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Since the early days of television and cinema, firearms have been an indispensable plot device for countless stories on the silver screen. From old noir films and westerns to buddy-cop and spy...
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This article was written with the assistance of A.I. technology, and has been edited and fact-checked by Colman Andrews. “Breaking Bad” is the best crime show of all time, according to data on...
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HBO dominated the 2022 Emmy Awards, and it looks set to do so again this year, with dozens of nominations for such shows as “Succession,” “The White Lotus,” “The Last of Us,” “Barry,”...
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Television dramas and comedies have been set in any number of American cities over the years. Some of them have even included the city’s name in the title: “The Streets of San Francisco,”...
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Sitcoms were a well-established television genre by the time “The Dick Van Dyke Show” first aired in 1961. What set the show apart was that it significantly raised the writing and acting standard...
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Since the movie industry moved to California from the East Coast in the early part of the 20th century – if not before – scandals in all their forms have been a part of Hollywood lore. That...
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Heartless, cold-blooded, depraved, manipulative, remorseless…. Judging by the success of some of television’s most acclaimed and long-running series, that is how viewers like their villains. To...
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Television crime dramas and compelling to audiences because they deal not just with crimes themselves but also with issues of justice and equality and with fascinating characters. Traditionally,...
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Folks from all walks of life join the military. Even some of the biggest actors of all time have spent time in the armed forces, and you might be surprised at who some of them were. There’s no...
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Over the course of cinema history, screenwriters, producers, and directors have seeded and sprouted subgenres as they root for original ways to tell stories. One example of this evolution was the...
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“M*A*S*H,” a groundbreaking TV series that ran on CBS from 1972 to 1983, is based on Robert Altman’s 1970 black comedy of the same name, which in turn derives from the book “MASH: A Novel...
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Every decade of television is important to the medium’s overall evolution, and the 1980s were no exception. However, it was also a decade in which the majority of American shows played it...
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A historic decade for television, the 1990s was even more influential than its current reputation would suggest. Nearly everything that critics and audiences herald in modern TV was either introduced...
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With the debut of HBO’s “The Sopranos” there came a bold and exciting new era of modern television, which continues to evolve. Once considered inferior to film, TV is now often comparable to...
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War and other kinds of life-changing conflict have been television staples since the medium became a fixture in American homes in the 1950s. To determine the best TV shows about war and conflict,...
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