This will be one of those posts in which only I have any inter­est what­so­ever. Sorry. I adore David Suchet’s por­tray­als of Agatha Christie’s Bel­gian detec­tive for British satel­lite tele­vi­sion. Suchet has filmed nearly every Poirot story and hopes to fin­ish them out before retir­ing. Most of the short sto­ries were filmed in an hour-​​​​long episodic for­mat in the early and mid nin­ties. The longer sto­ries are shot as TV movies. One of the longer sto­ries, Sad Cypress, first aired in late 2003. If you do not know the story and don’t want it spoiled, you should go away now. In Sad [ . . . ]

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This one isn’t a faux pas. Atlas Shrugged was fea­tured as the ques­tion to the $200 answer in this evening’s “Lit­er­ary Titles” cat­e­gory (Jeop­ardy Round). It was the first answer of the game. I don’t think the Jeop­ardy! peo­ple like hav­ing clips from the show up on the YouTube, so I can’t post a video. The clue was cute. Alex gave a spo­ken clue (“1957 novel about a strong female exec­u­tive”) while a video clip ran. The clip depicted a mem­ber of the “Clue Crew” with a giant inflat­able globe on his shoul­ders, which he set down and “shrugged” in an exag­ger­ated fash­ion. The other clues in the cat­e­gory [ . . . ]

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Warn­ing: Project Run­way spoil­ers ensue! Augh! For some rea­son, I’ve been watch­ing Sea­son 4 of Project Run­way. I blame Flib­bert, but it’s not really his fault. Last week, Chris March left. I dis­agreed with that choice, purely on quality-​​​​of-​​​​product grounds. I think the judges booted him because of his poor per­for­mance as leader, rather than the qual­ity of his own work. Leader in a group chal­lenge. A group chal­lenge really early in the show. The sec­ond group chal­lenge in the show. On the fourth episode. In my une­d­u­cated and inex­pe­ri­enced opin­ion, group chal­lenges this early in the game are putting too much empha­sis on inter­per­sonal dynam­ics and not [ . . . ]

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*Snif­fle* Once again, The Closer proves itself to be the best damn show on TV.