10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’

They expected a TV comedy with a laugh track, and got instead a wry, melancholy commentary on the holiday season. (The network also objected to real children voicing all of the characters.) The brass was particularly wary of the religious overtones that Sparky insisted the special carry on the air. According to Mendelson, the executives agreed to air it “once and that will be all.”

'Dark Knight Rises': Political subtext?

'Dark Knight Rises': Political subtext?

Trailer for Christopher Nolan Batman film hints at Occupy: Gotham City theme; also features explosions

A nerdy nation wonders what Kim Jong Il's death means for 30 Rock

TV: Newswire: A nerdy nation wonders what Kim Jong Il's death means for 30 Rock

As soon as it was revealed that North Korea’s dear leader Kim Jong Il had at last evolved beyond the human realm and assumed glorious reign over Heaven, where he’s already beaten everyone at golf, the nation immediately began asking itself about the ramifications his promotion held for us—namely, what’s going to happen on 30 Rock now? After all, the last we saw of Elizabeth Banks’ Avery Jessup, she had been kidnapped while on assignment and married off to son and successor Kim Jong Un, sentenced to a life of sunflower picking and eating enough food ...