Recent Articles by Ed Gross

For Gladys Knight, the opportunity to perform at this year’s Super Bowl in her hometown of Atlanta is a personal honor. At the same time, she’s very much aware that her appearance is...

There’s no denying that 2019 and beyond is going to be a banner year for Disney, and not just because they’re going to be releasing new films from their various in-house brands, like Pixar (Toy...

Seems like it’s time to offer our congratulations to actress Michelle Pfeiffer who has finally joined the Instagram revolution by opening up her own account. Michelle, who was seen last year in the...

In all truthfulness, The Golden Girls probably shouldn’t have worked as a TV series. Seriously, why should it have? The idea of focusing on four aging women living together and helping each other...

It’s bad enough for anyone who grew up with them to think about the fact that there are so many Classic TV shows celebrating their 50th Anniversaries this year, but we’re just twisted...

Over the past four decades, there has been one sports commentator for NBC who has stood out above the rest, and that’s Bob Costas. Unfortunately, Bob has surprised a great many people by...

In the last episode of CloserWeekly.com’s Classic TV podcast, we spoke to producer Lloyd Schwartz, whose father, Sherwood Schwartz, created both The Brady Bunch and Gilligan’s Island, which Lloyd was involved with as well. This time out,...

Well, not to get all spoilery on you (by the nature of this story we actually have to), but at the end of Avengers: Infinity War, we saw Tom Holland’s Spider-Man among those turned to...

Producer Ryan Murphy continues to heat up interest in his new Netflix series, Ratched, every time he makes another casting announcement. For starters, Sarah Paulson, from his various American Horror Story anthology storylines and the new...

You know what the most exciting thing about Happy Days turning 45 is? It’s cool. And being cool is… well, cool. That life lesson was instilled on a generation of TV watchers by that 1950s-set show’s...

Tony Award and Golden Globe winner, and Academy Award nominee, Carol Channing — who was so unforgettable in the 1964 Broadway production of Hello Dolly! — has died of natural causes at the age of 97. As...

Ever since Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh made the transition from Hong Kong action films to the 1997 James Bond thriller Tomorrow Never Dies, an already successful career began to expand into different types of...

Considering all the PR hoopla surrounding NBC’s previous signing of Megyn Kelly to host the third hour of Today, there were probably a lot of people wondering if the Peacock Network was shooting itself...

There have been rumblings that The Conners, the spin-off to the canceled Roseanne, wouldn’t be back for a second season due to falling ratings and the high salaries paid to cast members like John Goodman,...

Following news that Julie Chen Moonves will be returning to serve as host of the second season of Celebrity Big Brother, now comes the announcement of who the competitors will be (the full break...

Every episode of The Big Bang Theory that airs, unfortunately brings us closer and closer to the end. One thing that the fans have in common with the series’ stars, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, and...

Now that we’ve reached 2019, we realize that there’s a lot of pop culture celebrating to be had. We kicked things off with a 50th Anniversary look back at the films of 1969...

Is Criminal Minds being cancelled? And if so, why exactly is Criminal Minds ending? Those two questions are the ones that have been plaguing fans of the long-running CBS series for years. And now,...

The 20th Anniversary of HBO’s The Sopranos was celebrated in style on Wednesday, Jan. 9 at New York City’s SVA Theater, which hosted a star-studded reunion event that brought cast members and producers from...

It really seemed like we were on our way to what would be a fresh and thoroughly entertaining Academy Awards presentation this year with Kevin Hart serving as the latest Oscars host. But...