If Dallas didn’t completely “jump the shark” after the tenth season, “it was all a dream” fiasco, the producers made sure they finished the job during the eleventh year. After ten years on the series, Victoria Principal, who played the…
The eighties was definitely the decade of the nighttime soap. Fans flocked to Dallas, Dynasty and Falcon Crest to see how the super rich lived, worked and played. Created by David Jacobs (one-time writer of Family and later producer of…
A spinoff of the very popular The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda ran for five seasons from 1974-1978. Valerie Harper played Rhoda Morgenstern, the funky, flamboyantly fashioned best friend of Mary Richards who leaves Minneapolis and returns home to New…
The Paper Chase began as novel, written in 1970 by Harvard Law School graduate John Jay Osborn, Jr. and was later turned into a faithful movie in 1973 starring John Houseman (Ghost Story), Timothy Bottoms (Invaders from Mars), and Lindsay…
The second series of Skins, a BAFTA-winning teen drama created by father and son television writers Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain, is notably darker and more dramatic in tone than its predecessor. The series is an unflinching attempt to capture…
The 2008 television series, The Clone Wars is set in the fictional Star Wars galaxy, during the same time period as the previous 2003 Star Wars: Clone Wars series. Star Wars creator George Lucas says “there will be at least…
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau made several films together but probably none is more beloved than The Odd Couple. Released on May 2, 1968, written by Neil Simon, the film was based on the Tony Award winning play of the…
As ER gets ready to air its final episode on April 2, 2009 after a very successful fifteen year run, Warner Bros. recently released the complete tenth season of the multi-Emmy Award winning show. Created by the late novelist Michael…
Even if you understand motion picture studios have always milked a franchise whenever they saw the chance, sometimes you still have to ask why. If a movie is popular enough, especially a comedy, a studio is bound to follow it…
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder arrives on Blu-ray, the fourth of a planned quartet of direct-to-home-video releases centered on Matt Groening’s (The Simpsons: The Movie) FOX animated television program, Futurama. Featuring a similar animation style seen on The Simpsons,…