On Monday, the current owner of Columbia House—whose shady math The A.V. Club wrote about back in June—filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York, surprising everyone who had no idea the mail-order media behemoth was still in business. The Wall Street Journal reports that Filmed Entertainment Inc., whose…

In entertainment, an awful lot of stuff happens behind closed doors, from canceling TV shows to organizing music festival lineups. While the public sees the end product on TVs, movie screens, paper, or radio dials, they don’t see what it took to get there. In Expert Witness, The A.V. Club talks to industry insiders…