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I agree with a lot of your likes. Always nice to see relatable contestants and so far I'm rooting for Briony. Rahul also makes me laugh. I liked a lot of the showstoppers, including Karen's and Manon's. Loved the look of Terry's.

And it's a good one! That was the year the show really started to attract a British audience and then Entertainment Weekly encouraged Americans to check out the show online.

It was also a lot more watchable after Batali left. On the show the three explained that June 14th is the last taping day - and invited everyone to tune in, joking how lit they already were today - and that the new summer episodes were filmed earlier. Also next week is a pre-planned hiatus for Memorial Day weekend.

If the show gets renewed, expect coverage of the New York Aquarium: New York Daily News: Jaw-dropping shark exhibit coming soon to New York Aquarium New York Times: How Do You Move a Shark? Very Carefully

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Deadline: I'm going to say no thanks to yet another unknown sibling. Damon has gone silent on social media but Clayne expressed his congrats to the cast and crew on the renewal.

Google translates the caption as "At the inauguration." So I guess they attended Putin's inauguration ceremony. I liked that Orser mentioned three specific things in that first interview. One, that Evgenia told him she had no interest in trashing her previous coaches; two, that she wants some creative input into her choreography and music; and three that he acknowledged the flutz. On a much lighter note, Rockerskating live tweeted Dancing with the Stars last night, which cracked me up. He gave a Adam a "Quickstep CLEAN!!!" and decided that "NChen has really been practicing his Lvl4 applauding."

Animal Planet released next week's episode early and announced it at the end of the show yesterday. It's on the app and I guess on some cable providers' free-on-demand streaming. I'm not sure about the timing but no complaints. So I'm not sure when gila monsters will show up, but the komodo dragons are considered episode 9. It makes his visible tears at losing Snowballs last year all the more moving. As Josette and others mentioned upthread, Pitbulls and Parolees had two dogs with swimmers recently. Then one progressed so quickly that she appeared on Puppy Bowl. The Bronx Zoo shared video of the baby snow leopard, Khyber, and mentioned that she's Leo's granddaughter. I really liked this official snap of her:

Graham Norton clip: when Mary Berry was once arrested by customs officials

I agree that it's one of the best shows on TV right now. I haven't rewatched yet, but I laughed when Jim said "Good boy!" to Jackson the golden eagle and then Elias reflexively said "thank you." Heh. There was an update on the pink pigeons on the zoo's website. A pair successfully bred a chick and it's being raised by the surrogate nesting pair.

David Tennant told Entertainment Weekly he had discussed playing Hannibal:

Tomorrow's Stars on Ice show will be filmed and broadcast next week on NBCSN: April 14th from 12:30 – 1:30p EDT.

They could always be picked later on for a full length season, when they'd have more time to establish a voting base. This is only a super short four week show, so name recognition is going to be more important than usual. I think Jamie Anderson is already at a disadvantage, voting-wise. However one personally feels about Tonya, I do understand why DWTS producers would choose her. It doesn't surprise me that they would want to capitalize on her being in the public eye again. Plus Nancy was just on the show last spring. I thought Tonya had a surprisingly good sense of humor when Ellen tapped her to skate with her show producer but yeah, she wouldn't be my first pick of retired skaters for Dancing with the Stars.

Just for laughs...Andy Murray was apparently ambushed into a comedic charity bit last week. I laughed out loud at the Tim Henman part.

It makes it all the more impressive that the different zoos have been able to increase the population from 16 to 400. I think it was good to hear Breheny's perspective on why the zoo controversially doesn't plan to move the three elephants to a sanctuary. It hurt to see Jerry say goodbye to Patty, Maxie and especially Happy.

Agreed. I think he's also mentioned previously that he wanted to try for and compete in at least two Olympics. @Jeddah, I didn't have a chance to look these up yesterday, but this is what Nathan's said recently: At the press conference for Worlds (19:20), talking about working with Raf going forward. With ESPN after the Olympics (4:55), discussing school He delivers very general answers to the media, so we don't know how the specific training logistics would work. Cross-country coaching isn't ideal, but has been done. I'm a track and field fan and I remember reading how as a highschooler Mary Cain got coached from across the country by Alberto Salazar with another coach as her local surrogate in New York. On a totally different note, ABC has begun promoting its special athlete edition of Dancing with the Stars which starts broadcasting at the end of the month. I haven't heard any word yet which US skaters have gotten tapped to compete.

'22 just means that's the class he got admitted to - not necessarily when he'll graduate. Nathan told ESPN last month that he's going to see how he manages frosh year with training before he makes any further decisions. It's certainly doable to be an elite student athlete who attends school full time. One of my classmates was pre-med and basically had a full time job on top of that for his basketball workouts/games. Throw in an Olympics, though, and scheduling can get tricky. Rower Gevvie Stone went to medical school while still training but had to take two leaves after the first two years for training.

I was only able to find a somewhat clearer video from Japanese Olympics coverage, not Worlds. That Youtuber truly has an excellent archive of high resolution skates and I'm glad NHK (?) spent some money on then-experimental broadcast technology. Logistically Stanford would make more sense for an active competitor because they operate on a quarter, not semester system. Elite student athletes like Michelle Wie have successfully studied two quarters out of the year. I'm personally not a fan of New Haven - it would not have been a good campus culture fit at all for me - but at least the local food scene is truly terrific. And if I recall correctly, Drew Drechsel opened his ninja warrior gym in neighboring Hamden, which could make for a less conventional, more interesting training regimen.

Agreed. I thought it was nice, for example, to see Evgeni out on the ice again. And it's funny to see a tall skater alongside the current generation of competitors. In the show Alina seemed in good spirits but if it turns out she needs a change from Eteri, maybe he could coach her. I can't imagine him smirking if one of his students had a rough skate. (In the show chat she gets asked about what's changed since getting the gold; if her family's seen the medal and what she's going to name the dog she gets from Akita prefecture. Nobunari threw his name out there.)

Just checked. So far Netflix US still just has the four seasons that aired on PBS. If you donate to PBS they also have them on their streaming service Passport. Netflix US four seasons that aired stateside three seasons of Masterclass - with an Easter episode airing on PBS this week The Big Family Cooking Showdown Of the seasons that haven't officially aired in the US, the third one from 2012 is still one of my favorites. It's the one with John Whaite and James Morton, the bespectacled doctor with a collection of Fairisle sweaters. I know that the BBC still retains the lucrative international licensing rights outside of North America and that Love Productions has a deal with ABC for the US version. I'm not sure, however, how Love Productions plans to handle future broadcast rights of the mothership show in the US. Has PBS picked up more seasons? Old seasons or the latest Channel 4 iteration?

I'm not sure how long they'll be up but there are a lot of nice clips from the new figure skating special that I guess was filmed earlier today in Osaka. Continuing his solid music choices, Nathan debuted a new exhibition to James Arthur's Back from The Edge. I also actually liked his brief little vignette (6:48) during the multi-skater routine to Bolero. It's one of the music tracks that ought to be banned from future competition for overuse, but I could see the potential for him to do something interesting with the choreography.

A bunch of pieces from New York Magazine: Holly Taylor’s American Dream: The Americans’ star on the end of her show — and navigating the industry on her own terms. The Importance of Peter Gabriel to The Americans (about the Milgram experiments) The Americans and Their Many Disguises

Amazon Boards 'Great British Bake Off' as Main Sponsor Amazon is going to promote Echos and Alexa on the show.

Mythical-sounding, but apparently real and still operational. I have to rewatch but I thought the cyanide pill was if she was about to be caught by pro-Gorbachev, pro-perestroika factions in the potential assassination plot. So if Dead Hand and its tech got floated in dealmaking, Elizabeth would inform the general, trigger the assassination and then have to conceal her own knowledge of both the program and the plot. Save Oleg!

You might like this goofy old video he made to promote their 5K run a few years back. There's even a brief glimpse of Dave. If I'm reading their financials correctly, the WCS has less than half a billion in their endowment and primarily rely on their operating revenue for expenses across the parks and global conservation projects. The WCS reported $54 million in expenses for the Bronx Zoo in 2016. Which in New York terms doesn't seem like terribly much. It easily costs $3-4 million a year to run a small restaurant in Manhattan, for example. I'd be curious to see what kind of bump the Bronx Zoo got last year in terms of ticket and membership sales. Aww...I like Kathleen a lot. She's dorky around people, but animals really do seem to gravitate towards her. June Bug and red-winged blackbird, for example. And I like how she interacts with Dr. Sykes. Plus I get the sense that the extended LaMattina family is very supportive of the zoo's mission. I don't know if everyone's related but I've noticed a LaMattina in the producer credits and I think the ambassador center is named for folks that share that last name. I'd definitely be okay with seeing more animals and keepers from outside the education program, though. From next week's promo it looks like we might finally be getting a storyline for the elephants. I'd love to hang with Triton and Little Foot for half an hour. Or a fennec fox.