NBC doesn’t want to reboot The Office. They want 2005 broadcast ratings back, and somehow they’re stupid enough to think the first thing would give them the second thing.

Has Ken Jennings ever actually implied that he’s interested in the full-time job? As far as I can tell, he’s living comfortably on book residuals with his childrens’ educations paid for and enjoying the PNW. Popping down to LA for a week to shoot a series of The Chase or whatever is one thing, but the permanent host…

I disagree. Lives of the Mayfair Witches goes off the rails about 50 pages before the end of the first book. 900 great pages, and then an explosion of incomprehensible nonsense.

You thought Jeopardy, a show hosted by the same man for 36 years changed hosts frequently and without fanfare? You thought that so confidently that you popped in to express your opinion that nobody should care in about the 40th AVClub article about selecting a replacement host for Alex Trebek?

“So is there a reason all redhead white people are getting replaced?”

I’m not going to argue that game developers are destitute, but in the context of software development, games pay shit. One of my closest friends is in middle management at a successful games company, and more than once he’s had people two levels below him get pulled away to jobs at Amazon or Google paying twice what…

Less a correction and more a clarification of point 5: a vampire is a dead body in which a demonic spirit is residing. The demon has access to the body’s memories and basically “thinks” that it’s the person, but it’s a creature of remorseless hunger and sadism. The ensouled Angel and Spike still struggle with the…

Yeah, Tony definitely fucks. And I only saw the Norton Hulk once, at release, so I don’t feel bad forgetting that one. Forgetting “Wanda, dear, get the light” was a far more serious lapse. Too focused on movies I guess.

I don’t know that I’d call this particularly notable for representation, considering how incredibly sexless the MCU is. I’m probably missing something, but I struggle to think of any character except Stark who has ever appeared in a scene where you could say “those two characters are now going to go bang” or “those…

Just to take your question at face value, you’re effectively conflating three different concepts into one. Namely: sexual preference, gender identity, and gender presentation.

Although, isn’t “our” Ava like the fourth or fifth AVA that Rip bought, because time travel is dangerous work?

Regal Unlimited isn’t x tickets per month. It’s 18/21/23.5 dollars per month depending on how expensive a market you live in for unlimited tickets.

I didn’t get it until Dan said “none of this makes any sense” at which point I realized he was right. I was also wrong about the motivation, I thought Lucifer was just annoyed that Dan refused to be teased anymore and had decided that “giving Dan shit” needed to be stepped up a notch. Obviously the idea of putting the…

I don’t think that Human-God knew she was following him when she was following him. Only after he returned to being omniscient.

Chad is a glorious piece of cringe comedy. I love it, but I could never describe it in a way that made it sound good.

That one lives over at HBO. I lowered my expectations, and I was pleasantly surprised. Not outstanding, but watchable. I also lowered my expectations for New Mutants, and I was disappointed.

are these all the shows ABC will rid itself of in the coming weeks? Or have we only experienced the first chapter in this grisly tale of terror?

Counterpoint: fuck Bitcoin

Sure, they’d love ad revenue. But ratings are a competition within a network, not across networks. Nothing CW debuts is going to hang out above a 0.3 share, so while they might dream of one day being ABC, those dreams aren’t the basis for business decisions. You can say, “this show is averaging a 0.1 across the…

Quality doesn’t mean ratings, as you’ve pointed out with your list of critical darlings. Which, I’ll note, are all cable programs where the revenue stream is different. Network television shows are paid for with shooting subsidies, ad revenue, and syndication deals. Ad revenue is dependent on ratings, syndication is…