The South Park Imaginationland trilogy concluded last night, and I have only one question: why wasn’t this the next South Park movie that Matt and Trey keep saying they’d only make if they had a big enough idea? Really, what idea could be bigger than an extended disquisition on the difference between real and imaginary [...]

TV and movie writers’ contract deadline passed at midnight; no strike yet, though one could be called any day. The LA Times has the deets. The Writers’ Guild dispute–and strike, if it comes to that–is about a lot of things, but in a nutshell the biggest is: how TV and movie writers get paid when [...]

The good news: Joss Whedon has a seven-episode deal to make a new series, starring Eliza Dushku (Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Faith). The bad news: it will be on Fox, the same people who brought you, then immediately started doing their damnedest to un-bring you, Firefly. Let’s savor the good news for now, though, shall [...]