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TV shows that the 90s kids miss
MUMBAI: Imagine travelling back to the time when we were young. Growing up is not an option for anyone. It is one of those inevitable aspects of the train of life that every passenger has to experience. But how you grow up is an option, more so, an option that everyone chooses to do in their own way. Some love the ‘grown up’ phase while others dwell and hate the fact that the comfort of being carefree does not exist anymore.
For a 90s kid, the world was really a unique place during that decade. The phase when comic books took shelter in the palms of our hands for most of the day, a time when a bicycle ride with friends felt no less than a dangerous mission, where tape-recorders remained a luxurious commodity, and asking your mother for money did not end with a “earn for yourself” reply.
The 90s also played a vital role in shaping our understanding of entertainment. As flat screen televisions were welcomed with sheer enthusiasm, a part of 90s kid died with the departure of CRTs (Cathode Ray Tube).
Game of Thrones replaced The Small Wonder, Sherlock replaced Tin Tin, Family Guy and Tom & Jerry provided hourly moments of laughter, whereas WWF became WWE.
For the child in all of us, let us revisit some of the series that makes travel down the memory lane pleasurable as we delve deeper into nostalgia.
Read on:
Full House
An American television series created by Jeff Franklin for ABC was aired from 22 September 1987 to 23 May 1995, broadcasting eight seasons and 192 episodes. The show narrates the story about a widowed father who enlist his best friend and his brother-in-law to help raise his three daughters. Full House is one such show that the 90s kids loved to watch.
Will & Grace
Created by David Kohan and Max Mutchnick and directed by James Burrows, the show was aired on NBC from 21 September 1998 to 18 May 2006. The story focused on the relationship between a gay lawyer and his best friend, a straight Jewish woman who is an interior designer. It showed the interplay of relationships, trials and tribulation of dating, marriage, divorce, casual sex and as well as comical key stereotypes of gay and Jewish culture.
The show aired eight seasons and 194 episodes.
Beverly Hills 90210
Yet another American drama series, Beverly Hills 90201 was created by Darren Star, Aaron Spelling, E Duke Vincent among others. The show aired from 4 October 1990 to 17 May 2000 with 293 episodes and 10 seasons. It was produced by Spelling Television and aired on Fox. The show addressed issues such as date, rape, gay rights, animal rights, alcoholism, drug abuse, domestic violence, sex, anti-Semitism, teenage suicide, teenage pregnancy and AIDS.
Law and Order
The show was aired on NBC from 13 September 1990 to 24 May 2010. A total of 20 seasons and 456 episodes were aired. The plot was based on real cases. Set and filmed in New York City, the series followed a two-part approach: the first half-hour was the investigation of a crime (usually murder) and apprehension of a suspect by New York City Police Department homicide detectives; the second half was the prosecution of the defendant by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Homicide: Life on the Street
The series was created by Paul Attanasio and was based on David Simons book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. It was the first drama to win three Peabody award for its achievement in drama .It aired seven seasons across 122 episodes from 1993 to 1999 on NBC. It shed light on and around the homicide unit of the Baltimore Police Department, a group of determined individuals, who were committed to their grim job.
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Ellison takes his Paramount-Warner Bros case straight to theater owners
The Skydance chief goes to CinemaCon with promises and a skeptical crowd waiting
CALIFORNIA: David Ellison strode into a room packed with thousands of cinema owners and executives at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday and did something rather bold: he looked them in the eye and asked them to trust him.
The chief executive of Paramount Skydance vowed that his company would release a minimum of 30 films a year if regulators greenlight its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, a deal that has made theater owners deeply, and loudly, nervous.
“I wanted to look every single one of you in the eye and give you my word,” Ellison told the crowd. “Once we combine with Warner Bros, we are going to make a minimum of 30 films annually across both studios.”
It was a confident pitch. Whether it landed is another matter. Cinema operators have already called on regulators to block the deal, and scepticism in the room was hardly concealed.
Ellison pushed back by pointing to recent form. Paramount, born from the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media last August, plans to release 15 films this year, nearly double the eight it put out in 2025. Progress, he argued, was already underway.
He also threw theater owners a bone they have long been chasing: all films, he pledged, would run exclusively in cinemas for a minimum of 45 days, drawing applause from a crowd that has spent years fighting for exactly that commitment across the industry.
“People can speculate all they want,” Ellison said, “but I am standing here today telling you personally that you can count on our complete commitment. And we’ll show you we mean it.”
Fine words. The regulators, however, will have the last one.
