It's been impressive watching Gerald McRaney, Patton Oswalt, and Mike O'Malley in an almost race for hardest working featured/guest actor in all these character performances over the past year in television. Even more impressive that all were very memorable parts of this past season of Justified.

My parents have great taste in television and being bigger channel flippers they're frequently ahead of me when it comes to certain cable gems. We don't all watch all the same shows, so there's a fun game of "Are you watching ___" when we're together. (We spent the past weekend talking Southland)

The Vampire Diaries fanfic bit was bothersome.

I'd like to poke fun, but I would seek this movie out…

Oh Good Wife - you taketh from me Alan Cumming, but you giveth Gary Cole. I love you so.

Howard Dean was effectively stopped dead in his presidential run for delivering a pep talk to his supporters as if he was at a monster truck rally.

Biiiiiiirrrrrrrrrd-MAN!

Hoping Hayes' show is good, but mostly I'm just glad Ed Schultz is gone. He may be a perfectly decent human being when he's not yelling into a microphone, but I don't care to be within earshot of him, even if I agree with him on a subject.

Would that were so…

Just how many gore filled passions are we going to have played out on screen?

Sunday Morning also interviewed Roma Downey and Mark Burnett two weeks ago.

Thanks for the info. My reference was more to what prevents UK shows from turning up on BBC America.

It's another Murder Monday…

I thought optimism was sensation one learns to let go of as soon as one commits to rooting for any Toronto team…

Hah! As soon as I saw that I imagined hundreds for frantic cosplayers racing to copy that aubergine coat.

Regardless of who is borrowing from whom, I suspect there's a significant population of LARPers made very happy by an evening that includes both Game of Thrones and Vikings.

The early promos and the sneak peek leaned really heavy on a GoT vibe, especially with the crows and mystical visions.

I just finished up Banshee this afternoon, so while that was a shocking amount of flesh for BBCA, it's no where near premium channel levels…

As a displaced Canadian from an English family, I've a bit of a bias toward those from UK and Commonwealth nations. Really any place that demands a strong theatre background just breeds better actors. Maybe not as much today when American television has shifted so there's room for "character actors" who've spent years…

Just all around pleased that this was such a good start to this show.