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The new Fall Season has begun this week across the decades with new series making their debuts in every decade, 1993 in particular having a banner week for extremely popular shows. 1953 and 1973 had two new shows each, but ...
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Most people know by now that before Whoopi Goldberg took a seat at the table to host daytime chat-fest The View, she had a flourishing film career, winning an Oscar for Ghost and striking it big as the star of ...
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Many films were released this week over the last century, but very few of them are memorable and only a small handful garnered any kind of awards consideration or financial success. While most of 1923's films are long lost, there ...
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Anytime you see something like 'from the director of' a decent movie, that’s a good sign, and it can also be a good sign when the writer is also promoted -- but when you see 'from the producers of' that ...
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The new Fall Season is on the horizon, and as is typical the first week of September brings a rollout of new animated series, talk shows, newsmagazines, and reality shows with very few new scripted series yet. This week across ...
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This week kicks off September, and that means a lot of movies in the first half of the century with unknown release dates so we will include them here. That means we don't have time to include much trivia, but ...
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Four decades produced new series this week, with 1993 having the most notable shows of the week. 1983 had a cartoon compilation series for the newly launched Disney Channel, 2003 had a reality show that wasn't quite what it seemed, ...
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When I was a kid, I heard a lot about the various wars Israel fought from its inception, from the triumphant to the troubling, and although things often change, time tends to grant more perspective to the events of the ...
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There’s something eternal about that old high school story where a bunch of twenty-somethings play between five and ten years younger than themselves -- and some are more believable than others. If you want to look at it cynically, it ...
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And here we are, the series finale of the off-beat, wacky, heartfelt Riverdale after seven seasons and 137 episodes. A pretty decent run in the television landscape today. The series launched on The CW back in January 2017 with a ...
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This was a pretty good week for movie fans across the decades as several films that would go on to become classics, as well as award winners, made their debuts. Several of them have even been selected for preservation due ...
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The poster for the National Tour of To Kill a Mockingbird, now playing at Washington DC's Kennedy Center, is reprinted on the playbill and whatever merchandise is deemed appropriate. It lists five names, all equal in size of the title ...
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