“Do you have it?” It’s a question asked by Nickelodeon to those who competed on GUTS, the popular competition series that initially excited Nick kids from 1992 to 1995. Soundstage 21 at Universal Studios Florida was transformed into the “Extreme Arena,” where a crowd cheered on the young participants as they squared off in various
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Q: When did Game Show Network launch?A: December 1, 1994. Q: What was the first game show aired on the cable channel?A: What’s My Line? Q: Did Game Show Network venture into original programming?A: Yes, with some shows you may have heard of — including the original American version of The Chase and a long-running
Starting in autumn 1974 (47 years ago!), every week I couldn’t wait to see what supernatural monster-of-the-week Kolchak would tangle with (and sometimes overcome!). It was, at the time, the most thrilling show on TV. And it directly inspired another scary TV classic, The X-Files. And my favorite show on TV right now? Well, it’s
A decade ago, when storylines about life-threatening global pandemics still provided escapist fare, TNT launched The Last Ship. Starring Eric Dane and executive-produced by Michael Bay, the action drama followed the crew members of a U.S. Navy ship as they tried to find a cure for a virus that has decimated the world’s population. Captaining
“Something” is happening with the cast of Modern Family, four years after the Emmy-winning ABC comedy ended its 11-season run. Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who played Mitch on the show, piqued fans’ curiosity when he posted a photo of the set of Claire (Julie Bowen) and Phil’s (Ty Burrell) foyer. “Haven’t seen this view in a while,”
Reba McEntire’s fans are getting a treat on May 6: Netflix will start streaming all six seasons of her WB sitcom Reba that day. (Even better? Reba’s Netflix debut comes as the country star develops an NBC comedy pilot with three of the show’s executive producers.) In Reba, McEntire played Reba Hart, a single Houston
For several seasons of ABC series Castle, viewers sat on the edge of their couch cushions to see whether novelist Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) and NYPD detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) would get together as they worked to solve both small cases and big-time conspiracies. Katic, for her part, wanted the two characters together sooner
When we think of Super Bowl Sunday, we think of the usual suspects: the football game, the commercials, the trailers, the Puppy Bowl … and, of course, the post-game episodes. (For 2024, Justin Hartley‘s new series Tracker on CBS receives that honor.) Each year, the network on which the game airs chooses one of its
Don’t let anyone fool you— some of the objectively funniest sitcoms of the ’90s came from proximately black shows such as Martin and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. If the ’70s sitcoms introduced the black experience through laughs and the ’80s refined that formula to take on more serious topics, then the ’90s saw the recipe perfected,