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I agree with the idea that Freddie and Frasier will now live together to mirror the Frasier and Martin storyline. There's some nice synergy with that, in a way. We know very little about Freddie as a person outside the handful of his episodes but he was a kid then, so he'll be different as an adult. I'd really dig it since we could get some more Lilith, and that is always a good thing! However. with none of the original behind the scenes team involved as I had really wanted, this doesn't lend me to think it will be as good. I've also heard that Kelsey Grammer is on the only definite from the original cast. The ensemble and the writing is what has made Frasier stand out and has remained watchable 20+ years later. If the show had centered primarily on Frasier, just no! If they aren't going to have both sides of the winning equation, I'm really hesitant. We already won't have John and that will just make me sad. But it's Frasier, I'll give it a shot! Please don't do anything that will reduce my enjoyment of the original!

I didn't like Bob's Burgers when it first started and I feel the same way about this show. I will give it chance like I did with Bob's Burgers which I now love!

Season 10, Episode 1 and 2 are available in full on YouTube. The energy of the show remains the same. Florence is back and Ruby is gone. I'm not sure that I like the trade. Ruby grew on me despite making my eyes roll in the beginning. I always found the actress playing Florence extremely stiff.

I've gone back and forth about a reboot for the show. It is one of my all-time favorite shows, and has *mostly* held up with time, although some of those problematic themes are so cringe-worthy now. Other shows I've loved that have done reboots have not worked for one reason or another, so I can see why there might be the "well maybe *we* can get it right" idea. However, if there's a writing staff I'd believe in it would be Frasiers' (assuming they could get the band back together). Besides missing the presence of John Mahoney, wo I know they would honor with great reverence, it would be so sad to me. Anyway, I'll be curious to see what develops.

Ovation Channel, which I had never heard of before, is showing episodes of Death in Paradise. Stumbled on it the other day, flipping through AT&TV (formerly Direct TV Now).

The way she spoke Italian was AWFUL! They couldn't get her a dialect coach to make it sound believable? At least I hope that they didn't get her coaching because it was appalling. The episode where they had the to replace the bathroom and she found that old Italian guy and "spoke" Italian to him, was not even laughable.

So great! Thanks for getting "flesh is burning, nah nah nah nah nah nah" stuck in my head. I can't help singing "Hail corkmaster, The master of the cork, He knows which wine goes with fish or pork!" anytime I go to a wine tasting (which isn't often these days). If someone else starts to chuckle or sing along, then I know I've found a new friend 😀

I totally agree. One of the worst episodes to me. I skip it when do random rewatches of the seasons. The kid was a total creepshow!

I've never even heard of Comet!

I dislike Justin Timberlake so intensely that's there's no way I can watch this one! Anna Kendrick usually comes across as fun and dorky which I find charming. But Timberlake is a hard pass.

Oh my goodness, until I read these last few posts I COMPLETELY forgot they were on 3rd Rock together! Wow, and they made out! 😂

That was really enjoyable! Thanks for sharing it

She seemed genuinely touched and emotional. It was nice. Also it's a testimony to how much I must love Patrick Stewart that I watched a clip from The View *shudders*

We know he did 😀

The Hallmark edits are a crime against good TV.

An interesting aspect to the Hallmark changing their minds story is that Zola was ready yo pull ALL their advertising from the various channels. I mean their decision smacked more of a financial one than a principled stance, but the threat they must have faced was likely significant. They also have so much more competition from other networks, as has been mentioned. They were pioneers in this type of cheesy, saccharine Christmas movie fare. But as with all pioneers, you get eclipsed as newer and better brands get introduced. Hallmark was destined to decline whether or not they have gay characters looking at each other in a movie or not. If it's really that serious for these groups, as someone noted above, why not start their own channel - all white, hetero, 1950s gender roles movies which will not play any upsetting ads ever? Seems simple enough to me.

Like she's secretly plotting "how to murder you and dispose of the body so no one will ever find" it scary? Her movies can lay of the cute a little heavy, I generally don't have problems with her. I might be more interested in watching her movies though, if it then becomes the"how will she kill this character". Like every time we she her smile, we have to come up with the disturbing murder scenario she's concocting in her head.

Well that was fast enough to give us whiplash. I can only imagine the intense meetings that the executives must have had all day today to manage the disaster that they self-created. The money they saw they stood to lose must have outweighed the faux-outrage over the Zola ad. What stands in sharp contrast to me is that the posters in this thread alone have noted how lacking Hallmark movies have been for YEARS. Whether they decided to pull the ad or not, it was apparent that the network was making a conscious decision to maintain the very specific view which did not include any people of any color nor LGBTQ characters...dare I say an "agenda" even? I've heard of this million moms group before, I think they got mad at Ellen some years ago. It has nowhere near 1 million of anything, so way to cave to them, real brave.

Completely agree. It would be so freaking unbelievable that it would really spoil the show. Hoping that nothing crazy happens in the last episode that renders me unable to ever rewatch the show.

You are not alone my friend! It is hard to find other Black people who liked MAY but it was on when I was in college and my roommates and I would sit together and watch it every week. We loved it, but people were like you guys watch that show! Well at least we had each other. I also LOVE Frasier and Girlfriends, lol. I haven't seen any of the revival cause I don't have whatever Spectrum is. It sounds ok-ish but not something that I'd be clamoring to try to find at some point based on the comments on here.

I saw a couple season 1 episodes the other day and it was striking how much different Doug was in those compared to how he was towards the end. I think Richie served more of the role of the kinda stupid one, when he left they shifted a lot that onto Doug. There were definitely some elements of him being manipulative from early on that carried through. Like he was already trying to make sure Carrie didn't get fat like her mother did. Like are you KIDDING ME! When he did that nice thing for Arthur and Carrie had sex with him, and he kept trying to manipulate her to get more of it by spending more time with Arthur. Again, grow up! I've ALWAYS hated the "man never gets enough sex or the sex he wants from his mean wife" trope. When he lies to Carrie about forgetting her birthday and comes up with a lame plan to try to cover. It did give us the great "bilgistic" though! He couldn't be counted on to say what needed to be said like a fully grown adult. One that drives me crazy along those lines is when he refuses to sign his parents living will cause he's a whiny baby and flipped out cause his mom made lemon squares with, of all the horrors, real lemons. Ugh Doug!

That's a tough one! Doug was definitely incredibly selfish and immature. He was always looking for a way to get one over on Carrie which was so annoying and, yes, pretty manipulative. He did things to avoid discomfort or any responsibility on his part. Carrie was almost as bad, although she tried to manipulate Doug into being better or trying something new, like salsa dancing.

The only thing that made me laugh was when Abishola said "Nigerians don't do useless things", from my parents it was always "Go do something constructive", so that's really not that far off.

I kinda thought that when Doug and Carrie bought their house - and I always thought that Doug's parents helped them - the neighborhood was more "working class". Then real estate values increased and their neighborhood probably attracted different people. I also thought it's NYC, so living in Queens would be FAR more affordable than Manhattan or Brooklyn. So I could see Lou living there. He's famous, but is he rich? I don't know. (Did the writers actually think about it this much when they wrote the show? LOL, I doubt it! I've just over-thought it way too much!)

@TeslaNewton I totally agree. There are only so many services any of us can be expected to pay for regularly. I've probably reached my limit, if there's some new service that I might be interested in, I'd have to drop one of my current ones.