When Philip Hinchcliffe took over as producer in 1975 with the second Tom Baker serial, he kept Sarah Jane Smith around for two-and-a-half more seasons… and then with later producers, Leela was kept around (though she was sort of sidelined after a while and then written out in an infamously perfunctory and insulting…

Wait, what? Please tell me this actually happened at some point. Or this just a joke about how DW & B7 both filmed in a lot of quarries?

I actually despise Big Bang Theory but Survivor is a fun guilty pleasure (and the only remaining show I still watch on CBS) for its odd evolution into a game show where most of the contestants don't take it too seriously anymore and sometimes even congratulate each other on good gameplay and strategy when they get…

I'll second Burton's Apes. The worst.

Nope. Have you watched this show regularly? I don't think so. If it were scripted, the most interesting and most fun people would always win. Instead boring or semi-boring people often win and the exciting or charismatic people often lose. No fan favorites would ever get voted out early if it were scripted. They…

It's up now. Not that I would ever use a dubious pirate site like that one mentioned above (and note that "cartoon" is singular, not plural, in the URL). Not me, nope, never. No way.

Very disappointed that this apparently means Samurai Jack episode XCV (new season, ep. 4) didn't air. Supposedly the new episode scheduled for this week is delayed until next week instead, according to some folks on Twitter. I love Rick & Morty too, but come on.

Have you never heard of criticism before? This is what it looks like. Sometimes the critics like something. Sometimes they don't. That's how it works.

This is completely batshit bonkers IMHO, but then I'm a little bit older than the target audience. I guess I should admit, if somebody did a movie adapted from one of my favorite crappy 80s kids' shows (not that anybody would, because they weren't popular enough… Galaxy High School, anyone?), I might be curious. Maybe.

Nah, remember, about half of the gross goes to the cinema chains. Overseas, sometimes more. In China, only 25% gets back to the studios. (A lot of the remainder goes to the government, I'd assume.) Plus the studios spend a lot on marketing, which is insanely expensive, sometimes $100m+, but streaming rights, cable…

Hoo boy, seasons 6 and 7 are really not worth losing sleep over. I mean, parts of them are really good but… eh.

That's definitely true in prime time, but it's much less clear to me how the demos vs. the total viewers affects the ad rates in late night. Different dayparts are different. For instance, daytime and early evening TV depend much more on total viewers since certain demos are vanishingly small at those times.

Agreed that Batiste is terrible, but have you watched the show in the last six weeks or so (the ratings winning streak indicated in the story)? Colbert is back. He's on fire. The growing pains are over. (But the interviews are usually worthless, skip those.)

Do you mean The After? They ordered that to series, but then rescinded that order. Here's why, in case you're wondering: In the Hollywood Reporter, Carter said of The After, "It was a hard sell from the beginning. It was eight characters in hell, and I really didn't do a bible for the show because I wanted to discover…

Did you watch the whole show originally? I'm a huge fan of DS9 but, as with TNG, it went through some serious growing pains and took a while to get good. I often tell new viewers that if they're skeptical at the beginning then they should skip most of season 1 — just the premiere, "Past Prologue", "Battle Lines",…

I can't stand most of Chib's dull crummy scripts but a writers' room could really improve everything a lot. But is he allowed to do that? I thought there was some kind of labor rule against writers' rooms in the UK. I'm no expert though. That may just be ignorant American hearsay.

Yep, that's the Hudson Yards station over near Javits.

That's an almost brand-new station (or probably was when the video was made). That's why. As an NYC resident, I assure you, many of the stations are just as filthy as ever. At this point I don't know if I could even handle it if we had clean subway stations. It just wouldn't be New York to me. It's bad enough that you…

Exactly. No scheme to distract us. He's just batshit crazy (enough to believe this wacko Breitbart stuff).

I usually like arty avant-garde stuff (seriously, my fave thing at the Guggenheim right now is a huge industrial robot arm futilely sweeping up the same fake blood over and over again) but The Thin Red Line seemed like an incoherent new-age hash to me. Can Malick's movies be rearranged and re-edited into an actual…