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DVD Review: Alice – The Complete First Season
Once again, the folks at the Warner Archive Collection have pulled out a relic from the past which — for one reason or another — meant something to me during my youth. In the case of Alice: The...
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Sherman Hemsley, Dead at 74
Sad to report, Sherman Hemsley was discovered dead by his nurse on Tuesday, July 25, in his El Paso home, having died of natural causes. Sherman Hemsley will be remembered, first, as the next-door...
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A Conversation with Jane Espenson: Part Two
So, on to part two of my delightful conversation with the renowned television writer Jane Espenson. You can read Part 1 here. Jane Espenson’s critically-acclaimed and popular web series, the “marriage...
View ArticleDVD Review: Up All Night: Season One
Created by former Saturday Night Live writer Emily Spivey, Up All Night is an amusing sitcom about parenthood, as married couple Reagan (Christina Applegate) and Christopher (Will Arnett) Brinkley...
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DVD Review: How I Met Your Mother – The Complete Season 7, The Ducky Tie Edition
Despite the fact that How I Met Your Mother has been popping up on televisions near and far for the better part of a decade now, I was never one who really tuned into the program — with the frequent...
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DVD Review: Get a Life – The Complete Series
Back in the early days of FOX, the network took a chance with Get a Life, a frequently bizarre, transgressive, self-reflexive sitcom with a morally and intellectually bankrupt lead character played by...
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DVD Review: Desperate Housewives – The Complete Eighth and Final Season
Having warped my own fragile little mind as a youngster by viewing Monty Python’s Flying Circus, I tend to occasionally slip into a similarly-surreal world of strange skits. When I see a terrible...
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DVD Review: Anger Management – Season One
There’s no reason to recap Charlie Sheen’s highly publicized departure from the sitcom Two and a Half Men and subsequent string of bizarre interviews and publicity stunts. If you weren’t paying...
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DVD Review: Alice – The Complete Second Season
It always seems like it was just yesterday to me when I sat on my grandparent’s ugly green carpet night after night watching Alice on our already-archaic tube television set. When the Warner Archive...
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Blu-ray Review: Veep: The Complete First Season
We live in the age of snark. It’s everywhere—in print, online, and in many modern sitcoms. It seems that the public’s appetite for sarcasm and smugness is insatiable. HBO’s Veep epitomizes this...
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Britcoms are great for the most part and have such an enormous difference in sensibility than American sitcoms. A big difference is the look of the actors, who look much closer to average folk than...
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Maryland Public Television includes those (save <I>My Hero</i>) as well as <I>The Vicar of Dibley</i>, <I>Are You Being Served?</i>, and <I>Chef!</i>;...
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Perhaps a perfect distillation of that thought, Natalie, is George Lucas' eight-year-old Annakin Skywalker saving the galaxy in <i>Star Wars: The Phantom Menace</i>. And <i>East...
View ArticleBy: Karen Whitehouse
How many times have I thought the exact same thing, Scott? The use of older actors in British television is a heavenly diversion from American TV that is fixated on youth. British television allows the...
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Ardal o hanlon a paedophile, he used to rape kids, in his school, but was let out of prison under a wittness scheme, as he knew some important people.
View ArticleBy: Lachlan Madsen
Have you noticed sitcoms prior to about 1970 are full of old people. Usually in bit parts but often in supporting roles. My theory is that it helped aging minor and semi well know actors from Hollywood...
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DVD Review: Alice – The Complete First Season
Once again, the folks at the Warner Archive Collection have pulled out a relic from the past which — for one reason or another — meant something to me during my youth. In the case of Alice: The...
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Sherman Hemsley, Dead at 74
Sad to report, Sherman Hemsley was discovered dead by his nurse on Tuesday, July 25, in his El Paso home, having died of natural causes. Sherman Hemsley will be remembered, first, as the next-door...
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A Conversation with Jane Espenson: Part Two
So, on to part two of my delightful conversation with the renowned television writer Jane Espenson. You can read Part 1 here. Jane Espenson’s critically-acclaimed and popular web series, the “marriage...
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