Pop Culture Happy Hour: Tony Awards And Shared Songs
by Linda Holmes
On this week's show, awards excitement and a whole lot of great music where people get into a whole lot of back and forth.
Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR's entertainment and pop culture round-table podcast features spirited discussions of movies, books, television, nostalgia, and — every time — what's making us happy this week.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Funny Moms And Funny Pages
by Linda Holmes
This week, we talk about the moms that make sitcoms run, the comic strips that make Sunday mornings more amusing, and what's making us happy this week.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Binge Viewing And A Summer TV Quiz
by Linda Holmes
On this week's show, we welcome some special guests to chat about Arrested Development, gobbling up television, crazy summer shows, and what's making us happy this week.
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Pop Culture Happy Hour: Star Trek, SNL, And Boldly Going To New Places
by Linda Holmes
On this week's show, we check in with two huge cultural institutions on the way to a discussion about finding yourself on unfamiliar ground.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Cancellation Blues And Cultural Etiquette
by Linda Holmes
On this week's show, we talk about grieving and fighting when shows are canceled, we come up with some rules of engagement when it comes to good manners and culture, and we talk about what's making us happy this week.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Iron Man' And Giving Up
by Linda Holmes
This week's show brings us back to the Marvel universe and into our own surrenders, and as always, we'll talk about what's making us happy this week.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: The Retail And Science Edition
by Linda Holmes
On this week's show: brick and mortar and buying habits, the pop culture of science and scientists, and what's making us happy this week.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Our Great Big Summer Movies Show
by Linda Holmes
This week's round-table podcast is devoted to our enormous roundup of summer movies, from superheroes to cowboys to beautiful and woozy romances.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: A Sense Of Place And A Nostalgic Quiz
by Linda Holmes
On this week's show, the strong sense of place in many parts of pop culture, a nostalgic quiz about the television of the early '90s, and what's making us happy this week.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Mad Men,' Madmen And A Fond Farewell
by Linda Holmes
On this week's roundtable podcast, we talk about the return of Mad Men, the problem of unreliable narrators, and our eternal debts to the great Roger Ebert.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: In The Long Run
by Linda Holmes
On this week's show, we approach longevity from two angles: what it takes to keep a TV series going for many years, and how you know a sequel is dragging things out much too long.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Moody Mysteries And More Punching Bags
by Linda Holmes
On this week's show, we take on television's latest cloudy mystery and give a spirited defense to some of our favorite pop culture punching bags.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Kickstarter TV And Comedy Contests
by Linda Holmes
On this week's show, we talk about how crowdfunding might affect the future of television and how it does or doesn't make sense to send comedies into the ring to duke it out.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: For Young And Old Alike
by Linda Holmes
On this week's show, we talk about culture across generations and lament a few things that aren't available for our eager consumption. And as always, we tell you what's making us happy this week.
Pop Culture Happy Hour: Jingle Madness And Oscar Gold
by Linda Holmes
This week, we briefly wrap up the Oscars before moving to an epic earworm war based around commercial jingles. And as always, we close with what's making us happy this week.
