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Posted Tuesday 7/21/20 at 3:34AM EDT
What it's like to reimagine Unsolved Mysteries' creepy theme for 2020
Composer West Dylan Thordson grew up watching Unsolved Mysteries.
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Unsolved Mysteries is the rare TV reboot that gets how to appeal to a contemporary audience
"Very few beloved television shows that receive reboots successfully rejuvenate the format," says Maria Sherman of the Netflix revival of...
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Posted Friday 7/03/20 at 4:09AM EDT
Friends theme song composer reveals the origin of the hand clapping
Michael Skloff, who is Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman's ex-husband, helped create The Rembrandts' iconic theme song.
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Posted Tuesday 6/30/20 at 9:53AM EDT
Johnny Mandel, composer of M*A*S*H's theme song, dies at 94
The Oscar-winning and Emmy-nominated Mandel was considered one of the finest arrangers of the second half of the 20th century,...
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Posted Thursday 6/11/20 at 6:06PM EDT
How the reggae song "Bad Boys" ended up as Cops' theme
The cancelation of Cops this week after 31 years begs the question: What's up with the theme song? The reggae...
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Posted Friday 5/29/20 at 2:23AM EDT
The Good Fight's "bananas" Jeffrey Epstein-themed season finale ending is "one of the ballsiest moves in TV history"
"Even for The Good Fight, which has featured couples copulating in Trump masks and devoted part of an episode to...
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Posted Thursday 4/23/20 at 2:53AM EDT
Mrs. America demonstrates the importance of opening title sequences
"Mrs.
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Posted Monday 2/24/20 at 12:44PM EST
Composer Bob Cobert, who wrote the score for Dark Shadows and the theme for The $25,000 Pyramid, dies at 95
Colbert composed many game shows themes, from To Tell the Truth to Password to The $25,000 Pyramid.
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Posted Tuesday 2/18/20 at 3:20PM EST
Good Times star Ja'net DuBois dies at 74
The Emmy-winning actress, who died in her sleep overnight at her home, played fashionable nosey neighbor Willona Woods on the...
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Posted Saturday 1/18/20 at 2:58AM EST
The New Pope's theme song is the best part of the show
Sofi Tukker, a duo made up of college friends Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern, created the song "Good Time Girl"...
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Posted Monday 1/13/20 at 9:04PM EST
Why One Day at a Time is ditching its opening theme when it premieres on Pop TV
Co-showrunner Gloria Calderón Kellett that the 50-second opening theme -- a reimagined version of “This Is It,” performed by Gloria...
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Posted Friday 1/03/20 at 9:13AM EST
The 2010s were a golden age for TV opening title sequences
Game of Thrones, Westworld, Stranger Things, The Man in the High Castle and Jessica Jones were among the most noteworthy...
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Posted Friday 12/20/19 at 2:46AM EST
Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show gives the Sesame Street theme song a hip-hop remix
Watch Fallon and The Roots' Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter join the Sesame Street gang in a 50th anniversary rap.
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The Enduring Legacy of Norman Lear's Good Times
Comfort TV is alive and well this holiday season — the dubious need look no futher than ABC's returning Live...
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Posted Wednesday 11/13/19 at 2:44AM EST
It's Garry Shandling's Book from Judd Apatow is scattershot, but offers a little bit of everything
The book, out Tuesday, could best be described as a scrapbook, featuring photographs, notes, clippings, script pages and words from...