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Channing Dungey is getting a lot of praise, but I bet she is STRESSED at having to make major changes to the fall schedule without any series that would really pop for advertisers. I don’t envy her one bit at the moment.

Wow, between Fognini, Bolelli, Berrettini, Fabbiano, Sonego, this guy... the Italians are quite a contingent.

The Walking Dead is the only thing AMC has these days. They are going to wring every drop out of that franchise.

It’s a shame because I thought the show was often very good. And I think the cast had a genuine fondness for Roseanne. But as Maya Angelou said, when people show you who they are, believe them the first time.

I figured that ABC didn’t have any other options here. The blowback would have been too strong.

Could they kill off Roseanne with a drug overdose and call it “Roseanne’s Family”?

How quickly things have shifted for ABC. They were heading out of this season with such confidence due to Roseanne’s success, and they may have to cancel this show before end of day.

She looked much better! Her movement isn’t completely back, especially when protecting her second serve, but the ability to shift to another gear when necessary seems close to her previous level. Good match to work her way into the tournament.

Apparently, Jack Sock was a total a-hole to the chair umpire before losing his third straight GS R1 match. Surpriiiise!

Bolelli could have gone away like Zverev did in the Rome final, but he held firm and pushed things to a tough long TB. Very impressive. I too think Rafa looks off. It wouldn’t surprise me if he pulled out due to an injury à la 2016. But it also wouldn’t surprise me if he steamrolled to another title. But he looks... vulnerable.

Saw that BTS is the first Kpop act to have a No. 1 album on the Billboard Hot 200.

I can’t believe Nadal might be saved by the rain once again...

Wawrinka lost in R1 to Garcia-Lopez, and his ranking has plummeted to 256. He’ll get tons of wild cards, though. Sevastova lost to Duque-Mariño. I can only imagine the drama on-court. Saw that Baghdatis was up 6-4, 4-3 on Giraldo but got injured and had to retire. Really awful luck.

I remember Omarosa sort of dragging Bethenny on BF’s failed talk show. Predicted (correctly) that her show wouldn’t survive the year (not that it wasn’t obvious to everyone). Bethenny gets flustered when someone comes at her in calm, methodical, imperious way.

I watched the Haase match, and he was very upset that the match wasn’t suspended due to darkness during the fourth set, which he was losing. (He was up two sets to one, but Goffin had all the momentum.) Haase was even more incensed when they decided to move forward with a fifth set and, during the changeover, he called for the trainer, who made the call that Haase wasn’t actually injured. I think most observers figured he was just acting and stalling for time to show his displeasure (and perhaps delay the match so it would legitimately be suspended). Goffin proceeded to bagel Haase in that fifth set. I used to dislike Ostapenko (especially after how obnoxious she was after Kasatkina beat her in Charleston), but I was pleasantly surprised how gracious she was in losing to Sloane in the Miami final. She just hits hard with no margin, which is dangerous when she’s on and disastrous when she’s not. Kozlova obviously has her number as she’s beaten Ostapenko every time they’ve played.

Yeah, Venus wasn’t coming in with any momentum at her weakest major, so I wasn’t that surprised she had trouble. Konta has never won a match here, so that wasn’t a shocker either. Goffin is down two-sets-to-love to Haase, so that’s an upset alert. So sad to see Nishioka cramping up at the end of the marathon match with Verdasco. Fernando was nice to hop the net to console Yoshi, who was obviously devastated. I know TC and NBC probably aren’t coordinating which matches they are covering, but it’s annoying that they are simultaneously airing the Fritz-Andreozzi match when so many other matches are being played.

Defending champ Ostapenko out in R1 (to Kozlova).

Always sad to see injuries derail a promising career. Marton Fucsovics is serving for his first ATP title. Good-looking guy, but that pornstache! 😂 Saw that Gilles Simon is choking away a possible victory over Thiem. Not sure why Dominic needed to play a tune-up...

That’s a cute little girl.

Man.

Not to harp on the Arrested Development stuff, which I’m sure everyone is sick of/bored with, but David Cross has just done a Gothamist interview that is pretty revealing about the dynamics of that NYT interview and the AD set. Sounds like Tambor’s outburst at Jessica Walter was just awful (and Walter had a lesser outburst at Portia de Rossi’s stand-in, which Walter apologized for). http://gothamist.com/2018/05/24/david_cross_arrested_development.php

Roland Garros draws are out, and Rafa’s draw is a joke. May as well hand him his 11th title now. Oy, but Fucsovics demolished him today. The way back can be long indeed.