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With Thanksgiving falling on Thursday this week in some decades the pickings for new TV series premieres is pretty slim. 2013 had the bulk of the premieres and all were on cable networks. November is traditionally a ratings 'sweeps' month, ...
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Stories like this used to be all the rage. Remember that? A decade or so ago, at the height of wizards and muggles, Harry Potter's unbelievable success led to an entire generation hungry for more fantastical worlds and where to ...
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As the holiday season rapidly approaches, Hollywood began to take advantage of the holidays by releasing some of its bigger motion pictures for awards consideration and to draw more people to cinemas for a brief respite from the holiday hubbub, ...
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It was a very slow week for TV premieres with just four new series making their debuts in two decades. 1973 saw the premiere of a British sitcom that was beloved by viewers and had a history-making run. 2003 saw ...
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Star Trek: Lower Decks’ fourth season has completed with a fifth season at least for now still confirmed. As per usual we get a mix of overtly silly, overtly serious, and small and big changes along the way. The inclusion ...
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As we head deeper into November, we begin to run into both the holiday season and 'awards season' and several of the films that premiered this week across the decades were holiday films, awards contenders or both. One film from ...
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It was a very slow week for TV premieres as we head into the holiday season. A 1953 political talk show is long forgotten. 1993 gave the world -- briefly -- a former sports star turned cooking appliance pitchman in ...
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A lot of films were released this week -- or this month in general as many exact release dates have been lost to time -- but quantity does not equal quality with a large portion of this week's films barely ...
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While there are just over a dozen new series celebrating premieres this week over the last 40 years, there are a handful that went on to long runs with devoted fan bases and several awards to their credit. 1983 gave ...
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The Broadway musical Funny Girl is a curiosity because of its enduring popularity. A curiosity only because it's based on the life of a performer, Fanny Brice, who died about 13 years before the show premiered, and who is probably ...
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The last week of October includes many new films but you'd be hard-pressed to find many horror films in the bunch. What's horrible, for movie buffs, is that five of 1923's films are considered lost. Of the eight 1933 films, ...
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This week features one classic series, a 1973 cop show that became famous for its lead character's trademark Tootsie Pop. The rest of the decades this week are faily lackluster with several series leaving their networks with several shows unaired, ...
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