Posts by Zach Dionne

  • Community

    Afternoon Links: Why Don’t You Ever Watch Community, America?

    Community‘s fifth season started on Thursday night with two new episodes and one old, sorely missed Dan Harmon. Problem is, NBC’s average viewership from 8 to 9 p.m. was only 3.4 million people, the lowest audience the show has ever gotten for a premiere. The 1.3 rating in the 18-to-49 demo was a 32 percent […]

  • The Veronica Mars Movie Trailer Just Validated All Those Kickstarter Donors

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvhgd9T86Gk Today’s the second-best day to be someone who donated to the Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign, the one that trampled the crowdsourcing site’s record with 91,585 backers in April 2013. (The third-best day was when the campaign met its $2 million goal in 10 hours; the fourth-best day was when the total amount raised wound up […]

  • Breaking Bad

    Breaking Bad Fan Who Watched the Finale With the Cast Is Now Facing Felony Drug Charges

    Ryan Carroll, a 28-year-old Floridian who won the opportunity to attend a Breaking Bad series finale party with the show’s cast in September, has been arrested in San Carlos Park on felony drug charges. “It’s unclear from an online booking report what kind of drugs Carroll is accused of possessing, and local authorities are keeping tight-lipped about their […]

  • Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

    Afternoon Links: Louis C.K. and Jerry Seinfeld Took a Lovely Boat Ride

    Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Jerry Seinfeld’s clunkily titled web series, is back for a third season with a Louis C.K. premiere. Info obtained: Louis says he’s mulling seven or eight seasons for Louie, Steven Wright hung out while C.K. wrote some new episodes, and C.K. only values two earthly pleasures more than a stoned […]

  • Let’s Imagine Ke$ha’s Pitch for Her Directorial Debut, ‘Dirty Love’

    (Actual) Ke$ha, speaking to Rolling Stone, October 24, 2013: “What’s been put out as singles have just perpetuated a particular image that may or may not be entirely accurate. I’d like to show the world other sides of my personality. I don’t want to just continue putting out the same song and becoming a parody […]

  • The Hobbit

    The Hobbit Was 2013’s Most Pirated Movie

    Nowadays, films can get the dubious honor of being the year’s most illegally downloaded feature. There’s no Oscar-style trophy, but there is a specific number for directors and film execs to have nightmares about, a precise, staggering total of how many millions swiped the movie from the dark corners of the Internet, paying $0.00 in […]

  • The Price Is Right Gives Away Its Biggest Prize, Contestant Has Exact Right Reaction

    Sheree. Was there ever as Price as Right–ish a name as Sheree? Sheree L. Heil, from Tacoma, Washington? There never was, which goes a long way toward explaining how Sheree took home the show’s priciest prize of all time Monday with an Audi R8 V8 Spyder Quattro S Tronic valued at $157,300, or $22,471.43 for […]

  • Duck Dynasty

    Duck Dynasty Disaster Dissipates As A&E Welcomes Phil Robertson Back

    The “indefinite” part of “indefinite suspension” isn’t always a bad thing, Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson just learned. Less than two weeks after the publication of a GQ profile laden with homophobic remarks alongside racially reprehensible comments stacked atop more homophobia, Robertson has been reinstated by A&E’s marquee program. “We at A&E Networks expressed our disappointment with […]

  • The Hobbit

    Box Office Top Five: The Hobbit and Frozen Keep Slaying, Hustle Beats Wolf

    1. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, $29.85 million weekend, $49.3 million five-day weekend (last week: no. 1; $190.3 million cumulative) Five new movies opened last Wednesday, on a holiday called Christmas, and the four most-watched remained identical to last week’s top four, save for one place-swap in the middle. This means The Desolation of […]

  • Vernon

    My Not Really Bon Iver Song of the Year: Volcano Choir’s “Alaskans”

    Now more than ever, pop culture is about the small stuff — an obscure TV show, a few notes in a pop song, a tweet. To celebrate a year of micro moments, every day a new Grantland writer will highlight one specific thing — a Big Little Thing — that we won’t soon forget. To […]

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