The hockey fanatic in me can't let this one pass without promotion. Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of hall-of-famer Jacques Plante donning the first true goalie mask in an NHL game...

2009

Oct

FLICK PICKS: HALLOWEEN HORRORS! By Diane Werts

Fright flicks are all over the place Friday and Saturday, in places you'd expect (TCM, AMC) and places you wouldn't (like PBS stations). Choices run the gamut from classic Boris Karloff to blaxploitation's Blacula to Troma's Toxic Avenger...

2009

Oct

COMING UP: GERVAIS HOSTS THE GLOBES By Diane Werts

Are you having a laugh? You certainly should when Ricky Gervais hosts January's freewheeling Golden Globe Awards ceremony on NBC...

2009

Oct

IN MEMORIAM: VIC MIZZY, SOUPY SALES By Diane Werts

They're sucking all the fun out of TV. "They" would be the grim reapers of time and evolution. While the latter agent of change seems intent on making TV as grim and/or convoluted as possible...

2009

Oct

SCARY STUFF: HALLOWEEN FILM FESTIVALS By Diane Werts

It isn't just Monty Python hitting the air on IFC this Sunday. That's also the night the channel starts its Indie Screams festival as we head toward Halloween...

2009

Oct

THE LATEST: FOX REALITY BECOMES NATGEO WILD By Diane Werts

Turns out those crazy folks at Fox already had plans for their Fox Reality channel position before declaring the end of FRC this week. They quickly announced that NatGeo Wild will soon be airing animals in place of . . . well, that one is just too tempting, isn't it?...

2009

Oct

ON DVD: 'MTM' SEASON 5 FINALLY MAKES IT, AFTER ALL By Diane Werts

How long have we been waiting for Season 5 of The Mary Tyler Moore Show? Well, the Season 4 DVD set came out in June 2006, so it was more than a three-year wait for Season 5 to hit shelves Oct. 6...

2009

Oct

WEIRD & WILD: DUCT TAPE DOES IT ALL! By Diane Werts

Because you can just never learn enough about duct tape, here's a new hour of Mythbusters (Wednesday at 9 p.m. and midnight ET, Discovery) in which Adam and Jamie somehow manage to keep their giddy tests of this beloved product down to the show's usual hour length...

2009

Oct

FLICK PICKS: MUNI-FICENT HISTORY By Diane Werts

While the Warner Bros. studio was making a mint making gritty gangster pix in their 1930s heyday, they were also making "prestige" pictures with one chameleonic actor...

2009

Oct

WEIRD & WILD: 'SOUTH PARK' VS. CELEBS By Diane Werts

The boys are back in town. South Park returns with new episodes Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET on Comedy Central. Tonight's Season 13 entry may be hitting two trendy birds with one stone...it also involves ghost hunters, another current reality TV obsession...

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