So apparently there's a reboot of The Gong Show in the works, produced by Will Arnett, and they announced tthat UK stand-up legend Tommy Maitland will be the host.


Look at that picture closely.

It's Mike Myers.

First preview for Orville:


Gotta tell you, this is eerily close to an idea I was toying with when I was in college... and that, frankly, a LOT of Trekkie fans have played with.  There have been fan films like this, but because it's Seth McFarlane, it got made.  No idea if this is going to be good or not, or if it'll be more than what I expect... but it will have to be in order to stay on the air.  Hopes aren't that high, but as a SF fan and comedy fan, I hope I'm wrong.  We shall see, I suppose.

I straight up admit that I'm a hard lay sometimes for SF, I didn't like Guardians Of The Galaxy despite loving the trailers, and I'm curious... but yeah, I think it'll be DOA as well b/c of Fox.  Probably fun for binging on streaming, but not something to tune into.  But there ARE enough Trek fans worldwide for the streaming rights to possibly be worth something.  But if real Trek can't work on TV anymore (evidently), how could fake Trek fare?

The thing that gets me is the stakes, I don't get the stakes (and got into an argument on io9 about it).  Galaxy Quest had great stakes, stay alive but also help the Thermians, which requires the crew to pretend to be the crew.  But individually, they all have stakes as well:  Tim Allen wants adulation but needs to be more humble, Alan Rickman wants his words to MEAN something, Guy wants to be part of the show but also wants to survive until the end, etc.  I'm not getting any of that from this.

News to me as well.

Ladies and Gentlemen... the new Doctor Who.


Very interesting, and obviously controversial amongst, well, the regressive types who don't deal well with change.

They went full "Thriller."  And full Cthulhu.