My mom talked to the Hallmark people before that store closed and said the owners are interested in having the whole space turned into apartments and such, which is why their lease wasn’t renewed. The TJMax’s lease is up in a year from, I think.

I live right by the only one in NJ; it’s gotten so pathetic and hardly even seems worth keeping open.

I’ll say this: at least the Little Mermaid singing things actually incorporated game play. Watching “Let It Go” happen shot-for-shot the same as the movie with no actual additions beyond Sora/Goofy/Donald reactions was bad.

If only Stephen Colbert’s Fairview was an elaborate prank.

He just came back in Picard!

I’m kinda salty that the year the Muppets finally won an Oscar for their song, they didn’t get to perform it, but Encanto gets to do a song they’re not even nominated for.

What does a yellow lightsaber mean?

My thought on this kind of thing is usually: do something new. Don’t reboot FRIENDS with a new cast; do a different hang-out show. I get it’s about brand-recognition, but it just opens up unfair comparisons to the original. Let the thing stand on its own.

It’s one of the few cable channels that’s not on autopilot showing all day movies or marathons of a sitcom, and actually still relates to its original goal. Like IFC doesn’t play anything pertaining to indie films anymore; their schedule right now is all day Two and a Half Men. Or Logo, which was launched as a…

TCM lives to see another day.

I loved that show and it sucks that it’s like nowhere to stream; made it hard to recommend it to friends.

I’m not disliking the format use here, but I do think some media taking on this format need a stronger in-universe reason for why they’re the subject of documentary. And there’s others like that Disney+ High School Musical show that acts like a mockumentary, but there aren’t actually cameras or crew following them at…

That’s good to hear. I checked it out on a whim and found it very entertaining.

Can Weird Al be nominated in her place then?

I don’t know if this is still a practice, but back in the day, some shows would usually put their better episodes out first (since there didn’t really need to be a specific order in which they aired) instead of the ones they actually taped first.

Abbott Elementary is fun; I hope it gets renewed.

Yeah, I’ve been watching week-to-week and it’s just not doing anything for me. I feel like very often they have a dilemma snowballing bigger and bigger but the end point is just “meh.”

I was gonna bring that up too, but it seemed impolite.

Or, just let Americans use the BBC iPlayer.

Good. Now it’s gone from “totally ill-advised” to “slightly ill-advised.”