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Poppy is finally feeling the repercussions of a decision she made long ago on The Bold and the Beautiful. By hiding the fact that her nephew Finn is the father of her daughter, Luna, she’s created a chaotic situation that’s only going to get worse. However, in the real world, Romy Park is enjoying the calmness of one of her passions. She not only shared some words of wisdom with her fans but also showed off some impressive skills.

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Park’s followers were loving her after she wrote on Instagram, “‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’ Prospero in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.” She added, “Here is where I can live in endless dreams, however fleeting. A place to drown out the outside world and be a child again. A safe haven to heal the mind,...

Don Knotts made the Emmy Award for Supporting Funny Guy his personal trophy during the 1960s, going five-for-five to cement The Andy Griffith Show’s Barney Fife as one of the greatest sitcom characters of all time. But it’s a distinction Knotts might not have appreciated — he and Andy Griffith hated sitcoms.

“Andy and I have a pet hate — situation comedy,” Knotts told The Oregonian, as reported by MeTV. “So we try to imitate real people and forget the plot as much as possible.”

How can two of the greatest sitcom stars hate situation comedy? Knotts explained — sort of. “What we try to do is make use of those conversational habits people have,” he said. “Like Barney telling a joke, hearing laughter and then telling the joke over again. You’ve seen people do that. It’s terrible, but some can’t help it after hearing the laughter — it...

From ‘I Love Lucy’ to ‘Cheers,’ this streamer is a goldmine for classic TV fans.

I love comedy—and sitcoms in particular. There’s something about the canned laughter that somehow makes everything funnier. Or maybe it’s the predictable “set-up, set-up, joke” rhythms of the writing. Or maybe, in a world that seems more complicated every day, it’s just nice to wrap up all your problems in 22 minutes. Whether you grew up watching them on a boxy TV or you’re discovering them for the first time, classic sitcoms are the ultimate comfort watch. And if you’re looking for the best streamer to watch them all, in my opinion, there’s one clear winner: Pluto TV. Let’s get into why it’s the best place to stream classic sitcoms from the golden age of TV comedy.

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In an era when there is more media than ever before, new arbiters have sprung up to guide our increasingly disoriented collective taste. Though it throws up confounding developments such as claiming that Sean Connery's only "perfect" movie is "Darby O'Gill and the Little People," Rotten Tomatoes has emerged as one such guide through the dim and bloated media landscape wrought by the rise of the internet and streaming platforms. Likewise, IMDb, with its devoted user base eager to register their takes on movies and TV shows, has provided another way to decipher modern media.

The site that put "The Shawshank Redemption" at the top of its best movies of all time, IMDb is arguably not the best source of guidance, but at least it brings a certain sense of order to things. We now have the site's 250 best TV shows of all time, for example, which provides a...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the January 31 episode of Jeopardy!] Clues about famous TV shows have Jeopardy! fans questioning the writers room after the Friday, January 31 installment of the 2025 Tournament of Champions. The clues were about Bosch and I Love Lucy, with the former prompting questions about why it’s frequently mentioned and the latter being posed as too easy a clue for a tournament like this. An Alex Trebek-themed TV clue also lost a player money because she failed to make one of the words plural. The Lucille Ball clue came up in the second round, and the Bosch clue was part of the third Daily Double. The second-round category was “Playing Non-Sports’Ball,'” meaning that the answers to each clue would involve the word ball. The clue, answered correctly by player Allison Gross, was, “She starred as the title character on TV’s No. 1-rated show from October 1952 to April 1955.” This 1,200-point clue being played...

When Sam Malone showed up to visit on the original Frasier, fans got a thrill seeing old-favorite characters reunite for a one-off episode. But several sitcoms have done those types of cameos one better, casting familiar costars as entirely new characters to add a dose of barely earned nostalgia. Sometimes the ploy works and sometimes it doesn’t, as you’ll see in these five examples of classic sitcom costars who reunited on new shows.

1 Kevin James and Leah Remini

When James tried to reboot his sitcom career with Kevin Can Wait, he soon discovered he didn’t have much chemistry with his new TV wife Erinn Hayes. With little thought to public reaction, James and his producers decided “Why not have Hayes’ character die — off camera — before we start a Season Two?” That’s just what they did, enlisting James’ former TV wife, King of Queens’ Remini, to rekindle some comedy sparks.

Life’s unpredictable, messy, and, let’s face it, downright exhausting at times.

But when the world feels like too much, there’s one place we all turn for a little peace: the TV screen.

Comfort TV is more than just entertainment — it’s a warm blanket for the soul, a familiar friend to lean on, or a mini escape when reality gets overwhelming.

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So, what’s your happy place in the world of TV?

Check out these genres, dive into why they might be your perfect retreat, and vote to let us know where you find your comfort.

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Drama! Intrigue! Justice served! NCIS, Law & Order, and Criminal Minds deliver everything from nail-biting suspense to satisfying conclusions.

These shows are like a reliable detective — they show up, solve the problem, and leave you feeling that justice still exists somewhere.

The Way Home Season...

For many people, using artificial intelligence in any form is like breaking one of the seven deadly sins. That group might not be happy when they learn that director David Fincher used AI to work on the 4K restoration of his classic “Se7en.”

In an interview with EW, Fincher ahead of the film’s 30th anniversary spoke at length about using AI to help with the restoration process, and why any discussion about generative artificial intelligence shouldn’t be so black and white as just being for it or against it.

Fincher noted that he’s done a digital version of “Se7en” twice before, once for the film’s DVD after its initial release in 1995, and again to bring it into high definition. But he said he underestimated just how much work went into again bringing it up to quality for a 4K version and that his team didn’t...

Harry Morgan (Christian Slater) is slowly losing control over Dexter (Patrick Gibson), and Dexter: Original Sin episode 5 only made that problem worse. The cast of Dexter: Original Sin is fairly large, and each of its characters is so well-developed that they all have interesting storylines to follow every week. While that does make for great television, it also means it can be hard to keep up with everything happening at the same time. Some viewers may need a recap of all the bloodshed and family drama Dexter and the Morgans went through.

Original Sin episode 5 is, as the title suggests, all about mistakes. Dexter had to face the consequences of his failed attempt to kill Mad-Dog (Joe Pantoliano). That meant he spent a large chunk of the episode grounded by Harry Morgan, but it also gave him a chance to connect with Deb (Molly Brown) on a deeper level.

Prior to about 1987, American sitcoms were — generally speaking — very different. No matter the premise or intended demographic, most sitcoms focused on a reliable comedic structure of set-ups and payoffs. From "I Love Lucy" all the way to "Diff'rent Strokes," sitcom writers were careful to explore a recognizable domestic/workplace/common setting environment through sharply recognized, very funny characters. The same writers were typically also careful to lay out gags and jokes very clearly. Every setup usually led to some kind of punchline or payoff.

In the late 1980s, however, sitcoms underwent a reckoning. It seems that audiences and many longtime writers became tired of the decades of well-worm tropes and structures, and they began to deconstruct. 1987 saw the debut of "Married... With Children," a sitcom that followed an aggressively dysfunctional family who all kind of hated each other. Their causticness was the joke. Then, in 1989, "The Simpsons" debuted, handily satirizing...

“Lucy, you’ve got some ‘splainin to do.”

It’s hard to miss, but sadly, someone did. Late last month, a pair of screenshots of a recently released Blu-ray box set of the entire “I Love Lucy” series went viral because of what looked like a horrifying case of remastering gone wrong. It appeared that when upscaling the original show’s image quality to HD, the process inadvertently created an eye-popping moment in which background characters’ faces suddenly became bizarrely enhanced.

It’s a short moment on a multi-year restoration project that otherwise looks pristine, but the images stand out nonetheless and had people on Reddit and other forums crying foul.

The images show a woman seen in the background just over Ricky Ricardo’s shoulder who now looks decidedly more masculine, with bulging, dead eyes, and a toothy smile floating over a necklace. A man to the left of...

The best Nicole Kidman movies and TV shows feature decades' worth of great releases that showcase the Australian actress' talents. After getting her start in smaller Australian films in the '80s, Kidman picked up her first major crossover role in the 1989 psychological thriller Dead Calm and this won her the attention of Hollywood, where her first big break came in the Tom Cruise action movie Days of Thunder in 1990. That led her on the path to becoming one of Hollywood’s top leading ladies.

Throughout her decades-long career, Nicole Kidman has won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Primetime Emmy Award, and several Golden Globes Awards. She was also the first Australian actor to ever earn the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2024. She has taken on roles in just about every genre imaginable, from comedies and biopics to action movies, superhero fare, and even musicals. Kidman has worked with famed directors Stanley Kubrick,...

Archie and Hawkeye and Mary and Bob and Carol are being reunited for a hot Saturday-night date on the Catchy Comedy broadcast television network.

TVLine has learned exclusively that starting Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, Catchy Comedy (fka Decades) will recreate what is widely regarded as one of the greatest TV line-ups ever — Saturday night circa 1973-74 — by leading off with All in the Family at 8/7c, followed by M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show.

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Plenty of comedy stars have popped in for a cameo when their old sitcom costars get a new gig — think Cheers’ Ted Danson visiting the original Frasier or most of the Community cast stopping by Ken Jeong’s Dr. Ken. But some sitcom stars have such amazing chemistry that they need to keep a good thing going.

Here are five pairs of funny people who costarred together in multiple sitcoms…

1 Danny McBride and Walton Goggins

McBride and Goggins headlined Vice Principals as competing a-holes vying to rule the school via promotion to the top job. When McBride went on to create The Righteous Gemstones for HBO, he again enlisted Goggins as a failed child star who once headlined a gospel song-and-dance team. Goggins told Conan O’Brien that McBride “is the funniest person I have ever met in my life.” The two even teamed to desecrate the reputations of Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar.

Classic sitcoms from the 1950s obviously look a lot different than modern TV comedies. For starters, they were mostly in black and white. Also, they seemingly took place in an alternate reality where toilets and queen-sized beds don’t exist.

But a lot of old-timey TV shows now look terrific thanks to high definition home video transfers. On Blu-ray, Leave It to Beaver looks so crisp and clear, it almost feels as if you could reach out and touch the characters (and then ask them why in god’s name they nicknamed a kid “Beaver”).

Comedy fans were understandably excited when Paramount Home Entertainment announced that the entirety of I Love Lucy would be released on Blu-ray, in a box set containing a whopping 33 discs. Yes, finally, we’ll be able to see every single pore and bead of sweat on Lucy’s face as she shoves assembly-line chocolates into her mouth.

Of the numerous television series that have populated our modern viewing experience, a majority pertain to crime/legal drama and police procedurals like Suits, NCIS, and Blue Bloods. Given the rise of the genre, it is not surprising that audiences are more than entertained by the relentless barrage of do-gooders on TV and their representation of episodic justice served up on a silver platter.

Blue Bloods [Credit: CBS]

Besides the feel-good purpose of these television shows, projects like Law & Order: Svu and Chicago P.D. have no basis or authority in perpetuating a false portrayal of society being constantly served and protected by the finest and bravest. The actual stats are far less damning than what people have now come to believe, courtesy of the increased rate of crime procedurals on TV.

NCIS and Blue Bloods Share a Terrible Connection NCIS [Credit: CBS]

Television has come far since the days of I Love Lucy and family sitcoms.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is full of cameos; heck, the whole thing is practically built on them. For that matter, it's gotten to the point where we both expect the McU's movies to feature surprising cameos (and we complain when they don't) yet also deeply dislike the endless parade of cameos in new Marvel projects.

And yet, these types of cameos are essentially as old as TV itself, particularly when it comes to the sitcom (a staple of American television and the foundation upon which so much of the medium is built). These long-lasting shows, most of which only focus on a few main characters, offer endless opportunities for a string of characters to make one-off appearances. Really, the sitcom is built for cameos; it's a way for big celebrities to promote themselves, earn a quick paycheck, or even just get a start on the industry before becoming huge. It's...

Hoda Kotb is an experienced host on The Today Show, so it is surprising she would encourage a visiting celebrity to make such a large on-air blunder. Kotb was interviewing Singer Cher when she encouraged the artist to drop an f-bomb on national morning television. So what exactly happened? Keep reading to find out!

Hoda Kotb Makes A Big Mistake

Today Show host Hoda Kotb was interviewing Cher on Tuesday when she made a very large mistake. Cher and Hoda sat down to discuss Cher’s latest book “Cher: The Memoir, Part One.” Kotb was asking Cher to recount an interaction she had with famous actress Lucille Ball. Turns out the conversation was not appropriate for television, but that didn’t stop Hoda from asking her to tell it!

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Cher explained to Hoda Kotb that when she was in the process of leaving her ex-husband Sonny Bono,...

You can’t say Cher didn’t warn Hoda Kotb this morning on The Today Show. Cher was there to promote her new memoir, and Kotb asked Cher about advice she’d received from comedy icon Lucille Ball after her 1975 divorce from Sonny Bono. “I can’t say it on TV,” Cher insisted, asking if the show’s producers could bleep out the offending words.

Don’t worry, said Kotb. “We’ll bleep it!”

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Given the green light, Cher talked about reaching out to her longtime pal. The wacky redhead knew all about public divorces, shocking the world when she broke it off with Desi Arnaz after I Love Lucy ended. “I said, ‘Lucy, I’m calling you because, to my knowledge, there’s never been a situation besides mine except yours,’” Cher said.

Ball’s sage advice about how to handle the situation? “Fuck him,” she said. “You...

The 2025 stamp designs are out! There are the usual boring sets — American vistas? More U.S. flags? Vibrant leaves? — but one announcement has set comedy hearts aflutter: a commemorative stamp featuring the late sitcom superstar Betty White. Score!

“An icon of American television, Betty White (1922–2021) shared her wit and warmth with viewers for seven decades — including roles on The Golden Girls and The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” said the Usps in its announcement. “The comedic actor, who gained younger generations of fans as she entered her 90s, was also revered as a compassionate advocate for animals. Dale Stephanos created the digital illustration based on a 2010 photograph by Kwaku Alston. Greg Breeding, an art director for Usps, designed the stamp.”

In other words, Betty White was a badass.

White isn’t the first comedian honored by the Post Office, but she’s on a very short list. While you can’t...

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It almost feels like an unwritten rule that if a franchise exists for long enough, a big crossover must happen. From worlds colliding on the small screen dating back to "I Love Lucy" meeting Superman in "Lucy and Superman" to massive crossovers on the big screen in comic book movies like "The Avengers," it's a tradition in Hollywood that goes back decades. So, inevitably, after nearly 30 years spanning multiple shows and movies, the time came for "Star Trek" to boldly go where it had never gone before.

1994's "Star Trek: Generations" united the two most famous Starfleet captains to ever live; William Shatner's James T. Kirk and Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard. Despite being separated by decades, science fiction shenanigans allowed...

Few actresses of her era take as many chances as Nicole Kidman. The Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning actress has been one of the industry’s most sought-after performers since the early 1990s, and appeared in everything from splashy musicals like “Moulin Rouge!” (which netted Kidman her first of five Academy Award nominations) to historical fiction like “The Hours” (which won Kidman the Best Actress Oscar for playing Virginia Woolfe) to psychological thrillers like “Eyes Wide Shut” (where she starred opposite her now-ex-husband Tom Cruise) to blockbuster superhero movies like “Aquaman.”

And that’s just on the big screen. In recent years, Kidman has acquitted herself exceedingly well in a spate of prestige television series, winning an Emmy for her nuanced work in “Big Little Lies” and scoring a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for “The Undoing.”

One of her biggest challenges was her turn as Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin’s 2021 film “Being the Ricardos.

Despite Lorne Michaels’ previous promise that no real-life political candidates would show up on SNL this election season, Vice President Kamala Harris popped by Studio 8H on Saturday night, appearing in a cold open opposite Maya Rudolph’s Kamala, playing her literal mirror image.

While this one-off cameo seems unlikely to have much of an impact on Election Day, Trump supporters have been raging about the sketch online, suggesting that Trump himself is now owed airtime due to the FCC’s equal time fairness rules (although this was seemingly resolved by a NASCAR ad). They’re also complaining that Harris “plagiarized” an earlier sketch starring Trump.

It’s true that back in 2015, Trump and Jimmy Fallon performed a similar mirror bit, in which Fallon-as-Trump teed up the presidential candidate for jokes that also served to promote his campaign talking points (never forget Fallon’s role in this national nightmare...

It’s weird rooting for a couple you know from the outset will fail.

Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage is a brilliant family comedy, but even the title reveals that this marriage is doomed.

Every episode mixes in more clues as to what goes wrong with the comic situation of the week, and Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage Season 1 Episode 3 gave the biggest hints yet.

(Warner Brothers Entertainment/Troy Harvey) Mandy’s Credit Card Debt Secret Was A Symptom of Problems To Come

The episode’s focus on Mandy’s credit card debt was a fairly typical plot that both sitcoms and drams us and always have, going back to classics like I Love Lucy.

However, this one went in an atypical direction.

Instead of the story being about Georgie getting in trouble with his credit card or Mandy running up a bill on it without telling him, his...

Warning: Contains spoilers for Captain America #14!!

Captain America is famously a man out of time after being frozen in ice for decades but despite efforts to get him up to speed on decades of pop culture, including one of Steve Rogers' most iconic MCU scenes, he still cites a George Gershwin classic, "Rhapsody in Blue," as his favorite song.

Captain America #14 written by J. Michael Straczynski, with art by Carlos Magno presents a rare opportunity for Steve to take a break, at least for a few precious seconds. As Captain America is moving on from his battle against Death itself, he tries to settle back into his life with the comfort of coffee, a good book, and familiar music.

Though his respite doesn't last long, he reveals what Rogers believes to be the "most perfect piece of music." None of his MCU list makes the cut, and the honor, instead,...

Sling and Pluto both offer a content mix that older viewers will enjoy, combined with an interface they’ll find familiar.

The sheer volume of content available in the streaming world can be downright overwhelming. It can be hard to know which service has which shows, and even harder to avoid titles with sex, violence, bad language and other objectionable content. There are some excellent streaming services available that allow viewers to avoid these pitfalls, however, and I’ll walk through what I think are the best two streaming services for older viewers below.

Which Streaming Services Are Best For Older Viewers?

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If you’re looking to get traditional cable channels with your next streaming subscription, you should check out Sling TV.

Artificial Intelligence is “fundamentally reshaping computing and will transform how stories are told, produced and experienced,” asserted Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang as he accepted the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award via a recorded message during the 76th Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards.

“It has been three decades since Pixar’s ‘Toy Story’ revolutionized cinema with CGI. Now with AI, we have a new canvas for the next generation of storytelling, a renewed opportunity to wow and captivate audiences in new ways,” he said.

Also during the ceremony, which was held Wednesday at the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center, software developer Adobe received the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award, as well as an Engineering, Science and Technology Emmy for the development of its Substance Painter.

Accepting the Farnsworth Award on behalf of Adobe, product manager Erica Schisler said, “Farnsworth had hoped and envisioned the television bringing everybody together…...

When Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz dreamed up their new sitcom I Love Lucy, their creative imaginations led to several problems. Case in point: “I had insisted upon having a studio audience; otherwise, I knew, we’d never hit the right tempo,” Ball wrote in her autobiography Love, Lucy. That was a problem — no existing studios were large enough to accommodate a live audience. And even if there were, how could the crowd see with all the lighting, sound and film equipment in the way? To help solve those problems, Arnaz decided to turn to the guy who shot 1931’s Dracula.

“I was scarcely prepared for the many problems which were to confront me upon my initial excursion into the realm of television,” wrote Oscar-winning cinematographer Karl Freund in the December 1953 issue of Art Photography. “I expected very little variation from the ritual of photographing regular motion pictures, but I...

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There was a time when finding reruns of Sherwood Schwartz's 1964 sitcom "Gilligan's Island" was incredibly easy. Thanks to a plum syndication deal, Schwartz's 98-episode show remained on the air for literally decades, sometimes playing daily, forming the basis of multiple generations' pop culture education. The show's famed theme song became firmly entrenched in the Jungian subconscious, and the characters became archetypes for many years to come. Gen-Xers can likely tell you all about "Gilligan's Island," even if they didn't like it. We saw the show without really trying. 

For those same Gen-Xers, seeking out and deliberately watching "Gilligan's Island" almost seems bizarre. It's a series that, for many, should just be playing somewhere at all times, like "I Love Lucy" or "The Twilight Zone" or "Law & Order." TV shows that have passively made their way into human eyeballs,...

Chicago Med’s Sarah Ramos loves fans’ passion.

However, she has a different take on her character, Caitlin Lenox, than some of the audience, and she hopes eventually they’ll side with her even though right now, Lenox is not a character that most fans want to hang out with.

TV Fanatic had a chance to catch up with Ramos to discuss all things Caitlin Lenox and get her unique perspective on her character as a smart young doctor who is doing a difficult job to the best of her ability.

(NBC/George Burns, Jr.) Chicago Med’s Sarah Ramos Sees Lenox As Disrupting The Status Quo

From the moment Lenox entered Chicago Med, she’s shaken things up. She fired Zach, an affable but seemingly incompetent resident, shadowed the doctors, and butted heads with Archer at every opportunity.

The new hospital director who aggravates everyone by trying to change...

"I Love Lucy" was in many ways TV's first solid-gold hit, and it wasn't just because the show premiered when there were few television programs on the air. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, then a real-life married couple, made magic together on screen as clever but ridiculous Lucy Ricardo and her straight man of a husband, Ricky. Their chemistry and comedy made the show an enduring, medium-changing hit, rocketing it to the top of the Nielsen charts and beaming it into the hearts and homes of millions of people worldwide.

The show came to a close in 1957, and while Ball and Arnaz would continue dominating television in other sitcoms and specials — not to mention their powerhouse production company Desilu — for years to come, no follow-ups ever held the same unique magic as the original series. Arnaz passed away in 1986, and Ball followed three years later. Today, only three actors who...

The classic television sitcom “I Love Lucy” will make its long-awaited Blu-ray debut on November 5. Paramount Home Entertainment has announced the release of “I Love Lucy: The Complete Series” on high-definition Blu-ray discs. This comprehensive collection promises to offer fans both old and new an enhanced viewing experience of the pioneering comedy series.

Starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, “I Love Lucy” broke new ground when it first aired between 1951 to 1957. The show quickly became a massive success and cultural touchstone for its hilarious portrayal of an eccentric housewife and her Cuban bandleader husband. It continues to attract large audiences over 70 years later.

The upcoming Blu-ray set restores all 180 classic episodes to near-pristine quality. It also contains rare and previously unseen bonus features. An early pilot episode has been restored from film, allowing a fresh look at the show’s beginnings. One episode has also been newly colorized.

Rod Serling's eerie sci-fi anthology series "The Twilight Zone" still, to this day, tops lists of the best TV shows of all time. In a 2023 article in Variety, listing the 100 greatest shows of all time, it was listed at #14, just behind "Succession," although that ranking smacks of recency bias. The #1 show on that list, incidentally, was "I Love Lucy," which is wholly correct. Over here on /Film, we listed "The Twilight Zone" as the greatest horror TV show of all time, which is also correct. "Tales from the Crypt," however, didn't crack the top 30, so we may need to do some soul-searching. 

The original "Twilight Zone" ran from 1959 to 1964, which is an astonishingly long run for an anthology series. In that time, the show attracted numerous notable sci-fi writers and aspiring directors, bringing genre writing deeper into the pop consciousness. Serling became a minor deity of sorts, appearing at...

If you've ever wanted to be able to yell "Luuuucy, I'm home!" to your own "I Love Lucy" box set, then you're in luck. The classic 1950s sitcom that followed real-life spouses Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as their fictional counterparts, Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, is coming to home media in a whole new way, courtesy of Paramount. The series was wildly popular during its era and has left its stamp on pop culture ever since — it's honestly hard to find a comedy series that hasn't referenced "I Love Lucy" or been influenced by it in some way. The series is deeply beloved and made a massive impact on television history, and this new box set is sure to delight fans both new and old.

"I Love Lucy" ran for six seasons, starring Ball and Arnaz alongside the Ricardos' neighbors, Ethel and Fred Mertz (played by Vivian Vance and William Frawley...

From I Love Lucy to The Larry Sanders Show and beyond, writers in the performing arts have always set stories in the world of show business they know so well. (Even Hamlet makes a pretty memorable scene out of the titular character trying his hand at directing.) Naturally, with superhero movies crowding out all other genres, the process of making them is a target fit not just for fictional dramatization, but for savage mockery. Depending on whether you’ve ever added up how much you’ve spent on tickets to predictable movies about deeply mid comic book characters, you might think HBO’s new satire The Franchise — from some of England’s most eloquent and gifted insult craftsmen — doesn’t go hard enough.

In The Franchise’s series premiere, which airs on Sunday, October 6th, we join the production of a movie called Tecto: The Eye of the Storm on...

Marvel Studios' WandaVision was a triumph in every way imaginable. The first ever Disney Plus show set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it launched Phase Four on a high, earning the franchise critical acclaim, fan adoration, and its first ever Emmy nominations (and wins!). It was thrilling, spectacular, and full of surprises along the way - surprises that just never stopped coming, and kept us guessing the whole way throughout.

Yes, WandaVision was full of Easter Eggs, nods, and references - both to events that took place within the MCU, and to wider television in general. There were nods to I Love Lucy, Bewitched, The Brady Bunch, and more, all while making subtle hints and references to iconic aspects of the MCU and the wider Marvel Universe (including the Quicksilver red herring).

However, there is one Easter Egg so buried within the subtleties of the show that you might be forgiven for missing it.

"Saturday Night Live" certainly didn't kick off their milestone 50th season with a bang. However, we shouldn't really be surprised. Historically, the season premieres of "SNL" aren't great episodes, mostly because the writers and cast members are a bit rusty after having the entire summer away from the show, and they often have to cycle through some tired material that is already stale by the time it makes it in front of cameras in Studio 8H. 

Unfortunately, that means "Hacks" star Jean Smart didn't get their best material, and the result was a middling episode with the sketches ranging from average to embarrassing. It's nothing to worry about, but for anyone who needed to be convinced that "SNL" still has the goods, this episode probably didn't do the trick. But that's also what makes "SNL" one of the most interesting comedy shows to watch. Anything can happen, and sometimes it's great,...

If there’s anything TV is built for, it’s creating a satisfying romance. The prospect of watching the same characters for several episodes, several years potentially, and see them evolve means that fans can watch as a pairing meet, bicker, fall in love, get together (and maybe do those last two steps over and over again for some on-and-off-again tension), and reach relationship milestones that film can’t really cover with the same breadth. One of TV’s very first hits, “I Love Lucy,” didn’t have the word “love” in it for nothing — at its core, it was a story of a loving (if hectic) marriage.

As the medium has evolved, TV has been littered with absolutely iconic couples. Sitcoms like “Cheers,” “The Office,” or “New Girl” mined gold from the will-they-won’t-they between pairings like Sam and Diane, Pam and Jim, Jess and Nick. Soap operas such...

Survivor fans will never forget Liz Wilcox’s blowup over not getting invited to enjoy an Applebee’s feast.

Liz challenged herself by applying for Survivor despite suffering from many allergies that would impact her game.

She noted those allergies throughout the season, which made it difficult for her to eat at camp or during some of the possible rewards.

Liz stated that her allergies included coconut, chicken, pasta, and other items that were mentioned during challenges or camp conversations.

Liz felt the allergies could work to her advantage, as she wouldn’t miss not enjoying some of those rewards.

Starvation seemed to get to her several times, though. She blew up at a Reward Challenge when the winner and several people of his choice got to eat Applebee’s.

Liz Wilcox updates Survivor fans on her allergies

“On Survivor, I made a bold assumption that my allergies were likely caused from life stressors,...

Marvel Studios' first official entry into the streaming world came with "WandaVision" in 2021. It still stands as one of the better small screen chapters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, providing a compelling mystery and a meta spin on the television framework that spanned decades of sitcom tropes. In the series, Wanda Maximoff is trying to live a picture-perfect life with Vision, who was believed to have perished in "Avengers: Infinity War." Their relationship plays out across a variety of sitcom styles, ranging from "I Love Lucy" to "Modern Family," and it's in that last chapter where we learn that a powerful witch named Agatha Harkness has been manipulating Wanda.

What made the reveal especially memorable was that it played out musically in the form of a TV theme song and opening credits sequence for a faux show called "Agatha All Along," which is now a real show on Disney+. Written...

"WandaVision" is considered one of (if not the) best live-action Marvel shows from the Disney+ era, so the spin-off series about Agatha Harkness had some mighty big shoes to fill. The winking witch from Salem, Massachusetts who was ousted by her own coven for using dark magic popped up in the Westview Anomaly created by Wanda "Scarlet Witch" Maximoff over 300 years later, taking on the "nosy neighbor" moniker of Agnes and manipulating the idyllic sitcom-inspired paradise Wanda created to protect herself. Once the Scarlet Witch realized Agnes was Agatha in disguise and she was responsible for all of the chaos, Wanda stripped her of her powers and sentenced her to live out her life as Agnes in Westview indefinitely.

This brings us to "Agatha All Along," a look at what has happened since Agatha was condemned and the death of Wanda Maximoff in "Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness...

From The Red Skelton Show and I Love Lucy to Get Smart and All in the Family through Taxi, Cheers and Murphy Brown to Frasier, Seinfeld and 30 Rock to Modern Family, Veep and Ted Lasso, the Emmy Awards have been laughing at TV best comedies for more than 70 years. Here is a gallery of all the shows to win the golden statuette since 1952; click on the image above to launch it.

The category itself has gone by various names, starting with Best Comedy Show and rolling through Best Comedy Series, Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Humor, Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Comedy to the current Outstanding Comedy Series. But the yuks have remained constant, whether it’s Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance trying to keep up with the conveyor belt at the chocolate factory or Jason Sudeikis Yank-coaching an English football club.

Our gallery lists all of the winners,...

Before "Austin Powers," "Johnny English," and "Top Secret!" there was "Get Smart," the 1960s spy sitcom that mined the genre for laughs when the James Bond and "Mission: Impossible" franchises were still in their infancies. Co-created by comedy legends Mel Brook and Buck Henry, "Get Smart" ran for five seasons from 1965 to 1970, earning seven Primetime Emmys and plenty of other accolades along the way.

Stand-up comedian Don Adams starred as Maxwell Smart, the sometimes inept top-secret agent who regularly held the fate of the world in his hands ... and often almost fumbled it. By his side was the beautiful, super-cool Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon), who loves Maxwell despite his clumsiness and penchant for messing up missions. The central trio was rounded out by Edward Platt's The Chief, the supportive leader of the intelligence agency Control, which employed both Agent 99 and Maxwell.

"Get Smart" inspired a follow-up film, sequel TV show,...

“I can’t watch any sitcom before 2000 because it’s all so cringe. Racism, sexism, rape, and toxic behavior are not funny to me.”

You may have heard a friend or family member say something along those lines.

Or you might have made such a remark yourself.

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Indeed, how did we ever watch all those old shows with so many problematic characters and politically incorrect plotlines?

Most iconic sitcom characters were bigoted or duplicitous and did not try their best to “be a better person.”

A Gen Z-er might ask, “Why did TV viewers ever sympathize with so many terrible people, like Archie Bunker, George Costanza, or Ross Geller?

A Boomer might ask, “Why can’t we just laugh at something that’s funny anymore? Back in the day, a good joke was a good joke.”

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While a culture war seems like the right answer, I...

Richard Gere celebrated his 75th birthday with hyped-up fans at a masterclass hosted by Cartier at the Venice Film Festival and revealed some behind-the-scenes on the filming of his 1990 hit movie “Pretty Woman” which catapulted Julia Roberts into star status.

Reacting to a clip of his steamy piano scene with Roberts, Gere laughed and blushed about his palpable chemistry with the actor.

“No chemistry,” he laughed. “I mean, this actor and this actress, obviously, had no chemistry between them… I haven’t seen that in a long time, too. It was a sexy, sexy scene.”

Gere then went on to share that the scene had been improvised. “This was never in the script. … We didn’t know how we would use it later. It ended up being integral to the film,” said Gere, who also joked that he “was playing a character that was almost criminally underwritten. It was basically...

I laugh when I hear people talk about how “The Bear” is a sure thing winner for Best Comedy Series and that it’s such a lock nothing whatsoever can derail it. Ha! Ha I say! Oh, it’s naturally the heavy favorite with its 23 nominations and has remained the overwhelming frontrunner clear through Emmy season, all right. In the Gold Derby combined Emmy odds, it’s running away with this race. The same is true of ““Shōgun” for drama after its giant haul of 25 Emmy bids. And nothing can beat “Baby Reindeer” for Best Limited Series, right? Jessica Gunning (“Baby Reindeer”) is a shoo-in for limited supporting actress, isn’t she? And no one could possibly beat Jamie Lee Curtis (“The Bear”) for comedy guest actress – could they?

But if Emmy history has taught us anything, it’s that upsets happen, even when it comes to shows and people considered locks.

If you’re a millennial or a member of Generation X, then you probably grew up with a pretty good idea of the music, movies, and television shows that your parents were raised on.

Throughout the Clinton years, there were entire radio stations and TV channels dedicated to the “oldies” of the 1950s and ’60s, and the cinematic classics of that era were easy to find on cable or in video stores.

In other words, the most popular content from the baby boomer era was not niche stuff that was only being tracked down by amateur pop culture historians.

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In fact, in those days, kids who were still watching Nickelodeon at 8:00 pm would find themselves suddenly caught in a time warp that would transport them to the era of I Love Lucy, Donna Reed, and Ozzie and Harriet.

The End of an Era?

Sure, Nick at Nite technically still exists,...

After half a century of genre-defining sitcoms like I Love Lucy reigning over television screen time, a shift was noticed in the aftermath of the Cold War-era world. A new kind of sitcom, Friends, had come into existence that encouraged a certain degree of adorably carefree lifestyle that was neither possible nor dreamed of before.

However, Friends was anything but a superficial attempt at drawing in viewers for network ratings. Inadvertently, and unaware of its transformative powers, the show started an entire revolutionary movement that popularized the concept of Manhattan culture and independent lifestyle.

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Colored with muted tones of pastel hues and overall optimism, David Crane and Marta Kauffman’s Friends became a vocal piece that defined as well as empowered an entire era of viewers with its innovative narrative structure.

Friends Resonates Among the Fans From the ’90s to the 21st Century

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The wolves are no longer at the gate because they’re roaming The Serpent Queen’s corridors.

It has to be said that the storytelling of this series is genuinely astonishing.

From the wardrobe, hairstyles, and locations, The Serpent Queen is a force of entertainment ingenuity.

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For most people, period pieces can be a hard sell because most audiences crave action and laughter.

But The Serpent Queen’s writers bring unprecedented expertise to their storytelling.

This series is rife with glitz and glamour with a shine that can be seen reflecting off any dagger.

However, in The Serpent Queen, the real danger lies not in the weapons but in the people who don’t need a blade to cut down their enemies.

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Fans of ABC’s Abbott Elementary were thrilled to hear that a season 4 episode will feature a crossover event. Social media users immediately put on their thinking caps and speculated as to who would be making an appearance in the halls of the downtrodden Philadelphia grade school. Knowing the show is aired on a network owned by Disney, you can expect it to be someone in the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (here’s hoping Carmy or Syd from The Bear travel to Philly *fingers crossed*)

The TV crossover used to be a great way for networks to promote two shows at the same time, but as the streaming era took over the tendency to apply this advertising method has dwindled. We thought it would be a great time to look back on the TV crossovers that only small screen purists will remember. Some of these crossovers are old enough that even...