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I, like many of my generation, adored MAD Magazine. I enjoyed the subversive humor and parodies, the off-the-wall Don Martin cartoons, the Spy v. Spy battles from Antonio Prohias, the hilarious margin cartoons from Sergio Aragones, the Al Jaffee “fold-in” on the back cover, yeah, all of that. Now I’m aware that there were at…

It’s 1968, and kids like me are plopped in front of our TV sets, chomping on our Saturday morning Frosted Flakes and grooving to The Banana Splits, a children’s TV series with plenty of comedy and adventure. But I’m not writing about the Banana Splits today. I’m writing about one of the show’s many programs…

The headline says it. Mystery Science Theater 3000, the show that takes old movies and riffs on them – and riffs hard on them – seems to have more lives than a cat. Originally created as a public access program in Minneapolis, the show was picked up by Comedy Central, and was at one point…

First off, I think Rebel Wilson is funny as hell. She’s got a snarky, self-deprecating sense of humor, and she can turn on the glam and the charm in an instant as needed. In 2019, Rebel Wilson hosted a competitive dog grooming TV show in her native Australia, a program called – yes – Pooch…

Back in the day, local TV stations would offer their own interactive game shows. Those shows were either set in one of two formats – there would be a “Bowling for Dollars” type of program, where a local viewer would randomly have a postcard pulled out of a bin, and that person would win money…

Quick, right now – name five TV cooking show hosts. Julia Child, Gordon Ramsay, Racheal Ray, Emeril Lagasse, Nigella Lawson, okay, okay. But does the name Graham Kerr ring a bell? No? Really? See, at one point in time, Graham Kerr was one of the most popular TV cooking show hosts, with a program entitled…

It’s hard to watch the HBO Max documentary Allen v. Farrow and see these stories that are being told. Whatever your opinion of Woody Allen – director, actor, New York City scion, pederast – this documentary is frightening. To hear Dylan Farrow describe the grooming and mental manipulation she dealt with from Woody Allen ……

Honestly, it’s been tough for me to follow the various permutations of the Marvel Television Universe and the DC Television “Arrowverse” programs. I watched Supergirl for about a year and then gave up on it. I watched Daredevil and Jessica Jones for about one episode each, and took both of them off my subscription list.…

During the 1990’s, there were two fantasy TV shows that drew a tremendous amount of loyal fans – Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and Xena: Warrior Princess. For me, they weren’t always “appointment television,” in that if they were on, I’d watch them, and if they weren’t, I didn’t. I mean, certainly you’ve watched them at…