He's a right scurvy bastard, but to be fair, I suppose he didn't innovate this one. I'm trying to remember what could be said to be the earliest example of a channel superfluously taking one of its most popular programs and spinning it off to a whole separate new channel for no good reason other than PROFIT. Maybe A&E…

"Legitimately wintry conditions?!" What? That was two or three days ago. It's freaking WARM here today in north Jersey. It's 53 degrees Fahrenheit! It's like a heat wave or something. I went hiking yesterday and there were tons of people out there acting like it was the first day of summer. Those big fellows, the…

Wait a minute. I don't know or care about interior design and I'm pretty bad with architecture too, but each season so far has featured an amazing, gorgeous mansion. This whole series is just an excuse for Ryan Murphy to do architecture porn, isn't it?!? Once he gets to hang out and shoot in these houses, he doesn't…

Nope, that would defeat the point of FXX, which is to get all of the Sunny fanatics to demand that their cable and satellite providers add the channel, thus allowing News Corp. to extort more pennies per subscriber per month from each cable and satellite company for another channel.

Rick & Morty is on at the same time on Adult Swim and is a much better thing to watch while intoxicated, or in any other state.

They remind me a little of the bumps used in the Saturday morning cartoon lineups in the 80s and early 90s on CBS and (to a lesser degree) ABC and NBC. Maybe that's where they got the idea? Some of those bumps were pretty strange, at least for CBS, though certainly nothing compared to AS's material.

No, no, being weirder wouldn't help anybody on NBC. In the more general ratings demographic of adults 18-49, Community still does better than Rick & Morty, but expectations are much lower on Adult Swim so these kinds of numbers are really impressive there. It's a slightly smaller fish in a much, much, much much much…

Finn's creepy, obsessive behavior came so far out of nowhere and seemed so disturbing that I wonder if the Blade of Grass is causing it. Story arc?

I noticed this on Sunday and tried to warn everybody in the comments for Monday's What's On Tonight. Are you saying you were too busy having a life to read every single obscure post deep within that goofy thread? PFFFFT!

Yeah, I agree, that seemed more like a bout of some kind of manic OCD or psychosis. Does anyone else think the Blade of Grass might be twisting the poor kid's mind a bit? He calmed down by the end of the episode because Rattleballs gave him something to do — or so you might think. But maybe it was actually because…

This show is doing well in the ratings (by Adult Swim standards) from what I can see at TV By the Numbers, with an 0.7 in adults 18-49 at 10:30, matching Archer and the big lead-in from a Family Guy rerun (and if you can match those inexplicably monstrous Family Guy reruns, you're doing pretty well) and then a…

The brown contacts were because of some kind of crazy racist bullshit from someone in charge, who claimed that "savages can't have blue eyes" or some such insanity. Even though "Face of Evil" is set in the FUTURE! So… HUH?!?

If you are DVRing it, watch out, TV listings provider TMS (Tribune Media Services) has so far FAILED to mark this as a new episode, even though it is a new one! A LOT of systems use TMS listings. Check your DVR! Same for Adv. Time and Steven Universe!

I don't know about you guys, but my DVR isn't automatically picking up tonight's new episodes of Adventure Time, Steven Universe, OR Rick & Morty, despite having series recordings set up for all three of them. OR tomorrow's new episode of Justified. So you guys might want to check that if you have DVRs.

Yeah, I know it's strange, right? But Fox is a huge channel here and I think they're right that an Australian show would not work for them. Viewers in Peoria and Klamath Falls and Memphis would not be able to decode the accents, even if they're not strong, because a lot of us are provincial, xenophobic, small-minded…

That's a great review, even if I disagree with it. I caught Priest on premium cable and as your grim post-apocalyptic action movies go, it was fun, engaging, and very well-directed. I can't argue it's not "inessential" though.

There is approximately zero chance Supernatural will go back to Fridays. Friday is now mostly the night where shows go to die, whether it's slowly or quickly. Supernatural (a show whose appeal is beyond me, but more power to you) did so well on Fridays that it achieved the seemingly impossible and was promoted out of…

Iain De Castaecker (Fitz) was really good as the lead in a short-lived British supernatural drama called The Fades. Somehow SHIELD has sucked out most of his charisma (although a bit of it started to reappear in the most recent episode). So maybe it's NOT the casting.

I tried watching the early episodes of S1 of Fringe while they were airing and turned it off in disgust after episode 4 or 5, wrongly assuming they were just jerking everybody around X-Files-style with nonsensical story arcs that were being made up as they went along and were leading nowhere. Turns out I was WAY wrong…

I definitely can't imagine NBC airing reruns of this show. They'll burn off the last six from late Feb. through early April and then jump into The Voice specials you've wisely guessed at. Heck, even random special Datelines would do better, or get the same kind of numbers at a minimum. Actually I wouldn't even be…