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What to Watch: What's Airing, Re-Airing & Entertaining On TV This WeekMonday, April 7
Samantha Who? (ABC, 9:31 p.m.) - The charming
Christina Applegate sitcom is back and Sam's moving in with ex Todd and his new girlfriend. Welcome back, TV-manufactured awkwardness!
Read Article... The Fall Of The Great American TV Theme Song
What happened to it? A catchy, sing-a-long theme song used to be part of the fun of watching a show. A great theme song could get you excited and in the mood to watch a show. Sometimes the theme song was the best part of a bad show. A theme song that caught your attention could get you to check out a show you weren't normally watching.
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1 comment'Married... With Children' Creator Ron Leavitt Has Died
Married... With Children creator Ron Leavitt has died of lung cancer. He was 60. The writer/producer passed away at his home in Sherman Oaks, California on Sunday.
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3 commentsNew TV On DVD, Nov. 27
The O.C. never takes itself too seriously. Always retaining a sense of humor and self-parodying element, the show displays a keen understanding of its place within pop culture. The “Complete Series Collection” captures every episode from the four seasons of the show. Also on DVD: season three of
Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and
Mork & Mindy.
Read Article... Celebrity Birthdays, August 22
Happy Birthday to
Simple Plan guitarist Jeff Stinco (1978),
Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough (1973), "
Lost" actor
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (1967),
Alice in Chains singer
Layne Staley (1967; d. 2002), singer/songwriter
Tori Amos (1963),
Tears For Fears singer Roland Orzabel (1961),
Ratt bassist Juan Croucier (1959),
Living Colour guitarist
Vernon Reid (1958), actor
Colm Feore (1958),
Grateful Dead singer
Donna Jean Godchaux (1947), "
Laverne and Shirley" actress
Cindy Williams (1947), actress
Valerie Harper (1940), "
Brokeback Mountain" author Annie Proulx (1935), Sci-Fi writer
Ray Bradbury (1920), bluesman
John Lee Hooker (1917; d. 2001), British actor
Hugh Paddick (1915; d. 2000), and French composer
Claude Debussy (1862; d. 1918).
Read Article... New TV on DVD, April 17
In
The George Lopez Show, George is an employee at a large airplane-parts factory who is promoted to manager and finds himself in the untenable position of ordering around his old pals -- not to mention his own mother, and fellow employee, the indomitable and insufferable Benny Lopez. Seasons one and two are now on DVD. Also on DVD: season six of
Murder, She Wrote and season two of
Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and
Mork & Mindy.
Read Article... Starpulse Top 10 of 2006: #9 Gone But Not Forgotten
2006 was a great year in the entertainment world; however, let us not forget those who entertained us for generations but have moved on. We look back on those entertainers and cultural icons who left us in 2006 to pay our respects...
Jazz, R&B and pop singer
Lou Rawls, lost a two year fight with brain and lung cancer (1/6). He was 72. Prolific film star of the 50s, 60s and 70s and star of such hits as
Alfie and
The Poseidon Adventure,
Shelley Winters at age 85 (1/14). 60s soul star
Wilson Pickett, who brought us such hits as
Mustang Sally and
In The Midnight Hour age 64; of a heart attack (1/19); and actor
Anthony Franciosa, 77 (1/19). Country singer
Janette Carter, of cuuntry music's founding family, the Carters, 82 (1/22); and actor
Chris Penn, 40, brother of actor Sean Penn who starred in
Quentin Tarantino's
Reservoir Dogs (1/24). And Coretta Scott King (76), civil rights activist and wife of
Martin Luther King, Jr (1/30).
Read Article... Celebrity Birthdays, August 22
Happy Birthday to
Simple Plan guitarist Jeff Stinco (1978),
Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough (1973), "
Lost" actor
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (1967),
Alice in Chains singer
Layne Staley (1967; d. 2002), singer/songwriter
Tori Amos (1963),
Tears For Fears singer Roland Orzabel (1961),
Ratt bassist Juan Croucier (1959),
Living Colour guitarist
Vernon Reid (1958), actor
Colm Feore (1958),
Grateful Dead singer
Donna Jean Godchaux (1947), "
Laverne and Shirley" actress
Cindy Williams (1947), actress
Valerie Harper (1940), "
Brokeback Mountain" author Annie Proulx (1935), Sci-Fi writer
Ray Bradbury (1920), bluesman
John Lee Hooker (1917; d. 2001), British actor
Hugh Paddick (1915; d. 2000), and French composer
Claude Debussy (1862; d. 1918).
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