Worst title for a decent British comedy ever. Or maybe for anything ever. It's actually good, and surprisingly mature given the title. But maybe the title gave me such low expectations that I am consequently overrating it.

Actually the CW has a lot of stuff (by its standards) on tap for mid-season right now: Containment (a.k.a. Cordon), Legends of Tomorrow, the underrated The 100, and maybe something else that I'm forgetting. I'm not sure where they're going to put all this stuff.

We don't know that this is the case. This is the edit they gave Wiglesworth, not necessarily how it actually happened. Everyone else's comments about her suggest she was playing a very good social game, but the producers didn't see fit to show us that. Her comments at the end ("have at it") suggest she's not into…

Fuck yeah, A.V. Club, promoting the FMA and WFMU, the best goddamn radio station on the planet! I actually like the human element of DJs curating the music for me, not some piece-of-shit algorithm. Only humans can create really inspired intentional musical segues. But for those of you not into the whole "listening to…

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Supposedly the demo is the main goal for prime-time shows specifically because of the easy supply of older viewers OUTSIDE of prime time, as well as the very poor supply of demo viewers outside of prime time. As an advertiser, why pay more for new prime-time programming to reach 50+ viewers when you can get them…

I found him much more charming in Tocantins. He's overthinking and overplaying like crazy now.

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Normally in a circumstance like this, where someone who seems like a massively smug jackass gets his well-deserved comeuppance, I'd suspect some very selective editing by the producers to play up that contestant as a villain. But NOPE, I will TOTALLY buy that Andrew Savage acted like that ALL the time and not just in…

Well that sounds fucking terrible. But we don't really know what this would've looked like if developed. Maybe terrible, but I like the idea of a mutated runaway TARDIS turning into a nightmare world. That blurb on Shannon Sullivan's site doesn't really tell us much. Maybe "regenerated in a computer" would've turned…

You can't be sure those people would've come out to vote at all if Nader hadn't been running. Those voters might have just stayed home. Remember, as ridiculous as it seems now, there were a lot of people during that election who thought W. and Gore were pretty much indistinguishable, hence the activist groups like…

JNT gets a lot of shit but I loved seasons 18*, 25, and 26. And I like the LOOK of seasons 19-21. In 19-21, the special effects weren't usually too terrible (or at least a big improvement over what Graham Williams did), the incidental music was good and sometimes great, the location work and direction were often fine…

To be clear, I had no intention of impugning Davison, who is one of my favorite actors. I think he was just exceptionally poorly-served by the scripts he was given. He often gave surprisingly good performances considering the crap he was working with. The fifth Doctor isn't one of my favorites, or not as written and…

Oops, I meant to toss in "Enlightenment" as another exception — definitely one of the very few good scripts those bastards gave Davison, perhaps his top episode besides "Androzani." (There's some fan speculation — by Philip Sandifer maybe? or one of his commenters, I'm pretty sure — that Barbara Clegg would have made…

Even just as a reconstruction (I watched one with little blurbs appearing on the screen describing the action we can't see), "Power" is really amazing.

Unfortunately I believe NFET is correct. You're describing a U.S.-style writers' room, which IMHO DW could really benefit from, but in the UK most dramas stick things entirely on one showrunner, and at one point there was even some kind of insane UK union rule preventing U.S.-style writers' rooms. (I'm not sure…

If they'd given Davison any goddamn decent scripts besides "Caves of Androzani," he'd've been a lot happier, surely. Back when I first watched a lot of those episodes, I thought they were OK, but as an adult I can see they were mostly rubbish. Even the decent ones, like "Kinda" and "Snakedance" and "Frontios," didn't…

Don't forget "Lions for Lambs." Although everyone else has.

We're going to need thorough, snarky reviews of each one. Get started, buddy.

That's an idea. Savage is apparently pretty vindictive and obsessed with bullshit "honor" and "loyalty." Maybe Ciera is just trying to get him to flip out and draw negative attention to himself.