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It was a pretty quiet week with just four new series premiering in three difference decades. Animation ruled this week with two new long-running, award-winning shows making their debuts in 1994. 1974 gave us a rural drama that had a ...
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There were many, many movies released this week across the decades, and it was a very busy week at Hotchka Central so we were unable to provide the usual trivia for the films this week. But scroll down the list, ...
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Way back in 1993, Robin Williams was cast in what would become one of his most popular movies, the family comedy Mrs. Doubtfire which saw Williams take on the role of Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire, an older Scottish nanny hired to ...
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Any fan of musical theatre worth their salt knows the name Jonathan Larson. Larson wrote one of the most influential musicals of all time, Rent, which has had a life on Broadway, national tours, international productions, community theatre productions, a ...
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Only a handful of new series made their debuts this week, but they include a classic daytime soap opera, a live variety show with an infamous blooper, a classic Norman Lear sitcom, a detective show that faced its own off-screen ...
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A Chorus Line has become an old chestnut for fans of Broadway musicals since its debut in 1975, running for 6,137 performances -- the longest running Broadway musical until 1997 when it was surpassed by Cats -- earning 12 Tony ...
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Any review of Annie must open with the old theatre adage: 'Never work with children or animals.'It's a line with some merit to it, of course, and it's not hard to tell where it came from. Serious thespians were tired ...
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This last week of January featured a large collection of new films but, as we've seen with January releases, not a lot of them were memorable, and most of 1924's films are now considered lost. There were a few bright ...
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It was a fairly good week for new TV series premieres, with several new series making their debuts that went on to long runs. 1954 produced a TV Western series whose star would go on to be better known for ...
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Mid-January is not the greatest time for movies. Yes, there are plenty of new releases but few of them made any lasting impression. Sadly, at least five of the films released in 1924 no longer exist, but two do survive ...
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Two decades took the week off but 1974 gave us one classic, long-running sitcom that very nearly never existed if it hadn't been for George Lucas, of all people. 1984 gave us a show about ninjas that had a short ...
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Fans of the Godzilla/Kong cinematic 'Monsterverse' were pretty excited when it was announced there would be a TV series to further develop the Monarch storyline that was introduced at the end of Kong: Skull Island, the notion that there was ...
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