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We just did our annual rewatch of the TV special and it’s amazing to see a good bit of the dialogue taken directly from these strips.

Get someone who loves you as much as Radar Online loves reporting on a lawsuit involving Carrot Top. (I am on their email list, unwillingly, and I would say they've sent an average of 2-3 blasts a day over the past couple weeks about it.)

Check out Otter Robertson over here. Or maybe it's Bam Otterbayo. D-otter J, even.

It’s also a good day to subscribe.

Let's just hope this "Carrie 2" is better than "The Rage: Carrie 2."

Not (alas!) about ze clocks!

We have a "Girls" revival and a "Glee" revival on the way. Just need one more for an Overly Discoursed 2010s show revival trend. I have one in mind, but I don't want to write it here and put that out into the world.

Very entertaining read here with Andy confirming how fucked this show is. True galaxy brain stuff to think that the infamously ethically suspect psych experiment could steered right with the addition of reality show production.

If current trends continue, the Pistons and Sixers will meet in the east finals after each going 80.5-1.5 (they will split their 3-game regular season series). Follow me for more astute NBA analysis like this.

We call this Boguting.

Twitch streamers take over The Terminal List season 2 red carpet?

"American Horror Story 14" is coming. Side note: People have started calling seasons of anthology series "installments," and I've been badgered by PR people (though not in this case) to use that instead of "season." And that's a no from me.

What if we fucked around and started an indie media company for tv/movies/pop culture.

Mike Lombardi, but for politics

JUST KIDDING

Hallmark's Countdown to Christmas movies start tonight, and on Saturday, the 3rd "Holiday Touchdown" movie premieres, this one set and filmed in Chicago. I visited the set and got some details on what it's like making a Hallmark holiday movie.

Couple things here: 1. Lyndsy Fonseca plays a freelance reporter. It's a (very) idealized version of the job, but no serious crimes against journalism are committed. 2. Chicago bona fides confirmed.

Hallmark's Countdown to Christmas movies start tonight, and on Saturday, the 3rd "Holiday Touchdown" movie premieres, this one set and filmed in Chicago. I visited the set and got some details on what it's like making a Hallmark holiday movie.

This is a little like a pairing from when were all hashtagging "TrueDetectiveseason2" in 2014, but it's real.

I have never posted a screen shot from the bad place but this is where I make an exception (via @andydehnart.com 's Reality Blurred newsletter)

In case you want to become a late stage Brewers fan, it’s important to know that the last World Series team in 1982 had a Moose, a Doc, and a Rollie

So, are we talking about how the Hallmark "Holiday Touchdown" movies are a shared universe connected by Abraham "Jerry from ER" Benrubi as Santa?

This week's Data Stream streaming ratings post is mostly about the No. 3 show, "East of Eden," because I'm disappointed in y'all for what the No. 1 show is. Read, subscribe, etc.

So the World Series will either have a first-time winner or a first-time-in-78-years winner. That's pretty damn cool.

Now at The Data Stream: Weekly ratings for network and cable, plus a couple half-formed thoughts on the Netflix shakeup of the past couple days. Read, subscribe, tell others to do the same please and thank you.

Holy man this team. Positively Knicks-ian (2026 connotation) in their ability to never be out of a game.

It was brought to my attention that Meghan Markle did the Key & Peele thing at a public appearance with Harry today

Meet Me in St. Louis for Tax Purposes

Blake Griffin is gonna try doing "Last Week Tonight" but for sports with his new show "The Stepback." My colleague @zeitchik.bsky.social has a very good Q&A with him on the show, which premieres next week.

Forgot to share this last night amid my Brewer bandwagoning, but “The Lowdown” started season 2 in excellent form. Betty Gilpin and Tommy Lee Jones are great additions.

Forgot to share this last night amid my Brewer bandwagoning, but “The Lowdown” started season 2 in excellent form. Betty Gilpin and Tommy Lee Jones are great additions.

Oh my

Listen to Brian! It's not a revelation that Betty Gilpin and Tommy Lee Jones are great, but they fit SO WELL into this world.

In light of the story we've all been talking about/laughing at the past couple days, I think Fred and Carrie should do a quick "Portlandia" sketch and put it on the internet.

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

And Just Like That… GIRLS returned

Ryan Coogler's "X-Files" is officially happening. Hulu just announced a series order for the show, starring Danielle Deadwyler & Himesh Patel.

Watching “All the President’s Men” and I think I need to start using the line “That’s a question straight out of Wichita, Kansas” when someone asks me something dumb.

I'm only following the game cast on my phone b/c I have screeners to watch, but I think Bauers should get those 2 RBI after working a 12-pitch walk.