations, but never opened a proper functional hospital.

Its on season 5 or 6. Its been an impressive run of human decency.

I know, there were only like two or three contestants in the whole show that were actually disagreeable bastards.

I don't know about the AVclub, but I'm happy that my Tuesday night Face Off is back. The only thing better than great monster makeup is really, really bizarrely terrible movie makeup.

British Antiquing shows are much cooler "Well, my great grandfather ripped this from a Hindu idol in the 1860s" is much cooler than "My grandma got this doll and kept it."

What a tangled web we weave, when we first produce original programming. It does explain why its some weird British-Canadian fusion.

Thanks, that's pretty much the answer. Those it does seem like a lost opportunity. You'd think the BBC would make more money if BBC America was just a subdivision of itself in the US rather than a middle man for Doctor Who and Orphan Black.

Indeed it is. And BBC America does get a lot of props for making sure that airs here, along with some other Sci-fi programming that NPR doesn't feel like getting.

I'm always afraid of time/content edits in my BBC imports. Certainly I've noticed bits of Doctor Who chopped out from time to time.

What I would like to know is why BBC America is so terrible at airing anything other than Doctor Who, Top Gear and Star Trek TNG? I understand that PBS reaches a wider audience, but the BBC back catalog has got to be pretty huge. They could play a lot more of their original programming.

Maybe? It still seems kind of high given how many other shows you can watch. I bet if they lowered the cost, it might undercut its status as most pirated show.

I think there's room for both methods. Producing a whole season at a time might mean that a show focuses more on something that doesn't work, but it could also allow it to take more chances in its story telling from the get go.

To be fair, you've gelled my complaint from HBO DVDs are too expensive to GoT is too expensive.

For some reason, every robot buyer always takes the "skull crushing strength" upgrade. Just in case.

S1 of Game of Thrones is $40 as a discounted price, hell, even The Wire still costs $30 a season, when you could get most other shows for $20 after a year or two.

I wonder if people are still buying the super expensive HBO DVD sets I see selling at Target for twice what any normal show sells for.

Yeah, I thought that was a weird way of setting up Dark City. I still thought it was a good movie, but it didn't really trust us to understand what it was about.