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It's another huge week for TV series premieres with an iconic talk show launching in 1954, another macabre family comedy in 1964, a short-lived spin-off of a long-running sitcom in 1984, a classic New York City-set sitcom in 1994, a ...
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Murder mystery board game Clue has been with us for decades. First launched in the UK in 1949 -- known as Cluedo -- the game came to US shores courtesy of Parker Brothers -- now Hasbro -- and has been ...
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We have a long list of films this week including a Mae West starrer, a classic comedy adapted from a hit Broadway show, more Three Stooges, a third version of a classic story that originally starred Bette Davis, a Miss ...
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After Murder Below Deck, Lifetime's weekly Sunday night thriller this time around has given us the aptly titled Nightmare in the Desert, although the nightmare may actually be for viewers settling in to watch this flaccid thriller. On the plus ...
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The Fall Season premieres continue in earnest this week with many classic and long-running series making their debuts. We won't belabor the teasing this week so you can get to it, but of note are two shows premiering a decade ...
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Hallmark Channel's latest original movie is new to the channel but has been available to stream on Hallmark Movies Now (now renamed Hallmark+) since the end of August. So if you're subscribed, you may have already seen it but for ...
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Everyone is probably familiar with The Addams Family, whether it be from the comics drawn by Charles Addams, the 1960s TV series, an animated series, two live-action feature films and two animated feature films. And ... the Broadway musical. Yes, ...
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The Autumn movie season is in full swing but we didn't get many memorable films until later in the century. This week in 1964 saw the release of two major production, one that launched its lead into stardom, and another ...
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The Lifetime network has a new original movie every Saturday night, presumably to compete and contrast with the Hallmark Channel's decidedly different Saturday night movies, but apparently the network also has a Sunday night original movie as demonstrated recently with ...
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As a newbie to the Hallmark Channel movies, what I've seen so far has followed the same basic template -- attractive woman with some business aspirations meets attractive man from a large corporation who can help her, but the interference ...
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The Lifetime network's original movies are generally the polar opposite of what you get from Hallmark. Instead of light romantic comedies, Lifetime's films are overly dramatic, usually involving infidelity, stalking or murder, often billed as 'Ripped from the Headlines'. They ...
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It's Premiere Week -- Part 1 -- with dozens of new series making their debuts across all decades. One notable 1954 series about a lovable dog went on to become one of the longest running series in TV history. A ...
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