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It just keeps coming: Bill Cosby's star of the Walk of Fame is vandalized. The alleged underage victim from the '70s is filing charges with the LAPD. Supposedly this triggers a formal investigation despite the statute of limitations. Now a former Playboy Bunny is telling the NY Daily News that Cosby raped her and a dozen others.

The Navy strips Cosby of honorary title. Debbie Allen semi-dodges the issue on Today.

Have some tact for once in your life, John. Anyway, this also happened today. And Gloria Allred dared Cosby to face his accusers, not that that'll happen.

The game spans from the end of Season 3 to the start of Season 5, so who knows where she'll be when - Mereen, Yunkai, not sure. I would not be surprised if Jorah or Missandei made a cameo too.

I'm keeping the game posts to a minimum from now on, I swear, but EW confirms both Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke will be voicing Jon and Daenerys in upcoming episodes of the game. As one player character is based at the Wall and another is in Essos (while a third is in King's Landing with Margaery, Cersei and Tyrion, and others are in the North), this makes sense. Jon also appeared in the trailer for the game's next episode, so that part comes as no surprise. That makes six castmembers to join the game thus far, including Iwan Rheon as Ramsay. I am hoping for Varys and Sam (both seem likely), and possibly Tywin, Joffrey and Theon. Given one plot twist it's also not impossible that they may go north of the Wall.

Cosby thanks his celebrity loyalists on Twitter.

Statutory rape lawsuit.

Yeah, Destiny is a crapsack. I don't get those shooter games.

Scott Gimple on the finale. I haven't a clue Emily Kinney seems a bit more together, or maybe they just didn't indicate all the times she cried. Norman Reedus is raw about it. Andrew Lincoln on the finale, and his idea for Beth in Season 3:

Temple University - Cosby's alma mater (as well as the former home of Andrea Constand, Cosby's first public accuser who met him at Temple) - has just severed its link with their most famous alum. He's stepped down from its board of trustees.

Vague but astonishing if true - some website called "Decider" is reporting that Joan Chen said (in the press tour for her new Netflix series, Marco Polo) there may be a chance for her to return to TP: She could just be referring to fans asking questions - I half-suspect it's that - but who knows. I would be pretty floored if she re-appeared, but Josie's fate (and the murky stories about the material cut from the finale, and future films involving the actress) has always been one of the stand-out Lynchian moments of the tough middle section of Season 2 for me. I think it redeems a lot of her very convoluted, not always well-executed storyline.

Huzzah! The launch trailer for Telltale Games' GOT adventure game is here. Telltale's GOT game is not what you might expect from video games - it's less action-oriented, focusing more on characters and the player's personal choices that affect the entire story. You play five different characters affiliated with House Forrester in the North, with a storyline following the Red Wedding and spanning til Season 5. It's out tomorrow for PC, Mac, iOS and a variety of consoles, except my PlayStation 3 which gets to wait a week. I am chomping at the bit and may just buy it for Mac. The game is released episodically - each episode is $5-8 max, usually. I highly recommend Telltale - their Walking Dead game is easily the equal of the show.

No, not really. I think the show has a struggling middle period (episodes 17-23 or so) for a lot of reasons - part of it was their being forced to reveal Laura's killer early, part of it was Lynch and Frost being somewhat disengaged and on other projects for part of the year, part of it was the forced rewrite of several key storylines (Cooper/Audrey, etc.). But I think it comes back strong in the last 5-6 episodes and I think that's the general consensus. The truth is there was never anything like TP before, and ABC was very uncomfortable with it. They moved it around the schedule constantly, took it off for months at a time and killed the golden goose. Lots of big shows today have sophomore slumps, burn off after one season or two; very few maintain the standard of quality TP did even in its worst episodes - there's a lot for me to like even in that middle stretch - and very few come back as strong and as quickly as TP did in the tail end of the second season despite all its obstacles. Its numbers were also still vastly superior to most ratings today.

A new, harrowing account from Salon.

I thought it was unfortunate - I think Emily Kinney had just come into her with Beth in the last couple episodes as a strong young heroine. I would've kept her on and lost others. But it was a decent enough episode. I really, really despised Dawn. Talk about someone who is a willfully blind authoritarian. But the actress was terrifying. I think Dawn knew, especially in her scene with the other cop who fell to his death, that this whole thing was never going to work, but she was in too deep to allow herself to face it. I also wish Beth had been able to refute her more often, but they didn't let her - maybe because Beth was still very young. I'm just glad no one else got offed. I think the show wants us to believe in hope and to think that Rick and Carl have learned to cope with their darkness, which is something last season's finale articulated both with Rick's talks with Daryl and with Michonne and Carl. But I also think it has had some other mixed messages at times, about other people's transformations. I'm sorry Emily Kinney lost a job, but I'm a little taken aback that she's in hysterics in her print interview four months later. You're an actor, it comes with the territory, especially on TWD.

Sorry, I was distracted and thought you meant Michonne and Morgan. I definitely think that may happen - not Gabriel. Ugh, no.

I think Rosita has been more interesting on this trip, but I prefer Glenn and Maggie with the main group - I think they're part of that. I do think the splitting-off has helped delineate some of the newer or supporting characters, especially Tara, Sasha and Bob last year and then Beth this year. I have a sinking feeling they will do that - I mean, it would be fine, they're both excellent actors. But I think the real money is with Rick. Or a triangle! Let's not rule that out.

I guess I just don't see Glenn or Maggie as dour. To me they've had tough times but they've always been united by each other and their love and their relationships with the group. But I like Tara. Rosita, OTOH, just has a silly premise to begin with. The actress seems fine but when a slew of other female leads' futures are in doubt, from Carol to Sasha to Beth and so on, I would sooner see all of them than her. (I especially think Emily Kinney has really taken off this year.)

I desperately hope Tyler James Williams (Noah) sticks around, but I doubt he will. He's building a film career.

I don't know what to think. I do think she really, really came into her own this year, but I don't know where Clara can go next. To me the character was half-baked in Series 7, more of a puzzle box than a person. She was a very nice companion that year, just fine, but mostly a stock companion type, if that makes sense. Jenna has never been the problem. Looking back at Series 7, which I think was a very scattered year that reacted too hard to criticism of the experimental Series 6 (my favorite of the Moffat era and perhaps my favorite of the revival, until possibly this year), many of those standalone stories do work very well and are a lot of fun - Bells of St. John, Hide, Cold War, Crimson Terror, etc. are all quite decent IMO. I even like Nightmare in Silver. That year's major weakness, IMO, is the forced and somewhat tiresome who-is-Clara mystery, along with the obviously rushed Doctor/Trenzalore stuff that goes into the anniversary, all of which they'd apparently had to collapse into fewer stories in 2013 than originally planned, including Smith's final outing. More than any other year in Moffat's tenure, IMO, it is weaker in spite of some fine stories because of that primary plot thread. All this led to Clara's character basically being rebooted after Series 7, which is fine - her with Twelve, at Coal Hill School, etc. has been like a whole new start, much like the overall show was dramatically revamped. And it worked. Clara and Twelve's dynamic, their difficult relationship, the exploration of their co-dependence has been something totally new for the show. I just don't know what more they can do. She can do a victory lap like Lis Sladen did with Tom Baker, do another year or at least another several stories; she and Capaldi work well enough together that they could do that. But that would be about it, IMO. I think what Series 8 showed is that once Clara finally came into her own - and then watched the Doctor change himself - she began to grow past life with the Doctor. It used to be what she lived for and couldn't turn away from but she ultimately can't reconcile it with the grown-up life she is building, began building with Danny Pink. That maturation process has been painful and difficult for her but it's ongoing, IMO. I think it would be a bold move to kill her off or something, but I doubt they will. I like her but I wouldn't mind it. I also wouldn't mind her going bad or turning on him, something they teased more than once this year, especially in the final two-parter, which would have been a hell of a sendoff - Clara driven to her breaking point by all the strife and pain her last year with the Doctor has caused her, at home and traveling with him. I might have preferred that. But I think she'll get a happy ending. After all, there's still Orson Pink to consider.

I think Tara's fun but I don't think she's that different. I think that's the actress, whose performance probably motivated them to keep her around longer. She's fine, she just is not a priority for me. And Rosita has barely risen above the level of video game character AFAIC. She, like Abraham, seems to only be there because she was in the comics, and that didn't save Andrea who was a much stronger performer and character IMO. They can develop Tyreese but at the moment he seems to be spare to requirements. That being said, I'd sooner watch him than the other three more recent n00bs or even Tara - I think Chad Coleman's too talented to waste.

Nothing new, but here's Catherine Coulson re-affirming her involvement in the new series at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

I liked Bob and Sasha's thing - it was a supporting character story, but it worked for me. I just hope Sasha's role continues to grow, because I think Sonequa Martin-Green is great. She easily surpasses Tyreese for me at the moment. I love Chad Coleman and always will for Cutty on The Wire, and I think he does a great job on the show but they desperately need to evolve Tyreese. I still can't believe Daryl and Rick went along with his terrible, terrible plan. I like Tara, but I could lose her without much problem. I think adding her, Abraham, Rosita and Dr. Liarpants all at once was a mistake. I don't care about Rosita or Abraham (or poor Seth Gilliam as the priest) and I don't see that changing unless a bunch of people I'd rather be watching die to give Rosita more time to grow, and I'd find that unfortunate.

I liked Lori and Andrea - Lori in particular was a far more compelling, three-dimensional character on the show thanks to Sarah Wayne Callies, as opposed to the often-shrill caricature of the comics (most characters in Kirkman's comic were a variant on shrill or crazy, really). I think they tried to push her into a box at times but she was too good an actress, and the material for her ended up being pushed forward and ultimately improved because of it. Same with Jon Bernthal and Shane, I'm sure, among other characters (Carol, etc. who's very different from the comic). Andrea is a survivor and Rick's eventual mate in the comics, but that character's also very different. Laurie Holden, I thought, impressed me with her strength and force immediately; she's a great actress. The problem is they didn't seem to understand who they wanted her to be - an idealist? a politician? Someone's ideological counter? They didn't seem to know where she was going, but I'm sure part of that had to do with the two or three different showrunners during her time on the show. If they had ever intended for her to be a lifer on the show I think that went out the window fast. I think Andrea on the show ran her course - she tried to effect change, did her best for people, and sacrificed herself. They were wonderful actresses. But I think the show moved beyond both those characters - they don't really suit who this unit and family are now. I can't imagine them with the group today, maybe Lori who got much stronger, but not Andrea, who was, I think, while strong, also always trying to find a way to roll things back to something better. The difference between her and Hershel was that Hershel was able to build something in the here and now, as best he could.