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Posted Saturday 4/30/22 at 3:58AM EDT
MTV had a huge impact on young people in the 1990s
"Pretty much everyone was a celebrity if MTV told us so, and celebrities were to be followed and admired no...
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Posted Friday 4/29/22 at 5:21PM EDT
How the Los Angeles Riots, which started 30 years ago today, impacted TV comedy
"In 1992 ― just four months after the cops who beat Rodney King nearly to death were acquitted, and the...
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Posted Friday 4/29/22 at 3:29AM EDT
It's been 20 years since the premiere of Julia Louis-Dreyfus' failed NBC sitcom Watching Ellie, co-starring Steve Carell
The YouTube series Forgotten Failures looks back at how Louis-Dreyfus followed Michael Richards and Jason Alexander with her own post-Seinfeld sitcom...
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Posted Thursday 4/28/22 at 1:54PM EDT
Ellen DeGeneres marks the 25th anniversary of her iconic ABC Ellen sitcom coming out episode
On April 30, 1997, DeGeneres and her Ellen character came out as gay in a landmark episode titled "The Puppy...
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Posted Thursday 4/28/22 at 1:54PM EDT
1980s animated kids' show Rude Dog and the Dweebs is being rebooted as an adult animated series
Created by Brad McMahon, Rude Dog and the Dweebs ran for three months on CBS' Saturday morning lineup in 1989,...
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Posted Thursday 4/28/22 at 2:25AM EDT
The Golden Girls fan convention Golden Con draws 3,500 attendees
The Golden Con event held last weekend at Chicago’s Navy Pier was "a gentle three-day tribute to all things Golden...
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Posted Wednesday 4/27/22 at 12:22AM EDT
Adam West is having the last laugh with a deepfake of his campy 1960s Batman inserted into Robert Pattinson's The Batman
"The folks at Corridor have taken old footage from the 1960s Batman television show — specifically, Adam West’s campy Caped...
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Posted Wednesday 4/27/22 at 12:22AM EDT
Jimmi Simpson looks back at playing Lyle the Intern on Late Show with David Letterman
Recurring on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia helped land Simpson the role of David Letterman's repugnant, d*ckish Lyle the Intern...
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Posted Friday 4/22/22 at 2:56AM EDT
It's strange watching Seinfeld now that all the parents are dead
The recent passing of Liz Sheridan, who played Jerry's mom Helen Seinfeld, was notable because she was the last living actor...
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Posted Thursday 4/21/22 at 3:52AM EDT
Why are Mad Men memes so enduring?
"Unlike memes spawned by The Sopranos, to which Mad Men is always thought an heir, these don’t convey an enduring...
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Posted Monday 4/18/22 at 1:24PM EDT
Kiernan Shipka would like to revisit Mad Men's Sally Draper: “I’m not done with Sally"
“I don't think she’d be in New York," Shipka tells E.
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Posted Saturday 4/16/22 at 5:19AM EDT
On its 10th anniversary, Girls' reputation is the worst it's ever been
Friday's 10th anniversary of Lena Dunham's divisive HBO comedy has "brought out profound defenses, but I don't think the show...
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Posted Saturday 4/16/22 at 5:19AM EDT
Paramount+ is missing a beloved Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode due to "streaming rights"
In response to a Twitter user noticing that the Season 1 "Duet" episode was nowhere to be found on Paramount+,...
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Posted Saturday 4/16/22 at 5:19AM EDT
Read an oral history of Steve Irwin's The Crocodile Hunter, which turns 25 this year
"In June 1996, Discovery came out with a new, experimental network dedicated to animals called Animal Planet," says Quinn Meyers.
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Posted Saturday 4/16/22 at 5:19AM EDT
The Twilight Zone showed the ambitions and the potential pitfalls of today's Prestige TV
"Having spent the past year watching The Twilight Zone from start to finish, I can report that, on the whole, the...