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July 17, 2013
Death by Newsroom

Yes. It can happen. Plus, the return of Breaking Bad and all your other television issues addressed in this month’s mailbag.
July 13, 2012
New Community Showrunners Humbly Pledge Not to Screw Up the Show

There’s softball, there’s whiffleball, and then there’s what happened at Comic-Con on Friday morning, when Moses Port and David Guarascio, Community’s newly installed replicant showrunners, faced tough questioning from a room full of people dressed as Nightcrawler. (This isn’t a cheap Comic-Con joke. Someone dressed as Nightcrawler actually asked a thoughtful query about Asperger’s syndrome. […]
June 19, 2012
Dead on Arrival

The Killing comes to a sodden, limp end.
October 14, 2011
Apparently Eli Manning Is ‘The Godfather’ Of Pranks

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal contained a delightful article exposing Giants quarterback (and most eligible non-bachelor) Eli Manning as the team’s resident prankster. “Eli Manning quietly stole receiver Hakeem Nicks’s cell phone,” the article began, “punched a few keys and when Nicks came back to his locker, the phone’s operational language had been switched to Japanese.” […]