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RIP Bob Barker

Story Another one of the great voices of my younger days silenced.  Younger people may remember him as the host of The Price is Right, but I first saw him as host of Truth or Consequences when I was little.  Never be another quite like him.

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RIP Harry Belafonte

Story A great voice - both as an artist and an activist - has passed away.

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RIP Ricou Browning

Story  Browning did a lot of stuff over the years, but he's probably best remembered for portraying the Gill-Man in the underwater scenes in the three Creature from the Black Lagoon films.

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Alan Arkin, R.I.P.

From CNN: "Alan Arkin, Oscar-winning Actor, Dead at 89"

He was always good in everything he did. I remember him best from Catch-22.

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UNIT - The New Series

This is the version featuring Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart and Ingrid Oliver as Osgood.

EXTINCTION
  1.1 Vanguard - p
  1.2 Earthfall - p
  1.3 Bridgehead - p
  1.4 Armageddon - p

SHUTDOWN
  2.1 Power Cell - p
  2.2 Death in Geneva - p
  2.3 The Ba

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

I am very much looking forward to this show, despite the fact that it spun off from my least favorite show of the franchise (DIS I mean, not TOS). When DIS premiered, I was prepared to accept enhanced special effects and redesigned sets, but I was no

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The Jason Johnson thread

Jason Johnson is  a tenured associate professor in the School of Global Journalism and Communication at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a frequent guest and sometime guest host on MSNBC. 

Why do we care? Because he's a huuuuuuug

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'Aquaman: King of Atlantis' comes to digital/DVD as full-length animated movie

AQUAMAN: KING OF ATLANTIS

Monstrous creatures, devious foes and incredible underwater adventures populate Aquaman: King of Atlantis, an action-packed mini-series now coming to Digital and DVD (USA $14.99 SRP; Canada $19.99 SRP) as a feature-length an

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R.I.P. Earl Boen, 1941-2023, of The Legion of

Earl Bowen, the perpetually bald character actor with the hangdog mien, dies of Stage 4 lung cancer at 81.

From Variety: "Earl Boen, Actor in ‘The Terminator’ Movies, Dies at 81"

Boen appeared in three of the Terminator movies, but I know him from It's

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Flux Chapter Six: The Vanquishers" (SPOILERS)

And so we come to the final chapter -  a hurried, jumbled finale to a hurried, jumbled story. In the end, I have to say that they tried real hard and it just didn't work out.  In some ways, it felt as though Chibnall had a bunch of ideas that he want

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She-Hulk (TV)

Episode one is just delightful! 

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Warner Bros. Discovery touts DC movie/TV head with no comics background

I keep reading this Hollywood Reporter story looking for some indication that Warner Bros. Discovery's proposed "Kevin Feige" Dan Lin likes comics, or has read comics, or understands DC's comics characters. In any way.

Naturally, I'm looking in vain.

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The Sixth Doctor & Evelyn

I first became interested in Doctor Who in 2010 but, before I got into the Big finish audios I wanted to catch up on the televised version. Once I did that, I decided to concentrate on the Eighth Doctor's adventures because he didn't get a fair shake

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RIP Richard Belzer

Here's the story

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Who has played Superman in live action?

Acting on Jeff's link to the "Get to know all 20 live-action SUPERMAN" [sic] video in the Batman thread, I wrote down all the actors cited there and compared them to other lists (like Wiki). And Jeff's right; a number of them are pretty iffy. I'll li

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RIP Raquel Welch

Story  I mostly remember her from Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years, B.C.,, but I know she did a lot of other stuff.

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Star Trek: Enterprise (Seasons One-Three)

I so wanted to like Star Trek: Enterprise, but I nevertheless found it (the first three seasons, anyway) to be a big disappointment. Yet it's one of Tracy's favorites of the franchise. But she didn't grow up on reruns of TOS the way I did; the series

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Tennant and Tate to Return to Doctor Who for 60th Anniversary Celebration

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To repeat what I said elsewhere:

"I have no beef with Tennant and Tate. My main concern is that Gatwa - and whoever his new companion(s) will be- deserve a chance to establish themselves without being overshadowed by old fan favorites returni

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RIP Lisa Loring

https://extratv.com/2023/01/29/lisa-loring-original-wednesday-addams-dies/

Loring played Wednesday Addams on  The Addams Family (1964-1966).  Her passing leavies John Astin as the sole surviving member of the show's regular cast.

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RIP Lance Kerwin

Story  He was in a lot of stuff when I was a kid, and then just mostly stopped acting.

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