I hope whatever mortgage Jesse L. Martin paid off with this gig was worth his participating in that rape of Jonathan Larson's memory.

Um. You realize "Vienna" is a Billy Joel song, from The Stranger?

The signature umbrella Gatiss carries in his role as Mycroft on "Sherlock" has also cameo'ed twice in this season of Who. Once it was spotted in an umbrella stand and then last week Clara was holding it.

That Dr. Hannibal Lecter over on NBC seems like a real professional, and stylish to boot.

I'm pretty sure Miranda and Eden Riegel, who plays Miranda's mother Bianca, are the same age now. At least they look like it, so it's quite jarring.

I was surprised recently when my 62 year old mother, who only two years ago made the leap into email, told me that she's learned to watch TV online now. Why? So she can watch her soaps. This  is a woman who still recorded them every day ON VCR until 2011. Now she watches on NBC.com and ABC.com and will be watching on…

This is completely late because I came across it by accident and will probably never be seen, but oh well.

I used to have a Stephen King book (The Stephen King Encyclopedia maybe?) and in it was a Barry article about the Rock Bottom Remainders. It seemed like a fun time and to be fair, they all realized they were shit. But they had fun with it and raised a chunk of change for literacy causes by playing gigs to nerds who…

According to Deadline, they actually just met last week and decided NOT to rename the company 21st Century Fox because 20th Century Fox was too big of a brand name to mess with.

Hanks is a huge Beatles fan and had several nods to them in the movie, so I assume that was a tip of the hat to Brian Epstein. Now Hanks is producing an actual Epstein biopic, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

So Julia wants to write a play (a real play, not that musical crap!) on her own. And Tom wants to direct. But they can't decide how to continue their collaboration? Um….why doesn't Tom direct The Great Gatsby, written by Julia?

"Typically, a show has to pass through multiple stages to last out a season. Each episode is dissected by audience and critics alike as soon as it airs, and while that doesn’t prevent bad TV from surviving (or flourishing), it does require a certain level of competence."

A logical fallacy is assuming that just because a show is in syndication that means it's successful in syndication. Look at the weekly syndication charts and you can see. Numb3rs, for example: my local affiliate that aired that in syndication didn't even get through the first season before replacing it with another…

I recently re-watched the episodes that introduced Athlead and I had forgotten that Jim says that he and Pam discussed him joining his friend's business and they decided no, it was too big a risk. Jim then went behind her back and did it anyway! That's why he was so scared to tell her and kept it secret for two…

Any man who wrote a song like "Maybe I'm Amazed" about me would get blowjobs for life.

"And if I say, I really loved you/And was glad you came along/Then you were here today/For you were in my song."

Nobody ever has any love for "Big Barn Bed." :(

Before Linda died, I'm sure she looked back fondly on her life; remembering her career achievements (including as the first female photographer for Rolling Stone), being best friends with Jimi Hendrix, fucking Jim Morrison and Warren Beatty in their prime. Oh, and being married for thirty years to a Beatle and…

He drives a shiny red sports car and Judith's fundamentalist Christian mother appears to occasionally shriek, "He is the DEVIL!" and he leads our heroine into TEMPTATION so yes he is a clumsy metaphor for Satan.

An important fact left out of this debate is that the Judith character in Temptation was raped. She was on a plane with the Devil character (whose name I forget, but he was a clumsy allegory for "The Devil") when he pushed himself on her. She repeatedly said "No!' "Stop!" and pushed him away, trying to get him off…