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Once again, Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is celebrating Festivus, the fictional non-commercial holiday popularized by TV’s Seinfeld and observed each year on Dec. 23. As required by tradition, Paul is doing an online “airing of grievances” about government waste.

Festivus, for the uninitated, is celebrated as a Christmas alternative. Created as part of the Seinfeld TV show by Frank Costanza (Jerry Stiller) as an answer to treacly holiday traditions, it features a Festivus pole without decorations, “Feats of Strength,” and a dinner, after which comes the annual “airing of grievances.”

The holiday was first featured in a 1997 Seinfeld episode titled The Strike, during which it was identified as “Festivus – a holiday for the rest of us.” The notion was quickly embraced by those non-traditionalists who shunned the commercial aspects of the formal Christmas holiday.

Senator Paul, one of the most unconventional Congressmen, quickly picked up on the theme,...

Iain Glen and Keeley Hawes have signed on for “Mrs Wilson,” the upcoming period drama that Ruth Wilson will executive produce and star in, playing her own grandmother.

U.K. pubcaster the BBC ordered the series for its flagship BBC One channel and Masterpiece is a co-producer and will launch it in the U.S. It is being produced by Snowed-In Productions, the sister company to J.K. Rowling’s Brontë Film and Television and which focuses on projects not based on the author’s work.

The three-parter is set in London between the 1940s and 1960s. It will tell the true story of Alison Wilson, Ruth’s grandmother, who thinks she is happily married. When her husband, Alec, dies, another woman turns up on her doorstep claiming to be the real Mrs Wilson, opening up a world of intrigue and secrets. The series is inspired by the memoir of Wilson...

If you were a child of the 1990s, the holiday season meant buying glittery, lotion-based gifts at Bath & Body Works and Limited Too. It also meant actually enjoying candy canes, eggnog not giving you indigestion and – best of all – watching holiday episodes of your favorite shows, some age-appropriate and some, well, not.

Let’s take a walk down memory lane and revisit nine of the most quintessential holiday television episodes of the 1990s:

1. Rugrats, ‘The Santa Experience’

Nothing screams “The Holidays Are Here And Everything Is Joyous” louder than a Rugrats episode. The cartoon’s take on Christmas is particularly...

Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to The Strike, a female-driven comedy-drama starring Erin Fogel and Bronson Pinchot. The film will be released worldwide on all major digital platforms December 13. Pinchot is working himself back into acting after a hiatus, recently inking with Bohemia Group and Stone Manners Salners Agency. “The Strike has a multi-cultural and eclectic cast which carries all the humor and funnies of a great comedy film,” said…...