This kid is so unremarkable, and this story makes a great case why we should all go back to not knowing or caring about him.

That last move, holy cow. And well done Kenny Albert, A.J. Mleczko and the NBC crew for just being quiet for a good minute after the goal.

I don’t watch a lot of hockey, but a self-nutmeg tip goal is pretty damn cool.

I am no long-suffering Bears fan (or even much of a Bears fan, period), but the team finally putting a good product on the field and then immediately and loudly touting a possible move to NW Indiana seems VERY on brand in terms of sapping people’s goodwill.

Were YOU a series regular on a Fox show in the 2010s? Congratulations, you may now be the star of an NBC pilot! (We’re up to four now: Jane Lynch, David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Peter Krause)

I have now also been exposed to Clavicular and all I can think is the kid looks like a guest-arc antagonist in season 1 of a WB/CW drama who gets written out when the producers realize there’s not much behind the jawline.

The new “Baywatch” at Fox appears to be doing a bit of Lore, and … I don’t think that’s what people look for in “Baywatch”? Matt Nix knows his way around a light drama so maybe there’ll be something to it, but this seems like an odd thing to lean into.

Emily Deschanel played an anthropologist who consulted with the FBI in “Bones.” She’s gonna play a psychologist/profiler who consults with the FBI in an NBC pilot. I dare them to call it “Brains.”

I feel like if David Letterman were still doing a nightly show, he’d spend a not small portion of tonight’s monologue and desk bits repeating the word “monobob.” “Paul, you hear about the monobob results over there in Cortina? Big day for monobob,”

This is how you live a life

One of the best to ever do it. Some actors are chameleons. Robert Duvall was NOT a chameleon. But he was an actor capable of using his core attributes in an astonishingly versatile assortment of ways, always in service of the projects he smartly chose. #RIP

Picklebrawl! This story has everything: (alleged) felony battery, Florida, “misogynistic vulgarity” …

In the initial post I would have said figure skating was the ballet part, but after all the falls of the past half hour I’m rethinking.

omg the italian skater doing the conclave score dressed in a papal costume

More than a little tickled by the fact that figure skating and short track speed skating are in the same rink in Milan. It’s like having ballet and demolition derby in the same venue.

I'm bummed Warner Bros didn't plan for a 4DX version of #WutheringHeights. Where is the wind to carry my anguished sigh? How can I shed tears if not in the dampness of the moors? How will I know my heart is breaking if the earth is still beneath my feet?

Let’s get on the “ordering more episodes” part now, shall we Disney?

Elisabeth Moss-Claire Danes buddy comedy when? Let ‘em go have a debauched road trip or something, no ugly crying allowed.

Let. Elisabeth. Moss. Do. A. Comedy. (She’s great and the auspices of this are strong, but how much trauma can one actor play?)

Fun fact: David Boreanaz is 10 years older than James Garner was when the original version of Rockford Files began

I think this is probably fine - Boreanaz is a reliable actor who can be situationally funny and has even played a (vampire) private eye before. But I think I’d be more excited if NBC had gone a little outside the box, as we were all talking about a month ago.

Heathers Do the Right Thing Dazed and Confused

In addition to the many indelible things James Van Der Beek did, he had one of the great TV character names in recent history in the otherwise forgettable “CSI: Cyber,” where he played a guy named … Elijah Mundo.

Though he'll live on forever in memories and memes as Dawson and Mox, James Van Der Beek had a comically weird side that he utilized well in things like "The Rules of Attraction," "Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23" and the supremely odd (that it existed, mostly) "What Would Diplo Do?" #RIP

Super Bowl 60: Just under 125M viewers, second most all time for any U.S. telecast behind last year’s Super Bowl. Bad Bunny had 128.2M viewers, also a little behind last year. (Posts floating around yesterday halftime setting a record were very thinly sourced, at best).

I have been getting a bunch of likely bot followers lately, and I’m baffled by the ones that are thirst-trap profile pic, 0 posts, following a couple hundred people and < 5 followers. No link in bio (usually no bio at all), no “hello dear” replies. What’s the game/con here?

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I used to live in LA and still have a phone number that would suggest I do, although I’ve been in central time for 10+ years. The assumptions people make about where I’m at in my workday can get real annoying, but I just told someone (politely) I’m off the clock for today and it was great.

PS. because Nielsen has an extra layer of data collection now, we’ll find out tomorrow how big the audience was.

Even after years and years of covering ratings, I am still not very good at predicting them. But I gotta think the nature of this game means a not small drop off in the second half.

I forgot this very forgettable game.

I know there was a 6-3 Super Bowl in the ‘70s but other than that has one ever gone this long before a TD?

Tough back to back Super Bowls for guys named Drake

That was fun as hell.

Future Muppet Show hosts, for your consideration (some of these folks are probably too A-list to take the call but would be good nonetheless): Selena Gomez Mindy Kaling Tom Holland Emma Thompson Danny Pudi Rose Byrne Jason Mantzoukas Ayo Edebiri Randall Park

Top Olympic cauldron lightings of my lifetime, ranked: 1. The Barcelona archer, 1992 2. Muhammad Ali, 1996 2. Cathy Freeman and the cauldron rising out of the water, 2000 3. The Paris balloon, 2024 4. Rafer Johnson in LA, 1984

I feel like this, combined with whatever streaming audience it picked up on Disney+, should be enough proof of concept to order more.

The “athletes riding on other athletes’ shoulders” quotient seems rather high at these Olympics. I applaud the innovation, but don’t wear out your legs, carriers!

Do the giant head composers from the Olympics opening ceremony also do halftime entertainment at AC Milan and/or Inter games? If not they should really look into that.

Today’s T-shirt, courtesy @harebrained.bsky.social (and btw if you get your own they’ll donate $8 of each sale to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights).

No shit, “The Pitt” is a hit.

Hey did you know Mr Beast is the guest on the new “Hot Ones”? No? Well then let me forward you the four (4) separate emails I’ve gotten today about it.

And then everyone's shocked that Will saw the video of the contest organizer eating the bucket of cheez balls. It wraps with Will in his office singing "Get A-long/Get A-long, Tim Chalamet" to Steely Dan's "Kid Charlemagne."

Since Tim is all over the place again, I am compelled to bring this back up.

All the old network TV stuff is making a comeback: Long-ish seasons on a regular schedule, pilots and … putting an underperforming show on indefinite hiatus.

So if you’re keeping score, for trading Luka Doncic, the Mavs now have Max Christie, washed Khris Middleton, two bench players and the guy taken one pick before Luka in 2018, who everyone agrees should not have been taken beore Luka. Phenomenal work (derogatory) across two Dallas front offices.

BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Exclusive: #SVU has officially cut Timothy Busfield from his planned guest spot & recast the role. The episode will now air later this month: www.givememyremote.com/remote/2026/...

There’s probably gonna be a bullshit “go woke go broke” narrative around this number; there always is. But the Grammys fell by almost the exact % that the aggressively apolitical Golden Globes did, so, again: bullshit. A 6% year to year bobble is just normal TV stuff.

Glad to see Netflix make a call here not strictly based on data (which has viewing down for s2). Also, I spelled “Nieuwendyk” correctly without having to look it up, so I’m pretty proud of that.