Nostalgia programming has always been an important part of TV’s strategy — and appeal. Early series were reboots and remakes of popular radio programs, while variety shows harkened back to vaudeville.

Liz Shannon Miller is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor, and has been talking about television on the Internet since the very beginnings of the Internet. Prior to serving as Senior TV Editor at ...

“Quantum mechanics, quinoa wraps, Queen Bey — we’ve missed so much!” The Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister!) are back to explore the trappings of the modern world in the official trailer for Hulu ...

Animaniacs was an updated take on a classic form of cartoon storytelling. While many cartoons had gone to a format with one or two stories that followed a specific narrative, Animaniacs was something ...

The revival is actually quite like the original, which is exactly why it doesn’t work The revival is actually quite like the original, which is exactly why it doesn’t work The new Animaniacs, rebooted ...

The new “Animaniacs,” premiering on Hulu 27 years after it first debuted and in a world where the iconic WB water tower recently got an HBO Max makeover, is well aware of what its preemptive critics ...

Now here’s a reboot we can get behind: Steven Spielberg is bringing back his beloved ’90s daytime children’s toon “Animaniacs.” We tend not to get nostalgic; “Animaniacs” is an exception. It wasn’t ...

Note: this is a spoiler-free review of Animaniacs Season 1, which premieres on Hulu on Friday, November 20. Hulu made five of the initial 13 episodes available to critics ahead of release. Because the ...

Readers of a certain age will have fond childhood memories of weekday afternoons spent in the company of the Warner siblings, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, the central figures of the hugely popular, ...