Actually, the way TV works is that you usually have a pretty good idea about the status of your show. Most cast and crew know if they can expect a renewal or if they are on the bubble well before it is announced, based on ratings and public response —especially if they are a few seasons in. The network will also often…

I don’t think they have any ownership stake in Bodyguard, but this list reminds me of when fashion press surveys stores for their “bestsellers”. They don’t actually tell what their real bestsellers are because those things are already selling. Most of the time, they just present the things that they want to become best…

Reverting to the MCU plan of introducing characters in their own movies is an encouraging move that suggests what DC/WB should have done in the first place. At least they are recognizing that rushing into a bad re-introduction of Batman and a worse mess of a Justice League movie was a mistake. Now they have a problem…

If they ever put a Green Lantern in the Arrowverse (and who knows what they may need to do to keep season 12 exciting) using Alan Scott might be the perfect way to circumvent DC’s general issue with duplicating too many characters in TV and film. I’m pretty sure that the only reason why we had Nora Fries on the show…

Agreed. I actually have a digital antenna for broadcast TV, and it works pretty well, even in NYC. I usually watch the app, but I couldn’t wait and watched The Flash live last night. It was worth it. My CW station signal is often weak in this part of the city, but it was steady last night! (I also use DirecTV Now for…

If you weren’t aware of it before, you should be now: The BBC does not operate like a normal commercial network. What should make perfect business logic (keep your most successful projects on an efficient and profitable production schedule) doesn’t seem to drive the way the BBC functions, and possibly never will.

Yes, many things were good about Man Of Steel, and there were many things I really admire, but there were many mistakes as well. I’m not going to list them here, but they added up to a real misunderstanding of what people love about Superman which can be basically blamed on Zach Snyder.

By that logic, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver could never have been created by Strucker and Dr. List. Or The Vision, for that matter. I am sure that there is some kind of time wimey wibbly wobbly inter-dimensional thing going on, but I’m not going to imagine what it is. As for Cap’s suit, I’m pretty sure that the one…

Who knows where the rumors came from? The reception for Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall has been almost uniformly positive to say the least. The only Doctor of the post-reboot version of the show to leave after one season was Christopher Eccleston who seemed to have his own personal reasons for not coming back…

Just a reminder, it’s not only Charlie Cox, Elden Henson and Deborah Ann Woll who have lost their jobs, but everyone else behind the scenes who are now looking for work as well. For every speaking character you see on screen, there are at least ten people off camera working even longer days to make those shows. There…

Yes, it is. Reeve Carney starred in Spider-Man: Fiasco on Broadway, or whatever that show was called.

I can’t say that I’m totally surprised, since Tumblr’s minimal rules about adult content made this kind of development inevitable. Now that they are owned by Verizon, it is to be expected that they will err on the side of more censorship rather than less. The Internet, however always creates its own “Room of…

I think that Disney doesn’t even know what they are doing with these characters yet, so it’s probably not wise to speculate too far into the future beyond what seems like the inevitable cancellations of Jessica Jones and The Punisher after their (respectively) currently filming and already filmed series have been…

This all sounds good, and I am certainly not complaining, but I have to say that my knowledge of the Marvel Universe comes mostly from movies and animated TV shows. I am aware of many, many characters, but I am totally unfamiliar with Shang-Chi. Am I alone? Did I somehow miss a major character with a huge following?

I am not really that familiar with this character, but I think that it is safe to say that Fu Manchu will not figure into an MCU movie because A) Marvel is unlikely to feature a public domain character that prominently unless, like Thor or Loki, he or she would be of ancient mythological origin, and B) Fu Manchu’s…

You shouldn’t care unless they are your personal friends. It’s really none of our business. If you are going to vet your TV viewing based on the backstage behavior of all the people behind the scenes, you will find yourself with nothing to watch.

I’m pretty sure that the only reason Coredelia was pregnant during Season 4 was because Charisma Carpenter was actually pregnant. Sometimes you have to roll with what you got.

The puppet episode, “Smile Time” is generally seen as a high point of the series in terms of standalone episodes. You are not alone in your opinion at all. It is a delight.

If you dropped Angel during the first season, I can understand your distaste for it, but you would have no idea how many insanely entertaining twists and turns it took during subsequent seasons.

They will drop it on Marvel’s YouTube channel like everyone else does. It will go viral and get a million views within a matter of seconds. Maybe it will appear on the placeholder web page, but that actually misrepresents the purpose of a streaming service because the movie will not appear their until long after it…