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Mulberry was a fantasy sitcom written by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey that aired on BBC One in the early 1990s. Mulberry ran for two series: the first series of six episodes ran from 24 February to 30 March 1992, and the second series of seven episodes ran from 8 April to 25 May 1993. A third...

As opposed to many other places in the world, here in the US, it is customary to give a gratuity to food servers. The main reason for this is that restaurants are allowed by law to pay a lower wage to servers due to the fact that they supplement their wages with tips. A main argument for this is...

The Boy is a 2016 thriller starring Lauren Cohan (The Walking Dead) as an American woman who travels to England to escape an abusive ex-boyfriend to nanny for an eccentric older couple. In a twist, the boy she is to govern is a doll, who resembles the dead son of the couple. I won't spoil it...

Memorial Day is a national holiday in the United States which is observed on the last Monday in May (originally on May 30), and is intended to be a day of remembrance of those who have fallen in military service. While the tradition of decorating soldiers' graves goes back centuries, it was...

RIP David Ogden Stiers October 31, 1942-March 3, 2018. You will be missed, good sir.

This time of year is collectively known as the "Holiday Season". Starting here in America with Thanksgiving (for me, it starts with Halloween), and goes through till January, mostly capitalizing on Christmas (Christian, non-denominational, and secular), but also encompassing Hanukkah,Kwanzaa...

I've never really cared for the man. Yes, he had a hand in producing some of my favorite films of the past few decades, but I had always heard too many stories about how he would do his best to interfere with films, trying to force writers and directors to change films to please him, even if it...

The neo-Nutzy group Stormfront was using Johnny Cash's cover of Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" as their theme song. Cash's label sent them a cease and desist letter. Of course, now they're whining about how the music industry is run by the Jews, and they won't let them tarnish a legend's name...

RIP Len Wein Len Wein (June 12, 1948 – September 10, 2017) was an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men (including the co-creation of Nightcrawler, Storm...

Wow. Just caught the last two episodes of the season. There had been rumors that the series was to be cancelled, so they gave it enough closure that it could end or continue. And apparently, there will be a second season, so I can't wait to see what they do with the set-up they gave us. If you...

RIP Joan Lee The wife of comic book legend Stan Lee has passed today at the age of 93. The two were married for 69 years, truly a fantastic feat in this day and age.

During the taping of a recent season of Bachelor in Paradise, the production was halted due to the alleged sexual assault of one Corrine Olympios. The facts, as best I can gather, are these. She and fellow contestant DeMario Jackson had been drinking, were in a hot tub together, and she started...

This popped up as a new release on Netflix, and I got excited. Growing up in Iowa, I know all about the murders (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villisca_axe_murders), and the premise sounded promising. As it turned out, it wasn't. It's a pretty basic horror trope, with a group of teens breaking...

There was an explosion at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester tonight. I'm no fan of Ms. Grande, but this pisses me off to no end because this attack targeted families. Parents and children. This is senseless violence for no purpose other than to be an evil excuse for a human being. This is...

Honestly, my favorite music of the genre is the late 80s-mid 90s, when gangsta rap was king. NWA, Eazy-E, Ice-T, and Public Enemy. I dig Snoop, but I don't know much of his newer stuff. Honestly, when I hear most new rap, it doesn't hit me. Even as much as I like Eminem, a lot of his later stuff...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just watched the pilot for the new Starz series based on Neil Gaiman's novel, and damn! This is going to be great! For those who...

Not technically a Britcom, but something I was introduced to in the 90s, via BBC America. Possibly one of the best sketch comedy shows ever, by one of the best comedy duos ever. Before Stephen Fry became the go to British guy for many American productions, and Hugh Laurie became Dr. House, these...

Written by Richard Matheson and directed and produced by Dan Curtis, the genius behind Dark Shadows, this version of Dracula takes many cues from the Hammer productions, with a gothic house instead of a castle. Here the titular vampire is played by Jack Palance, who gives a very good...

Matt Bomer plays Neal Caffrey, an art thief/forger/conman who has just escaped from prison with only a few weeks left on his sentence. Tim DeKay plays Peter Burke, the FBI agent who captured him the first time, and captures him again. Neal is anxious to be out of jail to track down his estranged...