It's Official: Doctor Who <s>Christmas</s> Winter Holiday Special Cancelled

It's Official: Doctor Who Christmas Winter Holiday Special Cancelled

You may be thinking: You already did this story, mate.

Well -- I don't think so, mate. I did a similar story, about no actor wanting to touch this franchise with a 10 foot pole.

But now it's official -- the ~~Christmas~~ Pagan Winter Festival Special is now cancelled.

They're not admitting -- yet -- that the entire series is now in the ashbin of history, but that's coming soon.

And gay producer Russell T Davies exits the series. I wouldn't make an issue of his sexuality, except for the fact he made his sexuality the main animating ethos of the series. So it's relevant -- he's gay, he's really really really proud of gay "Pride" culture, and he made a science-fiction show for children all about homosexuality, transgenderism, and Queer Culture.

And now he's out.

But they would have kept him on if they could land an actor to play the Fabulous Doctor.

The BBC is no longer going ahead with a "Doctor Who" Christmas special this year as planned and is seeking new production partners.

"Seeking new production partners" = our former investors are no longer willing to shovel money into this Pit of Shame.

Showrunner and writer Russell T Davies and producer Bad Wolf have officially exited the series as the BBC puts the show out to competitive tender. "'Doctor Who' remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC's continued commitment to 'Doctor Who' ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come," a release said on Wednesday.

LOL. If BBC were really "committed" to the show they would fund it itself, not seek corporations willing to throw their money away to subsidize the dead show.

Therefore, the previously announced Christmas special will also not be going forward. "This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one-off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory," the release stated.

You know who was fond of making announcements about upcoming projects? Kaffeine Kennedy, formerly of LucasFilm. She loved announcing new shows and movies. Cost her almost no money at all, so she didn't have to get approval from Disney corporate to "announce" a new trilogy to be directed by Patty Jenkins. Or Rian Round-Head Johnson. Or Kevin Fiege. Or... you get it.

You know who's also announcing a new Doctor Who series? I am. I'm announcing a new series which I'll be producing once rights issues are worked out with the BBC, and I get funding.

My series is just as likely to make it to air as this BBC/Corporate Partner TBD series.

In a post on Instagram, Davies said goodbye to the show, which he led from 2005 to 2010 and again since 2023 in tandem with BBC's co-production pact with Disney+. When Ncuti Gatwa departed the role of the Doctor after just two seasons last year, Disney+ exited the partnership and the series' future has remained uncertain ever since.

Well the series' future is no longer uncertain because I'm stepping up to produce it. Didn't you see my announcement? I am totally committed to my vision of this show.

Speaking of stories I've already covered: A couple of Fridays ago, I said that The Marmaduke & Garfield would fall into third place in its second weekend of exhibition. No Star Wars movie has ever fallen out of first place in its second weekend, but it was clear that The Mermaid & Gorgon would.

Well it did, but I didn't bother posting about it because I wanted to give you a break from the, I'll admit it, Endless Gay Fanboy Bullshit.

And then I didn't even mention it this week when The Marzipan and Fondu fell to sixth place, after the low-budget and apparently lame Scary Movie was released, as well as the gay toy revival Masters of the Universe. (Which is apparently decent, but... c'mon, He-Man hasn't been relevant since 1989.)

It'll fall further when Steven Spielberg's latest misfire, Disclosure Day, opens tomorrow.

Before the release of the latest Star Wars bomb, the studio bragged that it had a smallish budget of about $165 million. Studios never brag about how cheap their movies are, but Disney wanted to avoid headlines about the new Star Wars movie losing money.

But they didn't keep the budget low enough:

Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu is currently projected to finish its global theatrical run slightly shy of the $300 million mark, hovering around an estimated $293 million to $296 million worldwide.
The film opened on May 22, 2026, and after a surprisingly soft theatrical run--struggling against stiff competition from smaller-budget and viral-phenomenon films like Scary Movie and Backrooms--it has severely underperformed compared to other live-action Star Wars features.

Remember, another $80 million was spent on advertising and prints and theaters take about 50% of the box office, so this is another Star Wars movie that doesn't just underperform, but actually loses money.

Thank you for indulging me.

Here's some more relevant media news: Former 60 Minutes bitches bitch about Bari Weiss, a left-wing Obama-voting lesbian who is nevertheless too "far right" to be allowed a job in the totally-objective and impartial American corporate media.

Former '60 Minutes' Staffers Unload on Bari Weiss: 'Everything She's Touched Has Turned to S--'
As Bari Weiss lays waste to "60 Minutes," six former staffers sound off on the damage she's inflicted upon the crown jewel of CBS News.

Staffers have taken to calling it "Black Thursday."
On May 28, a half-dozen senior producers and correspondents at "60 Minutes," the longest-running and highest-rated news program in the country, were unceremoniously shown the door....
I spoke with six former "60 Minutes" staffers, including award-winning correspondents, producers and executives, about the chaos that's unfolded there under Weiss, a former op-ed columnist and founder of The Free Press who had no broadcast journalism -- and scant investigative reporting -- experience prior to being given the keys to CBS News.
"We have to acknowledge that '60 Minutes' needed a bit of a facelift, and there were potentially positive ways to improve the program, but it's the way they have gone about it," a former "60 Minutes" staffer says. "You don't give a facelift with a fucking machete."
...
Steve Kroft, who was a "60 Minutes" correspondent for 30 years until retiring in 2019, echoes Bergman's assessment. He believes that Trump has had it out for the newsmagazine since the Harris piece, and that Ellison and Weiss haven't demonstrated a desire to stand up to him. Ellison is, after all, still seeking FCC approval of Paramount-Skydance's $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Oh, that old fat queen is upset, too? Bonus.

The shrieking hysterics of 60 Minutes continue demonstrating the emotional restrain of Broadway drag queens.

Lesley Stahl Says Journalists Getting Fired Is Worse Than Child Trafficking, Nazi Torture Dungeons

'Oh God, this was awful,' multimillionaire laments after corporation restructures to compete in dying industry

Lesley Stahl has seen a lot of horrible things over the course of her career at 60 Minutes, but none of it can compare to the horror she experienced watching her fellow journalists lose their jobs for being obnoxious.
"Oh God, this was awful," Stahl told Puck when asked about the half dozen veteran producers and personalities who were fired along with Scott Pelley, the veteran newsreader and combat survivor dismissed for insubordination. "This was by far the worst experience I've been involved in, or even witnessed."
The worst experience she's ever even witnessed. By far. The Puck reporter observed that Stahl's voice "trailed off, as if she was still having trouble processing what had happened during the past week or so."
Stahl is 84--even older than Joe Biden. She lived through 9/11 and the Jimmy Carter administration. She witnessed the self-inflicted debasement of her former colleague Dan Rather after he reported on forged documents purporting to cast doubt on President George W. Bush's service in the National Guard. That was pretty bad.
What else might the iconic journalist have experienced in her career that was almost, but not quite, as traumatizing as corporate restructuring in a dying industry?
Well, Stahl's first story as a 60 Minutes correspondent was about child trafficking in Romania after the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu. She visited a family that wanted to sell their four-year-old son for $500 to buy a camcorder. The following year, Stahl interviewed survivors of Josef Mengele's twisted human experiments at Auschwitz. In 2020, she was forced to endure interviews with Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt, cofounders of the much-maligned Lincoln Project super PAC.
It's entirely plausible that Stahl was more disturbed upon learning that a handful of journalists had been fired by CBS. After all, she is a journalist, and many journalists have described Pelley's termination alone as one the greatest tragedies to befall mankind.
...
It's also possible that Stahl has mild to moderate dementia. Perhaps she can't remember watching parents negotiate to sell their children for color TVs. Her more recent output, on the other hand, is composed almost entirely of what industry insiders might call "vacuous fluffery."
Over the last few years, Stahl has examined the benefits of "gender affirming care," documented former congresswoman Liz Cheney's abiding hatred for Donald Trump, and extolled the (alleged) comedy of former Daily Show host Trevor Noah. Despite her reluctance to "become part of the story," Stahl performed a 60 Minutes monologue about her personal battle with COVID-19--a potentially harrowing ordeal given her advanced age, but less so given her exorbitant net worth.
Stahl encountered more traumatic experiences in 2025 while interviewing Yarden Bibas, an Israeli taken hostage by Hamas whose wife and two sons were killed in captivity. It's not entirely clear if Stahl viewed the hostages as victims, given her egregious attempts to empathize with the Hamas terrorists.

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1 Always glad to see M K Ham.

Posted by: Emmie at June 11, 2026 04:30 PM (FMtrg)

2 Homosexuality wouldn't bother me if all they did was cuddle.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 11, 2026 04:30 PM (w8dnx)

3 None here either

https://youtu.be/Vqbk9cDX0l0

Posted by: The Ballots at June 11, 2026 04:31 PM (jrgJz)

4 Too slow

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 11, 2026 04:32 PM (N1tpc)

5 Oh no.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 11, 2026 04:33 PM (/HDaX)

6 Most liberals lack a sense of empathy.

Which is quite ironic because they believe they are the most empathetic people.

But they think whatever happens to them is worse than anything that has ever happened in the world.

Because they are the most self-centered people in the world.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 11, 2026 04:33 PM (N1tpc)

7
I know this is Pride Month, but all this coverage of gay shit is cringe.

Posted by: Auspex at June 11, 2026 04:34 PM (Y8DZL)

8 Brits: "Do you like Doctor Who?"
Americans: "Doctor Who?

Posted by: zombie at June 11, 2026 04:35 PM (Av6i5)

9 "This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans..."

You'll apparently disappoint no one because you don't have any. So you have that going for you.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at June 11, 2026 04:35 PM (oji8u)

10 Never watched Dr Who. Is it a European thing, like handbags and Vespas?

Posted by: davidt at June 11, 2026 04:36 PM (Q+gd/)

11 Done well, a Marmaduke and Garfield - The Giant Lasagna War could be a winning kids cartoon.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11, 2026 04:37 PM (qx7Zg)

12 Never watched Dr Who. Is it a European thing, like handbags and Vespas?
Posted by: davidt

Think Brit version of Captain Kangaroo in space.

Posted by: average brit at June 11, 2026 04:38 PM (diia5)

13 CNN -- State election officials could soon face a stark choice: Hand over voter lists to the Trump administration or risk losing Postal Service delivery for mail-in ballots.

That dilemma stems from newly proposed USPS rules that seek to comply with an executive order President Donald Trump signed this spring to crack down on mail-in voting. If courts let the order stand, it would give the federal government an unprecedented role in elections — and could put even more voter data in the hands of Trump officials searching for supposed election fraud.

The proposed rules lay out new conditions that states would have to meet to send ballots through the mail, including giving the agency lists of all voters set to receive mail ballots.

Posted by: SMOD at June 11, 2026 04:38 PM (RHGPo)

14 I have seen "Dr. Who and the Daleks" -- the 1965 Peter Cushing film -- many times, because it often showed n late-night "Creature Features."

I didn't even realize it was the same character as the "Doctor Who" UK TV show until recently.

For m,. Peter Cushing is the only valid Dr. Who, just as William Shatner is the only valid Captain Kirk.

Posted by: zombie at June 11, 2026 04:38 PM (Av6i5)

15 Never watched Dr Who. Is it a European thing, like handbags and Vespas?
Posted by: davidt at June 11, 2026 04:36 PM

Everything after the 4th Doctor sucked, anyway.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2026 04:39 PM (Wnv9h)

16 "You don't give a facelift with a fucking machete."

Somebody has apparently never seen "Botched"

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 11, 2026 04:40 PM (hy4ia)

17 >>>Think Brit version of Captain Kangaroo in space.

Rick and Morty with less objectionable sexually-transgressive content.

Still a lot of sexually-transgressive content, but less, because it's "for children."

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 04:40 PM (1wjle)

18 >>>Somebody has apparently never seen "Botched"

or Leslie Stahl for that matter.

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 04:40 PM (1wjle)

19 A lot of people commenting on entertainment matters without a Sag/Aftra card.

Just kidding.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 04:41 PM (bwOhD)

20 18.

The Ugly Stick is a classic method for a reason.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 04:42 PM (bwOhD)

21 Former '60 Minutes' Staffers Unload on Bari Weiss: 'Everything She's Touched Has Turned to S--'

Really, Insightful Experienced Journalist(s)? Quitting the NYT to create a substack newsletter which sold for $150,000,000? Do you research at. all.? Do you have access to a dictionary so you can understand words? Do you have a brain?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at June 11, 2026 04:42 PM (oji8u)

22 Russell T Davies and producer Bad Wolf "

"Bad wolf"? That's a joke, right?

Posted by: man at June 11, 2026 04:42 PM (XuXeR)

23 I watched a season of Dr Who with Rose Tyler (played by Billie Piper). It was fun, but I didn't feel any need to watch the next season or go back and watch prior seasons.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 11, 2026 04:42 PM (mkw2N)

24 These people are such gigantic faggots it's impossible to even make fun of them.

Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 04:43 PM (oqH4h)

25 >>>"Bad wolf"? That's a joke, right?

it's an inside reference to a running plot thread (which went nowhere) from his early, more successful seasons on the show.

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 04:43 PM (1wjle)

26
I recall that the Doctor Who franchise was also heavily damaged by a homo who took over the show back around 1990 or so. May have led to the first discontinuation of the.show. Like it led to this one. The agenda. They just can't shut up about it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 11, 2026 04:43 PM (azNOR)

27 re MKH: I think the better pull from that tweet is:

Having lost a job and lost a spouse in my lifetime, they are very, very, so much not the same.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 11, 2026 04:43 PM (8mulE)

28 I tried to watch Dr Who a couple of times before they ruined it with their DEI ideology but it never grabbed me.

But any sci-fi series having a "Christmas" special seems weird. Oh possibly there could be some series that features humans in the future that still maintain a Christian religion. But I don't think Dr Who does that. So how do you even think to have Christmas special?

Posted by: PaleRider at June 11, 2026 04:44 PM (PV+Zw)

29 And he kept all that shit out of the first go around.

It really is a... it's like he reacted to the fans not liking the direction chibnal took the series and took it as a personal attack, so they had to pay.

And the vast audience that they keep promising is out there for this content did not show up, again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 04:44 PM (zZu0s)

30 The Marsupial and Goey

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 11, 2026 04:44 PM (6ydKt)

31 It boggles my mind to hear the salaries of these journalice. They make millions of dollars a year for decades and still cling to these jobs until they are being lowered into the grave.

No wonder they think they are politicians.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 04:44 PM (bwOhD)

32 >>The Marmaduke & Garfield

Is this the movie that Bandersnatch Cummerbund is in?

This gag is improving. It was a bit strained at first, but this one hits.

Posted by: Macy's and Gimbels at June 11, 2026 04:45 PM (BLLsc)

33 2 Homosexuality wouldn't bother me if all they did was cuddle.
Posted by: Oglebay at June 11, 2026 04:30 PM (w8dnx)

lol. I don't imagine that's a lot of fun to watch either.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 11, 2026 04:45 PM (8mulE)

34 zombie: Americans: "Doctor Who?"

Shouldn't that be Doctor Who who? And ask it fast. Like, Dr. Hoohoo?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at June 11, 2026 04:45 PM (oji8u)

35 > Somebody has apparently never seen "Botched"

That show shocked me on so many levels. The people who are addicted to surgical alteration are shocking. The doctors, even American doctors, who do awful work are shocking. The people who go to third would shitholes to get risky surgeries that are illegal in the US are shocking.

It's a crazy show.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 11, 2026 04:45 PM (mkw2N)

36 NYTimes: I can hear how much this has hurt you.

Scott Pelley: Yes. It's like your spouse being murdered.
======

Being married to Communism and watching DJT destroy everything you love can be traumatic. Scott, I suggest therapy and a case of Valu-Rite.

Posted by: mrp at June 11, 2026 04:45 PM (rj6Yv)

37 Still we have the Tennant (first) and first couple seasons of Smith. The Doctor tragically went into hiatus as soon as the Ponds were time locked in NYC.

That is far more than the Boys can say, for example.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 04:45 PM (zZu0s)

38 I watched one episode of dr who several years ago. it was incomprehensible. Was never tempted to watch again.

Posted by: Will Robinson at June 11, 2026 04:45 PM (zBgIx)

39 Dr Who : I'll save you from the evil Daleks , but first I must sodomize you.
I can see why no one watched

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 11, 2026 04:45 PM (6jOdA)

40 >>. So how do you even think to have Christmas special?

seriously, it's always animated plastic snowmen or space invaders whose ships resemble christmas stars on top of a tree. It's stupid.

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 04:45 PM (1wjle)

41 The only thing missing from that NY Times interview with Pelley is the Cone of Silence.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at June 11, 2026 04:46 PM (fMHJo)

42 Dr Whowill celibate Ramadan next year

Posted by: Skip at June 11, 2026 04:46 PM (Ia/+0)

43 NYTimes: I can hear how much this has hurt you.

Scott Pelley: Yes. It's like your spouse being murdered.

Thats beyond gay. Thats just fucking silly.

Hysterical drama queen bullshit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 04:46 PM (zZu0s)

44 The one guy on Department Q could pull off a straight Dr. Who.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 04:46 PM (bwOhD)

45 >>>And he kept all that shit out of the first go around.

i can't remember, but didn't he stick a little of it in early on?

My memory might be wrong.

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 04:47 PM (1wjle)

46 Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu is currently projected to finish its global theatrical run slightly shy of the $300 million mark
-
There's a good chance it finishes behind Obsession in total ticket sales, then

Posted by: Methos at June 11, 2026 04:47 PM (vSvIl)

47 We will always have Star Wars Christmas, though.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 04:47 PM (Fi81e)

48 Thanks. If it weren't for posts like this I'd never know about Dr. Who going down on Star Wars. It's the best failure porn ever invented. Truly.

I, however, am thinking about starting a YouTube channel named Hollywood Grudge Humper.

Posted by: 13times at June 11, 2026 04:47 PM (IPNwN)

49 A lot of these people with government jobs, or in the "protected class" of media, NGOs, etc. have never had the risk of losing a job.

They never lived under market pressure of perform or get fired.

And it shows.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 11, 2026 04:47 PM (BLLsc)

50 Dr Who : I'll save you from the evil Daleks , but first I must sodomize you.
I can see why no one watched
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 11, 2026 04:45 PM

From Nicola Bryant's sweater puppies to this. How a mighty franchise has fallen.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2026 04:47 PM (Wnv9h)

51 Carried over:

Trump's war aim has been constant--no nukes for Iran. Iran started this by gloating they had enough material for twelve nukes.

So please explain what are YOUR goals for victory. Is it low gas prices? Regime change by boots on the ground? Blockading them harder? Sending in our troops into Iranian territory to grab and extract the nuke dust? Sending in an army to remove the government by force and occupying Iran until it is safe to leave?
Posted by: whig at June 11, 2026 04:15 PM (E4rtv)

I think we will ultimately have to go in for the nuke dust, but I don't know what that means in terms of logistics. Heck, for all I know the only hold-up is working on inventing a way to track drone-control signals down to the source for precision strikes.

Indeed, for all I know, that technology already exists. I'm not plugged in. So maybe he's just not used to dealing with the clinically insane, and is stringing them along from force of habit, not having realized yet that he can't outlast them with his super-alpha stress resistance. But that should end up in an intelligence report eventually, if it's the case.

But until we have the nuclear material out, it won't end.

Posted by: SciVo at June 11, 2026 04:48 PM (Sy6m/)

52 24 These people are such gigantic faggots it's impossible to even make fun of them.
Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 04:43 PM (oqH4h)

Untrue. The gigantic faggots are literally begging to be mocked.

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 11, 2026 04:48 PM (DRQeA)

53 I watched one episode of dr who several years ago. it was incomprehensible. Was never tempted to watch again.
Posted by: Will Robinson at June 11, 2026 04:45 PM (zBgIx)

Its an acquired taste. There's some good stuff in there. But, the silly is kind of a staple.

Silence in the Library two parter.
11th Hour.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 04:48 PM (zZu0s)

54 A Simon Pegg Dr. Who would be fun to watch. Bring a lot of eyeballs to the party.

The man has game in a franchise role. He'd protect it.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 04:48 PM (bwOhD)

55
We never got to see a fully flaming Dr. Who with a twink "companion".

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 04:48 PM (Fi81e)

56 >>>There's a good chance it finishes behind Obsession in total ticket sales, then

I guess so. Obsession kept building box office until last weekend, when it finally lost some: A tiny 7%. It's going to be selling tickets for another month at least.

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 04:48 PM (1wjle)

57 it's an inside reference to a running plot thread (which went nowhere) from his early, more successful seasons on the show."

Hmm. Haven't watched since Tom Baker, so... jelly baby?

Posted by: man at June 11, 2026 04:48 PM (XuXeR)

58 Dr Who should have a New Years special...something about how the previous X amount of time was a nightmare dream state just woken up from. Rewrite out all the DEI stuff and get a white male doctor who is ready for adventures again.

I'll take a 2% commission on the revenue made from this idea b/c it's so revolutionary!

Posted by: Nova Local at June 11, 2026 04:49 PM (tOcjL)

59 These people are such gigantic faggots it's impossible to even make fun of them.
Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 04:43 PM (oqH4h)

Untrue. The gigantic faggots are literally begging to be mocked.
Posted by: Polka will never die at June 11, 2026 04:48 PM (DRQeA)
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Oh, my!

Posted by: George Takei at June 11, 2026 04:49 PM (Fi81e)

60 Justine Bateman did a tease on X. Said she walked out of the worst movie ever after one hour. Wonder if it was Disclosure Day?

Posted by: beckster at June 11, 2026 04:49 PM (kX27y)

61 I've never watched Dr. Who, but the obligatory DEI and implausible race roles are really f*cking annoying.

I watched Spider Noir, which started good and then kind of went off the rails, and it was totally absurd that two of the three main characters, in 1933 New York; were "people of color."

This has gotten so old. It's like the show I saw set in the post Soviet Revolution Russia twenties with like a twenty percent black cast.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 04:50 PM (+ZHEV)

62 > I watched one episode of dr who several years ago. it was incomprehensible. Was never tempted to watch again.

Was it the accents, or just the SciFi gibberish? Some old British shows are very hard for me to understand because of the very heavy accents and slang. I tried to watch an old Dad's Army episode and I couldn't understand a damn thing they were saying. I don't have this problem with most British shows of the last couple of decades.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 11, 2026 04:50 PM (mkw2N)

63 For m,. Peter Cushing is the only valid Dr. Who, just as William Shatner is the only valid Captain Kirk.
Posted by: zombie at June 11, 2026 04:38 PM (Av6i5)

I was watching a movie featuring Sean Pertwee and thought "He really does look a lot like Jon Pertwee...Oh..."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Bay Area Housekeeping Influencer at June 11, 2026 04:50 PM (XE5AP)

64 I have an idea on how to save Doctor Who while keeping it LGBTQ+ friendly.

It mostly involves casting Sydney Sweeney as the Doctor and ditching the 'GBTQ+' part of the stack.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at June 11, 2026 04:50 PM (TCsRs)

65 >>>Hmm. Haven't watched since Tom Baker, so... jelly baby?

some good shows then. Brought down by stretching out plots over six or more episodes, with half of the eps just being running away/getting captured/escaping and running again.

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 04:50 PM (1wjle)

66 PaleRider: "But any sci-fi series having a 'Christmas' special seems weird ... So how do you even think to have Christmas special?"

Ask George Lucas about Holiday Specials. I think the question might actually kill him.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at June 11, 2026 04:50 PM (oji8u)

67 Closest I've ever gotten to seeing Dr. Who is Troy and Abed's Inspector Spacetime.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 11, 2026 04:50 PM (PSEDc)

68 i can't remember, but didn't he stick a little of it in early on?

My memory might be wrong.
Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 04:47 PM (1wjle)

Obligatory: thats what she said.

I can't remember anything. There's Captain Jack, but he in doctor who (at least the parts I watched) was just a hedonist who'd fuck anything that moved.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 04:50 PM (zZu0s)

69 "Bad wolf"? That's a joke, right?
****

Bad Wolf Productions. Also, a running portent in the show. Bad Wolf shows up in the new series on occasion. I stopped watching after Capaldi's run ended. So I don't know if the show revealed the meaning of bad wolf.

Posted by: clarence at June 11, 2026 04:51 PM (FLIKO)

70
After all this, the Daleks win.

Posted by: George Takei at June 11, 2026 04:51 PM (Fi81e)

71 I read an article somewhere today saying Dr. Who is probably off the air for a long while. Which is good.

Have the hext Doctor wake up, remembering Amy and Rory, commenting the poison put him under, he dreamed he was Scottish, a woman and a black queer.

Back on track....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 11, 2026 04:51 PM (Sco7b)

72 i can't remember, but didn't he stick a little of it in early on?

My memory might be wrong.
Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 04:47 PM (1wjle)
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Yeah, it was there a little bit with Captain Jack Harkness.

But it wasn't nearly as in-your-face as the later seasons (I gave up in Season 10 with the black lesbian companion--those episodes were just awful.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2026 04:51 PM (gnNyN)

73 Scott Pelley: Yes. It's like your spouse being murdered.

I'd love to see a comment about this from Pelley's actual spouse.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 04:51 PM (2ocoG)

74 >>>60 Justine Bateman did a tease on X. Said she walked out of the worst movie ever after one hour. Wonder if it was Disclosure Day?

she doesn't seem like the type to see broad mainstream movies opening weekend.

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 04:51 PM (1wjle)

75 >>>Yeah, it was there a little bit with Captain Jack Harkness.

Oh right!

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 04:51 PM (1wjle)

76 Ask George Lucas about Holiday Specials. I think the question might actually kill him.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at June 11, 2026 04:50 PM (oji8u)
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I heard that to this day, Lucas will claim there never was a Star Wars Holiday special.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 04:52 PM (Fi81e)

77 What's the point of buying a camcorder if you had to sell the kid you would've been recording to buy it?

Was this blond Dacian, by chance?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 04:52 PM (BI5O2)

78 There's Captain Jack, but he in doctor who (at least the parts I watched) was just a hedonist who'd fuck anything that moved.

Yeah, I remember him being mostly Bill Clinton in Space. They didn't push that he was gay, just that he'd literally bang anything that moved.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 04:52 PM (2ocoG)

79
Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 04:52 PM (Fi81e)

80 > Lesley Stahl has seen a lot of horrible things over the course of her career at 60 Minutes, but none of it can compare to the horror she experienced watching her fellow journalists lose their jobs for being obnoxious.
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I bet the most horrific thing she's seen is when she's looking in a mirror.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2026 04:53 PM (jehhT)

81 Posted by: SciVo at June 11, 2026 04:48 PM (Sy6m/)

Gas is $3.35/ gallon in my area of Florida. Down significantly off its high. Across the border in Alabama it is under $3/gallon ($2.95).

And that is the magic number for people not to care about what is happening in Iran, under three bucks a gallon.

Posted by: Ann at June 11, 2026 04:53 PM (SHHm+)

82 I heard that to this day, Lucas will claim there never was a Star Wars Holiday special.
Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 04:52 PM (Fi81e)

My brother talked me and his buddy into watching that. We were pissed off as hell, especially when the booze ran out.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 11, 2026 04:53 PM (PSEDc)

83 Lesley Stahl Says Journalists Getting Fired Is Worse Than Child Trafficking, Nazi Torture Dungeons
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Footsteps Lesley, footsteps.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 04:53 PM (EQ+Vz)

84
Groomer BBC: Exterminate! Exterminate!

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 04:53 PM (Fi81e)

85 Is it really Christmas if we don't have recordings of Willie Nelson singing:

1. The Christmas Song
2. It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
3. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
4. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
5. Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
6. Baby it's Cold Outside
7. We Three Kings

?

Posted by: Oglebay at June 11, 2026 04:53 PM (w8dnx)

86 A Simon Pegg Dr. Who would be fun to watch. Bring a lot of eyeballs to the party.

The man has game in a franchise role. He'd protect it.
Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 04:48 PM (bwOhD)
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He even played the villain in a Series 1 episode.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2026 04:53 PM (gnNyN)

87 But I don't think Dr Who does that. So how do you even think to have Christmas special?
Posted by: PaleRider at June 11, 2026 04:44 PM (PV+Zw)

The specials were traditionally shown on Christmas Day as an event and gift from the BBC to kids and Doctor Who fans.

Some of the episodes do have a Christmas theme, but nothing specifically about Jesus. They’re mostly just a snowy/wintery setting with vague holiday festival themes, especially the recent specials.

The most recent one gave up Christmas entirely and was aired on New Years day, IIRC.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 11, 2026 04:54 PM (6ydKt)

88 This happened several years ago here in what has become my Progressive burg. The Christmas Parade became the 'Holiday Parade'. Curiously, the decorations on the city lamposts now have no red or green decoration, but, blue.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 11, 2026 04:54 PM (XeU6L)

89 Lesley Stahl Says Journalists Getting Fired Is Worse Than Child Trafficking, Nazi Torture Dungeons

She probably supports Platner, so she would likely describe many, many things as worse than Nazi Torture Dungeons.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 04:55 PM (2ocoG)

90 It really feels like RTD intentionally sabotaged the first black doctor. He gave the best stories to his muse, wrote Ncuti as if he were the companion and secondary character in almost half the episodes, and made all these decisions that came off weird and even unnecessarily racially charged like giving Ncuti a different sonic screwdriver because he didn't want to invoke images of the doctor shooting a gun.

Ncuti Gatwa was a great Doctor but focusing on magic was such an odd choice, and one that wholly did not fit the series. The shows had all this extra money, and that just seemed to be a shackle. They went bigger instead of being forced to be creative.

Spend twice the percentage of the budget that a normal TV show spends on writing. That's what matters on *Doctor Who*. Not a a star trek fan (yet), but it seems like its the same for them. No one can write single episodes anymore apparently.

I dont understand why people saying the show need a rest. What does accomplish? Find good writers and showrunner and you'll never need a rest.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 11, 2026 04:55 PM (JCZqz)

91 Don't think ever saw but maybe 1 or two full episodes of DrWho ever, not my kind of Sci-fi

Posted by: Skip at June 11, 2026 04:55 PM (Ia/+0)

92 Oh I remember: I didn't mind Captain Jack being a pansexual whore, but I did not like when the show claimed that "in the future," everyone's bisexual and pansexual.

That was too much for me. But it was just mentioned one time and didn't keep recurring.

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 04:55 PM (1wjle)

93 I'm announcing that I will be the next Dr. Who, once the rights to the production are signed.

I will also sing the Dr. Who Theme, replacing the previous lyrics "and the rest" with " the Daleks and Mary Ann."

Posted by: Minuteman at June 11, 2026 04:56 PM (47/pr)

94 I would, most definitely, watch Dr. Who if they gave the lead role to Tommy Wiseau.

Posted by: Orson at June 11, 2026 04:56 PM (dIske)

95 Glad I never bothered watching. This is however more interesting than the Iran war.

Posted by: H at June 11, 2026 04:56 PM (w8ire)

96 "Was it the accents, or just the SciFi gibberish?"

It was the jibberish in total. The show seemed to have been put together by a jibberish generator that was in overdrive.

Posted by: Will Robinson at June 11, 2026 04:56 PM (zBgIx)

97 2025 Disney made 12.4 billion profit after taxes.

Posted by: Paul at June 11, 2026 04:56 PM (R+D0l)

98 Dr. Who was on KQED San Francisco back in the 70's. Watched five minutes of it and never again watched it.

KTVU showed Star Trek every weekday 6-7pm for over a decade.

Posted by: 13times at June 11, 2026 04:57 PM (IPNwN)

99 Not the Bee:

71 Jewish girls rescued from NY sewer tunnels after wandering off during field trip

https://tinyurl.com/3dswn3te

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 11, 2026 04:57 PM (Yrnev)

100 > Don't think ever saw but maybe 1 or two full episodes of DrWho ever, not my kind of Sci-fi
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Me neither. A lot of British TV is lost on me.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2026 04:57 PM (jehhT)

101 92.

My hope is that somewhere between now and that future they invent a better Preparation H.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 04:57 PM (bwOhD)

102 73: Does Pelley even have a spouse? Caught on talk radio a clip of Pelley saying "I've never worn the uniform but I've served in combat". The radio host was mocking the heck out of that as reporters get assigned a huge group of guards when they venture off base, then they pound their chests to the soyboys at their 'news' outlet when they get home.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 11, 2026 04:58 PM (PV+Zw)

103 68 i can't remember, but didn't he stick a little of it in early on?

My memory might be wrong.
Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 04:47 PM (1wjle)

Obligatory: thats what she said.

I can't remember anything. There's Captain Jack, but he in doctor who (at least the parts I watched) was just a hedonist who'd fuck anything that moved.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 04:50 PM (zZu0s)

That's about right, and then spun him off with his own series "Torchwood"

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at June 11, 2026 04:58 PM (k1E2D)

104 Axeman: "I heard that to this day, Lucas will claim there never was a Star Wars Holiday special."

I don't blame him for that. I remember a snippet or I think I do. It was long ago and wholly forgettable. It had to do with Chewbacca and his "family". Oh, man.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at June 11, 2026 04:58 PM (oji8u)

105 I can imagine Pelley and the rest of the 60 Seconds crew commiserating with the former hotshots at USAID after that agency was obliterated. The "Sixties" were all thinking "better you than us" and kept thinking that until they were sittin'n on the dock of the bay.

Posted by: mrp at June 11, 2026 04:58 PM (rj6Yv)

106 Don't think ever saw but maybe 1 or two full episodes of DrWho ever, not my kind of Sci-fi

The 70s and early 80s stuff where each episode had an effects budget of roughly $1.50 had the same kind of charm as the original Star Trek.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 04:58 PM (2ocoG)

107 I heard that to this day, Lucas will claim there never was a Star Wars Holiday special.
Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 04:52 PM (Fi81e)

Oh, yes, there was, and the Rifftrax treatment of it is one of the funniest things I've ever seen!

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 11, 2026 04:59 PM (k9OZB)

108 But it wasn't nearly as in-your-face as the later seasons (I gave up in Season 10 with the black lesbian companion--those episodes were just awful.)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2026 04:51 PM (gnNyN)

I was out when Clara went from voice on the radio to the girl who's a key to everything companion.

There was one good episode in there. Creepy. British actor. Great voice. He buys this house that is supposedly haunted. Dr and clara show up as health and safety. I like that episode.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 04:59 PM (zZu0s)

109 Doctor Who Cares

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 11, 2026 04:59 PM (T6aVk)

110 I'm watching a crafting video on YouTube. The lady in the video is wearing a t-shirt that has written upon it... "I just looked out side to check which chapter of Revelations we're doing this week" .

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2026 05:00 PM (OsdBI)

111 107.

The cocaine budget of that special must have been close to Britain's GDP.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:00 PM (bwOhD)

112 And gay producer Russell T Davies exits the series. I wouldn't make an issue of his sexuality, except for the fact he made his sexuality the main animating ethos of the series. So it's relevant -- he's gay, he's really really really proud of gay "Pride" culture, and he made a science-fiction show for children all about homosexuality, transgenderism, and Queer Culture.

And this is very much the problem with so much of modern entertainment. Teh GHEYYYYYY has become the substitute for interesting and well-developed characters, character and story development, engaging and well-considered plot arcs, and good storytelling. It's laziness and pandering wrapped up in a rainbow flag.

Posted by: It's gay AND lame at June 11, 2026 05:00 PM (TbWk/)

113 Dr. Whom.

Posted by: Your Neighborhood Grammar Nazi at June 11, 2026 05:00 PM (XE5AP)

114 she doesn't seem like the type to see broad mainstream movies opening weekend.
Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 04:51 PM (1wjle)

I know, right? But she said people were flocking to it, so maybe The Sheep Detective???

Posted by: beckster at June 11, 2026 05:00 PM (kX27y)

115 38 I watched one episode of dr who several years ago. it was incomprehensible. Was never tempted to watch again.
Posted by: Will Robinson at June 11, 2026 04:45 PM (zBgIx)
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It's never been good.

Americans who watch and claim to enjoy British TV are largely the same people who can't shut up about European soccer teams.

They think it makes them cultured. It does not. It makes them insufferable faggots.

Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 05:00 PM (oqH4h)

116 Guess I need to restructure my Christmas plans now!

Also, like most people, I haven’t gotten my news from a traditional journal in a very, very, very long time. Organizations who stagnate disappear. Look at the ages of the people crying the blues. They are stuck on a place that no longer exists.

Posted by: Piper at June 11, 2026 05:01 PM (OoFl2)

117 I am totally committed to my vision of this show.

Is the world ready for Dr. Who zipping around on a Vespa, J. Crew Messenger Bag flapping in the scooterwash, dashing from one shelving near-miss to another?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 11, 2026 05:01 PM (0sNs1)

118
So, I finished plowing through all the Rocky movies over the last week or so.

A good time. I recommend it.

I had some surprises in the rewatch, so I'll just give you how I would now rank them:

Rocky
Rocky 3/ Rocky Balboa
Rocky 5
Rocky 2
Rocky 4

These ranking are based on them as movies.

The top 4 all had very clean, clear, organic, mostly linear stories.
The top three are also feel good movies which is nice.
Rocky 5 is a feel bad movie and really not worthy of the final Rocky movie, which is was intended to be. Rocky winds up poor, brain-damaged, and he wins a street fight, soooo back to being a street bum. What were they thinking. That said it's a very well-written, well-directed and acted movie. It doesn't deserve its lousy reputation.

Rocky 2 and 4 start off with a great concept and nuthin' else. The plotting and characters are all over the place as they try to fill out enough time to make it a movie. They feel very fake even though you like how they end.

That's it. Check them out. They're all streaming on netflix.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 11, 2026 05:01 PM (iJfKG)

119 That was too much for me. But it was just mentioned one time and didn't keep recurring.
****

Tell me you did not watch Torchwood without saying you didn't watch Torchwood.

Posted by: clarence at June 11, 2026 05:02 PM (FLIKO)

120 113 Dr. Whom.
Posted by: Your Neighborhood Grammar Nazi at June 11, 2026 05:00 PM (XE5AP)

Dr. They/them

Posted by: Not just a grammar Nazi, you bigot at June 11, 2026 05:02 PM (TbWk/)

121 115.

Poverty Ball makes sense when you visualize two teams of starving peasants trying to chase the last chicken in their village into a net for supper.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:02 PM (bwOhD)

122 Dr. Who????

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 11, 2026 05:02 PM (VCgbV)

123 But it wasn't nearly as in-your-face as the later seasons (I gave up in Season 10 with the black lesbian companion--those episodes were just awful.)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2026 04:51 PM (gnNyN)

About the same time I stopped watching on the regular.

I gave the female Doctor a shot for a few episodes, but eventually got tired of the in your face Woke and haven’t watched tge revival since.

I did get to watch some of the original run episodes on streaming, Tubi and such, and enjoyed a lot if it.

I do agree with many that Tom Baker was the best Doctor back then, after watching a lot of his series.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 11, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt)

124 As an entirely ignorant yet determined fan of British football, I do not watch British programming, except for the fiercely hetero Grantchester.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 11, 2026 05:03 PM (w8dnx)

125 Americans who watch and claim to enjoy British TV are largely the same people who can't shut up about European soccer teams.

They think it makes them cultured. It does not. It makes them insufferable faggots.
Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 05:00 PM (oqH4h)

I... tend to agree with Classic Doctor Who. Its just painful. Now it's painful in a different way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 05:03 PM (zZu0s)

126 71 Jewish girls rescued from NY sewer tunnels after wandering off during field trip

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Read the story. Not the sewer. Runoff tunnels... the girls jumped in from a culvert, and then got lost, because girls.

We used to mess around in the runoff tunnels under metro Denver. We would drag in 2×4s and use them to bridge the pits as we went.

Our record run was allllll the way from Crown Hill Cemetery in Lakewood to Sloan's Lake in Denver.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 05:03 PM (BI5O2)

127 Despite her reluctance to "become part of the story," Stahl performed a 60 Minutes monologue about her personal battle with COVID-19
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"Ah feared that my stock of Jeni's may run low before another load of groceries was dropped at my door by Kroger's."

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:03 PM (Fi81e)

128 126.

Pennywise hardest hit.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:04 PM (bwOhD)

129 Americans who watch and claim to enjoy British TV are largely the same people who can't shut up about European soccer teams.

They think it makes them cultured. It does not. It makes them insufferable faggots.
Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 05:00 PM (oqH4h)
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I will admit to knowing a handful or Dr. Who followers and none of them are insufferable.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:04 PM (Fi81e)

130 I have a short cameo in Rocky II. My brother and I are two of the kids chasing Rocky around Philly during the "Gonna Fly Now" sequence.
I was 10 years old. My dad took us out of school for the day. We were served breakfast, lunch and dinner, and at the end of the day I got a check for $100. Not bad for 1978.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at June 11, 2026 05:05 PM (Cjger)

131 The Doctor in a time loop for a billion years, pounding a wall, dying and his skulls in the pond was a great episode.

The last one with the black lesbian was good too. Huge spaceship....100 decks on the edge of a black hole. Time was faster at ohe end.

A lot of white girl companions had black boyfriends. Disney has a lot of that crap too. Cute shows not safe for kids.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 11, 2026 05:05 PM (Sco7b)

132 Don't think ever saw but maybe 1 or two full episodes of DrWho ever, not my kind of Sci-fi
Posted by: Skip at June 11, 2026 04:55 PM (Ia/+0)

Now that I think about it, I was kind of aware about it as a kid, when I think it was on PBS in the Eighties. The Dialec? robots were a thing my group talked about.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 05:05 PM (+ZHEV)

133 Pennywise hardest hit.
Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:04 PM (bwOhD)

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Posted by: Oglebay at June 11, 2026 05:05 PM (w8dnx)

134
?
Posted by: Oglebay

Grandma got run....

Oh never mind.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 11, 2026 05:05 PM (IP7s4)

135 'Christmas'?

Die Hard...it had to be said.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 11, 2026 05:05 PM (XeU6L)

136 94 I would, most definitely, watch Dr. Who if they gave the lead role to Tommy Wiseau.
Posted by: Orson at June 11, 2026 04:56 PM (dIske)

This is brilliant. Tommy Tourette's as Dr. Who would be fan-freakin-tastic

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 11, 2026 05:05 PM (DRQeA)

137 I have a short cameo in Rocky II. My brother and I are two of the kids chasing Rocky around Philly during the "Gonna Fly Now" sequence.
I was 10 years old. My dad took us out of school for the day. We were served breakfast, lunch and dinner, and at the end of the day I got a check for $100. Not bad for 1978.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at June 11, 2026 05:05 PM (Cjger)

Nice!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 11, 2026 05:06 PM (iJfKG)

138 I relish the ithought that these delusional idiots may actually think that Trump is behind all these changes to their dumpster fire industry. I can only hope that their burning hatred of Trump continues to eat away at their black soul and makes their every waking hour and sleeping nightmares a living hell. Makes me kinda giddy.

But at the same time I hope there are the occasional flashes of reality every once in awhile where they think "Well maybe we are the boorish, elitist hacks that 85% of the country thinks (knows) we are?"

Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at June 11, 2026 05:06 PM (2Nfh9)

139 Rocky 5 is a feel bad movie and really not worthy of the final Rocky movie, which is was intended to be. Rocky winds up poor, brain-damaged, and he wins a street fight, soooo back to being a street bum. What were they thinking. That said it's a very well-written, well-directed and acted movie. It doesn't deserve its lousy reputation.

I mostly agree. Rocky is older, and the movies were more about character drama than the boxing itself, so it made sense to move away from the "big fight" focus of every film. More importantly, it was "loosely" based on Mike Tyson's rise to fame, and Don King being a slimy promoter, so it was much more relevant when released, and tells a pretty familiar story in athletics and entertainment.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 11, 2026 05:06 PM (JCZqz)

140 Americans who watch and claim to enjoy British TV are largely the same people who can't shut up about European soccer teams.

They think it makes them cultured. It does not. It makes them insufferable faggots.
Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 05:00 PM (oqH4h)
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Daleks. SCARY!

Posted by: mrp at June 11, 2026 05:06 PM (rj6Yv)

141 130.

Feels good to be a part of history. Sylvester Stallone has literally changed the world in his lifetime. Dude is the original influencer. A great man, warts and all.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:07 PM (bwOhD)

142 Dr. What

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11, 2026 05:07 PM (qx7Zg)

143 Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 05:00 PM (oqH4h).

Well I quite enjoyed the "Are you Being Served" comedy when PBS would show it, also the original "All Creatures"

But I expect the BBC also produced a lot of junk that I've never seen. And I'll never consider myself cultured, just a country hick that ended up sitting at a computer for work.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 11, 2026 05:07 PM (PV+Zw)

144 >>>That's it. Check them out. They're all streaming on netflix.

I don't know if I've ever watched Rocky 2 front to back.

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 05:07 PM (1wjle)

145 BBC can do Christmas Beheading specials instead.

Posted by: torabora at June 11, 2026 05:07 PM (t2zKj)

146 Wasn't Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, CBE, a Dr. Who?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 11, 2026 05:07 PM (0sNs1)

147 When Netflix does the Austin Metcalf/Karmelo Anthony story, Austin will be portrayed by Shaq and Karmelo by Elijah Wood.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 11, 2026 05:07 PM (ndZc7)

148 The Cleveland Clinic has Agreed to END youth Transgender Care and Commits millions for detransitions.

ABC News

Posted by: Some hopeful news? at June 11, 2026 05:07 PM (iUXlD)

149 NYTimes: I can hear how much this has hurt you.

Scott Pelley: Yes. It's like your spouse being murdered.

Thats beyond gay. Thats just fucking silly.

Hysterical drama queen bullshit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 04:46 PM (zZu0s)

Once claiming victimhood becomes the standard power play, there is no limit to the idiocy that comes out of that.

"I'm infinity plus ONE damaged and hurt!!!"
"NO, I AM"

toddlers.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:08 PM (8avO+)

150
"Seeking new production partners" = our former investors are no longer willing to shovel money into this Pit of Shame.

Queers for Palestine are dead certain that they can raise the money from their ALPHABET-adjacent pals in Gaza and the West Bank.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 11, 2026 05:08 PM (ixS3i)

151 In World Kickball News, it was Murderous Drug Cartel Nation 2, Murderous Racist Land Seizing Nation 0. Big win for drug cartels today.

Posted by: Wally at June 11, 2026 05:08 PM (65cLN)

152 130 I have a short cameo in Rocky II. My brother and I are two of the kids chasing Rocky around Philly during the "Gonna Fly Now" sequence.
I was 10 years old. My dad took us out of school for the day. We were served breakfast, lunch and dinner, and at the end of the day I got a check for $100. Not bad for 1978.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat

A friend of my parents is an extra in Robocop. One of the mostly naked cops in the background of the locker room scene, I believe. True story lol.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 11, 2026 05:08 PM (JCZqz)

153 As I reported, even super lib Grace Randolph was revolted by the antiChrist themes of Disclosure day and said at best Spielberg was misguided and at worst an idiot for doing that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 11, 2026 05:08 PM (XV/Pl)

154 OMG, 71 and 74 year old white couple murdered:

MJTruthUltra
@MJTruthUltra
·
6h
Holy crap…

The 17 year old who was just arrested for breaking into an elderly couples home and murdering them in Mississippi… his two brothers were just arrested as well for attempting to murder a police officer over a seatbelt violation

Cortavion Hobbs (19)
Cortavious Hobbs (1

Cordarius Hobbs (17)

Where the hell are their parents?

Posted by: beckster at June 11, 2026 05:09 PM (kX27y)

155 71 Jewish girls rescued from NY sewer tunnels after wandering off during field trip

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I read that and, honest to God, the first thought that came to mind was the 1943 Warsaw Uprising.

Posted by: mrp at June 11, 2026 05:09 PM (rj6Yv)

156 Americans who watch and claim to enjoy British TV are largely the same people who can't shut up about European soccer teams.

They think it makes them cultured. It does not. It makes them insufferable faggots.
Posted by: ballistic
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Current British TV? Because there's obviously a lot of past British TV that's enjoyable.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 11, 2026 05:09 PM (XvL8K)

157
There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that Big BBC Fag tried to change the the Dalek cry to "Exsperminate".

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:09 PM (Fi81e)

158 Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 05:00 PM (oqH4h).

Well I quite enjoyed the "Are you Being Served" comedy when PBS would show it, also the original "All Creatures"

But I expect the BBC also produced a lot of junk that I've never seen. And I'll never consider myself cultured, just a country hick that ended up sitting at a computer for work.
Posted by: PaleRider at June 11, 2026 05:07 PM (PV+Zw)

Yeah it helps if someone culls out the drek for you before shipping it overseas. You can get some good stuff from even US sitcoms that way too.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:09 PM (8avO+)

159 also the original "All Creatures"
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Led me to read all of Herriot's books. All interesting/entertaining.

The great thing about the show was that it gave a taste of England as it was.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 11, 2026 05:09 PM (XeU6L)

160 I've never seen Dr. Who. The only British tv shows I've ever watched were Benny Hill, Sherlock (with Benedict Cumberbatch) and Absolutely Fabulous.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 11, 2026 05:09 PM (OsdBI)

161 @146

>>Wasn't Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, CBE, a Dr. Who?

He was Sherlock Holmes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 11, 2026 05:09 PM (XV/Pl)

162
Pelley the Concubine wants his MeTV.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 11, 2026 05:10 PM (ixS3i)

163 > Americans who watch and claim to enjoy British TV are largely the same people who can't shut up about European soccer teams.

I don't make Brit TV my personality, but I have enjoyed some shows. Fawlty Towers was lots of fun. I liked Are You Being Served? Sherlock was good.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 11, 2026 05:10 PM (mkw2N)

164 Current British TV? Because there's obviously a lot of past British TV that's enjoyable.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 11, 2026 05:09 PM (XvL8K)
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Fawlty Towers should not be missed.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:10 PM (Fi81e)

165 Feels good to be a part of history. Sylvester Stallone has literally changed the world in his lifetime. Dude is the original influencer. A great man, warts and all.
Posted by: sifty boones

You think more so than his contemporaries? Like Schwarzenegger? I was going to say Eastwood, too, but he's a bit older.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 11, 2026 05:11 PM (JCZqz)

166 Current British TV? Because there's obviously a lot of past British TV that's enjoyable.

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Downton Abbey and Absolutely Fabulous are some of my favorite shows ever. Other than that, though, I have to claim I don't watch Brit TV.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 11, 2026 05:11 PM (qBdHI)

167 Americans who watch and claim to enjoy British TV are largely the same people who can't shut up about European soccer teams.

They think it makes them cultured. It does not. It makes them insufferable faggots.
Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 05:00 PM (oqH4h)
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Daleks. SCARY!
Posted by: mrp at June 11, 2026 05:06 PM (rj6Yv)

Thats why I insist on several 3 inch steps in my house. Makes it Dalek proof.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:11 PM (8avO+)

168 145 BBC can do Christmas Beheading specials instead.
Posted by: torabora at June 11, 2026 05:07 PM (t2zKj)

That's perfect.

The Dr. Who Christmas Beheading Special produced by George Lucas and the BBC.

Posted by: 13times at June 11, 2026 05:11 PM (IPNwN)

169 Where the hell are their parents?
Posted by: beckster
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They're busy signing on for GoFundMe accounts.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 11, 2026 05:11 PM (XeU6L)

170 Benny Hill was the high water mark and we all know it.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:11 PM (bwOhD)

171 Earlier in my life, I appreciated Neighbors and Yes, (Prime) Minister.

The Cleese-and-Chapman written Doctor in the House episodes are also quite recommendable.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:12 PM (Fi81e)

172 The Doq'tur Who Ramadan Specials will be riveting. The Doq'tur will sleep in on the Retardis, sit on the stoop smoking hookah until dusk, stuff his face all night, and go on an exciting adventure where comes within a gnat's whisker of gainful employment, but is saved in the nick of time when his young male companion returns with jewelry he stripped from a rape victim.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 05:12 PM (BI5O2)

173 160 I've never seen Dr. Who. The only British tv shows I've ever watched were Benny Hill, Sherlock (with Benedict Cumberbatch) and Absolutely Fabulous.
Posted by: Madamemayhem

The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes stories are amazing, as is Red Dwarf.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 11, 2026 05:12 PM (JCZqz)

174 And this is very much the problem with so much of modern entertainment. Teh GHEYYYYYY has become the substitute for interesting and well-developed characters, character and story development, engaging and well-considered plot arcs, and good storytelling. It's laziness and pandering wrapped up in a rainbow flag.
Posted by: It's gay AND lame at June 11, 2026 05:00 PM (TbWk/)
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Hell, this is a problem with modern SOCIETY, let alone the entertainment space. So many stupid, boring people think that by loudly advertising what they like to do with their hoo-ha for fun that they don't need to develop anything that vaguely resembles a personality.

If before I learn your name I already know your sexual kinks, you're probably a dreadfully boring shithead.

Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 05:12 PM (oqH4h)

175 Current British TV? Because there's obviously a lot of past British TV that's enjoyable.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 11, 2026 05:09 PM (XvL8K)

The Good Neighbors, Fawlty Towers, Are You Being Served were all damn funny.

Posted by: That was a long time ago though at June 11, 2026 05:12 PM (TbWk/)

176 I have a short cameo in Rocky II. My brother and I are two of the kids chasing Rocky around Philly during the "Gonna Fly Now" sequence.
I was 10 years old. My dad took us out of school for the day. We were served breakfast, lunch and dinner, and at the end of the day I got a check for $100. Not bad for 1978.

Neat!

My wife was an extra in the 2002 Spider Man movie. She's one of the people running around on the ground below the balcony when Green Goblin is attacking.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 11, 2026 05:12 PM (mkw2N)

177 161 @146

>>Wasn't Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, CBE, a Dr. Who?

He was Sherlock Holmes.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 11, 2026 05:09 PM (XV/Pl)

He was also a Dragon named Smaug the Calamitous.

Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2026 05:13 PM (Gqar8)

178 Benny Hill was the high water mark and we all know it.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:11 PM (bwOhD)
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Benny was able to pull off some quite interesting skits.

But the bulk of it was slop.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:13 PM (Fi81e)

179 I dont understand why people saying the show need a rest. What does accomplish?

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Yeah, just shoot it in the head like a horse with a broken leg.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 11, 2026 05:13 PM (ndZc7)

180 British TV used to come in two flavors, silly and ridiculous and serious and ridiculous.

Now it's gay and ridiculous and serious and gay.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 11, 2026 05:13 PM (XV/Pl)

181 10 Never watched Dr Who. Is it a European thing, like handbags and Vespas?
Posted by: davidt at June 11, 2026 04:36 PM (Q+gd/)
Watched Dr. Who once mabe 30 years ago? Red Dwarf was better. And it sucked.

Posted by: Eromero at June 11, 2026 05:13 PM (LHPAg)

182 156 Americans who watch and claim to enjoy British TV are largely the same people who can't shut up about European soccer teams.

They think it makes them cultured. It does not. It makes them insufferable faggots.
Posted by: ballistic
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I don’t know about that. I knew people who were far from friendly to soccer who enjoyed some British TV. I liked a few British programs here and there but Doctor Who passed me by. I saw the movie which (I think) featured Peter Cushing as the Doctor back when I was a kid and was like “WTF?”

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 11, 2026 05:13 PM (T6aVk)

183 The best part of Rocky II is the fight with Apollo at the end.

Everything else isn’t as memorable.

But most of the Rocky films are like that.

Rocky Balboa wasn’t too inspiring either, as I recall, but it was good for a little nostalgia in 2006.

I’ve only seen the first Creed film, so can’t say much on those.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 11, 2026 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

184 Cortavion Hobbs (19)
Cortavious Hobbs (1
Cordarius Hobbs (17)

Where the hell are their parents?
Posted by: beckster

Calvin and Hobbes > all of them together

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 11, 2026 05:14 PM (JCZqz)

185 Americans who watch and claim to enjoy British TV are largely the same people who can't shut up about European soccer teams.

They think it makes them cultured. It does not. It makes them insufferable faggots.
Posted by: ballistic

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This is nonsense.
There is some very good British TV, and lots of dreck, just like in USA.

They have a tendency to be great at adaptations of fiction (Le Carre, Dickens, Morse, ....) in the 4-6 episode format.

A lot of their most famous weekly stuff is very low budget (their audience is much smaller, and less competitive than the USA) so don't watch it. But don't insult those of us who like british tv.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 11, 2026 05:14 PM (BLLsc)

186 Also

Alas, Smith and Jones....

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:14 PM (Fi81e)

187 Fawlty Towers should not be missed.
Posted by: Axeman
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Pretty damned funny. I recall the sign out front of the hotel once saying 'Fowl Twats'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 11, 2026 05:14 PM (XeU6L)

188 Never seen Doctor Who but I know there’s a Magic Phone Booth in it.

Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2026 05:14 PM (Gqar8)

189 And: The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:14 PM (Fi81e)

190 I enjoyed "To the Manor Born". Penelope Keith is one of the funniest actresses on TV.

Posted by: mrp at June 11, 2026 05:14 PM (rj6Yv)

191 178.

I just watched for the living JC Penny underwear catalog sections. It was around that time in my life.

Pre Blue Lagoon.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:15 PM (bwOhD)

192 171 Earlier in my life, I appreciated Neighbors and Yes, (Prime) Minister.

The Cleese-and-Chapman written Doctor in the House episodes are also quite recommendable.
Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:12 PM (Fi81e)

I rather enjoyed The Young Ones.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 11, 2026 05:16 PM (T6aVk)

193 Where the hell are their parents?
Posted by: beckster at June 11, 2026 05:09 PM (kX27y)
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Gonna go out on a limb and venture that none of these dindus have ever met their fathers, and I'll parlay that into the three kids have three different fathers.

Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 05:16 PM (oqH4h)

194 And yeah, Benny Hill was the best.
I'm not a skit person, but that was a funny show.

Mr. Bean in small doses was alright too.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 11, 2026 05:16 PM (Sco7b)

195 But the bulk of it was slop.
Posted by: Axeman
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Still, I laughed every time he slapped the old dude's head.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 11, 2026 05:16 PM (XvL8K)

196 I left out their comedy -- Peep Show near the top of that list.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 11, 2026 05:16 PM (BLLsc)

197 I rather enjoyed The Young Ones.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 11, 2026 05:16 PM (T6aVk)
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Yeah, me too.

Posted by: mrp at June 11, 2026 05:17 PM (rj6Yv)

198 Never watch soccer, but I do like a handful of Brit TV series.

They are good at drama, and comedy.
Sci-Fi isn’t in their wheelhouse, which is why Doctor Who and Red Dwarf are about the only examples anybody can think of.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 11, 2026 05:17 PM (6ydKt)

199 But the most I've ever seen of Dr. Who... outside of the classic one-shot film with Peter Cushing ... is like part of two scattered episodes.

I don't like technical double-talk, so I didn't think much of it.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:17 PM (Fi81e)

200 A lot of white girl companions had black boyfriends. Disney has a lot of that crap too. Cute shows not safe for kids.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 11, 2026 05:05 PM (Sco7b)

Of course the media has been pushing the, white women with black men, really hard the last ten years.

I'd guess a third, or more, of young couples depicted in Television shows, movies and commercials.

Apparently, not too concerned about the astronomical rate of domestic violence in those arrangements.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 05:17 PM (+ZHEV)

201 I can still remember watchin PBS out of LA at night with Dad after MASH and Taxi were over.

I, Claudius followed by Dr. Who and then Benny Hill.

Good times.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:17 PM (bwOhD)

202 There is some very good British TV, and lots of dreck, just like in USA.

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There may be 5 or 6 good TV shows in American history. TV sucks ass and always has.

If they can beat that number they win.

At a stupid, pointless game of race-to-the-near-bottom.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 05:17 PM (BI5O2)

203 I haven't seen "Last of the Summer Wine" listed yet. It follows a trio of male retirees in a small Yorkshire town, and the trouble they can get into.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11, 2026 05:18 PM (qx7Zg)

204 38 I watched one episode of dr who several years ago. it was incomprehensible. Was never tempted to watch again.
Posted by: Will Robinson at June 11, 2026 04:45 PM (zBgIx)
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It's never been good.

Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 05:00 PM (oqH4h)

It originally was a kids/teens show and even at its best was a bit lighter in its themes.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:18 PM (uhVAy)

205 I rather enjoyed The Young Ones.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 11, 2026 05:16 PM (T6aVk)
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Indeed! One of the great British series.

They died every week long before Kenny on South Park.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:18 PM (Fi81e)

206 Apparently, not too concerned about the astronomical rate of domestic violence in those arrangements.
Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 05:17 PM (+ZHEV

Those couples always seemed so happy on Jerry Springer.
And Maury....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 11, 2026 05:19 PM (Sco7b)

207 Dad's Army.

Posted by: mrp at June 11, 2026 05:19 PM (rj6Yv)

208 @202

>>There may be 5 or 6 good TV shows in American history. TV sucks ass and always has

Barney Miller, Adam 12 and X-Files, what are the other three?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 11, 2026 05:19 PM (XV/Pl)

209 I watched one episode of dr who several years ago. it was incomprehensible. Was never tempted to watch again.
Posted by: Will Robinson at June 11, 2026 04:45 PM (zBgIx)
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It's never been good.

Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 05:00 PM (oqH4h)

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Yeah, I don't enjoy Magic with techno-mumbo-jumbo to make it sounds Sicencey.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:19 PM (Fi81e)

210 Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:19 PM (bwOhD)

211 >>>160 I've never seen Dr. Who. The only British tv shows I've ever watched were Benny Hill, Sherlock (with Benedict Cumberbatch) and Absolutely Fabulous.

Can I recommend Jonathan Creek?

He's a magic engineer, that is, he designs the illusions, he doesn't perform them. He's asked for help with an unsolveable crime, on the questionable theory that as someone who makes the impossible seem possible for a living, he would be a good detective. Then they do a whole show with him solving crimes.

Some of the episodes are good with tricky solutions that are solvable and fair, others are just ass-pulls. It was all written by a single guy and I really think he should have had a writers room.

The highly ranked episodes (Google for them) are all worth the watch.

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 05:20 PM (1wjle)

212 There may be 5 or 6 good TV shows in American history. TV sucks ass and always has.

If they can beat that number they win.

At a stupid, pointless game of race-to-the-near-bottom.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 05:17 PM (BI5O2)
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Fact check: True

Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 05:20 PM (oqH4h)

213 >>There may be 5 or 6 good TV shows in American history. TV sucks ass and always has

Barney Miller, Adam 12 and X-Files, what are the other three?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 11, 2026 05:19 PM (XV/Pl)
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Dick Van Dyke Show?

Green Acres?

Psych?

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:20 PM (Fi81e)

214 I rather enjoyed The Young Ones.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 11, 2026 05:16 PM (T6aVk)
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Yeah, me too.
Posted by: mrp
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Same, but have never felt an urge to rewatch. Suspect I wouldn't even like it now.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 11, 2026 05:20 PM (XvL8K)

215 I rather enjoyed The Young Ones.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 11, 2026 05:16 PM (T6aVk)
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Yeah, me too.
Posted by: mrp at June 11, 2026 05:17 PM

*fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2026 05:20 PM (Wnv9h)

216 Never watch soccer, but I do like a handful of Brit TV series.

They are good at drama, and comedy.
Sci-Fi isn’t in their wheelhouse, which is why Doctor Who and Red Dwarf are about the only examples anybody can think of.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 11, 2026 05:17 PM (6ydKt)

Blake's 7 was a good show, and pretty grim at times. Final show the main character for the bulk of the show shoots Blake for betraying him to the Federation and the crew gets cut down.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:20 PM (uhVAy)

217 > Mr. Bean in small doses was alright too.

Very small doses. I enjoy it, but it's so painfully awkward.

It's also deeply gross when you see Bean's naked ass. I'm pretty sure there's a side dong shot too when his swim trunks fall off in the pool.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 11, 2026 05:21 PM (mkw2N)

218 Them.us: Republicans Cannot Stop Generating Images of James Talarico as a Woman

Seems more like a fettish at this point. Trans porn in the top porn hub category in just about EVERY red state.

It's funny how when there's Republican conventions in cities, Grindr has to brace for the impending overload of their servers in the area, yet it's not as much of an issue when Democrats have conventions

Tim Walz was right, these people are weird as hell. IDK why they dropped that devestating, and true, messaging.

Damn they are really scared of this election. my social media feed is full of slop about Tallarico, and I don't live in Texas
Also apparently I'm supposed to give a shit about the LA mayoral election, too.

Talarico is a straight white Christian dude that happens to be a Democrat. Republicans can't cope. he actually follows the teachings of Christ, which Republicans can't stand.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 11, 2026 05:21 PM (JCZqz)

219 208.

Jim's Driving Test is one of the funniest episodes of TV ever filmed.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:21 PM (bwOhD)

220 Scott Pelley: Yes. It's like your spouse being murdered.
. . .
Hysterical drama queen bullshit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

He is the drama queen, old and mean, over 70
Drama queen
Feel the beat from the current scene, oh yeah
He can lie, he can jive
Having the time of his life
Ooh-ooh, ooh, see that guy, watch that scene
Digging the drama queen

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 11, 2026 05:22 PM (ndZc7)

221 Good afternoon everyone, HAPPPY QUASI-FRIDAY!

We had a bunch of rain, huge amounts, and now a little sun and I have so many interesting shrooms. I never lived at a place that had such a variety. There are these light tan/orange ones, very big, like 4" diameter. And now some white ones with a single red dot in the middle, Some big brown ones, and I saw a weird one that looks like Styrofoam packing peanuts. A menagerie! I take pics of them when I'm out walking the dog but I've had little luck with the websites that identify based on pictures.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2026 05:22 PM (3uBP9)

222 Can I recommend Jonathan Creek?

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 05:20 PM (1wjle)
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I'm going to check it out.

Looks like I'll need a Britbox subscription (but maybe I could finish the Jonathan Mangum Dirk Gently series)

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:22 PM (Fi81e)

223
I've been re-watching "Malcolm in the Middle" after finishing with "Scrubs".

MitM is still a great watch. I get 3-4 good laughs out of every episode.

The funny thing is that I was kind of pissed off during the first few episodes, because

I was remembering just how awful the Malcolm reboot was. Whoever made it must hate MitM. They ruined every character in the service of gaying and faking and trannying everything about it.

Anyway, check out "Malcolm in the Middle". It's still and great show.

Just avoid the reboot at all costs. It really is a hateful pile o'poo.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 11, 2026 05:22 PM (iJfKG)

224 200 A lot of white girl companions had black boyfriends. Disney has a lot of that crap too. Cute shows not safe for kids.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 11, 2026 05:05 PM (Sco7b)

Of course the media has been pushing the, white women with black men, really hard the last ten years.

I'd guess a third, or more, of young couples depicted in Television shows, movies and commercials.

Apparently, not too concerned about the astronomical rate of domestic violence in those arrangements.
Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 05:17 PM (+ZHEV)
Justice Clarence Thomas has a beautiful wife, Jen, I think. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Eromero at June 11, 2026 05:22 PM (LHPAg)

225 best eps:

Miracle in Crooked Lane
The Grinning Man
Black Canary

Don't watch Satan's Chimney. It isn't availabe in the US anyway (unless you buy the CDs) because it's full of hardcore anti-prolifer propaganda. Also calls out Lutherans as some kind of "extremist sect."

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 05:22 PM (1wjle)

226 Former 60 Minutes bitches bitch about...
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I Drink Your Tears With Joy!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 11, 2026 05:22 PM (RIvkX)

227 Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 11, 2026 05:19 PM (XV/Pl)

Heh, X-Files was one of mine.

Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, The Wire, King of the Hill, and Beavis and Butt-Head.

Honorable mentions for Futurama and the first several seasons of The Simpsons.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 05:22 PM (BI5O2)

228 The last TV series I can remember really enjoying was Archer. Even that fell off in the later seasons when the writers started mailing it in. The first 3-4 seasons were hilarious.

24 was the last of the great cliffhanger shows where there were no streaming services to binge-watch an entire series so you were left hanging for an entire week during the season and they played it to a T.

Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 05:22 PM (oqH4h)

229 The Agatha Christie stuff, Poirot and the Marple with Joan Hickson (she died and they started over with another woman who is not nearly as good.)

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 11, 2026 05:22 PM (BLLsc)

230 Gunsmoke, Wild Wild West, Bonanza. Some of the 50's stuff was good, too. Maverick, for instance.

Posted by: mrp at June 11, 2026 05:23 PM (rj6Yv)

231 The main problem with Dr. Who is that's it's been on so long they've pretty much exhausted every story line, there's really not much more you can wring out of the IP.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 11, 2026 05:23 PM (XV/Pl)

232
I could binge-watch Mr. Bean.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:23 PM (Fi81e)

233 I'm free, free. Meta free.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 11, 2026 05:23 PM (YlWIZ)

234 >>> Jim's Driving Test is one of the funniest episodes of TV ever filmed.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:21 PM (bwOhD)

Johnny Fever's reaction time test.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2026 05:24 PM (3uBP9)

235 >>There may be 5 or 6 good TV shows in American history. TV sucks ass and always has

Barney Miller, Adam 12 and X-Files, what are the other three?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 11, 2026 05:19 PM (XV/Pl)
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Dick Van Dyke Show?

Green Acres?

Psych?
Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:20 PM (Fi81e)

Rockford Files, Magnum, Remington Steele, Star Trek TOS

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:24 PM (uhVAy)

236 The Simpson's Company Softball episode is amazing.

All the rest of it seems to blend into one long episode.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:24 PM (bwOhD)

237 I tried to watch Dirk Gently, but I couldn't get into it. I gave it two or three episodes, but the weirdness never let up or felt like it was paying off.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 11, 2026 05:25 PM (mkw2N)

238 The Reconstituted Corpse and Danse Macabre are also pretty good. Dance Macabre has one plot element that is easily guessable, but, it's nice to have an easy thing to "solve" once in a while.

The Reconstituted Corpse has a WTF? Are you serious? solution but it's nevertheless pretty good!

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 05:25 PM (1wjle)

239 Elon Musk should put in a bid for Doctor Who. Just to see the LGBTQ+ community lose their minds.

I think I will write a Doctor Who series. The actor playing Doctor Who will be holding their sonic screwdriver at all times because the actor playing Doctor Who will change a minimum of 15 times per episode, frequently during a scene. One actor will sprint off camera, hand off the screwdriver, a second actor will sprint on, deliver one line then sprint off again. Each new Doctor Who will have their gender revealed through the use of subtitles. No straight white males need apply.

Posted by: JB1000 at June 11, 2026 05:25 PM (HpBN2)

240 >>> Jim's Driving Test is one of the funniest episodes of TV ever filmed.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:21 PM (bwOhD)

Johnny Fever's reaction time test.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2026 05:24 PM (3uBP9)

Turkey Drop Episode.

and with a completely opposite mood the one about the Who Concert tragedy was very well done.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:25 PM (uhVAy)

241 For all you folks who don't watch soccer, we're here for you.

Posted by: WNBA at June 11, 2026 05:25 PM (0sNs1)

242 I feel silly not having ST:TOS on my list.

So it's...

Adam 12
ST:TOS
Barney Miller
X-Files

The essential shows.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 11, 2026 05:26 PM (XV/Pl)

243 Oh, yes, there was, and the Rifftrax treatment of it is one of the funniest things I've ever seen!
Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 11, 2026 04:59 PM (k9OZB)

Check out Professor Tosspots fisking of the Star Wars Christmas special from Voxis productions YouTube channel.

https://tinyurl.com/5f32pt57

Probably NSFW especially the unnecessary song after the fisking is done.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 11, 2026 05:26 PM (IYeV+)

244 For all you folks who don't watch soccer, we're here for you.
Posted by: WNBA at June 11, 2026 05:25 PM (0sNs1)

they do score more points in the WNBA I have to admit that.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:26 PM (uhVAy)

245 "Talarico is a straight white Christian dude that happens to be a Democrat."

That might be the funniest "Reddit Transmission" ever.

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 05:26 PM (+ZHEV)

246 Emma Peele and Steed
Good fun.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 11, 2026 05:27 PM (Sco7b)

247 To enjoy Doctor Who even a little bit you need some understanding of what the Doctor is, and basic backstory about the show.

It follows a formula and doesn’t explain itself multiple times every episode. There are lots of aliens and monsters and villains and deadly situations that the characters try to figure out and then survive. That’s all there is other than time and space travel.

If you go into an episode blind of course the entire premise will seem incomprehensible.

It would be like watching Star Wars by starting with Return of the Jedi, so it’s going to all seem silly and stupid if you haven’t invested in the story to the bare minimum.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 11, 2026 05:27 PM (6ydKt)

248 Dids Presdent Obana has anything two do with endering Trump's illegal war with Iran place ??

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at June 11, 2026 05:28 PM (3a5AV)

249 53 I watched one episode of dr who several years ago. it was incomprehensible. Was never tempted to watch again.
Posted by: Will Robinson at June 11, 2026 04:45 PM (zBgIx)

Its an acquired taste. There's some good stuff in there. But, the silly is kind of a staple.

Silence in the Library two parter.
11th Hour.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 11, 2026 04:48 PM (zZu0s)

My two best friends from high school would watch the original series on PBS; i couldn't stand it.
The wife got me to watch the 2005 reboot of the series and i liked it; not my favorite show ever but it was something to do together when she still paid attention to me.
Writing started to go downhill and was pretty bad by the time they got to Peter Capaldi; he was so darn good though i kept watching. Then Whitaker and that was the end for me. She was awful.

Posted by: Nelly at June 11, 2026 05:28 PM (6+ehB)

250 I tried to watch Dirk Gently, but I couldn't get into it. I gave it two or three episodes, but the weirdness never let up or felt like it was paying off.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 11, 2026 05:25 PM (mkw2N)
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The original or the later one with Elijah Wood?

I like both of them (for different reasons), until they went super-gay in the second season of the Elijah Wood series.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:28 PM (Fi81e)

251 >>> I tried to watch Dirk Gently, but I couldn't get into it. I gave it two or three episodes, but the weirdness never let up or felt like it was paying off.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 11, 2026 05:25 PM (mkw2N)

The weirdness never lets up and eventual explanations each blossom into a dozen more unknowns. That's actually what I liked about it. It captured that aspect of logical but impossible wonder from Adams. What I didn't like was the show runners trying to gay me up so hard my tush hurt.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2026 05:28 PM (3uBP9)

252 I loved Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so I bought Dirk Gently, and never finished the book. It seemed to cross over from weird into nonsense.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 05:28 PM (BI5O2)

253 "The Brittas Empire" starring Chris Barrie from Red Dwarf. Truly hilarious show about a guy you can't stand that inadvertently does things that make you like him.

Weird premise but so damn funny.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 11, 2026 05:28 PM (k9OZB)

254
Oh, Malcolm in the Middle is streaming on hulu.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 11, 2026 05:28 PM (iJfKG)

255 "Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., said during an interview on Sunday that Black Americans would stop voting if they aren't given reparations."

I fail to see any downside here. No more reparations baloney. Guts the Democrat party. Perfect.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 11, 2026 05:29 PM (glnUu)

256 A few months ago I stumbled on a stupid Brit series about dudes who use metal detectors -- The Detectorists. It was stupid, but enjoyable.

They have lots of stuff like that. I think I saw 10 episodes but I may not have seen them all. The problem is the best shows only run for a couple years, 6 per year, and they don't get attention outside that first run.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 11, 2026 05:29 PM (BLLsc)

257 For all you folks who don't watch soccer, we're here for you.
Posted by: WNBA at June 11, 2026 05:25 PM (0sNs1)

Do your players Sock Her more than in the NBA?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11, 2026 05:29 PM (qx7Zg)

258 Rockford Files, Magnum, Remington Steele, Star Trek TOS
Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:24 PM (uhVAy)

I've never actually seen the Rockford Files. But I've seen a music video that someone made, putting scenes from the show over the full theme song, and it's basically a PSA for stay in school and don't go to jail or you could end up a PI and that would *suck*.

Posted by: SciVo at June 11, 2026 05:29 PM (Sy6m/)

259 "Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., said during an interview on Sunday that Black Americans would stop voting if they aren't given reparations."

I fail to see any downside here. No more reparations baloney. Guts the Democrat party. Perfect.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 11, 2026 05:29 PM (glnUu)

That's the genius of it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 11, 2026 05:30 PM (dK+Kv)

260 The episodes of What They Do In the Darkness I've seen were good. The american one. It's basically The Office but vampires. I've watched ten-ish.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2026 05:30 PM (3uBP9)

261 A few months ago I stumbled on a stupid Brit series about dudes who use metal detectors -- The Detectorists. It was stupid, but enjoyable.

They have lots of stuff like that. I think I saw 10 episodes but I may not have seen them all. The problem is the best shows only run for a couple years, 6 per year, and they don't get attention outside that first run.
Posted by: bob

Did they find Oak Island?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 11, 2026 05:30 PM (glnUu)

262 > The original or the later one with Elijah Wood?

The later one.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 11, 2026 05:30 PM (mkw2N)

263 "When Ncuti Gatwa departed the role of the Doctor"

I think I may have spotted the problem...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at June 11, 2026 05:31 PM (fLhzo)

264 Elon Musk should put in a bid for Doctor Who. Just to see the LGBTQ+ community lose their minds.

I think I will write a Doctor Who series. The actor playing Doctor Who will be holding their sonic screwdriver at all times because the actor playing Doctor Who will change a minimum of 15 times per episode, frequently during a scene. One actor will sprint off camera, hand off the screwdriver, a second actor will sprint on, deliver one line then sprint off again. Each new Doctor Who will have their gender revealed through the use of subtitles. No straight white males need apply.
Posted by: JB1000 at June 11, 2026 05:25 PM (HpBN2)

That would be an interesting plan for a Dr Who like hero..the hero would switch actors randomly between scenes and can only be told by the screwdriver. They could have three or four they swap between. They could all act the mannerisms of the character the way the actress who played Kirk-in-a-woman's body did aspects of Shatner-as-Kirk.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:31 PM (uhVAy)

265 The last TV series I can remember really enjoying was Archer. Even that fell off in the later seasons when the writers started mailing it in. The first 3-4 seasons were hilarious.

Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 05:22 PM (oqH4h)

Trying to think of my last, might be, Justified

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 05:31 PM (+ZHEV)

266 I've never actually seen the Rockford Files. But I've seen a music video that someone made, putting scenes from the show over the full theme song, and it's basically a PSA for stay in school and don't go to jail or you could end up a PI and that would *suck*.

Posted by: SciVo at June 11, 2026 05:29 PM (Sy6m/)
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How many times does Angel backstab him over the course of the video?

"I'm SORRY, Jimmy!!"

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:31 PM (Fi81e)

267 > The weirdness never lets up and eventual explanations each blossom into a dozen more unknowns. That's actually what I liked about it. It captured that aspect of logical but impossible wonder from Adams.

So it does start to pay off at some point. Maybe I'll give it another shot some time.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 11, 2026 05:31 PM (mkw2N)

268 "When Ncuti Gatwa departed the role of the Doctor"

I think I may have spotted the problem...
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at June 11, 2026 05:31 PM (fLhzo)

He never entered the role of the Doctor.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:31 PM (uhVAy)

269 84 and still working even though she has more money than she could spend in several lifetimes.

Shows how pathetic these people are. They have no lives outside the job. It’s their entire identity.

Posted by: Heroq at June 11, 2026 05:31 PM (cZDTf)

270 >>> To enjoy Doctor Who even a little bit you need some understanding of what the Doctor is, and basic backstory about the show.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 11, 2026 05:27 PM (6ydKt)

What Doctor Who is is a vehicle for enjoying Nietzschean Overman trips. If that's your thing.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2026 05:32 PM (3uBP9)

271 I'll stipulate that the Clarkson/Hammond/May original Top Gear turned out to be fantastic television for a while.

Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 05:33 PM (oqH4h)

272 Adam 12
ST:TOS
Barney Miller
X-Files

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Seinfeld. What's the deal with coffee cake? Is it coffee or is it cake?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 11, 2026 05:33 PM (ndZc7)

273 242 I feel silly not having ST:TOS on my list.

So it's...

Adam 12
ST:TOS
Barney Miller
X-Files

The essential shows.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

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Chicken pot, chicken pot, Chicken Pot Pie!

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 11, 2026 05:33 PM (BLLsc)

274 Babylon 5 season 1 trumps every Dr. Who and the Gigantic Faggots episode, ever.

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 11, 2026 05:33 PM (DRQeA)

275 Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., said during an interview on Sunday that Black Americans would stop voting if they aren't given reparations." I fail to see any downside here. No more reparations baloney. Guts the Democrat party. Perfect. Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

That's the genius of it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Rep. Lee was presenting this as if it was something terrible, terrible, terrible. I think she is blind to the idea that a whole bunch of peeps would finds this to be a great outcome. Quite amusing.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 11, 2026 05:34 PM (glnUu)

276 To enjoy Doctor Who even a little bit you need some understanding of what the Doctor is, and basic backstory about the show.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 11, 2026 05:27 PM (6ydKt)

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My friends who watched it had briefed me on the whole different incarnations of Time Lords thing and some of the background before I ever took a dislike to it.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:34 PM (Fi81e)

277 Axeman: "Fawlty Towers should not be missed."

The perfect comedy. Hilarious stuff.

Also, to show how good the cast was, it was acted out realtime, live, like a play with an audience. They performed it twice, back-to-back. The editors took the best version of each complete scene to produce the version for TV presentation. If you analyze the timing of the skits and the pace, that was an amazing feat.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at June 11, 2026 05:34 PM (oji8u)

278 What Doctor Who is is a vehicle for enjoying Nietzschean Overman trips. If that's your thing.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2026 05:32 PM (3uBP9)

You mean like Superman an and every superhero of the past 70 years?

It's just a sometimes intersting tv show not a philosophical statement.

Posted by: SepakingOf at June 11, 2026 05:34 PM (6ydKt)

279 I pretty much enjoy any British television series Ricky Gervais produces (and usually stars in).

Idiot Abroad
After Life
Extras
The Office

Posted by: Orson at June 11, 2026 05:34 PM (dIske)

280
If you liked "The Young Ones", the same guys did

"Bottom" which is hilarious.

It's basically a kind of British Three Stooges about two idiots and their various mishaps.

Well-worth your time.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 11, 2026 05:35 PM (iJfKG)

281 Blossom FTW!

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 11, 2026 05:35 PM (nvKZ7)

282 275.

Next question is how do we get AWFULs to join them in this boycott?

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:35 PM (bwOhD)

283 I've never actually seen the Rockford Files. But I've seen a music video that someone made, putting scenes from the show over the full theme song, and it's basically a PSA for stay in school and don't go to jail or you could end up a PI and that would *suck*.

Posted by: SciVo at June 11, 2026 05:29 PM (Sy6m/)
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How many times does Angel backstab him over the course of the video?

"I'm SORRY, Jimmy!!"
Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:31 PM (Fi81e)

Jim knows what Angel is, the whole time, but he likes him and apparently feels he owes him from his prison time.

The shock of the show is that Rockford treats it like a job, makes sure he gets paid, sometimes quits and everyone treats him like dirt for being a PI. The shows where Lance White (played by Tom Sellek) who is a perfect Television PI who solves cases by accident, trusts everyone and gets the girl and a rich trust fund from her dad are super funny.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:35 PM (uhVAy)

284 Woops -Left out my favorite -Punky Brewster.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 11, 2026 05:35 PM (nvKZ7)

285 >>> So it does start to pay off at some point. Maybe I'll give it another shot some time.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 11, 2026 05:31 PM (mkw2N)

The first season is good. The second season starts first episode, maybe the first minute, I forget, with full on dudes making out. For no reason. Like,

hey guys did you gay the show up?

well you know, we do some musical numbers and there's some cake decor...,

NO I SAID GAAAAY DAMN IT!

And I say for no reason because they could have just cut the stupid gay stuff and it would be fine.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2026 05:36 PM (3uBP9)

286 Oh, Rockford is on at least one of those TV on the internet on my tablets. Hulu? I dunno.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:36 PM (uhVAy)

287 Talarico is a straight white Christian dude that happens to be a Democrat. Republicans can't cope. he actually follows the teachings of Christ, which Republicans can't stand.
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They actually believe this crap. Point one thing out that he does that actually follows the teachings of Christ.... still waiting...

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 11, 2026 05:36 PM (VCgbV)

288 Re Doctor Who: They tried to resurrect something that was already dead. What came back wasn't what it was before. (How many times have we seen that trope in science fiction horror?)

Should have left it dead and gone.

Maybe this time it'll stay dead.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 11, 2026 05:37 PM (O7YUW)

289 I lost the ability to breathe watching the episode of Psych where somebody kills Gus' boss and Gus freaks out and messes up the crime scene calls, calls Shawn who also freaks out and messes up the crime scene even more.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:37 PM (Fi81e)

290 Sidebar: did you know that grass is green and red peppers are red?

Except with red peppers are still green...
The green orange...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 11, 2026 05:37 PM (l3cgK)

291 >>> You mean like Superman an and every superhero of the past 70 years?

It's just a sometimes intersting tv show not a philosophical statement.
Posted by: SepakingOf at June 11, 2026 05:34 PM (6ydKt)

It just seems a little more direct. Like the distilled essence of that and I guess that's the part that turns me off.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2026 05:37 PM (3uBP9)

292 Next question is how do we get AWFULs to join them in this boycott?

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:35 PM (bwOhD)

Minotaur rape porn spokescreatures.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 11, 2026 05:38 PM (dK+Kv)

293 Axeman: "Fawlty Towers should not be missed."

The perfect comedy. Hilarious stuff.

Also, to show how good the cast was, it was acted out realtime, live, like a play with an audience. They performed it twice, back-to-back. The editors took the best version of each complete scene to produce the version for TV presentation. If you analyze the timing of the skits and the pace, that was an amazing feat.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at June 11, 2026 05:34 PM (oji8u)

The old Avengers TV Series apparently filmed the show like a play, continuously no retakes.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:38 PM (uhVAy)

294 It’s the BBC, Maybe they will have an Eid or Ramadan festival instead. Celebrate beheadings and whatnot.

Posted by: Heroq at June 11, 2026 05:38 PM (cZDTf)

295 283.

Rockford was a deep show. Lots going on for what it was. That weary, plodding grit was rare on TV.

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:38 PM (bwOhD)

296 "Scott Pelley: Yes. It's like your spouse being murdered"

Stupid twat still doesn't grok why he was shitcanned.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at June 11, 2026 05:38 PM (fLhzo)

297 Barney Miller, Adam 12 and X-Files, what are the other three?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 11, 2026 05:19 PM (XV/Pl)

It's like I don't know you people.

Emergency.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 11, 2026 05:38 PM (/HDaX)

298 142 Dr. What
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 11, 2026 05:07 PM (qx7Zg)

He's on second.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 11, 2026 05:39 PM (8mulE)

299 I lost the ability to breathe watching the episode of Psych where somebody kills Gus' boss and Gus freaks out and messes up the crime scene calls, calls Shawn who also freaks out and messes up the crime scene even more.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:37 PM (Fi81e)

Same.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 11, 2026 05:39 PM (dK+Kv)

300 And I say for no reason because they could have just cut the stupid gay stuff and it would be fine.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2026 05:36 PM (3uBP9)
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No, the second season would still be stupid.

Even though Douglas Adams did not write the first season, you felt his viewpoint in the first season.

It really seems like they had such a great story for the first season, but no follow up so Gay Fantasy it is!

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:39 PM (Fi81e)

301 PTL Club. Seems ripe for a revival.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 11, 2026 05:39 PM (glnUu)

302 286 Oh, Rockford is on at least one of those TV on the internet on my tablets. Hulu? I dunno.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:36 PM (uhVAy)
________________

There were a bunch of those PI shows going at the same time. The best, however, was "Cannon" because there would ultimately be a chase scene. And, William Conrad, who played Cannon was a bit overweight...as in obese. So, ultimately one of two things would happen...
1. Cannon would stay put and the baddie would accidentally run past him.

2. Or he would have someone else chase the guy and he would hop in his Lincoln and eventually get the shot.

Posted by: Orson at June 11, 2026 05:39 PM (dIske)

303 292.

50 Shades of Chardonnay: Minotaur Nights

Posted by: sifty boones of strawberry hill at June 11, 2026 05:40 PM (bwOhD)

304 Talarico is a straight white Christian dude that happens to be a Democrat. Republicans can't cope. he actually follows the teachings of Christ, which Republicans can't stand.
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They actually believe this crap. Point one thing out that he does that actually follows the teachings of Christ.... still waiting...
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 11, 2026 05:36 PM (VCgbV)

The best part is "straight."

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 05:40 PM (+ZHEV)

305 >>>299 I lost the ability to breathe watching the episode of Psych where somebody kills Gus' boss and Gus freaks out and messes up the crime scene calls, calls Shawn who also freaks out and messes up the crime scene even more.

that is an amazing opening, one of the best if not *the* best.

Episode's decent, too.

But that opening -- killer.

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 05:40 PM (1wjle)

306 Nobody watched 20 years of Criminal Minds and Grey's Anatomy?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 11, 2026 05:40 PM (5P5DO)

307 Gonna go out on a limb and venture that none of these dindus have ever met their fathers, and I'll parlay that into the three kids have three different fathers.

Posted by: ballistic at June 11, 2026 05:16 PM (oqH4h)

Few things are as cringey as hearing “my baby daddy” or “my baby momma”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 11, 2026 05:40 PM (T6aVk)

308 within moments they're sneezing DNA and spilling their own blood all over a murder scene.

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 05:40 PM (1wjle)

309 It's Official: Doctor Who Christmas Winter Holiday Special Cancelled

Aside from Ace, Critical Drinker, amongst others, seems to be saying Dr. Who is dead as well.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 11, 2026 05:41 PM (/HDaX)

310 "Who's on first?" has been said already right?

Posted by: Bows out gracefully at June 11, 2026 05:41 PM (+G+lR)

311 297 Barney Miller, Adam 12 and X-Files, what are the other three?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 11, 2026 05:19 PM (XV/Pl)

It's like I don't know you people.

Emergency.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 11, 2026 05:38 PM (/HDaX)

S.W.A.T.

Posted by: Polka will never die at June 11, 2026 05:41 PM (mf9QE)

312 that is an amazing opening, one of the best if not *the* best.

Episode's decent, too.

But that opening -- killer.

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 05:40 PM (1wjle)
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"You deserve a scratch and sniff" is also an amusing gag.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:41 PM (Fi81e)

313 Hood HHS

Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 05:42 PM (+ZHEV)

314 Democrats: Religious people are big stoopid heads for believing in Sky Spagetti monsters.

Also Dems: Talerico the deeply religious Christian is sooooo dreamy.

Posted by: Heroq at June 11, 2026 05:42 PM (cZDTf)

315 Aside from Ace, Critical Drinker, amongst others, seems to be saying Dr. Who is dead as well.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 11, 2026 05:41 PM (/HDaX)
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Weeewwweew - eeewww - ewweeeew - ooo - wwweee

Posted by: Bones at June 11, 2026 05:42 PM (Fi81e)

316
Cannon (with the famous Cannon belly bump move). Barnaby Jones. Peter Gunn. Mannix. Hawaii Five-O (the original, with Jack Lord and his hair). If Jack Lord's hair isn't in the Smithsonian, it should be. And McCloud.

And then Columbo. Those of us who are 29 know about these. Unfortunately the young 'uns haven't seen any decent, not-sucking TV shows.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 11, 2026 05:43 PM (w6EFb)

317 I've never actually seen the Rockford Files. But I've seen a music video that someone made, putting scenes from the show over the full theme song, and it's basically a PSA for stay in school and don't go to jail or you could end up a PI and that would *suck*.
Posted by: SciVo at June 11, 2026 05:29 PM (Sy6m/)

That is how the show was. Rockford had a few buddies, but he did the job to make a marginal living lived in a trailer parked on a lot near a beach (kinda near where I live now) and was disrespected and beat up a lot. The jail time was a frame job that he proved his innocence, not that it mattered a lot.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:43 PM (uhVAy)

318 Nood: HHS vs. CAIR

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at June 11, 2026 05:43 PM (f9uke)

319
Columbo would definitely go on my list of greatest American TV shows.

I still catch myself watching them to the end.

And that episode with Tyne Daily. I never saw Cagney and Lacey, so it was the first time I a performance of hers.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 05:45 PM (Fi81e)

320 Aside from Ace, Critical Drinker, amongst others, seems to be saying Dr. Who is dead as well.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 11, 2026 05:41 PM (/HDaX)
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Weeewwweew - eeewww - ewweeeew - ooo - wwweee
Posted by: Bones at June 11, 2026 05:42 PM (Fi81e)

I think the normies in the UK have squeezed all they can out of that show. If somehow someone independent takes the IP with some decent writing maybe something can be patched up, but why bother. You could make a new character and new situation and make your own show and have a better chance.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:46 PM (uhVAy)

321 281 Blossom FTW!
Posted by: Joe Biden at June 11, 2026 05:35 PM (nvKZ7)

Next, on a special episode of Blossom

Next, on a very special episode of Blossom

Next, on an extremely very special episode of Blossom

Next, on a very, extremely, very special episode of Blossom

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 11, 2026 05:46 PM (T6aVk)

322 There were a bunch of those PI shows going at the same time. The best, however, was "Cannon" because there would ultimately be a chase scene. And, William Conrad, who played Cannon was a bit overweight...as in obese. So, ultimately one of two things would happen...
1. Cannon would stay put and the baddie would accidentally run past him.

2. Or he would have someone else chase the guy and he would hop in his Lincoln and eventually get the shot.
Posted by: Orson at June 11, 2026 05:39 PM (dIske)

Yeah there was a period where the detective needed a handicap - the blind one, the one in a wheelchair...

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:48 PM (uhVAy)

323 Talarico is a straight white Christian dude that happens to be a Democrat. Republicans can't cope. he actually follows the teachings of Christ, which Republicans can't stand.
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They actually believe this crap. Point one thing out that he does that actually follows the teachings of Christ.... still waiting...
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 11, 2026 05:36 PM (VCgbV)

The best part is "straight."
Posted by: LTG at June 11, 2026 05:40 PM (+ZHEV)

They don't believe it for a second. If they thought he was a straight Christian they would hate him and oppose him.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 11, 2026 05:50 PM (uhVAy)

324 Shaun the Sheep and Wallace and Gromit are great British stuff.

Of course they are stop-Motion animation, so not gay.

Posted by: SimoHayha at June 11, 2026 05:52 PM (/ZkOF)

325 Rockford fun fact. Rockford emphasized driving rather than running and fighting because Garner had been wounded twice in Korea (including being shot in the ass by friendly fire) and couldn't do the Mannix-like moves of other TV PIs.

P.S. The Rockford answering machine bit was genius.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 11, 2026 05:53 PM (ndZc7)

326 >>>And that episode with Tyne Daily. I never saw Cagney and Lacey, so it was the first time I a performance of hers.

without spoiling it for others, that's one of those eps that breaks the expected formula.

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 05:54 PM (1wjle)

327 First scenes the Mandalorian is bounty hunting an Imperial War Criminal who has his own private army of At-Ats. The Mandalorian uses his Tony Stark jetpack and zips around destroying them with relative ease. This immediately makes him more powerful than Luke Skywalker, who almost was killed by them on Hoth. Typical James Bond opening. Now that we've established he's invincible, the reset of the movie will involve character development of his dark conflicted past or something. Nope, the Mandalorian is the most boring character since Captain Merrill Steubing. It is hard to make a Star Wars movie I won't like. Hats off.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at June 11, 2026 05:54 PM (wGerL)

328 Yeah there was a period where the detective needed a handicap - the blind one, the one in a wheelchair...
Posted by: Oldcat

The retarded one (Columbo).

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 11, 2026 05:54 PM (ndZc7)

329 It just seems a little more direct. Like the distilled essence of that and I guess that's the part that turns me off.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 11, 2026 05:37 PM (3uBP9)

Doctor Who has no magic.
His only real power is the ability to regenerate after death.

Everything else is him getting out of a deadly situation using his brain with the occasional fight, and rarely using a weapon.

His superiority comes solely from his IQ and the fact that he's lived for thousands of years, the rest is advanced technology.

Posted by: SepakingOf at June 11, 2026 05:54 PM (6ydKt)

330 >>>Doctor Who has no magic.

uhhh.... he is made of magic and fights demons and ghosts and werewolves and vampires which are all explained later to be not magic but a super-science that just happens to look almost exactly like magic.

"Scientific magic" i've heard it called in comic books.

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2026 06:00 PM (1wjle)

331 LOL, there were plenty of good and great TV shows. Cheers, Seinfeld, Star Trek: TNG, Babylon5, Newhart, early Law and Order, Leave It To Beaver, Brady Bunch, Scooby Doo, Three's Company, Twilight Zone, Cops

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 11, 2026 06:30 PM (Vh9CX)

332 Just to keep track, Return of the Jedi made over $250 million domestically. In barely 1000 theaters. In 1983 money. As the least popular of the One True Trilogy. It's possibly the least successful of all nine movies and this is what Disney did to it.

Posted by: ChrisW at June 11, 2026 07:30 PM (rLfcT)

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