@avclub-f979394c282f4c89bbd91e8ef5589479:disqus Hollywood?!? Ha ha, see, the problem is that it's filmed in Georgia. (Insert joke about how fat we Americans are, on average, in states like Georgia as opposed to Hollywood.)

I admire your ability to retain your hippie socialist dreams. I've grown weary and cynical. 18 minutes of ads per hour? Sure, why not. I'll just pay up for a cable company DVR and fast forward through the damn things. What, the UK actually limits the number of ads permitted per hour on channels like ITV? Huh? Those…

Yeah, I can't figure that out. How does Agents look so much like a 90s syndicated action drama? I swear, the first two episodes reminded me of Mutant X, or Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. Yeah that's right, I said it — Mutant X. Not even, say, Legend of the Seeker (which looked waaaaay better, although probably largely…

@avclub-dd32eeb1df15b3d64c21fbda058f0597:disqus If it were just that they came THISCLOSE to firing Weiner from Mad Men and replacing him with someone else, and that their negotiations with Gilligan nearly went very very bad, then maybe I'd agree with you. But they also replaced showrunners on other shows, specifically…

I'm sure the networks take the Hulu/online legal streaming views into
account when determining whether or not to renew a show. We just don't see those numbers ourselves. I guess they prefer to keep them hidden? But I know if I were a network exec, I'd be paying attention to that stuff. What makes you think they're NOT?

@avclub-2586d0717b58d4f4383144ca1341d079:disqus "…and syndication should bump the ratings up a little too, just as it did for Parks last year."

Even though only one episode of the four of "Celestial Toymaker" is available, I'd be curious to know if Christopher Bahn despises it as much as Philip Sandifer does. Back in the early 90s when I first became a fan of the show, "Toymaker" had a good reputation among fans, but we couldn't see it so I don't think…

Stop cruelly misleading these poor folks. There are no nipples or full cracks on say, FX, much less Lifetime. It doesn't count as truly "naked" without those elements.

@avclub-efb3d8be0319721ef751da0b05d9f6a5:disqus — have you tried putting a portable version of a good browser on a USB stick and plugging it into your work computer? You don't need administrative rights for that. (That's assuming your work computer has USB ports, or maybe a disc drive would work.) Special portable…

I was skeptical at first, partly because the character designs ARE quite ugly, but Bob's Burgers turned into a hilarious show from the middle of its first season onwards (if you like shows about insane kids voiced by alternative comedians, like Home Movies, of which this show is sort of a descendant). There are some…

@avclub-e6c1142acfaceea3982a09641b33fc04:disqus That's what I thought, but Comcast is apparently making G4 into an all-rerun channel, with no originals, so quite a few cable systems are dropping G4 now.

I'm with you on most of the second paragraph, but not Celestial Toymaker. Have you read Philip Sandifer's takedown of that one? It's bizarre that they got four episodes out of this racist mess:
http://www.philipsandifer.c…

The Guardian seems to think that something missing has been recovered, and I'd say it's one of the most trustworthy papers in the world. But they don't say how much. At the same time, The Guardian also debunks this 106-episode Mirror BS, saying it's "wide of the mark."

I'm a big fan of the show but I've never been able to get through all of the (existing) Hartnell episodes. The first Doctor just doesn't do a thing for me.

Baseball always screws up Fox's fall schedule like this. I thought they were going to offload all the playoffs to TBS or TNT or something, weren't they? Then it would've just been the World Series itself on Fox broadcast, only a maximum of seven games. But no, apparently not.

Random Doctor Who ranting:

Jesus! Haven't we pushed Tim Kring off of the continent on an ice floe yet?

@avclub-4f86d021a65ad7db114366c5d5dcf69f:disqus From what little I've seen of Yahoo comments, Yahoo is much more wildly uneven, with the absolute vile dregs of society mixed with some rare thoughtful posts, or at least something suggesting half a brain. TVBtN is mostly a solid block of depressing mediocrity and…

Yeah, the rumor was always that Kevin Reilly was a big fan of the show, but I figured it was more likely that the growing power and influence of J.J. Abrams had to do with the show's survival. Other executives have been fans of shows that they had to cancel in the past, and still went ahead and canceled them. But who…

Yeah, Fan Excuse Bingo is fucking brilliant. They need more clever bits like that to make the site more interesting. You can only do so much with raw numbers along with thin, basic analysis and a few Renew/Cancel Indices and associated concepts.