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Sitcoms have been a mainstay in the TV space for decades, ever since the ‘50s when families gathered around the TV to watch shows like I Love Lucy and Leave it to Beaver. Sitcoms have changed over the decades, but one thing remains the same: they’re a great escape from the daily grind and a fun way to enjoy alone or family time before the end of the day.

Lucille Ball wouldn’t be the first actor, comic or otherwise, to cringe while watching herself on screen. But Ball wasn’t universally opposed to watching her own work — it was a specific part of her sitcom portfolio that made her turn up her nose.

“I don’t like some of the shows that I look at,” Ball told the Roanoke Times, as reported by MeTV. “Some of the old I Love Lucy’s are silly.”

I Love Lucy? The original classic sitcom? “I study them and enjoy them and wish I’d done it differently a lot of times — most of the time — but very few I really laugh at,” she explained.

The fact that early episodes didn’t live up to Ball’s funny standards shouldn’t be a surprise, given how quickly the show came together. According to her memoir, Love, Lucy, Ball was four months pregnant...

For most of American television history, viewers could expect long-running shows to release new episodes incredibly frequently. I Love Lucy, for instance, never had even six months off the air between seasons. The same can be said for other top shows throughout the decades, which aired a new season air every year on a fairly strict September-through-May schedule.

This regularity is precisely why American fans joked about how long they had to wait for new seasons of Sherlock when it was airing, as the two-year gaps seemed excruciatingly long. However, that structure, which is more normal across the pond, is now becoming the standard in the States as well. It doesn't seem to matter how many episodes are in the series or what genre it is; new seasons of TV are taking a long time to make.

Here, we break down some of the worst offenders, including series that have...

Since the success of old-school sitcoms like I Love Lucy and All In the Family, comedy has proven one of TV's most successful genres, with some shows running for over a decade. As impressive as the genre's longevity is, some audiences prefer shorter series that they can enjoy across a single day. A shorter show gives the audience something easy to digest, and some series surpass the quality of long sitcoms in a mere six episodes.

Comedy shows come in a range of formats, tones and styles, from dark comedy to witty satire and everything in between. While the classic weekly sitcom formula is still king, sometimes more can be said with less, and these shorter shows allow more focus on character building. Long shows always risk falling into a repetitive cycle of unoriginal stories, while compressing more into less forces the best out of writers.

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Poppy is finally feeling the repercussions of a decision she made long ago on The Bold and the Beautiful. By hiding the fact that her nephew Finn is the father of her daughter, Luna, she’s created a chaotic situation that’s only going to get worse. However, in the real world, Romy Park is enjoying the calmness of one of her passions. She not only shared some words of wisdom with her fans but also showed off some impressive skills.

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Park’s followers were loving her after she wrote on Instagram, “‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’ Prospero in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.” She added, “Here is where I can live in endless dreams, however fleeting. A place to drown out the outside world and be a child again. A safe haven to heal the mind,...

Don Knotts made the Emmy Award for Supporting Funny Guy his personal trophy during the 1960s, going five-for-five to cement The Andy Griffith Show’s Barney Fife as one of the greatest sitcom characters of all time. But it’s a distinction Knotts might not have appreciated — he and Andy Griffith hated sitcoms.

“Andy and I have a pet hate — situation comedy,” Knotts told The Oregonian, as reported by MeTV. “So we try to imitate real people and forget the plot as much as possible.”

How can two of the greatest sitcom stars hate situation comedy? Knotts explained — sort of. “What we try to do is make use of those conversational habits people have,” he said. “Like Barney telling a joke, hearing laughter and then telling the joke over again. You’ve seen people do that. It’s terrible, but some can’t help it after hearing the laughter — it...

The 1970s was a decade of legendary sitcoms, dominated by true powerhouse comedies like All in the Family, M*A*S*H, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. But in the shadows of these television titans, there are some truly hilarious sitcoms that have sadly faded from the cultural consciousness.

The decade saw television writers push the boundaries of the sitcom format. For many shows, this meant telling stories that explicitly addressed racism, sexism, and other topics that were considered sensitive in America's turbulent political landscape. Still, other writers explored the nature of the sitcom itself as prime time began to see series centered on increasingly bizarre circumstances that embraces offbeat humor.

Lucille Ball Starred in a Sitcom With Her Children Here's Lucy

Trailblazing comedienne Lucille Ball stars as Lucy Carter, a widow raising two teenagers on her own in Here's Lucy. Ball's real-life son and daughter, Desi Arnaz Jr. and Lucie Arnaz,...

From ‘I Love Lucy’ to ‘Cheers,’ this streamer is a goldmine for classic TV fans.

I love comedy—and sitcoms in particular. There’s something about the canned laughter that somehow makes everything funnier. Or maybe it’s the predictable “set-up, set-up, joke” rhythms of the writing. Or maybe, in a world that seems more complicated every day, it’s just nice to wrap up all your problems in 22 minutes. Whether you grew up watching them on a boxy TV or you’re discovering them for the first time, classic sitcoms are the ultimate comfort watch. And if you’re looking for the best streamer to watch them all, in my opinion, there’s one clear winner: Pluto TV. Let’s get into why it’s the best place to stream classic sitcoms from the golden age of TV comedy.

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In an era when there is more media than ever before, new arbiters have sprung up to guide our increasingly disoriented collective taste. Though it throws up confounding developments such as claiming that Sean Connery's only "perfect" movie is "Darby O'Gill and the Little People," Rotten Tomatoes has emerged as one such guide through the dim and bloated media landscape wrought by the rise of the internet and streaming platforms. Likewise, IMDb, with its devoted user base eager to register their takes on movies and TV shows, has provided another way to decipher modern media.

The site that put "The Shawshank Redemption" at the top of its best movies of all time, IMDb is arguably not the best source of guidance, but at least it brings a certain sense of order to things. We now have the site's 250 best TV shows of all time, for example, which provides a...

The late David Lynch was best known as a movie director, with the bulk of his projects being theatrical releases such as Blue Velvet and The Elephant Man. His most influential project, however, didn't come from the movies, but on television, and with a show that initially lasted just two seasons. Twin Peaks arrived without warning in the spring of 1990, with a brilliant hook and a point of view that could only have come from Lynch. The medium hasn't quite been the same since.

It's difficult to overstate how large that change was, or how much of the show's influence can still be seen in the medium today. Before Twin Peaks, TV was almost entirely the purveyance of the networks, who relied on rigid formulas that had been in place for decades. Lynch had no interest in playing by the rules, and alongside co-creator Mark Frost, he launched a broadside...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the January 31 episode of Jeopardy!] Clues about famous TV shows have Jeopardy! fans questioning the writers room after the Friday, January 31 installment of the 2025 Tournament of Champions. The clues were about Bosch and I Love Lucy, with the former prompting questions about why it’s frequently mentioned and the latter being posed as too easy a clue for a tournament like this. An Alex Trebek-themed TV clue also lost a player money because she failed to make one of the words plural. The Lucille Ball clue came up in the second round, and the Bosch clue was part of the third Daily Double. The second-round category was “Playing Non-Sports’Ball,'” meaning that the answers to each clue would involve the word ball. The clue, answered correctly by player Allison Gross, was, “She starred as the title character on TV’s No. 1-rated show from October 1952 to April 1955.” This 1,200-point clue being played...

When Sam Malone showed up to visit on the original Frasier, fans got a thrill seeing old-favorite characters reunite for a one-off episode. But several sitcoms have done those types of cameos one better, casting familiar costars as entirely new characters to add a dose of barely earned nostalgia. Sometimes the ploy works and sometimes it doesn’t, as you’ll see in these five examples of classic sitcom costars who reunited on new shows.

1 Kevin James and Leah Remini

When James tried to reboot his sitcom career with Kevin Can Wait, he soon discovered he didn’t have much chemistry with his new TV wife Erinn Hayes. With little thought to public reaction, James and his producers decided “Why not have Hayes’ character die — off camera — before we start a Season Two?” That’s just what they did, enlisting James’ former TV wife, King of Queens’ Remini, to rekindle some comedy sparks.

Life’s unpredictable, messy, and, let’s face it, downright exhausting at times.

But when the world feels like too much, there’s one place we all turn for a little peace: the TV screen.

Comfort TV is more than just entertainment — it’s a warm blanket for the soul, a familiar friend to lean on, or a mini escape when reality gets overwhelming.

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So, what’s your happy place in the world of TV?

Check out these genres, dive into why they might be your perfect retreat, and vote to let us know where you find your comfort.

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Drama! Intrigue! Justice served! NCIS, Law & Order, and Criminal Minds deliver everything from nail-biting suspense to satisfying conclusions.

These shows are like a reliable detective — they show up, solve the problem, and leave you feeling that justice still exists somewhere.

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Of all the sitcoms ever created, there are a few that are universally thought of as the best. Regardless of age or taste in comedy, audiences can generally acknowledge that sitcoms such as I Love Lucy or The Simpsons are considered top-tier, classic comedies. And as much as viewers celebrate the best, most can also agree on what are considered the worst sitcoms of all time.

For many people, using artificial intelligence in any form is like breaking one of the seven deadly sins. That group might not be happy when they learn that director David Fincher used AI to work on the 4K restoration of his classic “Se7en.”

In an interview with EW, Fincher ahead of the film’s 30th anniversary spoke at length about using AI to help with the restoration process, and why any discussion about generative artificial intelligence shouldn’t be so black and white as just being for it or against it.

Fincher noted that he’s done a digital version of “Se7en” twice before, once for the film’s DVD after its initial release in 1995, and again to bring it into high definition. But he said he underestimated just how much work went into again bringing it up to quality for a 4K version and that his team didn’t...

Harry Morgan (Christian Slater) is slowly losing control over Dexter (Patrick Gibson), and Dexter: Original Sin episode 5 only made that problem worse. The cast of Dexter: Original Sin is fairly large, and each of its characters is so well-developed that they all have interesting storylines to follow every week. While that does make for great television, it also means it can be hard to keep up with everything happening at the same time. Some viewers may need a recap of all the bloodshed and family drama Dexter and the Morgans went through.

Original Sin episode 5 is, as the title suggests, all about mistakes. Dexter had to face the consequences of his failed attempt to kill Mad-Dog (Joe Pantoliano). That meant he spent a large chunk of the episode grounded by Harry Morgan, but it also gave him a chance to connect with Deb (Molly Brown) on a deeper level.

Quick Links The Evolution of Television Brought a Steady Increase in Quality Programming No One Believed a Prestige TV Drama Could Work on Broadcast Lost Accidentally Proved Peak TV-Style Shows Could Work on Broadcast The Business of Making Television Changed Because of Lost's Success

Looking at the history of modern television, the success of Lost on ABC, a broadcast network, was an important milestone in reaching the era of "Peak TV." Some point to The Sopranos as the moment when televised drama began to match the prestige of cinema. However, it wasn't just one series that improved the overall quality of programming on the small screen, but a steady progression of shows culminating with Lost. Shows like The Sopranos and Lost debuted before on-demand and digital video recorders were in widespread use. What happened each week to Tony, his family or the gang on the island captured the zeitgeist beyond their debut dates.

Prior to about 1987, American sitcoms were — generally speaking — very different. No matter the premise or intended demographic, most sitcoms focused on a reliable comedic structure of set-ups and payoffs. From "I Love Lucy" all the way to "Diff'rent Strokes," sitcom writers were careful to explore a recognizable domestic/workplace/common setting environment through sharply recognized, very funny characters. The same writers were typically also careful to lay out gags and jokes very clearly. Every setup usually led to some kind of punchline or payoff.

In the late 1980s, however, sitcoms underwent a reckoning. It seems that audiences and many longtime writers became tired of the decades of well-worm tropes and structures, and they began to deconstruct. 1987 saw the debut of "Married... With Children," a sitcom that followed an aggressively dysfunctional family who all kind of hated each other. Their causticness was the joke. Then, in 1989, "The Simpsons" debuted, handily satirizing...

“Lucy, you’ve got some ‘splainin to do.”

It’s hard to miss, but sadly, someone did. Late last month, a pair of screenshots of a recently released Blu-ray box set of the entire “I Love Lucy” series went viral because of what looked like a horrifying case of remastering gone wrong. It appeared that when upscaling the original show’s image quality to HD, the process inadvertently created an eye-popping moment in which background characters’ faces suddenly became bizarrely enhanced.

It’s a short moment on a multi-year restoration project that otherwise looks pristine, but the images stand out nonetheless and had people on Reddit and other forums crying foul.

The images show a woman seen in the background just over Ricky Ricardo’s shoulder who now looks decidedly more masculine, with bulging, dead eyes, and a toothy smile floating over a necklace. A man to the left of...

The best Nicole Kidman movies and TV shows feature decades' worth of great releases that showcase the Australian actress' talents. After getting her start in smaller Australian films in the '80s, Kidman picked up her first major crossover role in the 1989 psychological thriller Dead Calm and this won her the attention of Hollywood, where her first big break came in the Tom Cruise action movie Days of Thunder in 1990. That led her on the path to becoming one of Hollywood’s top leading ladies.

Throughout her decades-long career, Nicole Kidman has won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Primetime Emmy Award, and several Golden Globes Awards. She was also the first Australian actor to ever earn the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2024. She has taken on roles in just about every genre imaginable, from comedies and biopics to action movies, superhero fare, and even musicals. Kidman has worked with famed directors Stanley Kubrick,...

Archie and Hawkeye and Mary and Bob and Carol are being reunited for a hot Saturday-night date on the Catchy Comedy broadcast television network.

TVLine has learned exclusively that starting Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, Catchy Comedy (fka Decades) will recreate what is widely regarded as one of the greatest TV line-ups ever — Saturday night circa 1973-74 — by leading off with All in the Family at 8/7c, followed by M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show.

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Sitcoms have changed drastically since the black-and-white days of I Love Lucy, with more realistic depictions of life (no more married couples in twin beds) and content that would make the 1950s network censors quit in outrage. But the more things change, the more they stay the same, and although sitcoms look and feel different now, they still share the same building blocks, or tropes, from the golden years of television to entertain audiences.

Plenty of comedy stars have popped in for a cameo when their old sitcom costars get a new gig — think Cheers’ Ted Danson visiting the original Frasier or most of the Community cast stopping by Ken Jeong’s Dr. Ken. But some sitcom stars have such amazing chemistry that they need to keep a good thing going.

Here are five pairs of funny people who costarred together in multiple sitcoms…

1 Danny McBride and Walton Goggins

McBride and Goggins headlined Vice Principals as competing a-holes vying to rule the school via promotion to the top job. When McBride went on to create The Righteous Gemstones for HBO, he again enlisted Goggins as a failed child star who once headlined a gospel song-and-dance team. Goggins told Conan O’Brien that McBride “is the funniest person I have ever met in my life.” The two even teamed to desecrate the reputations of Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar.

Classic sitcoms from the 1950s obviously look a lot different than modern TV comedies. For starters, they were mostly in black and white. Also, they seemingly took place in an alternate reality where toilets and queen-sized beds don’t exist.

But a lot of old-timey TV shows now look terrific thanks to high definition home video transfers. On Blu-ray, Leave It to Beaver looks so crisp and clear, it almost feels as if you could reach out and touch the characters (and then ask them why in god’s name they nicknamed a kid “Beaver”).

Comedy fans were understandably excited when Paramount Home Entertainment announced that the entirety of I Love Lucy would be released on Blu-ray, in a box set containing a whopping 33 discs. Yes, finally, we’ll be able to see every single pore and bead of sweat on Lucy’s face as she shoves assembly-line chocolates into her mouth.

The 1980s was truly an era of world-class sitcoms, but many of the decade's brightest series have faded from our cultural memory. While iconic shows like The Golden Girls and Cheers undoubtedly made television history, they're part of a larger wave of comedies that helped propel the sitcom format into new territory.

For decades, sitcoms like I Love Lucy, Good Times, and The Brady Bunch centered on the concept of family. There were some exceptions, but these shows, like Dream of Jeannie or Gilligan's Island, were often built around a gimmick. The 80s changed that, opening windows to a plethora of different environments. The sitcoms of the era explored the relationships between coworkers, neighbors, and friends. On top of this, they eschewed flashy premises, putting faith in sharp writing and well-rounded characters.

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Of the numerous television series that have populated our modern viewing experience, a majority pertain to crime/legal drama and police procedurals like Suits, NCIS, and Blue Bloods. Given the rise of the genre, it is not surprising that audiences are more than entertained by the relentless barrage of do-gooders on TV and their representation of episodic justice served up on a silver platter.

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Besides the feel-good purpose of these television shows, projects like Law & Order: Svu and Chicago P.D. have no basis or authority in perpetuating a false portrayal of society being constantly served and protected by the finest and bravest. The actual stats are far less damning than what people have now come to believe, courtesy of the increased rate of crime procedurals on TV.

NCIS and Blue Bloods Share a Terrible Connection NCIS [Credit: CBS]

Television has come far since the days of I Love Lucy and family sitcoms.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is full of cameos; heck, the whole thing is practically built on them. For that matter, it's gotten to the point where we both expect the McU's movies to feature surprising cameos (and we complain when they don't) yet also deeply dislike the endless parade of cameos in new Marvel projects.

And yet, these types of cameos are essentially as old as TV itself, particularly when it comes to the sitcom (a staple of American television and the foundation upon which so much of the medium is built). These long-lasting shows, most of which only focus on a few main characters, offer endless opportunities for a string of characters to make one-off appearances. Really, the sitcom is built for cameos; it's a way for big celebrities to promote themselves, earn a quick paycheck, or even just get a start on the industry before becoming huge. It's...

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Adult amination is an incredibly lucrative genre and allows certain shows to branch out of the confines of realism and explore the world from an entirely different perspective. For example, Futurama gives viewers the chance to experience the turn of the 31st century, whereas Family Guy delivers countless absurd cutaway scenes to ensure that the jokes just keep on flowing. As such, though this genre is not to everyone's taste, it has managed to stand at the forefront of primetime television for decades.

Though a lot of audiences assume that these shows were inspired by The Simpsons, which first premiered in 1989, their inspiration was much older. The Flintstones first aired in 1960 and is often labeled as the first adult animated sitcom.

Throughout the vast landscape of television sitcoms, there are a handful of shows that still stand out as the best of the best. While shows like I Love Lucy are credited with jump-starting the format, Cheers truly is the series that perfected it. Always ahead of its time, the series set in the famous Boston bar truly pioneered the workplace comedy, gave audiences the most famous will they/wont they couple of all time, and has even gone on to stand the test of time better than any of its contemporaries. Among the series many accomplishments was one of the greatest holiday specials ever produced for television with the episode Thanksgiving Orphans. The outing famously forces the gang together for the holiday, and culminates in a hilarious and unhinged food fight. While it may not seem like it now, a Thanksgiving episode was a huge anomaly back when it aired,...

Hoda Kotb is an experienced host on The Today Show, so it is surprising she would encourage a visiting celebrity to make such a large on-air blunder. Kotb was interviewing Singer Cher when she encouraged the artist to drop an f-bomb on national morning television. So what exactly happened? Keep reading to find out!

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Today Show host Hoda Kotb was interviewing Cher on Tuesday when she made a very large mistake. Cher and Hoda sat down to discuss Cher’s latest book “Cher: The Memoir, Part One.” Kotb was asking Cher to recount an interaction she had with famous actress Lucille Ball. Turns out the conversation was not appropriate for television, but that didn’t stop Hoda from asking her to tell it!

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Cher explained to Hoda Kotb that when she was in the process of leaving her ex-husband Sonny Bono,...

You can’t say Cher didn’t warn Hoda Kotb this morning on The Today Show. Cher was there to promote her new memoir, and Kotb asked Cher about advice she’d received from comedy icon Lucille Ball after her 1975 divorce from Sonny Bono. “I can’t say it on TV,” Cher insisted, asking if the show’s producers could bleep out the offending words.

Don’t worry, said Kotb. “We’ll bleep it!”

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Given the green light, Cher talked about reaching out to her longtime pal. The wacky redhead knew all about public divorces, shocking the world when she broke it off with Desi Arnaz after I Love Lucy ended. “I said, ‘Lucy, I’m calling you because, to my knowledge, there’s never been a situation besides mine except yours,’” Cher said.

Ball’s sage advice about how to handle the situation? “Fuck him,” she said. “You...

The 2025 stamp designs are out! There are the usual boring sets — American vistas? More U.S. flags? Vibrant leaves? — but one announcement has set comedy hearts aflutter: a commemorative stamp featuring the late sitcom superstar Betty White. Score!

“An icon of American television, Betty White (1922–2021) shared her wit and warmth with viewers for seven decades — including roles on The Golden Girls and The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” said the Usps in its announcement. “The comedic actor, who gained younger generations of fans as she entered her 90s, was also revered as a compassionate advocate for animals. Dale Stephanos created the digital illustration based on a 2010 photograph by Kwaku Alston. Greg Breeding, an art director for Usps, designed the stamp.”

In other words, Betty White was a badass.

White isn’t the first comedian honored by the Post Office, but she’s on a very short list. While you can’t...

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It almost feels like an unwritten rule that if a franchise exists for long enough, a big crossover must happen. From worlds colliding on the small screen dating back to "I Love Lucy" meeting Superman in "Lucy and Superman" to massive crossovers on the big screen in comic book movies like "The Avengers," it's a tradition in Hollywood that goes back decades. So, inevitably, after nearly 30 years spanning multiple shows and movies, the time came for "Star Trek" to boldly go where it had never gone before.

1994's "Star Trek: Generations" united the two most famous Starfleet captains to ever live; William Shatner's James T. Kirk and Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard. Despite being separated by decades, science fiction shenanigans allowed...

Few actresses of her era take as many chances as Nicole Kidman. The Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning actress has been one of the industry’s most sought-after performers since the early 1990s, and appeared in everything from splashy musicals like “Moulin Rouge!” (which netted Kidman her first of five Academy Award nominations) to historical fiction like “The Hours” (which won Kidman the Best Actress Oscar for playing Virginia Woolfe) to psychological thrillers like “Eyes Wide Shut” (where she starred opposite her now-ex-husband Tom Cruise) to blockbuster superhero movies like “Aquaman.”

And that’s just on the big screen. In recent years, Kidman has acquitted herself exceedingly well in a spate of prestige television series, winning an Emmy for her nuanced work in “Big Little Lies” and scoring a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for “The Undoing.”

One of her biggest challenges was her turn as Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin’s 2021 film “Being the Ricardos.

Despite Lorne Michaels’ previous promise that no real-life political candidates would show up on SNL this election season, Vice President Kamala Harris popped by Studio 8H on Saturday night, appearing in a cold open opposite Maya Rudolph’s Kamala, playing her literal mirror image.

While this one-off cameo seems unlikely to have much of an impact on Election Day, Trump supporters have been raging about the sketch online, suggesting that Trump himself is now owed airtime due to the FCC’s equal time fairness rules (although this was seemingly resolved by a NASCAR ad). They’re also complaining that Harris “plagiarized” an earlier sketch starring Trump.

It’s true that back in 2015, Trump and Jimmy Fallon performed a similar mirror bit, in which Fallon-as-Trump teed up the presidential candidate for jokes that also served to promote his campaign talking points (never forget Fallon’s role in this national nightmare...

It’s weird rooting for a couple you know from the outset will fail.

Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage is a brilliant family comedy, but even the title reveals that this marriage is doomed.

Every episode mixes in more clues as to what goes wrong with the comic situation of the week, and Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage Season 1 Episode 3 gave the biggest hints yet.

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The episode’s focus on Mandy’s credit card debt was a fairly typical plot that both sitcoms and drams us and always have, going back to classics like I Love Lucy.

However, this one went in an atypical direction.

Instead of the story being about Georgie getting in trouble with his credit card or Mandy running up a bill on it without telling him, his...

Warning: Contains spoilers for Captain America #14!!

Captain America is famously a man out of time after being frozen in ice for decades but despite efforts to get him up to speed on decades of pop culture, including one of Steve Rogers' most iconic MCU scenes, he still cites a George Gershwin classic, "Rhapsody in Blue," as his favorite song.

Captain America #14 written by J. Michael Straczynski, with art by Carlos Magno presents a rare opportunity for Steve to take a break, at least for a few precious seconds. As Captain America is moving on from his battle against Death itself, he tries to settle back into his life with the comfort of coffee, a good book, and familiar music.

Though his respite doesn't last long, he reveals what Rogers believes to be the "most perfect piece of music." None of his MCU list makes the cut, and the honor, instead,...

Sling and Pluto both offer a content mix that older viewers will enjoy, combined with an interface they’ll find familiar.

The sheer volume of content available in the streaming world can be downright overwhelming. It can be hard to know which service has which shows, and even harder to avoid titles with sex, violence, bad language and other objectionable content. There are some excellent streaming services available that allow viewers to avoid these pitfalls, however, and I’ll walk through what I think are the best two streaming services for older viewers below.

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If you’re looking to get traditional cable channels with your next streaming subscription, you should check out Sling TV.

Artificial Intelligence is “fundamentally reshaping computing and will transform how stories are told, produced and experienced,” asserted Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang as he accepted the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award via a recorded message during the 76th Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards.

“It has been three decades since Pixar’s ‘Toy Story’ revolutionized cinema with CGI. Now with AI, we have a new canvas for the next generation of storytelling, a renewed opportunity to wow and captivate audiences in new ways,” he said.

Also during the ceremony, which was held Wednesday at the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center, software developer Adobe received the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award, as well as an Engineering, Science and Technology Emmy for the development of its Substance Painter.

Accepting the Farnsworth Award on behalf of Adobe, product manager Erica Schisler said, “Farnsworth had hoped and envisioned the television bringing everybody together…...

When Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz dreamed up their new sitcom I Love Lucy, their creative imaginations led to several problems. Case in point: “I had insisted upon having a studio audience; otherwise, I knew, we’d never hit the right tempo,” Ball wrote in her autobiography Love, Lucy. That was a problem — no existing studios were large enough to accommodate a live audience. And even if there were, how could the crowd see with all the lighting, sound and film equipment in the way? To help solve those problems, Arnaz decided to turn to the guy who shot 1931’s Dracula.

“I was scarcely prepared for the many problems which were to confront me upon my initial excursion into the realm of television,” wrote Oscar-winning cinematographer Karl Freund in the December 1953 issue of Art Photography. “I expected very little variation from the ritual of photographing regular motion pictures, but I...

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There was a time when finding reruns of Sherwood Schwartz's 1964 sitcom "Gilligan's Island" was incredibly easy. Thanks to a plum syndication deal, Schwartz's 98-episode show remained on the air for literally decades, sometimes playing daily, forming the basis of multiple generations' pop culture education. The show's famed theme song became firmly entrenched in the Jungian subconscious, and the characters became archetypes for many years to come. Gen-Xers can likely tell you all about "Gilligan's Island," even if they didn't like it. We saw the show without really trying. 

For those same Gen-Xers, seeking out and deliberately watching "Gilligan's Island" almost seems bizarre. It's a series that, for many, should just be playing somewhere at all times, like "I Love Lucy" or "The Twilight Zone" or "Law & Order." TV shows that have passively made their way into human eyeballs,...

Chicago Med’s Sarah Ramos loves fans’ passion.

However, she has a different take on her character, Caitlin Lenox, than some of the audience, and she hopes eventually they’ll side with her even though right now, Lenox is not a character that most fans want to hang out with.

TV Fanatic had a chance to catch up with Ramos to discuss all things Caitlin Lenox and get her unique perspective on her character as a smart young doctor who is doing a difficult job to the best of her ability.

(NBC/George Burns, Jr.) Chicago Med’s Sarah Ramos Sees Lenox As Disrupting The Status Quo

From the moment Lenox entered Chicago Med, she’s shaken things up. She fired Zach, an affable but seemingly incompetent resident, shadowed the doctors, and butted heads with Archer at every opportunity.

The new hospital director who aggravates everyone by trying to change...

"I Love Lucy" was in many ways TV's first solid-gold hit, and it wasn't just because the show premiered when there were few television programs on the air. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, then a real-life married couple, made magic together on screen as clever but ridiculous Lucy Ricardo and her straight man of a husband, Ricky. Their chemistry and comedy made the show an enduring, medium-changing hit, rocketing it to the top of the Nielsen charts and beaming it into the hearts and homes of millions of people worldwide.

The show came to a close in 1957, and while Ball and Arnaz would continue dominating television in other sitcoms and specials — not to mention their powerhouse production company Desilu — for years to come, no follow-ups ever held the same unique magic as the original series. Arnaz passed away in 1986, and Ball followed three years later. Today, only three actors who...

The classic television sitcom “I Love Lucy” will make its long-awaited Blu-ray debut on November 5. Paramount Home Entertainment has announced the release of “I Love Lucy: The Complete Series” on high-definition Blu-ray discs. This comprehensive collection promises to offer fans both old and new an enhanced viewing experience of the pioneering comedy series.

Starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, “I Love Lucy” broke new ground when it first aired between 1951 to 1957. The show quickly became a massive success and cultural touchstone for its hilarious portrayal of an eccentric housewife and her Cuban bandleader husband. It continues to attract large audiences over 70 years later.

The upcoming Blu-ray set restores all 180 classic episodes to near-pristine quality. It also contains rare and previously unseen bonus features. An early pilot episode has been restored from film, allowing a fresh look at the show’s beginnings. One episode has also been newly colorized.

I Love Lucy gave a new definition to what was possible on television when it premiered in 1951. More than seventy years later, Paramount Home Entertainment is giving audiences another opportunity to enjoy their favorite moments from the series with the launch of I Love Lucy: The Complete Series. The Blu-ray package will be released on November 5. Viewers will get a chance to experience the television classic like never before with extras that include a new colorized episode titled "Lucy and the Loving Cup. As if that wasn't enough, I Love Lucy: The Complete Series will also feature remastered footage, long-lost flashback scenes and a portion of 1959 CBS fall preview special, "Eye on CBS".

Rod Serling's eerie sci-fi anthology series "The Twilight Zone" still, to this day, tops lists of the best TV shows of all time. In a 2023 article in Variety, listing the 100 greatest shows of all time, it was listed at #14, just behind "Succession," although that ranking smacks of recency bias. The #1 show on that list, incidentally, was "I Love Lucy," which is wholly correct. Over here on /Film, we listed "The Twilight Zone" as the greatest horror TV show of all time, which is also correct. "Tales from the Crypt," however, didn't crack the top 30, so we may need to do some soul-searching. 

The original "Twilight Zone" ran from 1959 to 1964, which is an astonishingly long run for an anthology series. In that time, the show attracted numerous notable sci-fi writers and aspiring directors, bringing genre writing deeper into the pop consciousness. Serling became a minor deity of sorts, appearing at...

If you've ever wanted to be able to yell "Luuuucy, I'm home!" to your own "I Love Lucy" box set, then you're in luck. The classic 1950s sitcom that followed real-life spouses Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as their fictional counterparts, Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, is coming to home media in a whole new way, courtesy of Paramount. The series was wildly popular during its era and has left its stamp on pop culture ever since — it's honestly hard to find a comedy series that hasn't referenced "I Love Lucy" or been influenced by it in some way. The series is deeply beloved and made a massive impact on television history, and this new box set is sure to delight fans both new and old.

"I Love Lucy" ran for six seasons, starring Ball and Arnaz alongside the Ricardos' neighbors, Ethel and Fred Mertz (played by Vivian Vance and William Frawley...

From I Love Lucy to The Larry Sanders Show and beyond, writers in the performing arts have always set stories in the world of show business they know so well. (Even Hamlet makes a pretty memorable scene out of the titular character trying his hand at directing.) Naturally, with superhero movies crowding out all other genres, the process of making them is a target fit not just for fictional dramatization, but for savage mockery. Depending on whether you’ve ever added up how much you’ve spent on tickets to predictable movies about deeply mid comic book characters, you might think HBO’s new satire The Franchise — from some of England’s most eloquent and gifted insult craftsmen — doesn’t go hard enough.

In The Franchise’s series premiere, which airs on Sunday, October 6th, we join the production of a movie called Tecto: The Eye of the Storm on...

Marvel Studios' WandaVision was a triumph in every way imaginable. The first ever Disney Plus show set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it launched Phase Four on a high, earning the franchise critical acclaim, fan adoration, and its first ever Emmy nominations (and wins!). It was thrilling, spectacular, and full of surprises along the way - surprises that just never stopped coming, and kept us guessing the whole way throughout.

Yes, WandaVision was full of Easter Eggs, nods, and references - both to events that took place within the MCU, and to wider television in general. There were nods to I Love Lucy, Bewitched, The Brady Bunch, and more, all while making subtle hints and references to iconic aspects of the MCU and the wider Marvel Universe (including the Quicksilver red herring).

However, there is one Easter Egg so buried within the subtleties of the show that you might be forgiven for missing it.

"Saturday Night Live" certainly didn't kick off their milestone 50th season with a bang. However, we shouldn't really be surprised. Historically, the season premieres of "SNL" aren't great episodes, mostly because the writers and cast members are a bit rusty after having the entire summer away from the show, and they often have to cycle through some tired material that is already stale by the time it makes it in front of cameras in Studio 8H. 

Unfortunately, that means "Hacks" star Jean Smart didn't get their best material, and the result was a middling episode with the sketches ranging from average to embarrassing. It's nothing to worry about, but for anyone who needed to be convinced that "SNL" still has the goods, this episode probably didn't do the trick. But that's also what makes "SNL" one of the most interesting comedy shows to watch. Anything can happen, and sometimes it's great,...