It’s mildly irritating that The Big Bang Theory has become one of the biggest shows on network TV. This thing is a ratings behemoth at this...

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Once upon a time (like two years ago) Skins generated a huge amount of controversy, and probably with good reason. Any show featuring overs...

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If you were a certain kind of boy or young teenager in the 80s, then there’s a good chance Time Bandits was a very important film for you. ...

It isn’t often that a series reinvents itself so successfully that you don’t find yourself longing for the seasons that came before, but tha...

"Weird sex. Obsession. Comic books." That’s what the movie poster for Crumb said back when the movie came out in 1995. If you wer...

The lovely Lenora Crichlow is mostly unknown to U.S. audiences, unless of course you’re a fan of the BBC America series Being Human (Saturd...

Rhoda was an incredibly successful series during its first two seasons. It was, in fact, a top ten show, going so far as to best its parent...

And so we come to yet another season finale of the greatest science fiction series ever created. This is the recap I’ve been both anticipati...

A TV series that in a one sentence pitch can be most easily described as “a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost all live together in the same ho...

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