The order of events is important—if some teenagers had given Nick a bunch of ideas and then he'd written The Pepperwood Chronicles, they might have grounds to sue him, depending on the points of similarity and how unique they are. (Generic concepts like "mad scientist" or "quirky girl with roommates" don't have such…

Nick holds the copyright on the entirety of his work, including the original characters he created—so any creative concept derived from that would be a violation of his copyright, not the other way around, regardless of the medium. (There was a lawsuit in the US where someone wrote his own sequel to Rocky that comes…

I have not watched McLeod's Daughters, but Home and Away used to be one of my guilty pleasures back in the early days of Canadian youth-programming channel YTV, when they were putting just about anything on. (Fun Fact: That's also how I first discovered Red Dwarf and Whose Line Is It Anyway?)

I never not laugh at that line when Eric says it in an SNL sketch.

The premise of a sequel can make sense in relation to what's come before and yet still miss the appeal of its predecessor(s).

Are you saying that because you anticipate the caller's husband might get fired? I can see how that's a somewhat likely consequence of unicorn-hunting in the workplace.

That kind of movie was just fine when it was called Tron and had a completely different premise, but it never would've worked for this.

It's a complex issue with no single explanation, but when similar gender breakdowns occur in fandom, the conclusion seems to be that men are more likely to take a curative approach (which lends itself to, say, tracking down information and updating a wiki) while women are more likely to take a transformative approach…

I don't recall anyone I'd consider a "main actor" from Deep Space Nine ever appearing on Babylon 5. Can you be more specific?

A few of the comments have already alluded to them, but I'll give a quick shout-out to the "DS9 Relaunch" novels which constitute a literary Season 8 and form part of the current interconnected continuity the Star Trek tie-in line has had for the past fifteen years or so—taking the characters from the end of the…

That's also part of the premise of Spock's World, the very first of Pocket's Star Trek novels to come out in hardcover.

It may be old-fashioned, but I still watch Neigh-BC.

I meant what I wrote only in the sense of explaining how prints could get to "a war-torn African country," without going into the details of how the final home of a print wasn't necessarily the country by which it first arrived on the continent.

Doctor Who stories were extensively sold to African countries in the Sixties (along with a lot of British programming), so any surviving film would generally have stayed there ever since. The nine Second Doctor episodes recovered in Nigeria a couple of years ago are an example of this.

Have you read the book Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing Episodes, which is usually considered the most complete source on those episodes (at least as of a few years ago)?

You'd think that Michael Ian Black, of all people, would be able to get a response from the state.

I'm not sure the first-run syndication market would've even been prepared to handle such a mashup.

I came for anecdotes about Free Enterprise and Highlander: The Series…and got neither.

Those polar bears, like so many actors, are still struggling too much with their Coke problem to get additional work.

The cartoon also had a much catchier theme song than the nondescript instrumental number used for the live-action series.