I’ve been hoping for years Rani and Clyde would return. After “Sarah Jane Adventures,” I really wanted them to become the next companions. Alas.

Given how shabbily Classic Who treated companions, which NuWho has been very good about discussing, I’m in favor of bringing folks back into the mix. I’d really like to see the Sarah Jane Chronicles kids reappear.

There was a particularly good audio adventure set in an airport, IIRC. Or something like that. Both Mel and the 6th Doctor were dialed down just enough to make the story work. So I’m looking forward to seeing her again.

Mel on Classic Who was awful, but she was redeemed by Big Finish, so this could work out.

i’m almost positive they announced that he signed a contract for one more spider-man and one more mcu like 2 years ago.

I think that guy is a pretty good Superman, but I just can’t abide a Superman with a five-o’clock shadow.
Unless it’s the asshole Superman from Superman 3.

I will never-ever-ever work in an office again. My office wasn’t open plan like yours, it was massive cube city- but my cube was at the very end of the row on an aisle right in front of the break room. People would either stand and talk to me, or a group of people would stop by my cube and talk loudly - it never…

It’s also financially stupid. The organization I work for pays for SEVEN floors of a building.

Yep. Mr. Valve has a 9-5 job that, before lockdown, basically consisted of him working 60% of the time and spending 40% of the time fucking around because he was more efficient than the other people in the office. Now he gets all his work done, all his chores done, and even gets to spend some time with Little Valve…

“As Taylor Swift once said, ‘Karma is a god!ʼ”

What Disney is doing here is taking an impairment charge - they determined that the fair market value of their asset (part of their streaming library) is less than what they paid for it. Under US GAAP, they take an expense to adjust the value of the asset down and since that expense flows through their income…

Cutting the shows reduces the corporation’s revenue, which in turn reduces the tax burden come tax time. It’s not a 1 to 1 thing, though. You can cut a billion dollars worth of shows but end up saving “only” 300 million in terms of real savings. The shows that are being cut simply do not contribute enough, in some…

A writer/director friend I know suspects the writer’s will get very screwed.

Just proof most directors don’t give a fuck about anyone else.

I think the spirit of it was that by giving a backup plan companies would be more inclined to take risks and create more jobs, increasing the number of people paying taxes. The problem is when they do the massive write-offs and then lay off tons of people. 

Keep in mind that Disney+ lost the company over half-a-billion dollars in the last quarter. The same quarter the previous year, D+ lost $887-million.

it makes no sense anyway, they produced these shows, put them on their service and remove them later how is that a tax break suddenly? I literally don’t understand the logic

A giant corporation being handed taxpayer money for exercising self-censorship is egregiously anti-free speech, and particularly in a country like the US.

This kind of thing shouldn’t be legal. Like, sure, businesses “should” be able to write off loses (debatable, whatever), but this kind of thing is so incredibly and obviously anti-consumer, it should be specifically disallowed.

As a writer and former film professional myself I hate to admit this, but this really isn’t any different than back in the days of television, is it not? Most shows weren’t on VHS, and DVD was an unexpected second life. And most shows never go to syndication. They go on for a few years and then get cancelled, half of…