Articles by Kellie Freeze

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Comedy

Tonight on Pop: Ali Wentworth Takes A Swig Of Late-Night Satire In Nightcap

November 16, 2016 Kellie Freeze

Late-night TV is a competitive sphere where shows compete for viewer eyeballs and celebrity guests, and wage war in a never-ending quest to go viral. Ali Wentworth satirically filets the genre with Nightcap, in which she plays the neurotic talent booker for the outrageous (and fictitious) late-night talk show Nightcap With Jimmy. While we don’t meet the titular host, viewers do get a peek at the tomfoolery behind the scenes of his show. But the high jinks aren’t limited to the dysFUNctional crew — the show’s A-list guests are just as batty! The 10 episodes of Nightcap are star-studded, with […]

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Holiday

Hallmark Channel’s New December Films Promise Romanic Holidays

November 3, 2016 Kellie Freeze

I may be early December, but Hallmark Channel is midway through its annual “Countdown to Christmas,” charming holiday programming that stretches from Halloween until the New Year. And in December, the Hallmark Channel has plenty of delightfully sweet holiday films for when the weather turns frightful! December Movies Saturday, Dec. 3 A Dream of Christmas An ambitious but discontented young married woman (Nikki DeLoach) gets more than she bargained for when she is granted a wish to be single again. She awakens one morning to discover she has the home, car and job of her dreams, but soon realizes she’s missing […]

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Streaming

Amazon and American Girl Explore Civil Rights in An American Girl Story — Melody 1963: Love Has to Win

October 21, 2016 Kellie Freeze

Amazon presents its first collaboration with the American Girl franchise with an original tale based on the character Melody Ellison, whose adventures revolve around her deep love of Motown and her dreams of music stardom. This special is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video and is a brave departure from AG’s typically frothy tales, and focuses on Melody’s experience as part of the Civil Rights movement as a child of color. Melody 1963 centers around a 10-year-old girl Melody whose innocent eyes are opened to the racial inequality surrounding her, including bullying by peers, her mother’s mistreatment at work, and […]