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Hollywood reunion mania

Every time I go online, I discover another blast from my TV-ed past. Cast members from shows long gone keep gathering for photo sessions and interviews.

Every time I go online, I discover another blast from my TV-ed past.  Cast members from shows long gone keep gathering for photo sessions and interviews. 

The cast of Boy Meets World, which ended in 2000, reunited last year to celebrate the premiere of the follow-up series Girl Meets World. 
And this year despite the tragic loss of Harold Ramis in February, Ghostbusters is enjoying a revival with a 30th anniversary cast party on television, in magazines and frankly, any other media that could possibly care.

The five surviving members of Monty Python hooked up in London’s O2 arena last summer for the comedy troop’s first live shows since the ’80s – confounding current generations who still don’t get the humour of The Holy Grail or the Flying Circus. 

How do you explain killer bunnies?  Sorry guys, I guess you just had to be there.

This week, The Today Show brought in the cast of The Fabulous Baker Boys – Michelle Pfeiffer along with Beau and Jeff Bridges – 25 years after it made lounge singers sexy again. 

Meanwhile, Sports Night is coming up on 15 years. The critically-acclaimed but under-viewed comedy about a fictional sports network was shut down after just two seasons. 

Yet with DVD sales and other Aaron Sorkin hits – The West Wing, The Newsroom or The Social Network – Sports Night has had an underground resurgence.  So it was worthwhile to reunite Felicity Huffman, Josh Charles, Peter Krause and Josh Malina to discuss their failure.

It’s been a whole decade since the Mean Girls of high school became famous. 

So Entertainment Weekly got nostalgic – especially since the star, one sweet and innocent Lindsay Lohan, has spiralled into the poster child for young actors out of control. And Rachel McAdams has become famous enough for “sources” to share catty behind-the-scenes stories of her diva-like behaviour.

Meanwhile, the 10th anniversary of the end of Friends – or the 20th anniversary of its premiere – has involved months of reminiscing about favourite quotes, moments, songs, and episodes. 

Looking back at old clips is definitely a fun way to kill time on the Internet. 

But where does it stop? The entertainment industry was built on shows that ended.  (Except The Simpsons which can’t seem to die.)  Everyone is having an anniversary of their finale. 

Yet for most of us regular folk, anniversaries celebrate ongoing entities – marriages, businesses, organizations, memorials. So isn’t celebrating the anniversary of something that is over and done with a little like celebrating a marriage that ended years ago? 

But that’s Hollywood.  And nothing sells like sentiment. 

Ironically, CKPR Thunder Bay is celebrating its 60th anniversary. 

Here in Northwestern Ontario, we’ve gone from black and white film to HD video; from live commercials in our studios to live interviews at city hall; from broadcasting for local rabbit ears to satellite signals received around the world. 

So we too will be reminiscing. And enjoying it.

But unlike those shows from the past, CKPR Thunder Bay is far from done.





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