Interesting. This is the first person who comes to mind when I hear the name Ainsley:

Meanwhile, in even more down-market franchises:

My heart skipped a beat. I know New Zealand just went into lockdown, but I thought it would be some time before we heard of high-profile Kiwi casualties.
Also, I know it’s out of the remit of sci-fi, but his turn as Hector in Hunt for the Wilderpeople is easily top ten of his overall roles.

Terrific. If these are shown to work as well as expected, then this is truly a boon for everyone and let’s hope greed and profit motives do not prevent these test from wide global dissemination.

Considering the job BoJo’s cabinet are doing, I think some of us would take our chances on Liz calling the shots.

She’d most likely have some of the same choices as the Queen Mum set up in widowhood. She could retire to Cornwall or her private home, or she could continue to live off a tithing from the Duchy of Cornwall and continue to make public appearances as the Queen Mum eventually did. I think I’d want to disappear, but the…

But knowing SNL, they’d stupidly give it to Pete Davidson and tell him to sound hoarse.

But yeah, Will must be freaking out, as I don’t think he wants to be king at all.

That was my immediate thought as well. And, sadly, perhaps that the window of being contagious narrowly missing his last visit to the Queen is just a bit too convenient to be true.

This right here is why G/O must always be sure to keep several illustrators on staff.  Well done, Cooke.

I’m shuddering just imagining what Trump’s Spitting Image puppet would look like. Possibly a cross between Chuckie and the Crypt Keeper.

Unholy shit! People should also get in the habit of turning off their cameras for the brief interval they’re walking from room to room. It’s nauseating and it will spare you the embarrassment of the loo shot.

This is basically business as usual for them. 

It also sounds as if part of the purchase decision was to provide Dax’s sister with a livelihood (or just supplementary income) as a property manager.

I love Matt Berry. Toast of London is a gem.

It’s interesting because I also saw Bernie is doing Fireside Chats. (Haven’t watched the most recent one, but it would be interesting to compare the two in how they fare.)

Your grandmother sounds intriguing. 

As several experts have noted, the US curve is now steeper than China’s. And Italy’s.

Great. You’ve inspired me to seek out Douglas Reynholm doing aerobics. This never fails to make me laugh.

They’re ‘modern’ in the sense that mid-century modern furniture and modern dance are. But they’re most assuredly not ‘contemporary’.