As I mentioned yesterday, I pretty well enjoyed the “Malcolm in the Middle” revival. I talked with creator Linwood Boomer, EP Tracy Katsky Boomer & director Ken Kwapis about how it all came together.

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That’s Smee in the corner

Melania’s weird press conference today was clearly a distraction from the meh streaming premiere for “Melania.” (did I do the “just a distraction” part right y/n)

What I’m gathering today is that I enjoyed the “Malcolm in the Middle” revival miniseries more than most (even though I agree with some of the points reviewers made about it).

Forgot to post this last night but I talked with John C. McGinley about Dr. Cox and “Scrubs” and it was a good chat.

I have never had a horseshoe, but this feels like a yes, and deal to me.

I suppose it’s happened before but having two NCAA championship-winning coaches who are seemingly very much NOT red asses is pretty refreshing.

Am I not hearing him right or has Bill Raftery called Ian Eagle “Verne” a bunch so far tonight?

- Full on air-band to “Brain Damage” by Pink Floyd OR - “Uh, these guys say they’re in charge now.”

Literally one day after “The Late Show” ends, CBS will start airing “Comics Unleashed w/Byron Allen” at 11:35 p.m. Allen is buying airtime from the network & his company will sell ads for the show.

Update: That didn't change thru the time all the subs came in.

UCLA looks like it has seven players on the court. Just an incredible display through three quarters

the NCAA women's tournament getting Red Panda and the NCAA men's tournament getting the Chainsmokers is a great example of how toxic masculinity harms men too

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Happy Easter

Cape Coral, Fla., a city of 200,000+ people that is literally nothing but the worst kind of suburban housing and commercial development, plus canals

Genuine (and nice!) surprise to check my email tonight and find the WGA has a tentative contract deal. Not much detail yet, but where there is you can see below. (Now get square with your staff union, WGA!)

I freaking love Dawn Staley

Imagine there was an entire technological revolution in lip-sync technology and people who have never sung and can’t carry a tune kept asking Adele and Christina Aguilera why they don’t try lip-syncing everything and if it wouldn’t make their jobs easier?

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My THR colleague David Canfield was in Fiji as “Survivor” filmed its merge and triple tribal council, which aired last night. Some really interesting behind the scenes details here, + a cut scene when they all discovered an endurance challenge was coming.

Brb checking into, uh, “health, personal growth, and overall development” rehab so that I can continue, uh, “becoming.”

The best kind of April 1 joke: - Straightfaced delivery - Outlandish but not TOO outlandish - No specific target, but we all know Someone Who Would Do/Buy This - Harmless (most importantly)

Not going to quote dunk but there is a “some writers have to use AI because they don’t have a Condé Nast budget and a team of research assistants like you” take floating around and my guy there are like 7 of those jobs left, everyone else is grinding and you can too. Or you could not write

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Come visit the Mackey Jorp-jomp Museum of Oh Shit What Do I Do with This Albatross of a Property I Bought

You know I’m really starting to think “Doctor Odyssey” might not come back.

Has there been a more Duke thing in the history of Dukes (including all of every royal court ever).

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A good day to stand up for democracy.

That was two? two and a half maybe? revolutions around the rim? I need a physicist doing a full breakdown with some charts and stuff about how that ball didn’t spin out.

1. Reds 2. Cubs 3. Tigers 4. Brewers 5. Dodger Dogs 6. Nacho helmet

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PWHL in Chicago! Seattle 3-0 New York after the first.

it's been a decade of me complaining about this. putting aside that most of these companies are probably lying about these numbers and that there's an entire industry around viewbotting, the view standard is just too fucking low for social video numbers to be meaningful

The thing I’m mostly getting from the Potter show trailer is “what if basically the same production design as the movies, but 15% smudgier on the camerawork and lighting?”

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... While He Was in the Amazon With My Mom Researching Spiders

I left CA well before Newsom became governor, but I still have a bunch of friends there and follow what’s going on. He’s had a supermajority in the legislature pretty much his entire tenure and could have done so many good things but just … didn’t.

I mean, how much more could they age up poor Joel Kinnaman anyway.

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Everyone post your favorite writing assistants. Here are mine.

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