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You could say that with Seinfeld, Friends, Married With Children, Dream On, Growing Pains the golden age of sitcoms is behind us. What do we have now? Big Bang Theory and How I met your Mother?

We have seen acting talents doing TV work, but also directing and writing talent. Though, when it comes to writing, it feels like, at some point in the last decade or so, writers became more interested by TV work than by movie work and as a result we have seen a lot more good writing in TV shows...

I would say it's a golden age for TV series. I am not sure that exactly means it is a golden age for television as a whole considering the golden age of TV News, depending on what metric you use, is probably not now. Same for the golden age of talk / variety / comedy shows. EDIT: I should add...

My first guess is that you can't tell easily how... cohesive the asteroid is. By that I mean that it's tough to tell if it will not lose some chunks because of gravitational forces, making the trajectory difficult to estimate. And then there is atmospheric entry and bets are off as to what...

Binged watched this show and had a tough time watching the whole thing. I have a number of beefs with the show, but the main one is that you take a very very good subject (big business, banking, cyber security, hacking, hacktivism), but you derail the whole thing into some rocambolesque story...

Flipping through TV channels I landed on a concert from this "bad on purpose" french electro band called Salut c'est cool (Hi it's cool) that reminded me of this thread. Lyrics of the song: Techno Always the same Boom boom in the ears Junkie music No regular message Nothing to say

As a foreword to this reply, I think it is important to note that at no point in these previous posts I talked about racism. I am merely trying to describe the situation, not the complex mechanisms that lead to the situation. About the ethnicity of mexicans: there is a number of ways to try...

This thread did not find its Royal just yet!

I am too lazy to relink it for you, but I think I already mentioned that mexicans of purely european descent are a small minority of mexicans. The fact they are an extremely visible minority is a socio-economico-cultural oddity that is probably more complicated than "old european money breed...

Let me quote myself from a few pages back: Also Ang Lee got a nom' for Life of Pi and this year you had When Marnie Was There in the animated feature film category. In the acting categories, if the nominations are not common, winning is even more rare as only three asians won: the aforementioned...

Interesting games, but not the one I am looking for. The programming language used for the scripts of the robots you hack is a game specific and very rudimentary language made with keywords such as "warning" and "stop" and minimal looping and conditional statements. I should also mention that...

Considering the success of the "Who's that girl?" thread and considering my google-fu is failing hard and for longer than I care to admit, let me start the "What's that game?" thread. So... I am looking for a game I played on PC in the past few years. I am not sure if it was a browser game or...

If they went PE they should have gone all the way:

Who predicted Spotlight? Because I did not!

I saw only two of the best foreign film nominee, but Saul fia was indeed very good and the best of the two I saw.

The Lubezki Award goes to Lubezki!

I am sure they are super pissed off, but once they sleep on it, I guess they'll realize you can live with the best team in the league having to summon two miracles and an all time NBA record to beat you. If they face each others in the playoff and the Warriors have to do that several time to win...

The director is nominated.

Is Durant still playing basketball? I browse the thread from time to time and never see him mentioned in these best shooters / MVP talks.

Saw Mustang the other day. A kind of turkish version of Virgin Suicide. It's pretty good until its not because of over-writing (a perfectly fine antagonist is turned into a big bad).

I'll be cautiously optimistic about that one. For me there is a big challenge: designing a future for Blade Runner's future. By that I mean that it should evolve from that 1982 idea of the future shown in Blade Runner and not be based on a 2016 idea of the future. That being said, the themes of...

Some of the questions in the test are extremely poorly worded. But, unsurprisingly:

Good job Sherlock, but you might have missed the fact he drew himself in the last panel.

My knowledge of TV series from Quebec starts and stops at "Lance et compte" back in the '80s!

HS?

I hear there is a major studio in Hollywood that is looking for a new president. Requirement for the job: owning a TV Guide from 1986.

I think I agree and disagree with the most common criticism here. I agree that the film has a pacing problem, but for me it's not that it is too slow, it's that it is not slow enough. As it stands, the film is very beautiful, but there is not really a sense of almost mystical communion with the...

Djokovic had another great start, bagging the first set 6-1 in 20 minutes, but after that Murray made it much more of a contest. The scott, credit to him, tried to be the aggressor. The problem is that he often hesitated a fraction of second before following a good shot to the net, losing a...

Oups! Almost forgot the update (busy week between the AO and a film festival). We have our final: DJOKOVICstarted his semi in beast mode while Federer did not. The swiss looked like he was always half a step late and Djokovic had answers to everything Federer threw at him. The fact the...

You must not have seen a lot of video games if some weird exploration/building/resource management/industrial process design game is the worst you have ever seen.

I am not 100% sure how the draw is made, but it's a lot more flexible than your proposed solution. The thing is there is not that much change in the Top 8 in the course of a year, so if you set the draws in stone like you propose, there would be very little variation. Plus, you can't really tell...

Stephen's Sausage Roll. A puzzle game by Increpare who made the brilliant English Country Tune. Should be released soonish (fingers crossed).

Late again, but we have our quarter finals: DJOKOVIC(see previous post) vs NISHIKORI(see previous post) I would be very surprised if Djokovic manages to win this one in an uneventful straight sets match. I doubt Nishikori will go with Simon's game plan though (soft balls in the middle to...

I still don't understand why the don't put some system that "catches" the rocket on the barge instead of having it trying to stand with a mini tripod. If the answer is "because it needs to land on Mars" I would ask they could not land a catching platform on Mars that will stay there and use it...

Oups! A bit late: R32 got played and the surprises were few and far between. In fact all the matches were pretty one sided in favor of the favorites, except Bautista Agut, you know that guy I thought would be too tired to compete, who discarded Cilic in straight sets! The surprise guest of the...

This analogy would kinda work if black actors were complaining about not being in enough sun screen commercials... Anyway, it's a complicated situation that has more to do with movie production than the academy.

I would watch that for sure. Even more if the comedy aspect was dropped.

You are a bit harsh. There are some very good jokes (the muslim/skinhead alliance) and scenes (Todd at the airport desk) through the whole thing, but the main problem is that the possibly brilliant structure is lost on anyone who did not see the previous two seasons just before checking this...

Round 2 is over! SEEDICIDE WATCH: The top half of the draw was totally uneventful with all the favorites winning. The bottom half saw a couple minor heads rool. Chardy [30] probably not fully recovered from his first round marathon fell to Kuznetsov (not related to Kuznetsova but that last...

That would be my vote.