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No need to sing your question, speaking will be just fine.

Main title theme sung by Susan Boyle.

Nina Dobrev and Miriam McDonald.

I love how some obsessive Buffy fans have tried to locate Sunnydale definitively, based on the occasional aerial shots of Santa Barbara, or the architecture of Torrance or UCLA, or various throwaway lines in the scripts… No, you wackadoos, it's a *fictional* place that can encompass the college or the beach or

That….. is incredibly tempting. Perhaps I'll start with the sunglasses emoticon, for the DVD set of CSI: Miami.

Six years for Chicago Hope, but they moved its timeslot 3 or 4 times. ER was a juggernaut on Thursdays, from episode #2 all the way to #331. Like all massive TV drama successes, though, if lifespan were based on quality instead of ratings it should have ended much sooner.

Not much about Just Shoot Me, though Littlefield does underline the point that its premature death was — as with so many other things mentioned by the book's interviewees — squarely the fault of Jeff Zucker. (You may remember him from such debacles as Conan's Last Stand, when his Tonight Show was being potentially

Yes. Reference books are the most widely affected genre of printed materials (aside from newspapers and scholarly journals) in the digital age, in terms of justification for their production in physical form. More and more of those resources go online-only every year.

True. But, regarding NBC's megahits, while Cheers and Seinfeld and Friends were basically traditional sitcoms with a hangout vibe and exceptionally great writing and/or charisma, ER was indeed a cosmic event of unprecedented magnitude. These kids today, they don't know what a phenomenon ER was, right out of the gate.

(Sigh……) I direct your attention to the article's first !@#$%$# paragraph.

I direct your attention to the article's first goddamn paragraph.

Note from a persnickety librarian: The updated version (Dec 2015) of Sepinwall's book was released by its publisher with the same ISBN as the 2013 paperback (1476739676). This uncommon practice makes for confusion at every end, as booksellers use ISBN as unique identifier. Thus Amazon's third-party sellers' 2013

Yes, but I don't think she took that same flight (she's neither looking for him nor hiding), and she doesn't know where in Hawaii the guys are going. Maybe she did that detective work offscreen. I just think they *might* have made Rebecca's trip ambiguous on purpose.

Then they kiss, too! This show just keeps on giving.

Ugh, this does not bode well for the final episodes of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which desperately needs viewers at 8pm Mondays in hope of renewal…

That's what I thought too! We see her on the plane, but it's ambiguous; does she even have the exact details of where Josh and Hector were going?

His melodious voice is one of the reasons I loved the library exposition scenes on Buffy just as much as the action sequences. Joss and the cast & crew were excited to blow up the school at end of S3 partly because they were sick of the library set, but it felt like home to me, thanks to Giles.

Upvoted for being the only comment (of 225 so far) to mention the great Amoeba Records. Those CA institutions, plus Academy in NY and the Princeton Record Exchange, have always been heaven to me as a collector. CDs & vinyl, new & used, whatever you want and a million things you never knew existed.

I really miss Way Hot…