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Entertainment > TV Show Reviews TV show reviews: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: 1 of 8

It has been almost ten years since Who Wants to be a Millionaire debuted on ABC. It ended up being a major hit, as millions of people tuned in to see contestants attempt to win a million dollars. The question "is that your final answer?" quickly became a national catchphrase, and after a couple of trial runs, ABC brought the...
Entertainment > TV Show Reviews TV Show Reviews: Smallville, Season 8: 1 of 3

Season 8 of Smallville has come to an end, and apparently so has the Doomsday storyline. It was a tale that had people pumped for an epic fight between Clark Kent and Doomsday, the only villain in the history of Superman to actually kill the Man of Steel. There was a battle between the two, all right. The problem was, after ...
Hobbies & Games > Video Game Reviews Video game reviews: Super Paper Mario (Wii): 3 of 8

Since I first played Paper Mario on the Nintendo 64 in 2002, I have been a fan of the Paper Mario games. Both the first one and its Gamecube sequel will filled with awesome turn-based battles, great graphics and sound, witty humor, and hours of side quests. A couple of years ago, I picked up Super Paper Mario (originally int...
Entertainment > TV Genres & Trends Favorite PBS kid's shows: 3 of 5

Over the past ten years or so, PBS children's programming has focused more on the younger audience and less on older children in elementary or middle school. From the 70s through the 90s, however, PBS had some amazing shows designed not only to educate, but also entertain, children as well as adults. A lot of those shows hav...
Entertainment > TV Genres & Trends MTV: What happened to the "music" in music television?: 14 of 20

I was only a kid back in the 1980s-by the end of the decade I was five years old-but I can still remember when a little channel known as MTV was showing music video after music video. Here was a channel that forever changed the way that songs were marketed: now songs with videos associated with them could become hits if the ...
Entertainment > TV Genres & Trends TV commercial reviews: Schoolhouse Rock: 3 of 3

I was very young when Schoolhouse Rock ended its first run on ABC, but I did get the honor of seeing it when it was brought back in the 1990s. Of all the non-PBS educational shows for children, Schoolhouse Rock stands as one of the best, with a style that makes kids want to learn about math, history, science, and more. The s...