The conflation with Fox News is absolutely true, but it’s a self-induced injury. I was in a focus group about 7-8 years ago (my first summer in Los Angeles; you do whatever you can to get money, and paid focus groups can be a gold mine if you’re in the right demographics) where Fox was basically looking for a way to…

At the same time, they’re known for doing their best to ruin some of those series via changed episode orders, moving the nights shows air, and quick cancellations for no apparent reason (other than ratings fluctuating because of Fox’s own interventions). Some shows even thrived once moving to new networks like…

Look, I know a lot of people are going to (rightly) point out that Macfarlane doesn’t take nearly as active a role in his animation endeavors these days, but all I’m saying is that it’s a ballsy move for the creator/executive producer/half the voice cast of Family Guy to talk shit about pandering to the lowest common…

No idea. People really seem to hate him, but I can’t think of a single scandal he’s been a part of that would generate that amount of hate. Like you said, he hasn’t been a writer for Family guy in a long time (2011 IIRC), and even if you simply despise the show as a whole, that doesn’t mean you need to hate it’s…

I'll admit it, I laughed at the joke about not knowing songs. 

I have never understood some people’s extreme dislike for this guy. He had nothing to do with Family Guy turning into a pile of bigoted, unfunny dogshit.

The new ones make pilots look like nerds dressing up for ComicCon. Fail!

Still using flight helmets from the 80s because JHMCS would block those expensive actor’s faces.

Hopefully your tombstone won’t read “he got regularly outraged on behalf of sexual harassers”

Serious question; What are commenter’s opinions on this guy’s work?

The show definitely has a protagonist problem. Hero and Yorrick are by far the most unlikeable and selfish characters, and I’m worried it won’t be fun to watch nicer and more interesting characters get sidelined or even killed off to service their stories. At least the show is somewhat aware of this, unlike in the…

I loved The Lost Room. Really thought it was something special, and was sad it didn’t spawn any new seasons, but it also worked as a standalone. 

Or Friday the 13th, The Series, an early 90s show that had absolutely nothing to do with the films. It was about a pawn shop that sold items, all of which were demonically possessed, and the owner’s descendants who tried to track them down. It was basically a quasi-anthology show, because the differing nature of each…

I saw that one - it was surprisingly good and definitely could use with a reboot/expansion of the idea.

Seems reminiscent of the 2006 SyFy miniseries/failed pilot The Lost Room - all the objects within a seemingly ordinary motel room at a specific point in the 60s become strangely powerful in unique ways leading to various collectors and interested parties scouring the earth looking for them.

Christ, Article a Video

Oh hey, the AvClub has...never mind, it’s a video.

Yay! Not a slideshow! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

“(and am still dead curious about just how they’ll pull off this weird planned live fourth episode...”

I had no idea there was a live “interlude” episode. From what I’ve read it doesn’t seem that HBO is airing it...

One of the articles I read claims it’s going to be 12 hours...

I think the boy he’s seeing is his dead son.  I’m not sure if that means he had 4 kids and now he has 3, or he had 3 and now he has 2. But did it say the child he lost was a daughter? If so, I didn’t catch it.