Big Bang's drastically short running time — it's about nineteen minutes and change sans commercials — is having a serious effect on the quality of the stories. There simply isn't time to set up, explore and resolve a conflict without resorting to shortcuts and cliches. CBS obviously needs to make up the additional…

I love Colby Minifie as Robyn. New York is full of nutters holed up in crappy apartment buildings, and in a show that displays a broad spectrum of female characters, Robyn has a place: socially maladapted, domineering and needy, sure, but not without brains or insights. She starts out as comic relief, maybe, and…

Clara's death — or "death," as she's certain to pop up once more before all's said and done — was affecting, and it was great to see Maisie Williams again. But the episode was so chock full of technobabble (much of it resting on poor Maisie's shoulders) that I couldn't stay caught up with the story, and I'm still not…

Yes, I'm sure he doesn't mean the first-season cast exclusively.

The three gents in question told an interviewer last year they're not interested in coming back to a revived MST3K.

I so want to like this movie when it comes out. But I can't help thinking Snoopy wouldn't give a rat's ass whether the stupid round-headed kid gets a date or not.

He wasn't; he and Foggy still had their own practice (they weren't DAs). The movie was just written by a guy who didn't know shit about how the law works. (Among other things.)

Eek! Thank you.

This story has so much greatness, but special attention has to be paid to Sarah Jane Smith not just wielding a rifle, but doing so with an Annie Oakley-like deadliness. Lis Sladen wasn't sure how or why Sarah would know how to handle a rifle, but director Pennant Roberts (one of Who's few female directors) insisted…

This link has the first part of it (starts at 1:50). I thought the original bit ended with Dave brokering a Sadat/Begin-style handshake between the proprietors, but if so, it's not in this reel.

I was amazed to see how many moments in the "Everlong" montage — fast-cut though they were — I actually remembered watching as they happened. The Selsun Blue/Head and Shoulders experiment ("It's tingling, dammit!"). The Velcro Wall and the Alka-Seltzer Suit. Al Gore smashing ashtrays. Drew Barrymore's titty flash.…

He was good as the pot dealer in that episode of Louie.

It sounds like they were still working on it more or less until they started rolling camera on the final episode. Hopefully we'll come back in season two to a redesigned suit that plays a little more off the simple black ninja duds.

When Foggy's registering for his classes, we see the year is 2010. He and Matt are roomies in law school, not undergrad.

I think Statham was in the running for the last Fox reboot project, before the clock ran out.

I clicked to make sure "Jack and the Three Blond Archers" was included. Blew my mind the first time I saw it. And the second and third, now I think about it.

Years ago, reviewing the "Jurassic Bark" episode of Futurama, I wrote, "This was a beautiful, amazing episode. I never want to see it again." I would watch any of the above listed episodes again (well, of the ones I've seen anyway); I'll never watch "Jurassic Bark" again.

How cool would it have been to see Garron and Unstoff return in the final chapter!

Holmes' directive when assigned this story was that Kroll had to be the biggest monster ever featured on Doctor Who. That was the whole gimmick, and that was a big part of the reason Holmes was so sour about the whole experience: he was forced to create a creature he knew the production team would not be able to pull…

Downton Abbey never got over the departure of Dan Stevens. As imperfectly as it was depicted, Matthew Crawley's journey from middle-class attorney to credible aristocrat and heir gave the show an axis on which the rest of the action could revolve. His absence leaves the show with half a dozen storylines revolving in…