I would think the 50th anniversary is next year, considering that The Original Series debuted in 1966.

I'm sure it might be a matter of personal taste, but Akbar and Jeff were better in small doses. We ran "Life in Hell" at my college paper and the weeks-long slog of Akbar and Jeff strips in 1996-97 were just a drag.

If the old design did as you indicate, then it was … subtle (or ineffective). Over the years, I've tried to see if I could determine team possession based on the graphic's background colors and it was nigh impossible.

I like NBC's presentation, but it didn't fix what I think is a HUGE oversight — indicating which team has possession of the ball on the on-screen graphic. Yes, I can figure it out when the teams line up in scrimmage, but there are often huge time gaps between plays and that information would be genuinely useful to…

Does Cox participate in ABC On Demand? It's on that app (after logging in with a partner cable/sat co.).

I think you have it turned inside out. The eyes are supposed to look outward, not inward into your mortal soul (or so I've been told).

Hey, the Grey Cup _was_ on ESPN2. People looking for "SportsCenter" may have accidentally tuned in.

New York to L.A. in four days — via Galt's Gulch. The detour (with the conductor's three-hour monologue) is why the trip took twice as long.

The series seemed to be on the wrong foot from the very beginning. I only saw the first 10 minutes of the pilot about 5 years ago. As I wrote at the time, the opening scene was off kilter with the train company CEO's “reassuring” response to a critic’s charge that the train was a huge gamble that could ruin the…

¿Are you serious?

Although I sympathize, the joke's on you — MTV dropped "Music Television" from their branding years ago. Four years ago, according to this item from the Los Angeles Times:
http://latimesblogs.latimes…

Harvey Birdman. Attorney at laawwwwwww-ooooooooohhhhh… *door slams*

DOOP, as in the Democratic Order Of Planets? Heck yes! Especially if the movie features 25-star General and Capt. Zapp Brannigan fighting his very sexy learning disability (but I forget what he calls it).

Ooh, we can get Kyle Chandler to play the title role.

Dowd has been seen in the comments from time to time, but I don't recall a time when it was for one of his reviews.

Unfortunately, "Futurama" had a relatively proven track performance in its repeats on [adult swim] before Comedy Central picked up the second-run rights and ordered new episodes. Comedy Central picked up repeats of "Community," and as far as we can tell, the ratings performance hasn't gone well (apparently based on it…

It's certainly going to be a segment on "I Love the 2010s." Maybe they can get Michael Ian Black to comment on the segment about people remarking about him being missing from the previous series.

IIRC, Kimmel initially had a bar for everyone, including the audience. Giving alcohol to the audience led to the problems that prompted that bar's removal.

Yeah, I'm not sure where in the station where they filmed it, but it was one of the ends of the main waiting room. A lot of shows shoot in the unused restaurant or former ticketing areas, so I guess they should get some points for shooting the station a little differently.

POINTS!!!! … does get kind of old after a while, but Chris needs something to keep the "game" moving along (and it's pretty much the same as the fake points in "Whose Line…"