In that case, Gleason and Carney played the characters so often both before and after the Classic 39 that I don't think it counts.
03.03.2026 21:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In that case, Gleason and Carney played the characters so often both before and after the Classic 39 that I don't think it counts.
03.03.2026 21:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In 1995? Still one. But the WB as we know it wouldn't have existed without MSCL.
03.03.2026 21:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am pretending that I disqualified it because I think of the movies as three additional mini-seasons. Yes, that's it.
03.03.2026 20:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
New for What Else Is Alan Watching? bonus subscribers: an Ask Alan video mailbag with a two-part look at the best one-season shows ever, plus an attempt to identify the TV episode with the most impressive collection of guests who went on to become stars.
03.03.2026 14:05 — 👍 39 🔁 4 💬 11 📌 1
Jennifer Connelly in The Rocketeer
Billy Campbell in The Rocketeer
If they want to discuss The Rocketeer, I would not object.
03.03.2026 17:44 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0aka the show that provided one of the great TCA press tour quotes of all time, when people kept asking questions about how confusing the show might be, and Taye Diggs finally blurted out, "I'm Taye Diggs! I wouldn't do that!"
03.03.2026 15:10 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
New for What Else Is Alan Watching? bonus subscribers: an Ask Alan video mailbag with a two-part look at the best one-season shows ever, plus an attempt to identify the TV episode with the most impressive collection of guests who went on to become stars.
03.03.2026 14:05 — 👍 39 🔁 4 💬 11 📌 1I only saw the first season, which I, like others, panned. Interesting to hear it improved.
03.03.2026 01:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join me for my next Conversation with a Curator talk on Thurs 3/12, as I trace the evolution of the Oscars telecast and look back at the most memorable—and most infamous—Academy Awards moments of all time (and yes, that includes Rob Lowe/Snow White) www.paleycenter.org/events/conve...
02.03.2026 20:12 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0MATT
02.03.2026 18:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The rare title to start with multiple regular pencillers, and sometimes all three would appear in the same issue. Murray’s work was my favorite.
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When Michael B Jordan and Sinners start to make the Oscars very interesting...
02.03.2026 03:53 — 👍 246 🔁 15 💬 5 📌 5It seriously is. Turturro does a great Groucho!
02.03.2026 02:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Me whenever Keri lost in the past:
02.03.2026 01:30 — 👍 80 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0I already told David that I want to be the guest for the Brain Donors episode.
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My review of this week's The Pitt, where some hospital staffers were better equipped to go analog than others:
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In today's free What's Alan Watching? newsletter, thoughts on The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, HBO's new DTF St. Louis, plus The Pitt, Scrubs, and more. Read! Subscribe! Share! Remember that Hooch is still crazy!
27.02.2026 13:07 — 👍 71 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 0Aw, man! Wish I had been there!
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On February 27, 1989, CBS aired an unsold pilot produced by and guest starring Eddie Murphy, with a notable name: What's Alan Watching? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDH4...
28.02.2026 01:54 — 👍 51 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The Wire season 4: What if they made the whole plane out of “Where’s Wallace?”
28.02.2026 01:50 — 👍 105 🔁 7 💬 6 📌 2Ditto for Twin Peaks: The Return, which is an episodic TV show. (Most people's favorite episode of it, the 8th, was almost entirely self-contained.)
27.02.2026 18:17 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0As much as I hate to deviate from my usual bit about suggesting that people draft TV episodes, you know what I hate even more? TV seasons being referred to by their creators as long movies. Top of the Lake is one of Holly Hunter's best things ever. It should not be eligible.
27.02.2026 18:10 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Don't know, sorry
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In today's free What's Alan Watching? newsletter, thoughts on The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, HBO's new DTF St. Louis, plus The Pitt, Scrubs, and more. Read! Subscribe! Share! Remember that Hooch is still crazy!
27.02.2026 13:07 — 👍 71 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 0
My review of this week's The Pitt, where some hospital staffers were better equipped to go analog than others:
27.02.2026 03:24 — 👍 58 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0Every character on The Pitt this season is Julio
27.02.2026 01:55 — 👍 47 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0WAIVE THE MOOCH RULE
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Delroy Lindo and Holly Hunter in A Life Less Ordinary
Obviously A Life Less Ordinary,right?
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Homer says "that gray house puts the 'she' in yeshiva."
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