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Drinks, Crime and Prohibition examines alcohol ban’s huge impact on American history

Nearly a hundred years after the US Government outlawed alcohol, Smithsonian Channel’s two-part limited series Drinks, Crime and Prohibition, examines the ban on alcohol in America, and the resultant windfalls and human carnage that it exacted. The era boasted the Speakeasy culture, the birth of cocktails (meant to mask the terrible quality of the booze)

Patrick Melrose on Showtime is a painful, brilliant effort | Review

WARNING: Slight spoilers below There was really no one better than Benedict Cumberbatch to portray Patrick Melrose. Showtime’s harrowing adaptation of Edward St. Aubyn’s novels depict the horrors of a half-known life of English privilege and waning aristocracy within a dysfunctional family. Based on the trailer, there appears to be a happier ending to what

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Who plays Lucas on General Hospital? Get the scoop on Ryan Carnes

Ryan Carnes (Lucas Jones) and Parry Shen (Brad Cooper) are starring in a high profile, topical storyline on ABC soap General Hospital, playing gay parents trying to adopt a baby. The plot has garnered lots of fan interest, and as a result viewers are clamoring to learn more about Lucas and the actor who plays