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Acorn TV Expands Streaming Service

  • By Darwyn Carson
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  • January 2, 2012 1:05 PM
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Good news all! Acorn Media Group, the first company to provide live streaming of the best in classic and contemporary British television, recently expanded the service, which launched in July of 2011 with a roster of six series and 40 hours of programming online at any given time. Now viewers have complete episodes of 10 series and 60 hours of programming accessible. There’s so much material—a lot of it never seen before in the States. Two new shows are rotated in weekly...

NEW YEAR’S PINUPS

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • January 1, 2012 4:29 AM
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It’s been several years since I dipped into my collection of movie stills and celebrated the holidays with some of the often-silly publicity photos that movie studios turned out by the carload—from the silent era onward. I’ll continue doing this throughout 2012 and I hope you enjoy these time-capsule photos. Let’s begin with Ken Murray, who was promoting his CBS-TV show along with Joan Shea, Lillian Farmer, Kathy Hild in this picture which is exactly sixty years old!