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Riverdale :: New beginnings
Now that we're past the moving tribute episode to Luke Perry, it's time for Riverdale to properly begin the new season (and whatever issues were brought up in the previous episode about the Blossom family do not apply here). And ...
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TV by the Decade :: October 13•19
The second week of October yielded very little in the way of new and memorable programming, but this particular week did produce one long-running, classic TV series from Desilu Productions that wasn't I Love Lucy. Let's take a look and ...
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The Phantom of the Opera North American Tour is still as dazzling as ever
Gaston Leroux’s 'Phantom of the Opera' has been haunting imaginations since the book was first published in 1910. Lon Chaney brought the misunderstood monster to life in a classic silent film in 1925, and he’s visited audiences on TV and ...
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The Addams Family isn’t creepy or kooky
My childhood was filled with classic TV shows with a supernatural bent like I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, The Munsters and The Addams Family back when they were just TV shows. I guess that makes me a classic now as ...
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Dynasty :: Who disposed of Trixie?
Dynasty returns for a third season, thanks in part to a steady audience in the US and even more fans watching the show on Netflix overseas. And this season doesn't start with a major time jump that basically ignores the ...
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Grey’s Anatomy :: Reunited
Remember that time Meredith told the chief, 'For what it's worth, I would never go to a hospital that put its doctors on billboards?' when they were trying to make McDreamy the new face of Seattle Grace-Mercy West? But she ...
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The Phantom of the Opera Tour :: Emma Grimsley interview
The classic Broadway musical The Phantom of the Opera is continuing its tour across North America -- will will run until February 2020 -- and is currently taking up residence at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre for the next two weeks. If ...
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AHS 1984 :: Let’s kill Brooke
I don't know if this season of American Horror Story has completely jumped the shark just four episodes in, but whatever the hell is going on I'm having a grand time as the show keeps amping up the slasher movie ...
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Riverdale says goodbye to Luke Perry
Riverdale returned for its fourth season on a very sombre note as the show was finally able to honor one of its stars, Luke Perry, who died suddenly last spring before filming on Season 3 was complete. Since the show ...
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Shaft is a bad mother ∼ shut your mouth!
When Shaft was released in theaters in June of 2019, it marked the fifth film in the Shaft film series. The franchise started back in 1971 with John Shaft (Richard Roundtree), a classy African American detective who solves local crime ...
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TV by the Decade :: October 6•12
Now that the major September premieres are out of the way, things are going to slow down a bit as we move into October. This week across the decades didn't yield much in the way of memorable programming but there ...
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Grey’s Anatomy :: Back In The Saddle
WHERE IS TEDDY!? Seriously. Is Kim Raver show-hopping/season-splitting/preggo-in-real life? Or are we still juggling budgets and because we brought Jason George back this week we had to keep her and the newborn out of the episode? It was delightful to ...
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