I caught his third episode and he’s clearly nervous--probably because, unlike most guest hosts, he actually wants the job on a full-time basis. Too bad he only got a week.

Looking back, I’m realizing that the reason I avoided this show for so long was because Christine Baranski did too good a job playing a right wing nutjob radio host on Frasier 25 years ago. Now, I can’t picture her as anyone else.

Hard to tell from just the one shot, but it looks considerably smaller than Voyager, given the very large window on the bridge deck.

This isn’t necessary a bad idea, especially if it gets us away from constant “breaking news” designed to stoke viewership and ad revenue.

Yeeaaah there’s a very real chance that the GOP will try to override the voters again, and no guarantee they will be stopped. Even if I agreed with the premise of this article, Biden’s image management is pretty far down on my priority list right now.

Sadly yes. It was a good movie, but the marketing was anemic—the trailers didn’t have a good “hook” with Idris Elba’s character buried under makeup and hard to understand—and it came out in a crowded summer blockbuster season.

They weren’t fired, but negotiations broke down. Pine and Hemsworth were both guaranteed a certain amount for appearing in Star Trek IV but, when Beyond flopped, Paramount wanted them to work for less.

Yup. I can remember ten off the top of my head that were actually in one level of development or another. Including ones I forgot, there probably have been more unproduced ideas than actual movies. There was:

Beyond was delightful, but they made a mistake by burying Idris Elba in makeup and making him almost incomprehensible for 99% of the movie. If they’d let him become human again and explain his motivations earlier in the film, it would have made him a more compelling villain and provided more interesting material for…

I’ve not read any of GRRM’s work, but is there any reason he couldn’t pass it along to another author (if he was so inclined)?

“Peak early” is my guess.

The Great North is also from the Bobs Burgers producers and is set in Alaska.

Haven’t Central Park yet—I don’t have an Apple TV+ subscription—but the cast albums are amazing. I might have to get a month to binge it.

I really wish streaming services would just post the “leaves on” date on all their content, or at least on content that’s close to departure. In this day and age, with content ping-ponging from one service to another, it would save a lot of consumer anxiety.

I wonder if another contributing factor was that TV/movie productions were probably one of the last workplaces to get serious HR oversight. Putting children in an environment that’s more stressful and exploitative than most office drones (myself included) will ever see is a recipe for disaster.

I only know about this because a bunch of developers from Star Trek: Online (another Cryptic game) were siphoned off or transferred to it over the last couple of years. Hopefully those affected can return to old jobs or find new ones quickly.

Three ANTIFAs dressed in a trenchcoat with a badge!

Yuuuuup. It was Disney.

“Let’s make this quick. The bowling alley manager will fire my ass if I don’t have this snack bar open by 11.”