The Sun reports that Doctor Who companion favorite, Bile Piper, has gotten all preggers on us.  Three months in fact.

She’s got an upcoming show about high-end escorts (low-end escorts would be called hookers I guess) where she’ll have to be in lingerie, so the growing gut thing will probably take some effort to hide with camera angles or Doctor Who FX?

The blessing and the curse of LiveJournal has given me an insight to my favorite show and what to expect this summer.  Also, thank you, big-time film critic Alonso Duralde.

We all missed the preview on Adult Swim on April Fools day.  It would have helped if they told us their programming, but that requires planning ahead.  I’ll check YouTube Later.

The big details of the show’s future after the jump (of skip all this and go to the link above.  whatever.)

What you need to know (besides Jackson Publick having a LiveJournal)...

ITEM: Interviewed in the sophomore issue of Comic Foundry magazine with only mild spoilers.

ITEM: Kid Robot has made some miniature Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend figurines.

ITEM: Venture Bros. panel at the New York Comicon on Saturday, April 19th at 4:00pm.

ITEM: Rumor of San Diego Comicon in July this year as well, adultswim having retracted their unofficial boycott.

ITEM: The Venture Bros. will premier on June 1st!

ITEM: The Venture Bros. will premier on June 1st!

ITEM: The Venture Bros. will premier on June 1st!

Can't wait for Friday! Battlestar Galactica is coming back for one last blow out season. All will be revealed. Specifically, everything to hate about humanity while blowing s**t up at the time.

Baltar's a Toaster? Who isn't. By now, I'm putting in the prediction that all the humans are the real cylons but they only realize it at the end like some sort of effed up M Night Shamalama twist.

When Gedeon Maheux isn't rocking the icon world, he's reminding us what to love about pop-culture.

Betting On Baltar:

I know you’re thinking that he’s too obvious a choice to be the 12th Cylon, but deep down it makes perfect sense, and here’s why

(Via gedblog)

Has Viacom finally woken up and smell the internet?  Is it a nafarious plot to get us hopeless addicted to little cartoons being contrarian?  Either way, I’ll take it.  hop over to southparkstudios.com and start watching your favorite full length *snicker* episodes of South Park for the last 12 seasons.

“Trapped in the Closet” never gets old. Take that, L Ron Hubbard!

(Via Mr. Sardonic)

Tokko, Noein, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Season 1, and Tactics are now available for purchasing on the iTunes Music Store.

Apple Insider reports iTMS began offering shows from Manga on Tuesday as well as Independent Film Channel and Starz.

While finally reaching mass audiences through iTunes doesn’t exactly put GITS into the hands of every American (as it well should), it sure beats buy a poorly translated copy of the dvd from China on ebay.

This is an official project of Mr Colbert’s, but its a terrific idea.

Stephen Colbert Puppet:

Work on Brian Hogg’s Stephen Colbert Puppet Challenge seems to be progressing nicely (it’s an idea so crazy it just might work). Check out Brian’s Colbert puppet pics on Flickr.

(Via PuppetVision Blog)

Here, Brian slyly hints at a Steve Jobs and Stephen Colbert puppet.

Creds: got here in 1962, written for just about everybody, won the Writers Guild Award four times for solo work, sat on the WGAw Board twice, worked on negotiating committees, and was out on the picket lines with my NICK COUNTER SLEEPS WITH THE FISHE$$$ sign. You may have heard my name. I am a Union guy, I am a Guild guy, I am loyal. I smurfin’ LOVE the Guild.

And I voted NO on accepting this deal

Also a nice YouTube vid of Ellison in action summing up, quite succinctly, a writer’s worth (plus some hot swearing).

Full quote after the jump, Or on his online community site or from Warren Ellis’ site.

HARLAN ELLISON ON THE WRITERS STRIKE SETTLEMENT YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO RE-POST THIS ANYWHERE:

Creds: got here in 1962, written for just about everybody, won the Writers Guild Award four times for solo work, sat on the WGAw Board twice, worked on negotiating committees, and was out on the picket lines with my NICK COUNTER SLEEPS WITH THE FISHE$$$ sign. You may have heard my name. I am a Union guy, I am a Guild guy, I am loyal. I smurfin’ LOVE the Guild.

And I voted NO on accepting this deal.

My reasons are good, and they are plentiful; Patric Verrone will be saddened by what I am about to say; long-time friends will shake their heads; but this I say without equivocation…

THEY BEAT US LIKE A YELLOW DOG. IT IS A SHIT DEAL. We finally got a timorous generation that has never had to strike, to get their asses out there, and we had to put up with the usual cowardly spineless babbling horse’s asses who kept mumbling “lessgo bac’ta work” over and over, as if it would make them one iota a better writer. But after months on the line, and them finally bouncing that pus-sucking dipthong Nick Counter, we rushed headlong into a shabby, scabrous, underfed shovelfulla shit clutched to the affections of toss-in-the-towel summer soldiers trembling before the Awe of the Alliance.

My Guild did what it did in 1988. It trembled and sold us out. It gave away the EXACT co-terminus expiration date with SAG for some bullshit short-line substitute; it got us no more control of our words; it sneak-abandoned the animator and reality beanfield hands before anyone even forced it on them; it made nice so no one would think we were meanies; it let the Alliance play us like the village idiot.

The WGAw folded like a Texaco Road Map from back in the day.

And I am ashamed of this Guild, as I was when Shavelson was the prexy, and we wasted our efforts and lost out on technology that we had to strike for THIS time. 17 days of streaming tv!!!????? Geezus, you bleating wimps, why not just turn over your old granny for gang-rape?

You deserve all the opprobrium you get. While this nutty festschrift of demented pleasure at being allowed to go back to work in the rice paddy is filling your cowardly hearts with joy and relief that the grips and the staff at the Ivy and street sweepers won’t be saying nasty shit behind your back, remember this:

You are their bitches. They outslugged you, outthought you, outmaneuvered you; and in the end you ripped off your pants, painted yer asses blue, and said yes sir, may I have another.

Please excuse my temerity. I’m just a sad old man who has fallen among Quislings, Turncoats, Hacks and Cowards.

I must go now to whoops. My gorge has become buoyant.

Respectfully, Yr. Pal, Harlan Ellison

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From the muckraking desk of Nikki Finke:

"So what happened," an NBC source explains, "is a week and a half ago we were approached and asked, if they [the HFPA and Dick Clark Prods] decide to take legal action, would we join their lawsuits. And we said no. And that's it. But they did come to us." cited here.

According to other sources, however, this wasn't entirely accurate. That is until Deadline Hollywood posted about the potential lawsuit on Tuesday.

The hidden story in all of this is that a union an be sued for going on strike? Why stop at the Golden Globes? Why not sue a union for lost revenue? Why doesn't GE and Disney sue for all those shows they couldn't make?

You can’t keep a diva down.  Nor can you keep the Brenda Dickson parodies away.  This You Tube clip is a word for word parody of Brenda’s recent interview.  In it she mentions her desire to return to television.  I say let the lady on!

Welcome to my interview!

Read more to see the original interview.  Uncanny.

Bren Dad interview