Eh. The Disney Channel does this because they use some scammy educational discount that runs out after three years, so if there’s a fourth Jonas Brothers season suddenly they’re on a boat with a new title. But a completely new show from the same pre-existing I.P. several years later is indeed as completely new a show.…

What’s interesting to me about the new flag is how aggressively it violates the design aesthetic of the original. Is it possible to support the underlying idea while objecting to its artistic merits? Or is that part of the point, to encourage a meta dialogue: what do you care more about, equality or “good” taste?

The Trek audience may be too literal-minded for this, but there’s a third way: The new series is set in its own universe.

The hope was that these “little” Star Wars movies could be tonally different and thereby maybe even be the most interesting ones. Instead they're apparently all going to be cut from a bolt like Marvel flicks. Oh well

Why would they contact editorial? Indeed the story was that Gawker’s advertising arm rejects contact editorial often embraces. Not that you deny that here. You don’t really have a point here, in fact

Or maybe people just really love dinosaurs? And always have, ever since always? I mean it’s telling that you can’t offer a single example of what Hollywood taking this lesson the wrong way might look like. What other movie could follow... what recipe exactly?

If Waterston’s and Sheen’s agents got them a “most favored nations” clause — not unusual for big stars doing TV — then no matter what they raise Tomlin and Fonda’s pay to they’ll have to give the men, too. If it helps, 1.) We are likely talking an astronomical number already; and 2.) Such a clause got Meredith…

I think with a little more effort you could have gotten this down to half a sentence.

This incident is actually an argument against the Netflix model. Most networks broadcast episodes shortly after they’re made. Netflix withholds them until they have a whole season to release at once. Which leaves a window of months and months during which someone can get their hands on them and do what happened here

This story gets everything exactly wrong. Another way to look at it is, with 100 cable channels now making originals and 100 online services joining in, every possible kind of television is being produced by the bushel. There is even enough bandwidth for nostalgia-fueled reboots.

Excellent gender policing. Keep it up!

There's no telling where anything will go, but many of the current trends in LGBT thought are toward viewing sexuality as a continuum or even unknowable muddle (queer, genderqueer, etc.) So on top of whatever else, good luck delineating who's "allowed" to play what. Personally I'm mainly irritated by straight actors…

I showed the Godfather to my nephews recently and they both hated it

Did GWTW shape the white South's view of itself or just tell white Southerners what they wanted to hear? Either is a perfectly fine reason to reject the film, but you may give the medium more credit than I do. I'm reminded of communist Russia pouring scant resources into the films of Eisenstein and Vertov in the…

I'm gay, and if I want to hold movies to a similar standard I've got two problems: Movies made before say 1970 elide the very idea that I exist, which is problematic, and movies made from 1970 to 2005 cast me mainly as murderers and/or gross and/or a laughingstock. Even now things aren't great, but that's another…

There's something almost wistful about the tech sector still trying to paint the entertainment industry as a bad guy. Man, those were the days: Google could actually get people to hate Hollywood instead of, well, Google. They want to use copy protection, kill them! Nobody likes copy protection, but compared to…

Residents may try to dress it up as a safety issue, but this goes on all over the city. Homes in the area around the Mulholland entrance of Runyon Canyon park — with garages for their own cars! — still intentionally block street parking, too. And of course there are the endless battles in Malibu to keep public…

Well, there was the unforgettable Battlestar Galactica 1980, which was sort of a second season. Actually it fits right in with your thesis; to save money the studio relocated the show from expensive outer space to downright free contemporary Los Angeles. Then even that wasn't enough cost-savings, so they replaced…

Predictably — and gratifyingly — her book has garnered 200 new one-star reviews today alone. We bring upon ourselves that which we most fear

East Coast: Blue-chip. Seen everything. Nobody's fool. And yet hasn't spearheaded a new industry since garments, and is becoming less central to most others, except money. Which, if you're only going to have one, money is the one to have, no question. Still, West Coast: Built yesterday. Fly-by-night. …