they’re not seeing the customers they’d like to see coming to it, but CBS has always been blind to the massive trek fandom. (paramount was the exact opposite during the 90s) I hope someone in that company can open their eyes.

From what I’ve read, the TNG remaster was hugely expensive compared to the TOS remaster (something like $20 million) and the DS9 and Voyager remasters would be even more expensive due to them using CG more than TNG. So it would be a huge investment.

I honestly don’t get why CBS doesn’t dole up the money to remaster DS9 and VOY, release it first on All Access one or two eps a week (non stop so like a good 2-3 years of content) and use that to get more customers. The numbers would go off the chart. Follow that up with an eventual series box set blu rays and you’ve…

As long as she agrees to read the audio-book in that shrill, exasperated lunch-mother voice.

The Golden Globes show famous people in pretty outfits getting drunk. Even though the winning the award itself is stupid and meaningless people enjoy tuning into to watch it for drunk famous people. Which unfortunately kinda make the awards “important”. Also having it occur at the beginning of award season helped too.

Why anyone gives a single solitary fuck about the Golden Globes has always been a mystery to me. Numerous critics awards are judged by people paid to write about film, and WGA, DGA, SAG & the like are judged by people who have an insider’s view of what makes their contributions so special. But the Golden Globes has…

Tenet is on sale on iTunes, so I went ahead and got that and watched it. I run hot and cold with Nolan, I liked The Prestige, Memento, and Dark Knight; I thought the effects were neat in Inception but otherwise I thought it was kinda meh and the other Batman movies were not my bag, and I never saw Interstellar or…

Since AV Club is using a great image from For All Mankind’s Season 2 premiere, Every Little Thing, yet bizarrely still not doing episode by episode reviews, let’s do a short one here since it was my major media consumption yesterday. A few spoilers ahead.

Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky) was a first generation Polish-American Jew who went into show business as a teenager. It’s a pretty safe bet that he had far more in common with—and far more respect for—Eddie Anderson than any of those bigoted Southern hoteliers.

I still think the Russian Venera recordings on Venus should still count as the first actual recordings of sound from a planet.

Wow, what a thrill to open the AV Club and see this article this morning! Thanks so much for writing this, Gwen! Anderson was brilliant, and I really hope this article leads some readers to check out The Jack Benny Program.

When the cast went on tour, Benny refused to play at segregated theaters or stay at segregated hotels that wouldn’t accept Anderson.

Eh, those people are alright, but not exceptional. And I hate Fred Armisen.

Yeah I’m not watching any pandemic themed anything for a long time, not until I get that weird nostalgia humans get for anything in the past even if unpleasant.

As a kid, I only knew about Cary Grant from Goober’s impression.

It's weird that is so under the radar now, because George Stevens was ADORED. And this is one of his most well known.

No, no, no! Liz would not have liked that. She would have scratched Hepburn’s eyes out, and I do believe she could have done it.

Thanks for giving this movie some attention -- it’s a good one, and I think maybe it’s under the radar for a lot of folks.

Fuck, Cloverfield is gonna be Khan, isn’t he.

The unforgivable one by me was Super Eight. How do you make a movie about kids chasing an alien around town that is that dull?