Eartha Kitt, an actress well known for her turn as TV's Catwoman and a singer whose choral calling cards included the sultry and seasonal "Santa Baby," died on Thursday of colon cancer, says a family spokesperson. She was 81.
Kitt's career spanned six decades, during which time she won two Emmys (for her voice work in The Emperor's New School, a small-screen adaptation of the animated feature The Emperor's New Groove) and collected several Tony and Grammy nominations.
Kitt began her career in 1946 as ...
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Holy Dancing with the Stars, rumor, Batman!Page Six reports that the latest contestant rumored to grace the parquet on the upcoming season of Dancing is Adam West. The star of the 1960s Batman series and current voice on the animated hit Family Guy is pushing 80, but sources say he's "in outstanding shape" and ready to dance.The official cast lineup won't be made until Aug. 25, but a rep for West said he is "one of the people they are seriously looking at."Would you like to see the former Caped Crusader bring his Bat-moves to the dance floor? — Adam Bryant
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How many times have you started collecting a series on DVD only to find it's been "stalled" because sales of the previous sets weren't good enough? It's probably happened to you at least once, more if you're a fan of classic TV. While there are many issues that contribute to a stalled series, we're not going to focus on those today; this is an upbeat article.Yes, I'm here to tell you there's hope for your favorite "stalled" series! We (meaning Dave and I at TVShowsOnDVD.com) have been told a number of the larger studios have been shopping around their catalog of shows, including some of the "stalled" shows. The major studios are recognizing they have properties that are still desired, even when they can't fiscally justify releasing the sets themselves. They've now "seen the light," and are willing to license shows to the independents. We've already seen this happen in the past, with BCI getting Wanted: Dead or Alive from New Line, Anchor Bay/Starz getting some of the VH1 titles (I L...
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Since the TV-on-DVD craze went mainstream around 2000-2001, one of the burning, unanswered questions has been "when will episodes from the Adam West version of Batman finally come to DVD?" The classic, campy series has a ton of fans, and lots of rumors surround the reasons behind its absence from the DVD market.One popular rumor (possibly the most popular, especially on the internet) is that the hold-up is between Fox and Warner Brothers. But in a June 2006 interview with members of the Home Theater Forum website, executives from Warner Home Video stated that they have nothing to do with any sort of hold-up for Batman episodes. "This is an issue between DC (Comics) and Fox. Fox owns the series."For their part, Fox has told us "We are continuing to work on participations issues and resolve, so that we might be able to bring it out. The issue is that there are several entities that have rights to this particular series. The contract language didn't clearly specify home entertainment....
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Question Do you know what was the first TV show to have a feature length movie made about it while the show was still on the air Did that show see a bump in ratings because of the movie Ryan FlickChick This is an interesting question and I have to say up front that I have no way of answering the second part Im sure there is a way of getting ratings information for 1960s television shows and checking against the release dates of the appropriate feature films but it would involve physically sifting through archived network information that isnt readily available to outsiders And the more I think about it the less I am sure that the information is even there were talking about the same networks that regularly reused videotapes or dumped the only copies of early shows into catch-all storage facilities and forgot about them The first two Superbowl broadcasts were taped over and no-one knows what became of Johnny Carsons first appearance on The Tonight Show No
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