David Chase almost worked on the X-Files (this was his backup if the Sopranos pilot went nowhere) and acknowledged an admiration for Twin Peaks, though, both of which were series that employed serialization (heavily, in Twin Peaks case.)

A good rule of thumb, I think, is adult procedurals on the one hand and teen dramas on the other.

Of all the post-X-Files shows that take their cues from the X-Files, Fringe may be the most obvious - anything else this blatantly X-Files was usually something produced when the X-Files was still on and other networks were trying to cash in (your Dark Skies, etc.)

"Finn and Poe in Star Wars, are they into each other? We must see new film to confirm,"

Disney doesn't do Arrow, man.

I remember back in 2006, when Glenn Greenwald was a blogger who people mostly joked about for apparently making sock puppets.

Justin Ridge replaced him for the third season of Rebels. Before that he was an episode director on Rebels and Clone Wars before it.

Filoni stepped down from being the showrunner this year - or rather, stepped up to some broader job as animation czar or something (rumour is he's involved in prepping whatever Rebels' replacement show will be, likely one set in the era of the sequel trilogy.)

I enjoy it, but as something that airs on Saturday mornings (at least over here), it's definitely something that'd really resonate with that age set.

*Martin Prince voice*
I'm familiar with his work.

People have called Shinkai the next Miyazaki for a while, it was probably more true back when he made the Children Who Chase Lost Voices, his most explicitly Miyazaki-adjacent work, but honestly it wasn't great and he returned to the kind of romantic anime films that have been his bread and butter for over a decade…

I would take the minority view that the Old Maid is the best, or, at least, I broke down in tears at Bette Davis' monologue at the end of the film.

I was checking recently which Davis films I'd definitely watched, and I wasn't sure I'd seen the Letter until I pulled up a description from a Bette Davis film festival I attended ten years ago. And then the memories came back, 'Ah, yes, that one, that was good.'

This list is handy because while I've seen my share of Bette Davis films (and periodically stumble into more) my Crawford knowledge is a lot scantier. So, cheers.

Well I imagine I'd get more of a kick out of Siddig as Faisal than whatever Gotham will do with him so I may just dial it up.

Well that they always got Fadil wrong is what I'd heard. (They said Faddle, presumably, and not Fadeel.) It could be more than one thing.

I know of Lawrence after Arabia, but I'm not sure why it's a thing.

Yeah, Alexander is his stage name, because people were always mis-pronouncing his birth name.

As other people told me, they didn't even lose their jobs. They're in an extremely enviable situation.

What a world.