It's a shame I didn't write an entire article on the subject and only mentioned the word rights in boldface with no context whatsoever. I guess if I had provided several paragraphs of context, it wouldn't be so easy to get hung up on that one word and misinterpret everything.

Maybe no rights was overstating the case.

From what I've read, that doesn't seem to be the case. Biological fathers are nearly always involved in their kids' lives, just not in what other cultures would consider a parental role. How much or how little of a role probably differs from family to family.

Not as far as I can tell. That's one of the scariest parts of all of this.

In 2016, Colombia ended its long civil war, and when that happened, there was no war in the entire Western Hemisphere for the first time probably since the Ice Age. In fact, the only place on Earth where war is being fought is a stretch from Congo to Afghanistan and everywhere else is peaceful. Standards of living…

Britain handed off leadership of the world to the U.S. because they couldn't maintain their empire while recovering from WWII. We handed off leadership so Exxon's stock price would go up five points. And what's worse, we didn't hand it off too anybody. There's no one running the show now, which serves Putin just fine.

Ask, and you shall receive:

In all seriousness, you should edit the Wikipedia page to address this. Because you're absolutely right, it's a massively successful example of macro-engineering.

Hydroelectric was the whole point of the exercise. Dropping the water level was the bonus (or negative side effect, depending on whether or not you own real estate on that coast).

Damn. I had heard that so often that I didn't double-check.

And I feel like there was a stretch where every year they'd stick Christian Slater in a new show until they found one that worked.

Fond memories:

I've seen about two minutes of Meego, and I only remember them using sub-Phantom Menace CGI to make Bronson Pinchot's eyes bug out, Tex-Avery-cartoon-wolf style.

I feel like they tried to pair it up with Larry Sanders at one point, and it was just a bad fit.

Way ahead of you: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

Correction: Under "Strangest Fact," the first sentence should read, "usually short-lived shows…" This is the first time I have ever made a mistake, and I'm sure it will never happen again.

I was going to mention Das iTeam in the trans-Atlantic remake section, but I had less information about it than the other two shows, so it seemed like a weird footnote after the US-UK exchange gone wrong.

All I know is what I read on Wikipedia.

It wasn't that either was less talented, it was that Mathews was the absurdist one and Linehan was the structure/story guy. Clearly one of those works better on its own.

I have seen Coupling and Friends, and I know a TV writer for the BBC who said the network was consciously trying to replicate the success of Friends. Stylistically they're different shows, but come on, they're not that different. It's more or less the same setup.