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View ArticleThe Beatles, As America First Loved Them
It's been 50 years since The Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan, to an audience of screaming, hair-pulling, ecstatic (in the classic sense) teenage girls. Cutes in suits, you might call them, like...
View ArticleOscars 2014: Low On Laughs, But A Great Speech Or Two
The big winner was 12 Years A Slave, but there was quite a bit of love to go around at Sunday night's Oscars. What there wasn't, as usual, was a lot of riveting television.Sure, there was John Travolta...
View Article'Mad Men' Returns, Full Of Footnotes
Imagine a scene in which a man is sitting on a park bench reading a book. A woman comes up and sits beside him. He looks up at her. She hands him a letter. "It's over," she says.If you were to see this...
View Article'Say Anything,' Still Full Of Guileless Affection
Transcript WADE GOODWYN, HOST: Twenty-five years ago, Lloyd Dobler raised a boombox over his head and changed the world of movie boyfriends forever.(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "IN YOUR EYES")PETER GABRIEL:...
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Oscar Buzz Builds At Toronto Film Fest
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The biggest film festival in North America is in full swing. The Toronto International Film Festival shows...
View ArticleHBO Without Cable, Coming In 2015
HBO has built a robust and popular online presence over the past couple of years with its app, HBO GO. But to get it — as is the case with many streaming services that offer television over the...
View ArticleHere Comes 'The X-Files,' Back For More Mulder, More Scully, And More
Everything old really is new again. Even aliens. Fox announced today that The X-Files , which ran on television from 1993 until 2002 and was accompanied by feature films in 1998 and 2008, will be back...
View ArticleThe End Of The Estate: 'Downton Abbey' Is Officially Saying Goodbye
Recent reports were officially confirmed today — the upcoming sixth season will be the last for the very successful drama Downton Abbey , according to an announcement Thursday from Carnival Films and...
View Article'The Breakfast Club' At 30: '80s Classic Still Relatable Today
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit Transcript (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE BREAKFAST CLUB") ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL: (As Brian Johnson) You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a...
View Article5 Thoughts On Trevor Noah Taking Over 'The Daily Show'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHO1a1kvZGo We learned Monday morning what will become of The Daily Show on Comedy Central after Jon Stewart departs: It will be hosted by Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old...
View ArticleThe End Of 'American Idol'
[Note: Listen to the audio above to hear a conversation I had with Pop Culture Happy Hour team member Stephen Thompson about the end of the show.] Ahead of its fall programming presentation to...
View ArticleLifetime's Scripted Drama 'Unreal' Goes Behind The Scenes Of Reality TV
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: If you would never watch a television show like "The Bachelor," or if it's your guilty pleasure, well, a new drama called "UnREAL"...
View ArticleThe Heat Is On With These Summer Romance Novels
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: I'm Audie Cornish with help for those of you who are looking for something to read this summer and you don't necessarily want to...
View ArticleThere's A Story There: Why The Emmys Rocked Even As HBO Rolled
The hard numbers on Sunday night's Primetime Emmy Awards told a story that could look a little dull to the glancing eye. HBO, representing the old guard of premium television at a time when more...
View ArticleTrailers, Tickets, Twitter: 'Star Wars' Fans Can't Get Enough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbxmsDFVnE We often think of marketing as being about either awareness or persuasion. It seems impossible that Star Wars: The Force Awakens (which opens December 18)...
View ArticleFans Anticipate Opening Of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit Transcript ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: You can call it a sheer product of capitalism, or you can call it a contemporary version of Homer's "Iliad." Actually, people call...
View Article'The Revenant,' 'Mad Max: Fury Road,' Scoop Up Most Oscar Nominations
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit Transcript ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There are no bats in this year's Oscar nominations. We're going to have to wait until later this year for the big "Batman v...
View ArticleA Fond (No, Really!) Farewell To 'American Idol'
Oh, American Idol . You were too good for this world. OK, maybe not too good. Maybe too rooted in people voting via telephone calls. When the show, which concludes its run Thursday night, started in...
View ArticleFrom 'Apprentice' To 'MacGyver,' TV Raids Old Shows To Excite Advertisers
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