Doesn't he have a little too much human man-musk to be the Doctor? He'd be better as the next James Bond. The Doctor should be a touch less overtly masculine in my view.

Hmm, maybe I'll check it out. I'm surprised to find that I get Pivot on Verizon Fios. It replaced something called Halogen.

Nope, this is CBS we're talking about, not cable, so there's no same-week reruns. You only get the one shot.

Yeah, I had high hopes that Siberia would be an entertainingly nasty and dark spin on Survivor, with one "contestant" getting killed off every week instead of being voted out. But it moves much more slowly than that, and the writers seem to have no idea what they're doing, and the characters aren't compelling.

That's correct. Or at least that's how the closed captioning spelled it.

Interestingly, a relatively new worldwide trend seems to be government-financed international news channels that often do a good job covering human rights abuses in other countries besides the ones who own/finance them. Or at least Al Jazeera English does, anyway. They do a great job (especially by U.S. TV news…

We Americans will point fingers at EVERY fucking government that does evil shit, including our own. That's what we have the right to do.

Bizarrely, some of these original Adult Swim shows are consistently in the top 100 cable ratings lists, sometimes near the top. Even in reruns, sometimes. Not that they don't deserve it, because they do, but it's just bizarre. So I guess the ratings help bring in guest stars. Actually this episode "only" got an 0.5 in…

I was happy to see that this episode did well in the ratings with 0.7 in adults 18-49 and 2.67 million viewers. Those are strong numbers by Cartoon Network standards. Although, of course, the channel's target demos are much younger than 18-49 so we don't really know how it did in the target kid demos. In any case I…

"It's truly regrettable that a show, Continuum, hitting on contemporary
issues and problems, gets overlooked.  Especially when a kids show gets
review attention."

Neither. BMO's activity was more akin to killing brain cells via huffing glue or auto-asphyxiation.

Kenneth Goldsmith is on Colbert tonight. He's a really unpredictable character so this should be interesting and possibly hilarious.

Yeah, I was stumped by High School USA's lousy attempts at satire. That went nowhere. Ooooo, the characters are doing the opposite of what you think they're supposed to do! Get it? Get it? But now we'll surprise you and have them do the opposite of some other thing! And then reverse it again randomly! Half-baked Adult…

That was the only line in the whole thing that amused me. The rest of it either bored me or pissed me off or made me roll my eyes in irritation. Definitely not groundbreaking satire of any kind. And that's some of the ugliest fucking animation I've ever seen in my life. Like, almost as ugly as Garrison Keillor. And…

HOLY SHMOW.

Oh my glob, yes, thank you! Almost everybody has forgotten Ryan Cartwright in Alphas. Even I forgot for a while, because I was mostly fuming that Maslany wasn't nominated, nor was Matthew Rhys for The Americans. But Cartwright was just as amazing. I'm glad somebody remembered.

This one is in color now?! Damn, you folks who are just now catching up on classic DW don't know how good you have it. Back in my day, when I first discovered the show via PBS reruns in 1990-91, we had to watch "The Silurians," "Ambassadors of Death," "Terror of the Autons," "The Daemons," AND this one all in…

You haven't had any complaints? Consider yourself lucky. A good friend verbally ripped me a new one when I fixed the SD aspect ratio setting on her HDTV. I don't know why she wanted to watch all the SD channels all stretched out like that. It makes me crazy. I didn't respect her as much after that. I was like, "Shit,…

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus I think Game of Thrones gets away with it because (besides being excellent) it LOOKS like a period piece, it's filled with plummy, sexy British accents, it has eye-popping European location work, and it gets (deservedly) hyped a lot by HBO. Plus it probably reminds…

She was good, but I'd argue that Matthew Rhys is even more impressive. And the biggest snub for actress is definitely Tatiana Maslany for Orphan Black. Not to put Keri Russell down or anything. I just never felt I understood or connected with the character as deeply as Rhys's character. Maybe a minor fault of the…