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Only three decades produced any new series during the first week of February. 1955 had an interesting spin on the anthology series, 2005 gave us a long-running adult animated series that switched networks and still airs today, and 2015 had ...
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It's February, the month of love, or as the Hallmark Channel has dubbed it -- 'Loveuary'. Hallmark, as a company, thrives on Christmas but the Valentine's season is also a major time to buy cards and gifts ... and produce ...
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If you are of a certain age and were into music in the 1980s, the titles 'I Wonder If I Take You Home', 'Can You Feel the Beat', 'All Cried Out', 'Head to Toe' and 'Lost in Emotion' will bring ...
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With a long list of new films premiering this week, there are surprisingly few that have become classics or are fondly remembered, and even fewer that got any awards recognition ... not even Razzies! A 1925 silent is better remembered ...
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Lifetime's latest Sunday night thriller is purportedly based on a true story, although it is not included in the network's 'Ripped from the Headlines' series of films. How much of this story is true and how much is fiction is ...
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Hallmark's 'Winter Escape' series of films comes to an end and the network is leaving the warm climes of Argentina for the chillier setting of Antwerp, Belgium (even though the February setting appears to be much warmer than one would ...
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As we close out the first week of the new years across the decades, this week's batch of new series did not set the TV landscape on fire. 1975 and 2005 had no new shows, 1995 had two shows that ...
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TINA - The Tina Turner Musical has hit the road again for its second North American tour with a very quick stop at Washington DC's National Theatre. The show has been a hit in the West End since it premiered ...
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The end of January brought us many new movie premieres in every decade, with this week's output seeing more Razzie nominations than Oscar nominations. There were a few notable exceptions including a 1925 silent film that originally bombed but is ...
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It's a shame that Lifetime uses its Sunday night slot to basically dump its movies that may not have the hook of the Saturday 'Ripped from the Headlines' movies, because oftentimes they are more entertaining than those more 'prestigious' offerings ...
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For Hallmark's third 'Winter Escape' movie for January, the network decided to take advantage of Argentina where the second film, Polar Opposites, was filmed even though it was set in Antarctica. Instead of Patagonia, the location for My Argentine Heart ...
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Lifetime's latest 'Ripped from the Headlines' story is truly ripped from the headlines of the mid-to-late 1990s, recounting the harrowing ordeal of Laura Cowan. The movie follows Cowan's story pretty faithfully and benefits from having Cowan involved in the production ...
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