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Chuck Patton/DC Entertainment Throughout the long and illustrious history of DC Entertainment’s Justice League of America — a team that debuted in 1960 and has been in near-continuous publication ever since — one era in particular stands out for many comic book fans as the nadir of the concept, a time when an…
The Agent Carter television series has been described ‘a Triumph for Women, Marvel and TV,’ and heralded as an important new chapter in comics culture. But why is this supposedly groundbreaking new show struggling to find an audience? And if Agent Carter fails, does it spell doom for the future of female-led superhero franchises? Agent…
If Rivers’s act wasn’t explicitly feminist, it was radical in its own way. She was like a person trapped in a prison, shouting out escape routes from her cell. Credit Photograph by David Montgomery / Getty Six months before Joan Rivers died, last year, she went on the “Howard Stern Show”: two old friends, serial…
There’s an underrepresentation of adult-on-child violence on television. And on Thursday, February 12, whether we like it or not, NBC will change that with the premiere of The Slap. ######## BEGIN SNIPPET ######## ######## END SNIPPET ######## The network has assembled a cast of stars to tell the story of an adult man slapping a child….
When Law & Order: SVU takes on video games, the results are usually not pretty. Tonight’s episode—a GamerGate special—was no exception. “They’re playing a game,” Ice-T’s character says at one point, referencing a group of misogynistic terrorists who have kidnapped a female video game developer. “We’ve gotta play too.” If just reading that line made…
Last Updated Feb 11, 2015 10:41 PM EST NEW YORK — Bob Simon, the longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent and legendary CBS News foreign reporter died suddenly tonight in a car accident in New York City. The award-winning newsman was 73. “It’s a terrible loss for all of us at CBS News,” 60 Minutes Executive Producer…
Jon Stewart tapes The Daily Show at the University of Denver on Aug. 26, 2008. Photo by Eric Thayer/Reuters Seventeen years ago, The Daily Show was a forgettable late-night lark on a little-watched cable channel. Today, after covering seven elections and countless scandals, controversies, and local quirks, the show Jon Stewart built is an institution…
He argues that Homer has been in a coma for the past 22 years of the show – and that everything that has happened since has only occured in his head. 3. OK, hear him out. The theory goes that in October 1992, the episode “Homer The Heretic” first aired, a key scene of which…
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan is one of the most popular book series of all time. So you’d think the first episode of a TV version would air with massive fanfare… so why did the pilot air in the middle of the night instead? We reached out to the producers and found out…
Here’s the skinny on every series in the Law & Order franchise. The online release of a teaser for an upcoming episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is normally the last thing The Internet gets itself worked up about – which is incredible in and of itself, considering that “gigs of chatter about…