Ah yes, the "Bond not Blonde" campaign. Where there were people who, among other things, were truly outraged at the notion of casting a blonde haired guy in the role. And people wonder why there's been resistance to the notion of a black actor taking the part.

I've never noticed that the letters of the title spell out "TWINE." They really should have developed that into a SPECTRE-like organization. And Die Another Day is truly so bad it's almost a positive thing, in that it convinced everyone that a minor correction wasn't going to do the job, but that they really had to…

Yes arguably the Bond series kind of failed Brosnan, not the other way around. I mean, Craig is arguably the best actor to play Bond (Timothy Dalton may be a close runner up), but Brosnan was at least as capable an actor as Connery. It was more a problem of saddling him with ridiculous, inane scripts full of gags that…

"You know what I think will happen, some other Bond wannabe
franchise/series is going to jump on all this Elba talk/buzz and hire him for a spy role, which essentially will take him out of the running for Bond."

So you'd watch him in a reboot of the Harry Palmer series, then? Because rebooting that series, with somebody like Elba, is kind of an interesting idea.

Eh, she looks sort of like some of the reconstructions of the victim, and "Jaws" was filming in Massachusetts roughly around the time of the murder, so I can see where a person might think this - it's not totally out of the realm of possibility. But I'm also reminded of how every few years we hear from somebody…

Aaaand another white twenty-something douche bro joins the SNL cast. But Lorne Michaels did hire one extra black person last year so I guess that should head-off further complaints about the lack of diversity, or at least keep them drowned out by louder complaints about the show's persistent sub-mediocrity.

There's the tagline right there.

"Vulture also reports that Murray won’t be reprising his role as Peter Venkman, but rather is rumored to play someone trying to debunk the new bustin’ crew…" That pretty much sums up life, doesn't it? You start out as Peter Venkman, and after years of hard work, wind up turning into Walter Peck.

Yeah, M*A*S*H should really be shown to TV writers and show runners as a seminar on how to successfully replace major characters on a show. Basically, they would take one or two defining characteristics of the person leaving, make the new person the opposite, but keep the characteristics that made the departing…

I think it's really sort of a stretch to describe Kes as all that interesting. She always struck me as being like the proprietress of a Hippy/New Age store that sells healing crystals in Portland or some place similar, and poorly suited to a show that was supposed to have such a focus on action.

Most Voyager characters weren't superfluous as they had something useful to do on the ship, but they were boring in the way that they were presented. Paging Ensign Harry Kim; also Robert Beltran as First Officer Chakotay, who is initially presented as a leader in a rebel movement but slips right into being the ship's…

I remember towards the end of their run on Comedy Central they used to
run versions of the show edited down to an hour, with all the skits cut
out, and you really didn't loose anything by doing that. And Monty Python is another good example, as growing up I found all the animation tedious, until later I learned that…

I think you could argue for L&O to be excepted from the list because the revolving door nature of the cast became a feature of the show, almost like a soap opera without continuing story lines, but the show did make a major upswing in quality when he debuted, and never did entirely recover from his departure.

I can see why you might pick Kirstie Alley as Rebeca Howe for the list, but I think Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane would be a better first pick: the character was introduced in Season 3, and was so successful he ended up appearing on prime time TV for the next 20 years. The character also fits the theme of the…

I think the HST film had wrapped by then. Wikipedia has it coming out in April '80, whereas Caddyshack came out in July. If you read Hill & Weingard's backstage history of SNL, they say Murray arrived on set of the show's fifth season (which premiered in late '79) "in character" as Thompson, i.e. acting like an…

Cheers (especially the early seasons), and its predecessor Taxi, were already more exceptions than the rule. Recall, the Gary Marshall trilogy of Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork & Mindy were all still around when Cheers debuted, and if you looked up "Hammy" in a dictionary, I bet you'd see a picture of the…

"Do cadets know they're taking the Kobayashi Maru…?" That's one of the things (OK, one of many things) that's problematic about the reboot, in that Kirk takes the test as a cadet. In Wrath of Khan, Saavik is already a full fledged officer with the rank of Lieutenant. If the test was something they gave to cadets, then…

She probably also thought the Federation was based on Sea Org.

This article highlights something that I love about The Wrath of Khan. For so many fans, it remains the pinnacle of what "Star Trek" is supposed to be, a touchstone to the whole mythos, the thing all other editions of the whole franchise are measured against. So much so, that while J.J. Abrahms clearly felt free to…