On Wednesday, big sports and cable/streaming news broke: the National Hockey League (NHL) and ESPN reached an agreement for the sports network to be the
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The Inhumans are totally a thing (maybe?), now getting a TV show
Lately, Marvel’s been pushing the Inhumans pretty hard. I’ve discussed the corporate reasons why in a previous post. Still, a number of fans don’t seem
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Minorities in cartoons: “Hot Wheels”
This week’s minorities in cartoons entry is “Hot Wheels,” the first TV cartoon directly based on a pre-existing toy line, namely the popular toy cars.
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Package shows: “Happy Days” animated spinoffs
Time for another look at a package show. This time, it’s a spinoff based on the “Happy Days” franchise at large: “The Mork & Mindy/Laverne
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Package shows: Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo, Richie Rich, and Puppy
Today, I take a look at the various 1980s Scooby-Doo package shows. Specifically, “The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show” and “The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour.” History In
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Package shows: “The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show”
I haven’t written about one of these in awhile, but in the interest of documenting trivia the odd phenomenon of the package program craze of
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The Muppets are coming back to ABC this fall
ABC’s announced its new fall lineup of shows, and among the newcomers are a revival of “The Muppets.” This time, it’s about their supposed private
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Minorities in cartoons: “Fillmore!”
This week’s minorities in cartoons entry is the Saturday morning series “Fillmore!” Airing on ABC from 2002 to 2004, the series was produced by Disney.
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Minorities in cartoons: “Schoolhouse Rock”
This week’s minorities in cartoons entry is the classic educational TV series “Schoolhouse Rock.” Background “Schoolhouse Rock” was a series of three-minute animated shorts. They
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WISN-TV off of Time-Warner Cable in Milwaukee; thousands denied “Ellen” reruns
Here in Milwaukee, there’s currently a dispute between Time-Warner Cable (which serves most of southeastern Wisconsin) and WISN-TV, Milwaukee’s channel 12 and its ABC affiliate.
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