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Chrysta Bell is doing a Reddit AMA in the Twin Peaks subreddit on the 28th:

Ignacio Serrichio (GH, Y&R) and Parker Posey (ATWT) are in Netflix's Lost in Space revival come April. Serrichio is Major Don West, and Posey is (brilliantly) Dr. Smith. I am a sucker for LIS in general but I am watching for the great Molly Parker as Maureen.

As Graham pointed out, from our very own:

The kids are very good on social media and much more adept than the right wing - Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg are especially formidable. I think they will outlast the trolls. Case in point, this kid dunking on O'Reilly:

I remember another Reggie. It was not Michael Jordan, so it must have been Chadwick.

And now, the clean-up:

I hope you're right. I'm starting to think he's tone-deaf enough to run again. Exactly.

An interesting/frustrating piece on the show's return, with Roseanne of course running her mouth but that's Roseanne: If this is how it's handled I can probably live with it provided the show is actually good: I do really like what they have to say about the issues they apparently are exploring during the season.

Roseanne is just dissembling to avoid acknowledging her mistake these days. Like a lot of old people. Speaking of old people making mistakes!

Looks like Lauren Cohan is checking out for ABC.

Episodes 5 and 6 of S1 really justify this show's existence and reminded me a lot of early Roseanne, especially the latter episode - like the one where Roseanne gained and lost the secretarial job in the same episode. The drama and comedy were in perfect proportion and no one does pathos like Justina Machado. It's also very Norman Lear. I'll probably finish S1 in a couple days when my work is over, a rarity for me as I like to make binge shows last a bit. I do hope it gets picked up. I'll be shocked if it isn't as the critics love it and frankly, diversity-wise it's an important feather in Netflix's cap.

So I'm a few episodes in (of Season 1) and ODAAT is really charming and warm. It also helps me deal with a stressful long haul of work on a deadline over the holiday - I break it up with more of the show or other stuff. I didn't realize it might be on the bubble for a third season; I assumed it would get one because it's consistently gotten very good press, but I also know Netflix has been tightening the belt lately and become a bit less permissive re: numbers. I still expect it to be renewed but I'll keep watching. I worked on a great Norman Lear doc a few years ago and was pleased when he came back in force with this show, which I hadn't expected to work out, but it has. I'll have to re-read the interviews he and Kellett did about their creative process in S1.

Trending on Twitter and important:

I've been putting it off, but I'm already procrastinating on a film deadline today so I shall oblige.

Ooh la la - Seventh Doctor gurus Andrew Cartmel and Ben Aaronovitch are writing a comic for him. Paul Cornell is also apparently doing or has done one for the Third Doctor - I should read both.

Great piece on Sara Gilbert's evolution to showrunner.