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With networks either going into or coming out of the Thanksgiving holiday, depending on when the last Thursday of November fell in each decade, there was not a lot to write home about as far as new series premiere. Three ...
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There aren't a lot of TV shows that you can call 'important', shows that speak to the current social climate and work hard to open eyes, to send a message to the world that people are people, we're all human, ...
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Season 3 (and the first on HBO Max) of Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler has come to an explosive end and it certainly leaves us wondering and hoping for a fourth season to see where Alfred and his friends ...
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The holiday season is upon us and in between the hustle and bustle of shopping, travel and family gatherings, it's always nice to find time to spend with those classic holiday TV specials and movies that show up annually this ...
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Another week that may include Thanksgiving in the US means that there are very few new releases across the decades, with three having no new releases at all. 1922 had two of the top silent comedy stars in competing films, ...
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The latest episode of Rick and Morty is called 'Full Meta Jackrick' which is an obvious reference to Full Metal Jacket but it’s way more about the 'Meta' than anything Kubrickian. The entire episode is a follow-up from the great ...
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You can count the number of new series premiering this week on two hands and have a couple of fingers left over. Since the week in many of the decades included Thanksgiving, plus it's Sweeps Month with the Nielsen ratings, ...
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Let's Talk About 'Rag Trade':  Alfie tells Sandra in the most awkward and unconvincing way that he loves her and wants to get married. Martha is stunned when Thomas returns home, but both of them get a big surprise from Mary ...
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The eleventh season of American Horror Story comes to an end, and it truly was a season like no other just as the network promised, mainly because there was no true supernatural killer here. There was a serial killer, Whitely, ...
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After last week's large number of 1922 releases, that decade sat out this week but the rest had something to contribute with several films nominated for Oscars and Golden Globes with many winners among them. 1932 had an Oscar nominee ...
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The musical Chicago is on tour for its long-running 26th year (since the 1996 revival) and the tour has just brought it to the National Theater in DC for two weeks. It’s not the biggest theater, but the Chicago production ...
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Before I sat down in my seat for Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, whose national tour is making a stop this week at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre, I thought to myself, 'I cannot be the right person to talk about this.'When ...
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