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While the first two decades on this week's list did not produce any new series, the rest of them did. Some were memorable and continue today, some won awards, and a few were so bad critics felt they should have ...
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It's been about two-and-a-half years now since Dune: Part One was released, finding some success with its simultaneous theatrical and streaming debut during the 'dark times' of the pandemic when theaters were just starting to get back on their feet ...
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The beginning of a new month is always filled with many new releases, some with dates unknown, and this week across the last century is no different. But even with a plethora of new titles, there aren't all that many ...
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Several new shows premiered this week in three decades, most of them in 2014, but you can count on one hand the number of success stories. One series that had success is just a new iteration of a late, late, ...
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As February winds down, there were a number of new releases across the last century with one bona fide classic that made history at the Oscars. 1924 has a few surviving films this week, and 1934 has that classic plus ...
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Anyone in this day and age over the age of five is familiar with the character Peter Pan. First appearing in a quite different form in J.M. Barrie's novel The Little White Bird (Peter was just a week old in ...
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Only three decades produced new TV series this week, with at least one notable show making its debut in each of those decades. 1954 produced a classic sci-fi series with a serial-like structure, 1974 gave us a long running, still ...
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I was surprised watching Ain’t Too Proud that there were songs I had forgotten I knew by the legendary The Temptations group, but part of that is how much their songs have permeated popular culture. Their rise to fame was ...
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Some major films were released this week across the decades, with a few getting awards attention. Sadly all but one of 1924's films are lost, and even that one is incomplete. 1934 featured a Broadway adaptation, and a film with ...
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It's another slow week for new series premieres as networks are in the middle of the February Sweeps period, devoting more screen time to popular, established series and special events like the Winter Olympics. No new series premiered during the ...
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You know who to call when you have ghosts, but who do you call about monsters? The Monster Squad -— a group of young kids devoted to protecting their suburban neighborhood from strange things that go bump in the night ...
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It was another big week for new movie releases, and there were a few that have become favorites over the years. Several of the 1924 films still survive today, while 1934 had two films about two women's rise to power ...
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