To be fair, to my recollection (which might be off), it wasn't established that he'd murdered anyone until the film, and the film didn't have much time to contend with it (although one or two of the Missing Pieces deleted scenes does/do a bit).

I think it was because Jacoby remembers smelling burning gasoline just before his attack, and later the audience comes to know that that's BOB's signature odor, so we put two and two together.

Keillor is pretty well-known for being a lifelong Democrat. Since retiring from his show, he's written a number of op-eds for the Washington Post that bear that out.

I have to say no — "The Cleveland Show" was really dire, delightful as the fact of casting Lynch might have been.

The Kings are actually planning to sort of anthologize the show:

Actually, it's funny you say you'd watch the expanded version of "Magneto: Nazi Hunter" because that's exactly what that movie was supposed to be. Fox was going to make a series of "X-Men: Origins" movies, and "Magneto" and was due to come out second after "Wolverine." When "Wolverine" did so badly, "Magneto" was…

The patient who complained about the Oscars (Donna) is Sue Scott, who's been a radio actor on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" for 25 years. That took me forever to place! I wonder if the show is actually shot in Minnesota or something.

That's very true, but I still think that among Margulies's star power, her lead role, the Kings's relative newness, and the relative earliness of Margulies's producer upgrade, the power dynamics remain entirely different on "The Good Wife"

Yeah, but in just about all of those cases, besides the fact that many of those aren't true leads, all of the producers involved are mega-producers with great power, like Shonda Rhimes today: you've got Aaron Spelling, David E. Kelley, and Norman Lear up there, among others. Not all showrunners are created equal.

They weren't great, but maybe they distributed well (such as they were) across platforms, demonstrating a literacy necessary for CBS All-Access. I dunno.

Would the same be true of "The Good Wife," though? It had the second-oldest audience after "Blue Bloods."

True, though I dunno if having a female protagonist helped much with male viewers either.

Yeah, Merritt Butrick died of AIDS-related illness in 1989 at age 29.

I figured they might do something like that, yeah, or more concretely mention Alicia's gubernatorial campaign or victory in the background or something at some point.

Yeah, I'm sure the show would follow up with Diane's marriage no matter what because she's going to be one of the leads, but meanwhile I remember Baranski and Czuchry were the only two cast members to definitely up their contracts to an eighth season back when that was still a possibility, so I wouldn't be surprised…

I also read it's switching to a 10-13 episode format, which I suppose makes that $6 price tag even tougher to swallow even though I'm sure it was a requirement of Baranski's.

On the USA Today announcement (and only there from what I can see), it says that this show will follow Diane Lockhart's goddaughter — the daughter of Diane's old college friends — as she becomes a colleague at Diane's firm and learns that her family isn't an stable as she once thought.

Alas, they've already confirmed this show will start one year after the conclusion of "The Good Wife" and Diane never felt the need to dream about Will. Alas.

Well, Weixler left because she moved to LA, so she's still gone. Lane was always about scheduling issues.

Actually, I read that she had shot a scene and everything, but it was cut last-minute.