Dan Barrett 📺 👀

Bluesky tells me I have an invalid handle. Now I’m left to remember how I even set up my vanity URL handle to begin with.

I was genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed Clayface. Felt like a throwback to a lot of 90s B and C genre films that I grew up with (think Darkman, The Crow, Mimic). Hoping this opens the door to more genre experimentation with DC properties beyond what will be an inevitable Swamp Thing film.

A moment of silence for all the Alberta separatists who will go offline today.😢

I got a great laugh watching @bradleywhitford.bsky.social as The Diplomat's Todd Penn in the meeting telling the Brits about the plan to send in US warships – a strong echo of Josh Lyman telling the press about the President's secret plan to fight inflation.

My Crystal Lake review: Lindsay Weir deserves better than this.

It confounds me that people continue to make new music even when Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street exists.

As a community, we don't talk enough about how compelling the Mars Attacks trailer is. youtu.be/DqtjHWlM4lQ?...

It was appropriate for a Law & Order star to host the #Emmys crime scene that just took place.

Juliana Margulies beaming at the win for The Pitt gave me such a buzz after this morbid hour plus of #Emmys

It was embarrassing to hear Stephen Colbert credit his writing staff for writing the 2026 Emmy Awards.

It’s incredible how well-resourced the Paw Patrol are. What is their annual rescue operations budget?

British TV at 1am #Binface

Aug 12th - The rogue star, Bellus, is due to collide with the earth, destroying all life as we know it. 📽️📅 When Worlds Collide (1951)

This is how I’ve been reading this book to Ms 5 for a few years now. She’s going to be outraged when she finally sees the Bubble Boy episode.

This is now a 29-post thread, and likely more to come soon. There’s concept art, models, CGI, stop-motion, animatronics, spaceships, a space station, and even the Millennium Falcon 🤷

The enshittification of interesting conversation online when someone evokes the term enshittification.

Looks like the NYT crossword team believed a polite lie.

Wait, what? How do we not have a ban on this?

Julia Stiles texts me far less frequently than either of us would almost certainly prefer.

This month, we published another article revealing that MSG kept a database of VIP event attendees, labeling some of them as LGBTQIA and assigning a “risk score” to others. This is also now free to read:

In April, we reported on the MSG surveillance machine–an operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. You can now read it for free.

Big congratulations to one of the OGs

Something under-discussed by TV industry types is that Robert & Michelle King, noted TV creators with a history of delivering episodes critical of politicians (particularly Trump), tech titans, and the media, are about to launch a new show… their first for David Ellisons Paramount.

I never understand why people have a problem with platforming these dum dums. Let them open their mouths to remove all doubt.

Prime Video was serious. I thought I was being Rick Rolled with this notification.

Great start to the morning so far. Some jerk sideswiped the mirror on my car parked on the street. So now it is not roadworthy. It had just a few weeks left until retirement. Of course they didn’t leave a note.

Be like Katie and watch Widow’s Bay. I’m not saying it is the best new show of the year. But as of June it is a very strong contender.

Well "Rolf Harris: Primetime Predator" is finally out. Northern Pictures came to me expecting freebie archive footage of British Paint ads, and went quiet once they were offered fair archivist rates. So just know this when you watch this.

Has there been a better US network comedy since Better Off Ted?

Cinema is back, baby.

Cool Jared Leto mask in the toy dept.

Just saw @dylanbyers.bsky.social email announce moving one of his newsletters to @puck.news upper tier "Inner Circle." That was all the incentive I needed to cancel my Puck subscription. I've already unsubbed the podcasts - I tired of Jon Kelly talking about hosting lavish Puck parties on my dollar.

I love looking at my iPhone as I go to bed thinking about the missile strikes I’m supposed to be overseeing.

A season 26 renewal for Law & Order is good news. I was convinced the show was toast because: 1) It was getting very close to the deadline 2) I have only just started watching it in the past couple of seasons (since Reid "Brando" Scott joined). deadline.com/2026/05/law-...

This week marks the 20th anniversary of one of my all-time favourite moments in television: When a prospective job applicant stepped into the BBC for a job interview, only to be mistakenly interviewed on air. open.substack.com/pub/alwaysbe...

There is a key difference between 2024 kids movie Tummy Tom and the Lost Teddy Bear and 2019s feature film for adults Cats.

If David Ellison wants to prove that he is on the side of cinema, he could just greenlight a sequel to Confess, Fletch.

Calling bullshit on Taron Edgerton calling it a “gas station” in #Apex

A dumb EV ‘analysis’ story on the ABC site. Lots to be annoyed by, but what irked me most was the “lucky for some’ comment about EV charging being free for those with solar panels in their roof. Over 40% of Australians made the investment in their homes. It’s not luck. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Come on @nytimes.com - this is pretty poor.

It’s getting to the point of Idiocracy being the best case scenario for the US these days.

If The Testaments was more realistic, we'd see villains with Mar-a-Lago face.

It is 2026 and there is a channel playing nothing but Seinfeld on loop. It can only be downhill from here.

Paradise in season one was silly, watchable nonsense (with a killer episode seven that was hugely entertaining). Season two was a tiresome slog. And who signed off on that Elvis cover song playing over the top of a Graceland visit?

Kristi Noem has asked for “prayers and privacy,” for her family, but I think we should wait and get all the facts before anyone takes any definitive action.

Read the room Telstra. This wasn’t the week to hike prices on your already expensive telco service. I just paid close to $50 for 20 litres of petrol. I wasn’t in the mood.