'The Breakfast Club' At 30: '80s Classic Still Relatable Today
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE BREAKFAST CLUB")ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL: (As Brian Johnson) You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a...
View Article5 Thoughts On Trevor Noah Taking Over 'The Daily Show'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHO1a1kvZGo We learned Monday morning what will become of The Daily Show on Comedy Central after Jon Stewart departs: It will be hosted by Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old...
View ArticleThe End Of 'American Idol'
[Note: Listen to the audio above to hear a conversation I had with Pop Culture Happy Hour team member Stephen Thompson about the end of the show.]Ahead of its fall programming presentation to...
View ArticleLifetime's Scripted Drama 'Unreal' Goes Behind The Scenes Of Reality TV
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: If you would never watch a television show like "The Bachelor," or if it's your guilty pleasure, well, a new drama called "UnREAL" may be...
View ArticleThe Heat Is On With These Summer Romance Novels
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: I'm Audie Cornish with help for those of you who are looking for something to read this summer and you don't necessarily want to escape the...
View ArticleThe Ups And Downs Of The Toronto International Film Festival
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Toronto International Film Festival is underway. It's the 40th year of the fest, and for a week now, our colleagues Linda Holmes and Bob...
View ArticleThere's A Story There: Why The Emmys Rocked Even As HBO Rolled
The hard numbers on Sunday night's Primetime Emmy Awards told a story that could look a little dull to the glancing eye.HBO, representing the old guard of premium television at a time when more players...
View ArticleFans Anticipate Opening Of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: You can call it a sheer product of capitalism, or you can call it a contemporary version of Homer's "Iliad." Actually, people call the new...
View Article'The Revenant,' 'Mad Max: Fury Road,' Scoop Up Most Oscar Nominations
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There are no bats in this year's Oscar nominations. We're going to have to wait until later this year for the big "Batman v Superman" movie....
View ArticleA Big Night For 'Spotlight,' DiCaprio And Earned Discomfort
You can say this for Sunday night's Oscars: It seemed like a lot of it was going to be about inclusion or lack thereof, and it was.Back in 2012, Chris Rock presented the Oscar for best animated...
View ArticleA Fond (No, Really!) Farewell To 'American Idol'
Oh, American Idol. You were too good for this world.OK, maybe not too good. Maybe too rooted in people voting via telephone calls.When the show, which concludes its run Thursday night, started in June...
View ArticlePop Culture Happy Hour: 'The Mindy Project' And Romantic Comedies
On this week's show, Stephen Thompson takes the week off to tend to his house full of cats while both All Things Considered host Audie Cornish and superlibrarian and Two Bossy Dames co-writer Margaret...
View ArticleFrom 'Apprentice' To 'MacGyver,' TV Raids Old Shows To Excite Advertisers
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View ArticleTV Networks Unveil Fall Lineup At Summer Press Tour
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit CORNISH, HOST: This is the part of the summer when NPR TV critic Eric Deggans and pop culture correspondent Linda Holmes pack their bags, head to LA and watch a...
View Article'Gilmore Girls' Returns On Netflix, Just In Time For A Holiday Binge
Most television shows arrive accompanied by the question, "Is it good?" Revivals of old shows, however, often arrive with the question, "Is it necessary?" The four new 90-minute installments of Gilmore...
View Article50 Wonderful Things From 2016
It's that time of year again, when I atone for my failure to make top 10 lists by simply offering a collection of 50 of the many wonderful things I read, watched or heard in 2016. (Here's last year's...
View ArticleMary Tyler Moore: On Her Own, Single And Singular
Mary Tyler Moore, who died Wednesday, wasn't just beloved. She was the kind of beloved where they build you a statue. Moore's statue is in Minneapolis, where her best-known character, Mary Richards of...
View Article'Grey's Anatomy': The Secret Sauce Is Blood ... And Friendship
Grey's Anatomy is back Thursday night for the second part of its 13th season. It's hard to last that long, but it does seem that Grey's is — in the words of a friend of mine — "unkillable." And when...
View ArticleDo Not Pass Go: Interview With The Monopoly Thimble
Perhaps nobody cares about their clothes anymore. Back in 2013, Monkey See brought you an exclusive interview — "exclusive" in the sense that it happened only in our minds and we therefore were the...
View ArticleA Shocking Ending Caps A Big Oscar Night For 'Moonlight'
Well, excuse me while I throw away my first draft, won't you? For quite a while, Sunday night's Oscars seemed fairly tame. La La Land , the retro musical with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, came into the...
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