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It’s 3 p.m.! Let The A.V. Club briefly make use of the waning hours of your productivity with some pop culture ephemera pulled from the depths of YouTube.

Drag empress/impressario RuPaul is branching out from the world of reality TV at last, with Deadline reporting that Netflix has signed her up for a new scripted series, AJ And The Queen. The homage to chimp/trucker TV classic B.J. And The Bear is presumably intentional, since the show’s plot sounds straight out of…

“It’s Just Like Riding A Bike,” season seven, episode 19, originally aired 4/24/2007 

Jean-Luc Godard flummoxes me. More often than not, his films, at least the recent ones, sail cleanly over my head. Is that an acceptable confession for a critic to make? We in this profession prefer, after all, to project authority and confidence, the impression that we always know what we’re talking about, that we…

On Thursday, the Fox Broadcasting Company performed a hard reset on its comedy lineup, canceling three single-camera sitcoms whose creative heights were never matched by commercial ones: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Last Man On Earth, and The Mick. With New Girl previously set to conclude its Fox run on Tuesday, May 15 and the…

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Rap duo Run The Jewels and Late Show host Stephen Colbert have beef. No, not about Killer Mike’s deeply disappointing recent endorsement of the infamously racist gun lobby trade organization masquerading as a civil rights group, the National Rifle Association. Instead, as watchers of The Late Show know, Killer Mike…

Please ready and deploy all your favorite “noice” and “tight” reaction GIFs, because Variety reports that NBC has stepped in and saved Brooklyn Nine-Nine. (More fool us for calling this one a “longshot” last night, huh?) In the first good instance of TV corporate synergy we can recall in recent memory, the…

Toying recklessly with forces behind its comprehension or ability to control—i.e., pissed-off Supernatural fans—The CW announced today that it would be passing on Wayward Sisters, a planned spin-off to its recently renewed monster-hunting show. The news comes despite a groundswell of fan support for the project, which…

It’s basically a twist on the classic philosophical experiment: Do you let someone you love die in hopes of saving many, or do you save the one, knowing it will almost certainly result in the deaths of untold more? Oh, but in this case, you’ve also seen the future, and you know the wrong choice means the earth…

Out of all of our modern blockbuster directors, few seem to enjoy interacting with—i.e., yelling at—his fans more than Guardians Of The Galaxy helmer James Gunn. Besides Gunn’s regular Twitter seminars on the reproductive system of giant space-based tree monsters—and consider this your monthly reminder that nu-Groot…

I don’t think it’s much of a coincidence Frank Angones, the writer of today’s script, tweeted such an emotional sentiment prior to the debut of “Beware The B.U.D.D.Y. System,” an episode that is almost too much indebted to nostalgia. It brings back Gyro and Lil’ Bulb, but it also introduces Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera…

Apparently sensing its reputation as TV’s most bloodthirsty butcher might be slipping this week, ABC has decided to step up and remind us all that nobody kills TV shows like ABC. The network announced a whopping nine series cancellations this afternoon, and, while some of these kill orders were more surprising than…

The Tree Of Life, Terrence Malick’s symphonically ambitious rumination on his ’50s Texas childhood and overall place in the cosmos, is coming to the Criterion Collection. That’s no surprise, considering that the storied deluxe video label has already produced DVD and Blu-Ray releases of the reclusive filmmaker’s first…

There are many, many animals on the internet each week, but you are busy and can only click on so much. And yet it’s hard to go into the weekend thinking: Could I have done better? Were there animals that deserved my internet traffic that did not receive it? In this important recurring feature, we recap some of the…

“The power of Christ compels you, Fox! You are commanded to abjure your supernatural dramas about devils this very instant! Cast them back into the pit of hell from whence they came—then salt the earth, preferably with the family-friendly comedic stylings of Tim Allen. We love him up here.”