Something Old, Nothing New

Based on a comment on my Dickens post (see below), I thought I would go through one of Dickens' novels and see how he ended each seriali...

A post on the Home Theater Forum indicates that independent sitcom producer Carsey-Werner has pretty much won the "which producer tre...

I've been re-reading a lot of Charles Dickens lately, and one thing that strikes me as odd -- though it never seemed that way when I fi...

In addition to my hellishly long "Paradise Lost: The Musical" post from a while back, I also once imagined what an opening chorus ...

Adding to my previous post on Wright and Forrest's musical Kean : in addition to the good songs, the show had one of the weirdest songs ...

When I saw the announcement of two-disc special editions of all the Batman movies , I couldn't wait to see what they had planned for Bat...

Robert Wright , of the team of Wright and Forrest that wrote the songs for the musical Kismet , has died. This post gives some details on w...

I just noticed that the top two DVD sellers on Amazon, as of this writing, are the complete "Thin Man" boxed set (# 1) and "T...

Soap: The Complete Fourth Season hits DVD in October, making it one of the few non-current TV shows that Sony/Columbia has actually finishe...

I recently treated myself to a viewing of some Joe Dante films, including the two Gremlins movies. I'm one of those people who believ...

I have to admit I don't fully understand the recent ascension of Michael Eisner to the rank of the online pop-culture community's p...

( Note: Part of the following is recycled from something I wrote on a message board. For those of you who would prefer something new, well...

Someone who knows more about these things than I should really try to make a list of all the parodies that have been done of the theme song ...

TV Shows on DVD has the official announcements for sets of Huckleberry Hound , Yogi Bear , and The Flintstones Season 4 . I'll probably...

A local station devoted to "family friendly" and/or religious programming has had huge success with Happy Days -- it's fun an...

A little late, but to add to my collection of nasty quotes about Family Guy , here's one from an interview a couple of months ago with ...

Sorry for the under-blogging lately. While I try to write up something longer/better/nicer, here's an incredibly inappropriate, but fast...

I check the Peanuts website just about every day in the hope of finding a strip that I haven't seen before, and this past week I hit th...

I watched Yankee Doodle Dandy the other day, and I noticed that while the movie is structured around Cohan's triumphant stage comeback ...

One of the biggest, most inexplicable gaps in the history of home video appears to be on its way to being filled: Paramount will release a D...