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2016

Jan

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL REDUX By Jonathan Storm

Older, and maybe wiser, five of the stars of High School Musical will reconvene on the Disney Channel for the tenth anniversary celebration of the TV movie that reached 100 million viewers around the world in 2006, won a boatload of awards, and was performed by students in more than 2,000 U.S. schools in its first 15 months...

2016

Jan

JAMES CORDEN DOING CAR KARAOKE WITH ADELE By David Bianculli

The latest edition of The Late Late Show host James Corden’s singalong karaoke car rides is with Adele, and this one is super-sized...

2016

Jan

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE... By Jonathan Storm

...but you probably won’t find it in The X-Files, one of history’s greatest TV shows, though there are thrills, chills, and weirdness a-plenty. Scully and Mulder return Jan. 24 on Fox...

2016

Jan

A SAD SURPRISE By Jonathan Storm

The world lost a big one Sunday with the death of David Bowie...

2016

Jan

PARIS SUBS FOR SCOTLAND By David Hinckley

The Starz series Outlander lands in a new country this April, when it returns for its long-awaited Season 2. Instead of the rugged hills of Scotland, our heroes Jamie and Claire repair to Paris... looking like the most glamorous and colorful place this side of Downton Abbey...

2015

Dec

LOST IN TRANSLATION By David Hinckley

Imagine for a moment that Michelle Dockery’s Lady Mary on Downton Abbey isn’t an entitled British royal, but an entitled young American... That’s what Stephen Colbert has done by hosting this inspired bit where Dockery, Hugh Bonneville and Allen Leech read a scene from a Season 5 Downton episode in American accents...

2015

Dec

IT'S ANOTHER BRITISH INVASION: THE BEATLES ARE STREAMING! THE BEATLES ARE STREAMING! By David Bianculli

Our own David Hinckley already has written about the significance of The Beatles finally offering their music and video catalogue on streaming sites... But where to begin, with such a voluminous and outstanding catalogue at your disposal? I suggest here: a relative rarity called “Hey Bulldog,” recorded by The Beatles in 1968...

2015

Dec

YES, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS IN VIRGINIA By Jonathan Storm

... and her name is Jeannie Klisiewicz. She’s the Good Cheer assistant on Ellen, and Ellen DeGeneres dispatched her to surprise a big-hearted, hard-working second grade teacher in Leesburg, Va., not only with a little airtime on her favorite daytime talk show, but with a few presents, too...

2015

Dec

A LONG TIME AGO, FROM A TALK SHOW FAR, FAR AWAY By David Bianculli

With the new Star Wars hitting theaters (perhaps you’ve heard?), there’s no better time to revisit what I consider the funniest Star Wars lampoon of all time, hands down. Or paws down, since it involves Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, the acerbic canine puppet alter ego of comedian and writer Robert Smigel. In May 2002, upon the release of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones...

2015

Dec

MAY THE FARCE BE WITH YOU By Jonathan Storm

British comedy team Greg Haiste and Marie Lawrence have put together an hilarious spoof Star Wars trailer in the style of naturalist British director Ken Loach and his 1969 film Kes, complete with appropriately weird Yorkshire dialect...