No, because as is too often the case with things like this at the A.V. Club, it’s invariably a list of the best American [things-in-question] of all time. I suppose we ought to be grateful the writers managed to include any non-American albums at all.

Hey everyone, it’s Rollo Tomasi!

It’s still going: there was one with Samantha Morton last week (https://www.avclub.com/samantha-morton-random-roles-interview-1849563866). Having said that, I see the previous RR was from almost five months ago, so it’s not exactly thriving - like so many things around here nowadays.

Speaking of rock & roll frontpeople: is there going to be some kind of A.V. Club acknowledgment that Chris Bailey from the Saints has died? I’m guessing that he didn’t have much of a profile in the U.S., but I’d like to think that the A.V. Club, at least, has some idea of his (quite notable) place in the history of…

This is the kind of hill I too would be willing to die on, but to be fair, HBO themselves have formalised the wrong spelling, so from a style guide persepective, “Shiv” is correct (plus it provides us with that pun, etc): https://www.hbo.com/succession/cast-and-crew/shiv-roy

Pretty much. China is part of what’s regarded as East Asia (i.e. China, Taiwan, Japan, North & South Korea; Mongolia too, maybe?).

Gone too soon. R.I.P.

As Gwen says, it’s probably a rights issue: if you’re using Spotify in Australia, it’s available (along with The Swing, and every other album they ever released, as far as I can tell).

That was happening to me too, but it turns out it was my browser’s adblocker. When I turned it off, the link appeared. Weird.

So this is a performer who had almost 50 years of movie, TV & stage roles to her name before Animal Kingdom came along, and yet her entire career up to that point is dispensed with in a couple of paragraphs? That’s not ideal. Maybe they should have assigned this Random Roles to Will Harris.

If we wanted something, we just took it. If anyone complained twice, they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again.

Exactly - it’s been an internet meme and everything; if you type “Jonathan Pryce looks like...” into Google, the first thing that comes up is “... Pope Francis”. So I don’t get it either.

I don’t have time to read all that - is there any way you could turn it into some kind of video?

Pryce doesn’t much resemble Pope Francis

Yes - I thought that was John de Lancie at first glance.

Yes, family friends, apparently - “[The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon, owners of Highclere] are good friends with the Kitchener-Felloweses and have frequently had them over as houseguests”, according to Vanity Fair.

Fair enough. For what it’s worth, I do think his lawsuit has some merit - Fox seems to have treated him fairly shabbily (the fact that he probably did pretty well out of the deal up to that point notwithstanding) .

Whatever your issues with this guy, there’s no way he’s any kind of boomer, technically - the U.S. hadn’t even entered the war when he was born.

To take your question completely at face value: no, because there are no dingoes in Tasmania (they’re only on the mainland).

Looks like it’s going to be part of citytv’s fall schedule.