It’s the Alan Partridge Party, and America is Invited
America, meet Alan Partridge. He’s a fictional character who shares some of the same DNA as Ron Burgundy, Will Ferrell’s buffoonish, boisterous and somewhat deluded 70s era TV news anchorman. Partridge is a British Burgundy, a radio jockey full of himself and never at a loss for schticky humor and silly catchphrases in Steve Coogan’s brilliant portrayal. Coogan, last seen on the big screen in the US in a much different sort of film,...
TCM’s Magical Mystery Movie Tour: The Ultimate Ride-Along for Movie Lovers
Too much, magic bus! That was the reaction of participants on board the first-ever Turner Classic Movies Locations Tour that took them to dozens of real-life settings that were the scenes of many of the most iconic moments captured on celluloid, going back to the earliest days of the movie industry. The clock where Harold Lloyd indelibly hung off the hands from 1923’s “Safety Last” may have been a movie prop but the building in...
Gillian Anderson is Back and Better than Ever in NBC’s ‘Crisis’
Take a busload of overprivileged high school kids – including the son of the president of the United States – their powerful and entitled parents, a heroic rookie Secret Service agent, an FBI agent with a dark secret and a shadowy terrorist organization, and you have the makings of NBC’s “Crisis,” premiering Sunday night at 10 p.m. If it sounds a little bit like the premise of CBS’s “Hostages,” well, this one has a much better chance...
The Verdict is In: L.A. Law is Finally Out on DVD
It’s hard to believe that the iconic, highly acclaimed TV series “L.A. Law” closed out its run on NBC 20 years ago– and that its 22 episodes of Season One are just now being released to DVD, available beginning today from Shout! Factory. Created by award-winning writer-producers Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, the legal drama debuted in 1986 and held court during primetime for an eight-season run, racking up 15 Emmy...
Oscar Countdown: Original Song
U2, one of the world’s greatest bands, is rarely if ever on the losing end of any proposition. But even Bono admitted– on the first night of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” that an animated character was likely to take the Oscar in the category of Original Song. That would be one big golden trophy for the ultra-catchy “Let it Go” from Disney’s “Frozen,” with music and lyrics by Kristin Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez...
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