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Only three decades produced new series this week, with the bulk coming in 2014. 1954 had two short-lived series, one of which that did not help the already faltering DuMont network. Jump to 1994 for an irreverent take on a ...
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'It's for kids.'  It's a throwaway line often used to dismiss entertainment geared towards the little ones.  Cute. Sweet. Fun. They're all pejorative.  But Peter Pan, now stopping at D.C.'s National Theatre for its National Tour, is adorable, charming, magical, intoxicating fun. And ...
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Quite a few films were released this week across the decades. 1944 produced two Oscar nominees, while 1954 produced a mystery that suffered from a case of bad timing. 1974 saw the release of a film now considered a masterpiece ...
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No one in 1960, let alone director Roger Corman, would have guessed his low-budget, kitschy horror-comedy The Little Shop of Horrors would have enjoyed the longevity it's had since the film's premiere. But 22 years later, the writing duo of ...
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This week in television history featured notable and notorious series premieres. 1954 saw a popular comedian return to the airwaves, 1984 marked the lead debut for an actor who would go on to comedy stardom in films, 1994 gave us ...
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It's always a gift when we get a new season of Resident Alien, even if we've been a bit short-changed as we were with Season 3. Season 1 was such a hit that Syfy ordered a massive 16-episode second season ...
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There were quite a few films released this week across the past century with a few being notable as debuts for directors who went on to bigger and better things. Two films this week also mark the debuts of an ...
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This week across the decades, several memorable series made their debuts. 1954 had a reboot of a 1951 sitcom, 1984 gave us the first reality series focused on the lives of the wealthy, 1994 had a drama with a devoted ...
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Beauty and the Beast truly is, in reality, a tale as old as time ... or at least nearly 300 years old, first published in 1740 and written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, rewritten and abridged to the version we ...
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Going into the first week of the month, we have a lot of new films having premieres. Unfortunately, not a whole lot of them were very memorable. Of note this week, we have three films directed by William Castle with ...
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A very small number of series premiered this week in several decades with a few very notable shows making their debuts. 1964 saw the first iteration of a popular game show that is still on the air today, and 1994 ...
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It's not often that one gets to experience a vibrant, new theatrical work because the process to create a new piece of theatre can take years of writing, rewriting, composing, having staged readings, more rewriting and tweaking, casting, rehearsing, and ...
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