Yikes, that's a pretty sad lineup there, FOX. I want to like The Orville and Ghosted but the jokes just fall flat, flat, flat. I guess The Orville is for people who will be very frustrated this fall that the new (actual) Star Trek series isn't airing on CBS. The Resident is for people who can't get enough of the same…

I have a feeling Disney already has a posse of armed thugs on permanent retainer and I'm not kidding about that.

The libruls got their uncancelled series, Timeless. But there's one problem. The manly men tend to be rather geriatric manly men judging from the Nielsens and advertisers don't want to waste their money building brands with guys who have one foot in the grave. Advertisers are sentimental that way.

It's the luck of the draw. They probably spent a year on the damn island and were thoroughly sick of snakes, iguanas and everything else there by the time they finished.

They filmed 100 other sequences where nothing happens or the iguana gets eaten, that's how!

Where are the Darwin Awards when you really need them?

The other vital crew member: Adrianne Palicki starring as Gwen DeMarco. Frankly I'm going to watch for her, and hopefully this Seth McFarlane guy won't get in her way too much.

Dramedy is just a label. If you want to use tragicomedy instead, that works too.

Well there are shows like Orange is the New Black that can only be called dramedy. Or Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under - anything with a mix of comedy and tragedy so you can't definitely say its one or the other - lots of great shows have managed that precarious balancing act, and that's…

There was a rumored Galaxy Quest TV series for a while…I'm hoping that this series might be something along those lines, with Adrianne Palicki as Gwen DeMarco.

I'll probably wait for this stuff to hit streaming as per usual (allergic to ads mixed in with my shows) but Orville and Ghosted both sound interesting.

Sony agreed to charge NBC less money after NBC put a gun to their head by "cancelling" the series. It was probably a negotiating tactic and they were never serious.

It was Sony negotiations plus the show does well for Hulu and global licensing.

Good to hear. I was on the fence about this show in the first season, too many episodes seemed broadcast-y and unambitious, just going over the same old Millenial Troubles territory…a wilder imagination is just what it needs.

"Legal" religions? What's an illegal religion?

Holy crap, I just realized Malcolm Barrett is the straight man in this Key & Peele classic:

No, it was an agonizingly hard-won consensus, earned by the horror of having to sit through a godawful unfunny shadow of what used to be a great series.

AD Season 4 would have been improved if they'd stuffed everyone in a refrigerator, so I guess yes.

Jacob told a man he has huge, beautiful stones. They have wild animal sex behind a dumpster.

I thought this could be great as biting satire. Then I saw it's on CBS. Oh well there goes that idea.