"I always wanted the show to be very honest, and as politically incorrect as it was, words like 'homo' and 'fag' were thrown around like that was the currency that everybody dealt in. That’s why I called him Sam Weir, ’cause he was gonna be called 'queer' all the time, ’cause I was Feig, so you can imagine what I got called all the time. So it was important to me to have a scene where they’re calling him a homo or something, but I remember checking—Judd got us into this, which was to call Standards and Practices and pass something by them before you try it, ’cause sometimes they’ll tell you something you didn’t think you could do you can actually go further with. So I remember checking, like, 'Can I have these kids call him a homo?' And they basically said, 'The only way you can do that is somebody then has to make a defense of the person, and tell everybody why it’s wrong to do that.' Which then, immediately, I go, 'This could be the funniest scene ever.' They’re all calling him a 'homo,' and the teacher comes to his defense in such a way that just makes it a thousand times worse. [Laughs.] And that actress was so funny. That, to me, kind of crystallized everything I ever wanted to do with the show, humor-wise and emotionally and cringe-wise, so I’m quite happy with it."

Sony's memo telling the cast of COMMUNITY what the official line on @danharmon leaving is /via @andrewducker

The app, Air Graffiti, is being developed by AT&T but is still a twinkle in the eye of developers, who say it is a long way from being available to consumers. The app will enable users to leave location-based messages for one another in a street-view map. In the episode, Mr. Sutherland points his smartphone at a building and sees a message — a series of numbers — that was written by his son.

James Doohan's ashes have finally been put into space, where they belong.

YES. Why Riley sucks, and why he's actually one of the antagonists.

television theme song databank

The idea of a team of goofballs embarking on some sort of quest seems increasingly quaint. The Lord Of The Rings films—giant ensemble pieces if ever there were giant ensemble pieces—were among the most technologically advanced ever made at the time of release, but their storytelling felt almost like a throwback, which might have contributed to the films’ massive crossover success.
It might seem as if the ensemble quest is increasingly a lost art, except that it migrated to TV. Because of the long hours required while shooting a dramatic TV series, the number of actors on most dramas has only increased since Hill Street Blues kicked off the trend toward serialized ensemble dramas in the early ’80s. The sorts of one-man shows that were common in the ’70s—Kojak, The Rockford Files, Columbo, etc.—are practically nonexistent now

Not every film needs to be like TV, but something about Whedon and Abrams’ work in that other medium seems to have made them uniquely suited to showing us large groups of characters bantering back and forth on the big screen

interesting history of showrunner-vs-network execs

The second season of the BBC's Sherlock detective series, Edward Burns' drama Newlyweds, The Criterion Collection edition of Certified Copy, and many more interesting new DVDs out this week.

Andy Samberg (from The Lonely Island) is leaving SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. :(

The Nebula Award winners for 2011 have been announced.