Get out of my head!

Oscar winners should be stopped from controlling conversation (same as with Emmys, or any award, the often equally-worthy losers will always be shadowed unfairly) — but a field of nominees can have some meaning, if truly chosen well. Arguably the Critics Choice award nominees for film and for TV (and the TCA awards…

I don’t think you need to say “What would you bump” — it’s just exploring films overlooked for nomination. They had more than 5 nominees for awhile anyway (as we do now again).

Get out of my head!

Indeed. I used to say the same thing for its forebear, the young WB, which made a home for Buffy and Angel which other networks (like Fox) probably wouldn’t have nurtured.

MURPHY: “Blah blah blah William F. Buckley blah blah.”

Shandling was his usual sharp and brilliantly funny self on The Green Room with Paul Provenza (2011), and also touched on some interesting and insightful philosophy; he had long been on a spiritual journey of sorts, and the other comedians in that episode who clearly looked up to him (like Provenza, Maron, and indeed…

Stephen Sondheim is the sort of person who doesn’t watch television, and is probably too old to be convinced otherwise. But if he did, I think he would get a kick out of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and its unique, ambitious approach to serial musical comedy (& drama). He might even give some of the lyrics his stamp of…

Supposedly the show is popular enough via streaming, including foreign markets, to have allowed the S2 and S3 renewals (which were shocking otherwise, given the abysmal Nielsen ratings), plus the CW execs seem to have more respect for its quality than a bigger network might... So it is very possible we’ll again see a…

Since you opened the door, I’ll step through and say that your article arguably does a disservice to Sondheim by mentioning A Little Night Music and Rent in the same sentence... but that’s an argument for another time.

Oof! Five cities in five days back to back! Tough schedule. I’m of two minds about this tour, because as much as I enjoy the show (and some of Bloom’s earlier music videos too), I’ve found her various live appearances less appealing. Talk shows, award show bits, etc... Somehow her energy seems to me more successfully…

Yeah, I think Paula (Donna Lynne Champlin) is the one I would most like to see, actually.

But she hasn’t squashed my hopes of someday hooking up with Baby Spice, who is still super cute I must say.

“Like the Simpsons, say, or the Lassiters, when they return next year.”

First of all, screw Fox. But yeah, he’s developed some serious cred in film, yet in this era of amazing TV it would be (ironically) great to draw Whedon back to the long-form storytelling he does so well, and so uniquely. Not only is he the guy supremely qualified to make the next fascinating genre-bender like Buffy…

Hey, that’s no way to talk about Kim Basinger!

What happened to the good ol’ days when lonely men could just head downtown to the local whorehouse for a roll in the hay with a sultry, ample-bosomed maven of his choice?

Oh no, S4 was SO BAD by the end, you shouldn’t even watch it unless you’re a masochist — a failure I’m not sure anyone could have anticipated when this sparkling, charismatic, great-looking show premiered back in 2010. This video is a bit long, but makes many good points about why the show is ultimately so terrible…

I’d settle for The Bronze from Buffy.