NPH's book borrows the Choose Your Own Adventure format.

Neil Patrick Harris better have a solid alibi.

Duluth? Bucko, you can get Tierra del Fuego!

Well, that's OK w/ me, actually. Thanks!

How is "Space Station 76"? The trailer makes it look pretty funny, but Amazon reviews complain all the jokes are in the trailer, which misrepresents the tone of the film.

I tried to get some MST3K props when they were being auctioned off on eBay some years back, but I got outbid on everything. Dammit.

Some time in the mid-'80s, I sent Maltin a letter with a bunch of corrections/suggestions. The next edition came out, and none of them were made. So I tried again, and this time got a supernice letter from Mr. Maltin himself, and, yes, the corrections/suggestions were in the next year's edition. (The only one I…

Yes, he was just kind of a loser in the first couple of eps. But the last one made me hate him. 100% asshole.

I thought the first two eps of "Engels" were sort of OK, but the third—the one with the dance class and the stripper—was so bad that I gave up on it. (I'd give up on "Sweden" too, but my spouse likes it for some inexplicable reason.)

Yeah, I noticed this as well.

My advice to the makers of this show: Tell funnier jokes. Also, don't write the main character so you want to punch him in the face.

The format was weird and didn't work. Tim wasn't the problem.

I made the mistake of watching "Under the Gunn," so it seems like a shorter interval.

Any other longtime Project Runway viewers skipping this season? I'm burned out on it. There hasn't been a standout contestant in a long time, and there have been too many straight-out-insane people cast just for the drama the last few seasons.

I've read that they're all prosthetic penises in "Spartacus." Sans blinking lights, but still.

You might try comments on Yahoo News or YouTube. It's much, much faster.

The opening wild applause and chanting of "Stephen! Stephen! Stephen! Stephen!" every night for what feels like forever on "The Colbert Report" bugs the shit out of me.

When I was a kid, the annual Bob Hope special was still kind of a big thing. Every single joke would get a HUGE laugh followed by a round of applause. It was so fake—even as a kid I couldn't believe it. (Also, the laugh tracks on Saturday morning cartoons—ugh.)

They definitely did it that way for the spinoff, "Archie Bunker's Place." And as I remember, it totally threw off the timing of the jokes. (And, yeah, I remember reading at the time that it was at O'Connor's insistence.)

"Downton Abbey" is actually the only show in that category that I watch, so I can't comment on the other lead-actress-in-a-drama nominees, and that's why I singled out Dockery. I won't say she's a bad actress, but she gives nowhere near an award-worthy performance. Largely, I'd fault the writing. She was given little…