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2020
Dec
4
 
 
MOVIE PREMIERE: The other day, TCM televised 1941’s Citizen Kane. Today, Netflix premieres a new movie about the making of that classic Orson Welles film. Welles starred in the title role, directed the film, and is credited with co-writing the screenplay. This new film, though, focuses on the other credited co-writer: Herman L. Mankiewicz. Gary Oldman stars as Mankiewicz, a.k.a. Mank, and the other players in Mank include Charles Dance as tycoon William Randolph Hearst
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
4
 
 
Somewhere after this 1983 holiday movie came out, Ted Turner’s TBS and TNT networks began running marathons of A Christmas Story, making it an improbable but heartwarming annual Christmas treat. Here it comes again… and not for the last time this season, either. Not by a long shot – a long shot from a Red Ryder BB gun.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
4
 
 
The ping-pong match continues with the legacy of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, better known simply as Selena, the much-loved Tejano singer who was murdered in 1995 at the age of 23...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
4
 
 
On this day in 2009, TV Worth Watching founder David Bianculli came out of his legendary basement bunker to discuss his book Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour on CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
3
 
 
I love the idea that HBO Max is generating new cartoon specials featuring Bugs Bunny and the gang. This new holiday special has Bugs at home, trying to enjoy a quiet evening, when he’s constantly interrupted by, among others, a caroling Tasmanian devil. This special makes room for the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Tweety and Sylvester, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, and others. And the show’s title makes room for a world-class bad pun… which really Bugs me.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
3
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This Korean 3-D animated series comes to YouTube Kids beginning today, telling the story of Pinkfong, a magical pink fox from the planet Staria, and his best friend, the imaginative and intelligent Hogi. And why should parents be told, or warned, about Pinkfong Wonderstar? Because Pinkfong is the same Korean company that gave us the international earworm, and TV and toy merchandise phenomenon, known as Baby Shark…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
3
 
 
On this day in 1995, ABC presented a telefilm version of the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
2
 
 
On this day in 2007, cable's Sci Fi channel (before it became SyFy) introduced a reimagined version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
2
 
 
The American Film Institute ranked this 1941 Orson Welles movie as the best film ever made. That’s one of dozens of reasons to watch this movie again, or especially anew, but this week brings a new one. On Friday, Netflix premieres a new movie called Mank, telling the story of the making of Citizen Kane by focusing on the man credited as the co-author of the film’s screenplay: Herman J. Mankiewicz.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
2
 
 
The celebration will be very different, and much less populated, this year – but the tree has been delivered and put in place, and there was a surprise creature within that already has been discovered and celebrated. O come, owl ye faithful!