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Put on your detective hats because the 1985 cult classic Clue is making a comeback. Yes, you read that right. In honor of the film’s 40th anniversary, Paramount Pictures is bringing the classic whodunit back to theaters for a limited time only. But fans are in for a killer surprise! Screenings for the film will take place on August 24 through August 26. And here’s the fun part: each showing will feature different endings, similar to how the movie was first released in 1985. Cool, right?

If that weren’t enough, Cinemark Theaters released a new movie poster in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Clue. See below. In case you haven...

“A talent agent is sitting in his office and in walks a family — a father, a mother and two kids. The father says to the agent, ‘Have I got an act for you!’”

So begins one of the most notoriously dirty jokes in the history of comedy. The specifics can vary, but the basic idea is always the same: The family walks in and offers up their act. The agent asks what the act is and one of them, usually the father, goes on to explain their routine, which involves the most shocking and depraved sex acts possible between members of the family, including but not limited to: urination, defecation, vomiting and bestiality.

The depraved part of the joke can last just a couple of minutes or upwards of an hour, and the contents change depending upon the imagination and endurance of the joke-teller. The ending, however, is always the...

Jane Morgan, the elegant American singer who dazzled audiences in Paris nightclubs, on just about every TV variety show of her era and at the Oscars and had a hit record with the lovely standard “Fascination,” has died. She was 101.

Morgan was in hospice care and died Monday in her sleep of natural causes in Naples, Florida, her family announced.

A classy performer known for her silky smooth phrasing, Morgan moved from New York to France in the late 1940s to build her career before returning the U.S. and becoming a very popular singer through the mid-1960s.

She recorded about 40 albums around the world and sang in five languages, making her a true international star.

Morgan appeared dozens of times on The Ed Sullivan Show and was a welcomed recurring guest on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall and The Hollywood Palace and...

Jane Morgan Weintraub, singer, nightclub entertainer, Broadway performer and ubiquitous TV presence in 1950s and ’60s, died Monday of natural causes in Naples, Florida. She was 101.

Her family announced her death, saying, “Our beloved Jane passed away peacefully in her sleep.”

As Jane Morgan, the singer was a popular and ubiquitous presence on television variety shows from the Golden Age of the 1950s well through the 1960s and even into the early 1970s. She appeared on The Johnny Cash Show in 1971, where she answered the Man in Black’s “A Boy Named Sue” with “A Girl Named Cash,” which was written for the show by Martin Mull.

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She is thought to hold the record for female singers appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show – 50 times in all.

Born Florence Catherine Currier in Newton, Massachusetts, on May 3, 1924, Morgan raised by a...

The beloved 80s film adaptation of the board game Clue turns 40 this year. And Paramount will be celebrating this occasion with a new physical media release of the film in glorious 4K picture. Blu-ray.com has shared information on the release, but no details yet on special features. The film stars Eileen Brennan, Colleen Camp, Tim Curry, Bill Henderson, Howard Hesseman, Madeline Kahn, Jeffrey Kramer, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, Kellye Nakahara, Lee Ving, Lesley Ann Warren, and Jane Wiedlin. The new ultra-high-def disc is due to hit retailers on October 7.

The description reads,

“Here is the murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue board game. Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and discover all their foul play things. You’ll love their dastardly...

Brad Bird's 1993 animated series "Family Dog" began its life several years earlier as an episode of "Amazing Stories," a Steven Spielberg-produced anthology series that utilized the talents of Clint Eastwood (among many other notable filmmakers). Also titled "Family Dog," the episode aired on February 16, 1987, and featured a cute white terrier of some kind (with its barks provided by Bird) who lived in an ordinary suburb with a white sitcom family. The dog was only ever referred to as "the dog," but his actual name was Jonah. The episode also starred the legendary Stan Freberg as the family patriarch and Annie Potts as his wife. Danny Elfman and Steve Bartek provided the music, with Tim Burton contributing to the short's character designs.

The piece was sliced into three vignettes, all of which centered on the ways a family dog can forcibly -- and unfortunately -- insert themselves into traditional family moments.

Sabrina the Teenage Witchis quietly taking over the streaming charts nearly 30 years after it aired.

Per FlixPatrol, 1996's Sabrina the Teenage Witch has been quietly making its way up the streaming charts over the past few weeks. As of the time of writing, Sabrina the Teenage Witch holds the number six spot on the top TV shows chart for Paramount+ for July 9, holding firm ahead of fan-favorites such as SpongeBob SquarePants, NCIS, and Seal Team, all while sitting just five points behind the next most popular series, Tulsa King.

Based on the Archie Comics character who made her debut all the way back in 1962, Sabrina the Teenage Witch premiered on ABC in September 1996 and quickly found a foothold as the latest hit family sitcom. The series starred Melissa Joan Hart as the titular teenage witch, Sabrina Spellman, who lives with her loving aunts, Hilda and Zelda (portrayed by Caroline Rhea...

For most moviegoers, Brad Pitt basically dropped out of the sky and into the backseat of a 1966 Ford Thunderbird Convertible in Ridley Scott's 1991 classic "Thelma & Louise." They'd never seen or heard of this ludicrously handsome charmer before, but now that he was so emphatically here, they knew they'd be lining up to see him in just about anything for decades to come.

34 years later, Pitt, at the age of 61, is still one of the most sought-after movie stars in the world -- and those sun-kissed good looks have kept better than Robert Redford's, so he remains a viable romantic lead at a point in his career where you'd expect him to start playing men who are uneasily aware that they've entered their third act. Or he could make like Cary Grant and simply retire rather than face the awful indignity of playing grandfathers.

This would be unthinkable because,...

First a beloved weatherman and children’s show host in Indianapolis, David Letterman eventually graduated to becoming a regular on game shows and talk shows in L.A. And after he filled in for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show with great success, NBC’s Fred Silverman gave Letterman his own 90-minute morning show, The David Letterman Show.

It did not go well.

Before the new program even premiered, there was trouble. The show’s producer quit days before the show debuted in June 1980, so head writer Merrill Markoe — who had zero talk show experience — stepped into the role. A few weeks in, a new producer was hired, but the show continued to flounder and was cut down from 90 minutes to 60 a few weeks into its run. Writing for 30 fewer minutes per episode was a relief to Markoe, yet the show still struggled. And the biggest problem had nothing to...

"Clue" from 1985 is arguably the single greatest movie adaptation of a game ever made, whether video, board, tabletop, or children's game. Even 40 years later, it remains not just a hilarious comedy film in its own right, one of the best detective movies of all time, or even just a fantastic way of taking a familiar product and translating the gameplay to the big screen without sacrificing a good narrative. It is also a rather cool and effective experiment.

It's not like this was some small indie film. There was plenty of reason for optimism when it was announced and made. Jonathan Lynn's "Clue" boasts one hell of a comedic cast that includes Michael McKean, Leslie Ann Warren, Eileen Brannan, Martin Mull, Christopher Lloyd, Madeline Kahn, and Tim Curry.

It follows the barebones premise of the board game: strangers arrive at a mansion and one of them commits a murder.

Over the course of its seven post-Roseanne seasons, The Conners has welcomed a number of celebrity guest stars to the show, including Matthew Broderick, Candice Bergen, Patton Oswalt, Whoopi Goldberg and Dan Aykroyd, who thankfully resisted the urge to bust out his harmonica and force John Goodman into performing a Blues Brothers 2000 reunion concert.

But there are a number of actors from the original Roseanne series who, barring a last-minute cameo on tonight’s series finale, simply never appeared on The Conners.

Executive producers Bruce Helford and Dave Caplan addressed some of these absences in a recent interview with TVLine. On the subject of Leon, Roseanne’s former boss-turned-business partner, played by the late Martin Mull, the producers claimed that they wanted to find a way to include him on the show, but it became a “moot issue” after he passed away last year. “It would have been a conversation,...

Tomorrow, the credits will roll on The Conners for the last time when the series celebrates its grand finale. After seven seasons, the show proved that the world of the family from Lanford, Illinois had plenty of staying power even after their matriarch and original series star, Roseanne Barr, was killed off. Over the last few years, fans have caught up with the titular gang of relatives who we first met all the way back in the 80s thanks to a little TV show called Roseanne. During that time, we got to see a new generation of the Conners enter their young adult years, while favorites like Sara Gilbert’s Darlene and Lecy Goranson’s Becky continued into adulthood. At the same time, there were a few beloved characters from the flagship production who fans were upset they never got to see in the follow-up chapter.

Feeling a similar sense of disappointment as the fandom,...

When it comes to regrets, the executive producers of ABC’s The Conners have a few.

“Martin Mull passed before we had a chance to [bring back Leon],” Bruce Helford laments. “We would have liked Johnny [Galecki] to come back [as David after Season 2], but we respected that….”

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“And we never got Clooney!” fellow EP Dave Caplan interjects. “I don’t know what the hell...

Aside from video games, board games also get film and TV adaptations. One of them is Clue (or Cluedo), which was first announced in 2021, then later in 2024 when it was revealed to be an animated series that Sony will release. Unfortunately, this board game project was unable to leave the tabletop setting as it was recently reported that the show was canceled.

Clue's writer Dewayne Perkins revealed in an interview that the show was canceled but didn't give any reason why that was the case. He also didn't shed light on whether anyone else would pick up the project or what was going to happen to the IP. In 2021, it was reported that Fox was developing the Clue TV series, as it partnered with Hasbro and Bento Box Entertainment to make the series. But by 2024, the film and TV rights moved to Sony, thanks to a new deal made by Hasbro,...

The 2025 Oscars ignited controversy for leaving out actors such as Michelle Trachtenberg, Tony Todd and Olivia Hussey. “Beverly Hills, 90210” star Shannen Doherty was also omitted, which her co-star Jennie Garth called “messed up” when asked by TMZ to give her thoughts on the snub (via People). Garth added that “maybe” the Academy should apologize to Doherty’s family for the exclusion.

Garth and Doherty became teen icons together as stars of “Beverly Hills, 90210.” They were both series regulars for four seasons. Doherty exited the series before Season 5. Garth continued for all 10 seasons. They later reunited as their characters, Kelly Taylor and Brenda Walsh, for appearances on The CW’s “90210” reboot.

Doherty died in July 2024 after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. In June 2023, she said she had been receiving radiation for cancer that had spread to her brain. She became a popular podcast host in the years...

The Academy Awards ceremony took place on Sunday night, and as with every year, the show featured an In Memoriam segment honoring some of the movie stars and creatives who've passed away since last year's show. Some keys were left out, with fans of horror legend Tony Todd disappointed not to see the actor included after his passing in November.

Per TMZ, Todd's family has since weighed in on the Candyman star's absence from the In Memoriam segment. The actor's widow, Fatima, said she was left feeling "angry" after the snub. She reportedly believes that there's a "racial element" that resulted in the omission, with the report noting that Fatima feels "people of color and women are often ignored as much as possible" with the Academy's In Memoriam tributes.

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The 2025 Academy Awards ceremony went pretty much without a hitch. No one was slapped, no one received the wrong award, and no one embarrassed themselves. However, the event still managed to court controversy online thanks to the stars omitted from the event’s In Memoriam, including Michelle Trachtenberg, Bernard Hill, and Shannen Doherty.

The Academy has gone to great lengths in recent years to not only recognize the stars we see on screen and behind the camera, but also those who make it possible for movies to make it to screens. From writers and editors, to choreographers and publicists, the list of those who passed away in the last year is often a long one, but in trying to cover all the bases, the Academy often leaves themselves open to criticism for missing out some big stars from the emotional segment.

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Oftentimes, if a celebrity dies too close to the Academy Awards, they may not make it into that year’s In Memoriam segment. And for a moment, it looked as if Gene Hackman — whose death was announced mere days before Sunday’s ceremony — wouldn’t be making the cut, as Morgan Freeman looked to be paying a special tribute to his friend and co-star. Yet, Hackman and some other notable 2025 deaths (including David Lynch) were included. But as is the case every year, there were many names left out. So who did the Academy snub this year?

Among the most notable names missing from the In Memoriam segment was one who also passed away last month: Michelle Trachtenberg, star of Harriet the Spy and Eurotrip. Along with her, horror icon Tony Todd (Candyman) was also omitted. Also failing to make the cut were Heathers’ Shannen Doherty, Clue’s Martin Mull and Olivia Hussey,...

The 2025 Academy Awards featured its annual In Memoriam segment, honoring industry figures who passed away over the last year. While the tribute recognized film legends such as David Lynch, James Earl Jones, Donald Sutherland, Maggie Smith, Roger Corman, Shelley Duvall, and Bob Newhart, many viewers quickly pointed out names missing from the televised montage.

Morgan Freeman introduced a special remembrance for two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman, who was found dead alongside his wife, Betsy Arakawa, last Wednesday. Quincy Jones also received his own tribute later in the show. The rest of the segment, set to Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor, displayed a montage of those the Academy selected for recognition.

Social media reaction grew as fans noted the absence of several well-known actors and filmmakers. Tony Todd, known for his lead role in Candyman, was not featured. Todd, who died in November at 69, was a familiar face in horror,...

No Oscars ceremony is ever perfect. There are always segments, speeches, jokes, and award winners that go down about as pleasantly as a fart in an elevator, and that will probably always be the case as ceremonies of this ilk are subjective by nature. While the 2025 Academy Awards ceremony featured plenty of great moments, like Kieran Culkin's all-time great speech after winning the Best Supporting Actor award for "A Real Pain." and Paul Tazewell becoming the first Black man to take home the Best Costume designer prize for "Wicked," it also boasted some questionable ones. The In Memoriam video package was especially polarizing — and not just for its use of Mozart's doom-laden "Requiem: Lacrimosa" as the accompanying musical number.

As is always the case with the annual tribute to the stars we've lost, the 2025 In Memoriam video package left out some notable figures. One of the most egregious omissions was horror legend Tony Todd,...

The 2025 Oscars got reflective with the traditional In Memoriam segment celebrating the entertainment figures who died over the past year as the names scrolled onscreen. Notable names in filmmaking including David Lynch, Maggie Smith, James Earl Jones and Donald Sutherland were recognized during the emotional segment.

“Harriet the Spy” star Michelle Trachtenberg, who died the Wednesday before the Oscars, was not included in the In Memoriam segment. This year, actors including Tony Todd, Chance Perdomo, Alain Delon, “Annie Hall” star Tony Roberts, Linda Lavin, James Darren, Mitzi Gaynor, Martin Mull and “Romeo and Juliet” star Olivia Hussey were also omitted, along with documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock.

Gene Hackman, who was found dead with his wife on Wednesday, was remembered with a tribute from Morgan Freeman, who worked with the two-time Oscar winner on “Unforgiven” and “Under Suspicion.”

Quincy Jones also got his own separate Oscars tribute later in the show.

Riddle us this: Is an Oscar telecast a real Oscar telecast if there isn’t Sunday night quarterbacking over who was omitted from the annual In Memoriam segment?

The traditional five-minute interlude — which arrived during the latter half of Sunday’s ABC telecast — honored dozens of film giants that we lost in the last 12 months, including Dabney Coleman, Shelley Duvall, Louis Gossett Jr., James Earl Jones, Joan Plowright, Gena Rowlands and Maggie Smith.

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We lost some entertainment giants in 2024.

Among the big-screen legends who died during the past 12 months were Donald Sutherland, James Earl Jones, Maggie Smith, Carl Weathers, Shelley Duvall, Dabney Coleman, Teri Garr, Louis Gossett Jr., Anouk Aimée, Marisa Paredes and Gena Rowlands.

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The TV world mourns the likes of Bob Newhart, John Amos, Phil Donahue, Linda Lavin, David Soul, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Martin Mull, Shannen Doherty, Michael Cole, Richard Lewis, Richard Simmons, James B. Sikking, Peter Marshall and Joe Flaherty.

Filmmakers and producers who left us include Norman Jewison, Roger Corman, Al Ruddy, Jon Landau, Lynda Obst, Jim Abrahams, Charles Shyer, Irv Wilson and Paolo Taviani.

The industry also paid tribute to such top executives as Charles Dolan, Paula Weinstein, Jamie Kellner, Richard Parsons, Gerald Levin and Paul Fox.

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Jason Bateman remembers the “Arrested Development” film that almost came to be. Bateman said during a recent appearance on the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast, which you can see in the below video, that Matt Damon was interested in the project at one point. The only downside? Now, nobody “gives a shit” about bringing the film to the screen.

“Arrested Development” series ran from 2003 to 2006 on Fox and was later revived by Netflix for two additional seasons between 2013 and 2019. In the series, Bateman played Michael Bluth, who is tasked with running his eccentric family’s real estate empire after his father (Jeffrey Tambor) is arrested. Michael Cera played Bateman’s onscreen son, with Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett, and Tony Hale as his siblings. Late actress Jessica Walter iconically played the boozy family matriarch Lucille. David Cross, Alia Shawkat, Henry Winkler, and Liza Minnelli co-starred.

Series creator Mitchell Hurwitz...

The Oscars will continue their long-running tradition of honoring celebrated filmmakers with their "In Memoriam" segment on Sunday. ABC will broadcast the event hosted by Conan O'Brien with Hulu streaming the ceremony live at 7 p.m. Et; 4 p.m. Pt.

Among the Oscar winners and nominees who will have their lives celebrated are Teri Garr, Louis Gossett Jr., James Earl Jones, Jon Landau, David Lynch, Joan Plowright, Gena Rowlands, Albert S. Ruddy, David Seidler, Richard M. Sherman, Maggie Smith, Robert Towne, and honorary recipients Roger Corman, Quincy Jones, and Donald Sutherland.

There are more than 100 movie professionals who died since the last Academy Awards ceremony. Each person who was an Academy member is designated below with **. Keep in mind that producers usually choose between 40 and 50 for the segment and that a performer has not yet been confirmed.

Edited to add two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman.

Jim Abrahams — Director/Writer

Anouk Aimée...

One of the best movies based on a board game, Clue is a cult classic and one of the silliest whodunits around. Named after the characters in the famous game from the 40s, the cast includes Yvette (Colleen Camp), Mr. Boddy (Lee Ving), Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren), Mr. Green (Michael McKean), Professor Plum (Christopher Lloyd), Wadsworth (Tim Curry), Mrs. Peacock (Eileen Brennan), Colonel Mustard (Martin Mull), and Mrs. White (Madeline Kahn). These people were asked to come to Mr. Boddy's large mansion, and each of them quickly becomes a suspect of murder. As the film progresses, more and more people around the mansion are found dead while more and more clever puns are tossed out. What makes this mystery particularly unique is that it follows the spirit of the game by allowing for more than one kind of ending. There aren't as many endings as there are characters, but...

One of the most emotional segments of the annual SAG Awards ceremony is the “In Memoriam.” Netflix will live stream the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday with host Kristen Bell.

Among the Oscar winners and nominees who will have their lives celebrated are Teri Garr, Louis Gossett, Jr., James Earl Jones, David Lynch, Joan Plowright, Gena Rowlands, Maggie Smith, and honorary recipient Donald Sutherland. Some of the past Primetime Emmy winners and nominees include John Amos, Dabney Coleman, Shelley Duvall, Linda Lavin, Martin Mull, Bob Newhart, and Alan Rachins,

Seesag Life Achievement award: Full gallery of recipients since 1995

There are more than 100 actors and actresses who died since the last SAG Awards ceremony:

Marla Adams

Anouk Aimée

Jean Allison

John Amos

Erich Anderson

John Aprea

Niels Arestrup

Erica Ash

John Ashton

Susan Backlinie

Barbara Baldavin

Bobby Banas

Terrence Beasor

Joan Benedict

Meg Bennett

Robyn Bernard

Mark Blankfield

Tom Bower...

Movie fans have received some sad news, as Full Metal Jacket star Kevyn Major Howard, who played the Vietnam War correspondent Rafterman in Stanley Kubrick's war film, has passed away at the age of 69. The actor, born in 1956 in Quebec, Canada, began his Hollywood career in the 1970s when he had just moved to Los Angeles. Howard's acting career was not nearly as long-lasting as that of some of his co-stars, although he did appear in several notable films during the 1980s and 1990s.

The actor passed away in a Las Vegas hospital on Friday, February 14, 2025, surrounded by his loved ones, with no cause of death currently revealed. However, Howard's family reported to TMZ that the actor had been hospitalized for weeks due to respiratory issues. Matthew Modine, a friend and Full Metal Jacket co-star, shared a poignant tribute on X, reminiscing how Kevyn Major Howard's performance in Full Metal Jacket...

The "Roseanne" episode "Sherwood Schwartz: A Loving Tribute" was, as the title implies, a tribute to one of the most successful sitcom creators to play the game. Schwartz, of course, is the mastermind behind both "Gilligan's Island" and "The Brady Bunch," and he worked as a writer on shows like "My Favorite Martian," "The Red Skelton Show," and "I Married Joan." Schwartz is a giant of the televised medium, and many TV shows owe him a debt; he provided several generations of goofy comedians with inspiration.

"Gilligan's Island" was particularly well-known among the public, partly because of its indelibly dumb humor, and partly because of endless reruns that continued through the 1980s. Every American knew the premise of "Gilligan's Island" and every sitcom writer wanted to emulate its success. It stood to reason that the makers of "Roseanne" — a blue-collar sitcom — would want to pay it, and Sherwood Schwartz, homage.

Previous | Image 1 of 17 | NextCindy Morgan of ‘Caddyshack,’ 1954-December 30, 2023 (3/23/12)

Chicago – As always, we lost a number of notable people in 2024. In his persistence and glory, photographer Joe Arce has spent his career not only taking Exclusive Portraits of every notable he runs across, but he also has collected an archive that reminds us again of the well-known personalities who passed away, 2024 In Memoriam.

Date of when photographed is in parenthesis. Click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through the slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All photos © Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com.

2024MEMORIAM1: Cindy Morgan of ‘Caddyshack,’ 1954-December 30, 2023 (3/23/12) 2024MEMORIAM2: Comedian Richard Lewis, 1936-February 27, 2024 (5/12/15) 2024MEMORIAM3: TV Actor Ron Harper, 1933-March 21, 2024, (9/10/16) 2024MEMORIAM4: Actor Louis Gossett Jr., 1947-March 29, 2023 (8/12/11) 2024MEMORIAM5: Comic Actor Martin Mull, 1943-June 27, 2024 (4/8/98) 2024MEMORIAM6: Comedian Bob Newhart, 1929-July 18, 2024 (6/15/13) 2024MEMORIAM7: TV Pundit Lou Dobbs, 1945-July 18, 2024 (6/14/11) 2024MEMORIAM8: TV Talk Show Host Phil Donahue,...

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Seth MacFarlane is undeniably a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood, particularly in the TV space. As the creator of long-running shows such as "Family Guy" and "American Dad," his creations are now fixtures of the pop culture landscape. But even heavy-hitters miss every once in a while. For MacFarlane, his biggest miss to date came in 2013 when Fox picked up his live-action multi-camera sitcom "Dads" to air. Riding high at arguably the biggest moment in his career, the network seemed to think it couldn't lose. What it wound up with was an unrivaled critical misfire.

How bad was the response to "Dads," exactly? Amazingly enough, it ranks as the worst-reviewed sitcom on Metacritic with a dreadful 15 "Metascore." It should be noted that the site only counts titles with seven or more reviews. Setting aside any technicalities, "Dads" is...

Although The Conners season 7 has very little screen time to wrap up the Roseanne franchise’s storylines, that doesn’t mean that the sitcom can avoid a couple of major canon plots. The Conners’ cast of characters is large, meaning most episodes of the family sitcom don’t include every supporting star. If an episode of The Conners centers on an argument between Dan and Jackie and a B-story involving Mark struggling with his mother Darlene and his stepfather Ben, this means it is tricky for the show to give Becky, Harris, Neville, Beverly-Rose, and Louise screen time as well.

This will be a much bigger problem for The Conners season 7. The final outing of the Roseanne franchise, The Conners season 7 will be a “Six-episode farewell event” according to TVLine. This means the show will have only three hours of screen time to wrap up the character arcs of The Conners’ main cast,...

If The Conners season 7 wants to provide a satisfying ending to the Roseanne franchise’s overarching story, there are at least ten plots that the sitcom must wrap up. The Conners season 7 has a tricky road ahead. According to a TVLine report from late 2024, the final season of the Roseanne spinoff will be a “Six-episode farewell event” for the series. The Conners’ large cast of characters means that even the show’s normal seasons, which include over twenty episodes, often struggle to give every family member a moment in the spotlight. This makes season 7’s job even tougher.

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Drew Barrymore is ready to go all-out when she appears on the Hollywood Squares reboot.

She’s shown her comedic skills in television and movies, including romantic comedies like Never Been Kissed, 50 First Dates, and Fever Pitch.

Drew has also hosted The Drew Barrymore Show since 2020 and seems prepared for whatever guests bring to the stage.

Based on her recent teases ahead of the new Hollywood Squares premiere, she hinted she could provide some entertaining antics.

Many consider it an all-time favorite game show like The Price Is Right, Let’s Make a Deal, and Wheel of Fortune.

On Hollywood Squares, Drew will appear as the center square on the giant grid featuring nine celebrity squares.

Contestants attempt to win the giant game of tic-tac-toe and prize money by selecting celebrity squares to help them place Xs and Os, so Drew is likely to be a popular pick.

Drew wants...

Christmas—the most magical time of the year—has the ability to stir up emotions that are as sweet as the scent of fresh pine trees and as warm as a cup of hot cocoa. We gather with family, exchange stories, and indulge in the joy of traditions. Oh, and let’s not forget the gifts—because what’s Christmas without a little bit of greed wrapped in glitter?

But if there’s one thing that makes this season even more special, it’s the holiday flicks that have become as essential as the Christmas cakes.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jake Lloyd in Jingle All the Way (1996) | Credit: 20th Century Fox

However, not all Christmas films hit the mark. Some, despite having big names and grand ideas, miss the sleigh ride altogether. And thus, making us wonder how it made it past the editing room. Take, for instance, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s...

Is it really Christmas until you've heard those words uttered: "Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!"? The Christmas classic Home Alone and its sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, are now #2 and #4, respectively, on Disney+'s Top 10 list. In addition to all six Home Alone films, fans will find no shortage of Christmas selections on Disney+, such as The Polar Express, Mickey and the Very Many Christmases, The Santa Clause, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Fred Claus, Christmas with the Kranks, and Jingle All the Way.

In 2023, during the unveiling of Macaulay Culkin's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Catherine O'Hara said that the love audiences have for Home Alone is a direct result of Culkin's work. "Home Alone was, is, and always will be a beloved global sensation," she said during the ceremony (via Newsweek). "The reason families all over the world can't let a year go...

Although Roseanne’s spinoff The Conners never mentioned Martin Mull’s Leon Carp, the original show’s season 8 Christmas episode featured a historical piece of gay representation centered on the supporting character. One of the harsh realities of rewatching Roseanne is the realization that some of the show’s jokes have aged terribly. However, for every gag that feels tasteless or problematic in 2024, there are moments that stand out as strikingly progressive. Roseanne’s story of a working-class middle-American family tackled poverty, gay rights, racial discrimination, parental abuse, and a whole host of other hot-button issues with surprising tact and dexterity.

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Michael Keaton's most iconic roles include Bruce Wayne, Betelgeuse, and Jack Frost. He also played Jack Butler in 1983's Mr. Mom, a domestic comedy that leaned heavily on the role reversal movie trope.

Michael Keaton's first comedy Mr. Mom is now streaming on Pluto TV. It's the best movie to watch before Goodrich, where the actor plays a character in a similar predicament. Keaton's first seven movies were comedies, from 1982's Night Shift to 1988's Beetlejuice. That year was also a career milestone for Keaton, who broke out of the genre to star in a drama (Clean and Sober) about substance abuse. He has since proved his range in films like Jackie Brown, Birdman, and The Founder, but fans still credit his success to his earliest works, especially Mr. Mom and Night Shift.

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Teri Garr, the Oscar-nominated star of “Tootsie,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” was known for playing lovably daffy characters like Inga in “Young Frankenstein,” but also shined in more dramatic parts.

Sadly, her career was shortened by multiple sclerosis. She died of the degenerative disease on Tuesday at age 79.

We toast the talented comedian and dancer with this list of her best, most loved movie and TV roles.

Teri Garr and Dustin Hoffman in “Tootsie,” 1982. (Columbia Pictures/Getty Images) Sandy Lester in “Tootsie”

Garr received her only Oscar nomination for her role as Dustin Hoffman’s supportive friend Sandy in comedy classic “Tootsie.” After Hoffman’s character has created his successful Dorothy persona, he’s caught trying on one of Sandy’s dresses, and turns the awkward situation into a seduction. Naturally, he lies that he’s going to call her when he’s really only interested in Jessica Lange’s character.

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture” is a maxim the late comedian Martin Mull made about the futility of trying to translate the purity of music into words. Storytelling about architecture, well, there should be a truism about that too and the seeming impossibility of making a dramatic epic movie about an architect and his art. But it’s apparently been done and done amazingly in “The Brutalist,” the latest drama from actor-turned-filmmaker Brady Corbet.

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Barbarian director Zach Cregger is set to team up with Sony for a remake of the 1985 classic mystery comedy Clue.

Here’s an interesting story that has emerged this morning regarding Zach Cregger, the director who bought us 2022’s Barbarian, a wild horror that became one of that year’s most talked-about films. The success of Barbarian was enough to earn Cregger a handsome deal with New Line Cinema for whom he will be directing his follow-up film, Weapons.

According to reporting at the time, Cregger’s budget for Weapons is 'double the size of Barbarian's, while he has reportedly scored a string of other concessions such as “a guaranteed greenlight, a guaranteed theatrical release, a controlling interest in a backend pot and Cregger receiving final cut pending a threshold being met during test screenings.’

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The “In Memoriam” segment of the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday paid tribute to a host of small-screen stars who have died in the past year, but users on social media were quick to point out the notable names that did not make the montage.

The poignant segment saw rapper Jelly Roll say a few words before performing his 2024 song “I Am Not Okay” as a montage of late stars was shown inside the Peacock Theater and on television. Among those included in the segment were Donald Sutherland, James Earl Jones, Martin Mull, Richard Lewis, Richard Simmons, Shannen Doherty, Gena Rowlands, Chance Perdomo and Carl Weathers.

There was general confusion online in some quarters due to the omission of Friends star Matthew Perry, who died Oct. 28, 2023 at 54. Perry’s absence was explained by the Television Academy paying a special tribute to the actor at the 74th edition of the Emmys held in January,...

The In Memoriam segment on Sunday night’s Emmy telecast paid respects to Shannen Doherty, Chance Perdomo, Martin Mull, Richard Lewis and many more TV luminaries lost in the past eight months.

Shelley Duvall and Sctv cast member Joe Flaherty, however, were two notable omissions from the revamped annual fixture of the telecast.

Duvall, though perhaps best known for her film work with major directors including Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick, had a long and substantial TV career and was a two-time Emmy nominee. She created and produced a number of enduring shows, including Faerie Tale Theatre and Shelley Duvall’s Bedtime Stories. Duvall died in July at 75.

Flaherty died in April at 82. His absence from the Emmy segment was awkward given that one of his Sctv costars, Eugene Levy, co-hosted the telecast and another, Martin Short, was a nominee and presenter.

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Bob Newhart, James Earl Jones, Peter Marshall, Shannen Doherty, and more luminaries were honored during the heartfelt In Memoriam segment led by Jelly Roll at Sunday’s Emmy Awards. Jimmy Kimmel then hit the stage to crack a few jokes in honor of Newhart’s deadpan humor.

The country star started his heartstring-tugging performance with “I Am Not Okay,” his single about his struggles with mental health, by sharing a sweet message. “I believe that music is therapeutic. I believe that music can heal. I also believe that storytelling is just as cathartic,...

Producers for the 76th annual Emmy Awards have been editing the special “In Memoriam” segment to be featured on Sunday’s ABC ceremony. Since the most recent ceremony was delayed until mid-January, there are only eight months of TV legends who have died instead of the typical 12 months.

We have assembled a list of people below who might be selected. Members of the academy’s TV Hall of Fame are host and producer Phil Donahue, anchor and journalist Robert MacNeil, lighting designer Bill Klages and actor and comedian Bob Newhart. Some of the previous Emmy winners and nominees include previous academy president Leo Chaloukian, actor Bill Cobbs, actor Dabney Coleman, actress Shelley Duvall, actor and writer Joe Flaherty, director Jerry Foley, actor Louis Gossett Jr., actor Bill Hayes, actor James Earl Jones, host Peter Marshall, actor and comedian Martin Mull, actress Gena Rowlands, actor James B. Sikking, actor Donald Sutherland and actor Carl Weathers.

The Union is a spy action comedy-thriller film directed by Julian Farino from a screenplay co-written by Joe Barton and David Guggenheim. The Netflix film follows the story of Mike McKenna, a simple construction who gets roped into the world of espionage by his ex-girlfriend from high school. The Union stars Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry in the lead roles with Mike Colter, Jessica De Gouw, Alice Lee, J.K. Simmons, and Lorraine Bracco starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the action, comedy, the world of spies, and the romance between the leading duo in The Union, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Among the many forgotten TV projects in legendary TV producer Norman Lear's body of work, Fernwood 2 Night stands out as one of the least appreciated. Starring Martin Mull and Fred Willard, the spoof chat show was a rare sardonic masterpiece in a television atmosphere in the seventies that was otherwise a complete wasteland. Though today the premise feels at home in any network writers' room, it was too much of a stretch for audiences in 1978. Ratings might not have suggested it hit a nerve, but forty-five years of imitators speaks volumes of its lasting legacy, with David Letterman citing it as one of his main inspirations.

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The late Martin Mull's character Leon Carp in Roseanne was a significant LGBTQ+ representation in TV history. The Conners season 7 must acknowledge Leon's legacy and contribution to the show's lineup for years. Mark's role in The Conners could be impacted by learning about Leon, connecting the two characters via their shared experiences.

The late, great Martin Mull's Roseanne character Leon Carp was a pivotal part of TV history, and I hope The Conners season 7 acknowledges this. Looking back on Roseannes original run, Im often struck by how much the sitcoms story of a working-class family struggling to get by still resonates today. The reason that The Conners cast of characters is mostly composed of Roseanne alumni is that few of the shows heroes managed to leave Lanford despite their grand ambitions, and realistic everyday struggles were the reason they stuck around.

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Actor Doug Sheehan, best known to TV fans for his work on soap operas General Hospital and Knots Landing, has died. He was 75.

News of Sheehan’s death was made public by the Wyoming-based Kane Funeral Home, where memorial services are being arranged. Per the announcement, Sheehan passed away “peacefully at his home on Saturday morning, June 29, 2024, with his loving wife at his side.” A cause of death was not disclosed.

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