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I Love Lucy premiered on CBS on October 15, 1951. Its stars took a pay cut to film it in Hollywood and keep ownership of the film, and that deal turned the rerun into a business.
Elia Kazan's 1955 film adapted only the last part of Steinbeck's novel. His granddaughter's seven-episode Netflix series takes on the rest, with Florence Pugh's Cathy Ames at its center.
Fresh off a championship, Jalen Brunson became only the fifth NBA player to host SNL, opening season 52 alongside Katseye, two new featured players, and a cast in transition. The night's real subject was what happens when someone at the top of one profession agrees to be a beginner at another.
Most TV sequels take years. Slow Horses, back for season six, has delivered a season every year since 2022, and the reason is a production line as unglamorous as Slough House itself.
Star Trek was never a hit on NBC, and the network cancelled it twice. What carried it from a failing Friday-night drama to a sixty-year institution was a mimeographed letter, a chain of fans told to copy it ten times, and a third season that made the show worth syndicating.
Apple TV's foggy island horror-comedy closed its first season with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, a devoted audience, and one persistent rumor that turned out to be gloriously wrong.