In some respects, this may not have been the most scintillating premiere imaginable, but I’m truly over the moon that Murray Gold is gone. Didn’t you find him schmaltzy and incredibly over-the-top sometimes? Didn’t you ever get annoyed when the auditory tsunami of sonic cheese would drown out the dialogue? No? Well, I…

I saw it commercial-free, and yes, the first half was definitely better than the second. One problem is that when the focus comes off of the awesome spooky swirly glowing hose critter and becomes all about the rather pedestrian alien-gang-initiation-tooth-face dude, the plot becomes much less compelling. But…

I think people will come around to fully appreciate the brilliance of the Moffat era once we’ve had to suffer through about three new episodes of Chibnall’s deeply, deeply mediocre writing.

Some would argue that the first mashup — and still one of the best — was Evolution Control Committee’s “Rebel Without a Pause (Whipped Cream Mix)“, from 1996 (!). That is assuming, of course, that you define a mashup as specifically a combination of two different preexisting songs or elements of songs, and not merely…

On Monday night, Colbert appears to have matched Fallon in the demo, w/Kimmel (barely) beating them both. But Adult Swim probably stomped all 3 of them in the demo yet again.

Hennessy stockholders?

This season has the potential to get really interesting after the merge with original Naviti split into a Chris faction and a Domenic faction, with the few remaining original Malolos well-poised to take advantage of that. But for now, yeah, it’s pretty much just an old-school pagonging.

I was about to post something about this! Glad to see another WFMU fan beat me to it! Hey everybody, Ira from YLT also does fill-ins on WFMU as “Ira the K” and all his archives can be heard here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/IK

This wouldn’t be a bad idea for an old-school Palau-style season except that they like to have a merge so everybody in the jury knows each other well enough to decide who deserves the million. If tribes keep going beyond about 10 people total, they don’t see each other’s “moves” or whatnot. But they could solve that…

Unlike most of the moviegoing public at the time!

I just watched this episode on Netflix (U.S.) and the Burke scene does not appear there either. It’s 42 minutes long on Netflix, same as all the other episodes. That’s bizarre. Netflix is supposed to get full-length unedited versions of episodes, not rerun/syndication re-edits. Ugh. If I bothered to contact Netflix, I…

Slow news night? Isn’t this a repeat? That THR story isn’t new, it’s from almost precisely one month ago.

Not just that, but I believe somebody (Susie?) said “nerd alert!” That wasn’t even a saying in the 90s, was it? Much less the 50s.

Oh wow, I *SO* hope this is true! Gold is TERRIBLE. Some of his recurring themes are OK but overall his heavy-handed manipulative sentimental drivel is so incredibly distracting and irritating. And it’s LOUD. Throughout most of the scenes in this episode, I kept thinking, “UGH, TONE IT DOWN A NOTCH, you insipid…

The real reason they didn’t start focusing on worldwide box office until about maybe 10-15 years ago (as Dirtside points out, “just now” is not accurate) is that many other countries (outside European ones) didn’t have a lot of spending money relative to the U.S., or didn’t show American movies in their theater chains…

I know it’s irrational given that plenty of humans die, and I could see it coming, but I’m still pissed that Mews the cat bought the farm, and especially in such an ugly and upsetting way. Cats and dogs shouldn’t die in gruesome ways in TV shows. You want to depict a zombie apocalypse where all the humans get their…

Incorrect. I hate most “reality shows” but this one can be fun, and truly is closer to being a game show than a “reality show” — and if it were scripted, the most interesting people wouldn’t sometimes get voted out earliest. It’s truly unpredictable. Sometimes the contestants who seem the most promising, or who come…

Yes, THIS!!!!!!

Ugh, back to a 60-minute premiere instead of 90 minutes. Terrible. We really need that extra 30 minutes to get to know the players. I barely had any idea who that skinny lady was who got voted out.

Oh crap, so S3 ends on a cliffhanger then, like both of the previous seasons? Fantastic. Bleh.