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Here's a good analysis of being descended from European royalty. (It helps if the Royal in question was randy.)

Not to take a side in this (I would have fired them both a year earlier), but the 2.5 hour eating condition in the contract is probably there to force the show to give him the scheduled time to eat. Show biz is a Business, and the pressure to put off a food break would be ongoing. It's not that much different then a contractual obligation to let a nursing mother breastfeed or pump.

Goodwin has been making stuff up and ignoring easily verifiable history all along. For the dramah, doncha know.

It was a second marriage. But either the actress found a gig elsewhere or the budget doesn't run that far. She went from visiting her own kids to vanishing from the collective memory. Of course, George is often MIA as well. One of my favorite weather moments is from season one, a scene in the open garage - looking in, there is snow falling, looking out it is clear. The movies were sooo much better, perhaps because there just weren't as many minutes to grind through. And they had Chris Potter.

With wonderfully complex yet elegantly grammatical paragraphs of prose, never drawing a noticeable breath.

Historically Albert did push the reconciliation - his mother-in-law was also his father's sister, so it was his family business. Also, Lehzen really was an important person to young Victoria who was not well able to allow her charge to grow and move on. She pretty much had to be pushed, otherwise she could have remained at court as Elizabeth I's childhood household did. Relationships change, and the retainers who remain effective are those who remember to change too.

Apart from all that, I had the impression that Mosley never reported the existence of her child to her bosses, which should certainly have precluded her having that particular career track. She has an enormous risk of blackmail. Instead, she is a sanctimonious holier-than-everybody gun who is supposed to break up the LA office, and who defaults to a superior and condescending affect about the Special Operations team and office. She's a villain, but the show won't commit to that.

Oh, I didn't mean to whine, just grouse a little. I used to do code fixes back in my youth, so I know how it goes. It's just that the episode option is so freaking cool and I really really miss it!

I've been waiting since last Wednesday for the PTV bug that caused the Powers That Fix Bugs to turn off the episode topic option to be fixed, but it ain't happened yet, so here is your link to the (now not so early) preview of the next episode of Deadliest Catch, Purgatory: Keith is forced to hand over the Wizard. Josh fights for the helm despite a bad showing. Major engine trouble threatens Wild Bill's season. The captains du jour are Monte, Josh & Casey, and Wild Bill.

But what happened to Gail?

I think either Acorn or Britbox (or both) have season 20. Netflix doesn't - yet, but season 20 has also not broadcast in GB yet.

I'm looking forward to the reboot (although the "continuation" story with Lily "Tommy" Magnum which apparently didn't sell would have been very interesting). I think Jay Hernandez did a good job in The Expanse, and I have no other preconceptions. The trailer wasn't bad - the almost recurring car gag (two destroyed doesn't quite make recurring - yet), the clear callbacks to the original pilot, the ridiculous chase/crash sequence at the end (CGI has done a lot of wonderful things for entertainment, but also opened the door to much that isn't wonderful). BUT, it did have the original theme music, starting just right for punctuation. As with 5-0, get the music right and I will definitely try it out. The burning questions that remain: Will the re-booted 5-0 be part of the re-booted MPI universe (as the old 5-0 was part of the old MPI universe), or will it be fiction (as the old MPI was to new 5-0)? Where is the new Robin's Nest, especially since the Main House of the old Robin's Nest was demolished last April? Is that the original Easter Egg helicopter, or did they paint a new one? How many more Navy SEaLS will have to return or re-locate to Hawaii before they are declared the newest invasive species?

You know you've been waiting for this. On the brink of failure, Josh Harris discovers secret fishing grounds in his late father's logbooks. A deck mishap could end Jake's season. The Coast Guard braves pitching seas in an attempt to hoist an injured sailor from inside a ship's tank.

They may change it back at the last minute. The Orlando Bloom episode got re-scheduled very late too. If you check out this site, you can see the scratches & re-scheds. I think they are partly not rushing to keep up so they can still be showing something during the upcoming summer break, whenever that is.

And class married class. And preferably everybody married, even those who preferred the same gender. I wish you'd seen the Christmas episode, as a lot of this is explained in Show & in Forum. I'm busting, but it would be a spoiler here.

I kind of suspect that it wasn't any one of them committing the murder for someone else, but that it was the pair that wasn't connected to the murderee who did the deed. I.e., Colin and Marion killed Walker, Sara & Marion did the coach, and Sara & Colin got Marion's father. Also, there was an evolving "skill" to it, because the disposition of Walker's body (he was first) was not very well thought out, but the coach vanished at sea, while Marion's father was a convincingly staged "suicide".

Tom DID know Red at that uncomfortable meeting between "strangers". He was telling someone else how Red Reddington had suddenly shown up there and he had to pretend not to know who he was, and it was kind of freaking him out to do that. I can't point to a specific ep, but it may have been while he was talking to his faux brother.... I watch this show, but I don't rewatch.

A pharmaceuticals plant in Adams Morgan?!?!?!?!? Adams Morgan is a tony, upscale, expensive, and fun neighborhood about a mile and a half north of the White House. Pharmaceuticals are not manufactured in a place with land values that high. This show gets distance wrong much more impressively than The X-Files or NCIS, but the economical idiocy of a pharmaceuticals plant inside the District, let alone Adams Morgan? C'mon!

I don't know why it took so long for me to figure it out, but I don't have a DVR and I don't watch The Expanse on our cable access box. However, my computer is quite capable of watching Show without me, live streaming on Xfinity (which, as an owner of Show, or a cousin-property of GE-Universal, or whatever the hell Parent Corporation is calling itself these days, should indeed be tracking Household's viewing habits), so it could be counted. Syfy, did you count it? Syfy, my computer will continue to watch live while I watch at a more leisurely pace in the +3. I promise! Syfy, are you listening?

Since the shows are going to overlap, it would be nice to cameo in either direction. I'm interested in the new Robin's Nest; such a brief glimpse, but definitely not the old one.

If it's Wednesday on discovery.com, it must be next Tuesday. Jake makes a devil's bargain, huge crab for hidden perils, until his boat itself is on the line. Sig serves cold justice at sea, while Wild Bill chases a King Crab jackpot. The Cornelia Marie crew learns when you bet on a boat, the house always wins. Apparently this only works if you can log in to a service provider on their list....

In the end credits of Masterpiece Mystery shows. Usually after all the actor credits, and I always have to be ready to hit pause to get them all.

I think the repetition is a TLC feature. Probably as a cost-cutter. The Duggar circus programs are the same, and what few bits of any other TLC I've seen seems to do it too. If it isn''t cost-cutting, then it is indicating a strong doubt in the minds of the TLC programmers that their viewer demographic can remember what's happening through An Entire Commercial Break. Which now that I have considered it, may be a little on the nose.

Red Letters were Donkeys Ears, which I guess is another Brit cultural reference I don't get. I suspected about halfway through that it was going to be a Strangers On A Train thing - guess cops don't have time for classic movies. But it was structured well, and no one got off free - Sara's past will be known, Colin's anger issues still endangers the adoption, Marion is still broken, the Wife/Cop is punished with the end of her ability to be a cop and reputation as a good one, as well as damage to her marriage and to her relationship with her son. And our dogged coppers got to do the thing good cops aren't supposed to do: render justice, which is supposed to be the province of the courts. No one ends cleanly.

Forever is available on the CW Seed.