Yes, it says networks are airing fewer comedies.

To you. I know lots of people that think Abbott Elementary is extremely funny. We just don’t all culturally unite around sitcoms anymore.

That’s what people said 13 years ago. I look forward to 6 more episodes of Party Down in 2036. Ken Marino will still look exactly the same.

You’re still on that? Move on, man.

I thought you were done replying, Dung Inspector. All I said was okay.

Ok, Dung Inspector.

No one’s picking a fight over the age of Matlock’s audience. It’s a fact that they were very old in 1995 and between now and then, the majority of people watching the show have passed on to the next life.

What we have is someone who didn’t know the age of Matlock’s audience (you) who decided to jump in and try to “well actually” another person, then moved the goalposts when they were shown to be talking out of their ass.

It's final episode was in the last century, and we are almost a quarter of the way through our current century. That's a long time.

Well good thing the poster never said there's no one left alive that has seen Matlock. He said the bulk of Matlock's demographic is probably dead by now, which given the numbers involved, is likely true.

I've seen people pick fights over stupid shit on reddit, but picking a fight over whether Matlock had old fans or not takes the cake.

The Matlock name means absolutely nothing to people anymore, and the plot doesn’t even sound like Matlock. This all sounds like a joke about how Hollywood is out of ideas, not something they’d actually do.

The Simpsons used to have a running gag where all the old people in the retirement home want to do is watch Matlock and they react violently if they don’t get their way.

They dropped it because even in the late 90s, Matlock had zero cultural relevance with anyone under 70.

And the Ascent, by the director of Come and See’s late wife. Both make for an excellent pairing of Russian war movies.

Yeah it’s a decent war movie but it’s not All Quiet. Every single departure from the book was a poor choice and made the movie worse than it should have been. There’s a good reason Germans hate that movie.

Probably not, it would be on Paramount+, Star Trek fans would complain about it, then it would comfortably get renewed for a second season above their protests because someone is watching it even though everyone in the fan base claims to hate it.

Blame the distributors for not making more episodes available to critics for review. The most famous case of this is Bojack Horseman. Netflix sent out the first six episodes before the show aired and those are pretty meh episodes. It took a BIG creative leap in the second half of the season. There were critics who when the show came out kept watching and said as much. But if Netflix had supplied them with those eps to begin with, the reviews would have been a lot better.

And critics revisited it when it got better, right?

He’s absolutely the lead, I didn’t even think that was a question.

Turkish is the clear lead of that movie.

I mean if the creators are dead, sure, but the vast majority of these shows being buried and written off for tax purposes are very recent and the creatives are very much alive. They should get the shows back before they enter the public domain.

Not public domain, it’s rights should immediately revert to the creators, who then get to do with it as they please.

It’s depressing, but it seems completely plausible, that he could use a slur like that so casually and not understand its meaning. He didn’t seem very bright, but he did put in the work to educate himself and make amends, so if a team wants to take a chance, that’s fine. There has to be room for people to be welcomed back after putting in the work to improve themselves and make amends.

Three days of the condor isn’t an action movie.

Wrong Black actor.

A bit of a spoiler, but CITY OF VIOLENCE fits the bill.

They're not exactly children, but The Roaring Twenties with Cagney and Bogart is basically that sort of plot.

The undercover cop and the mobster cop never cross paths as children in either movie.