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It’s been 26 years since NBC’s The Golden Girls retired from the airwaves but the geriatric sitcom is alive and well as a licensing brand name and — as flaky as it may sound — fan demand for The Golden Girls breakfast cereal is so high that boxes are being hawked on eBay for as much as $100. The limited-edition Golden…

Ryan Reynolds and 20th Century Fox are celebrating Deadpool 2‘s superheroic start at the box office by thanking the film’s fans in suitable Deadpool fashion: tweaking pop culture with equal parts wit and raunch. On Friday, ahead of the Marvel pic’s full second weekend in theaters, Reynolds tweeted out to his 11.1…

Lena Dunham is Jimmy Kimmel’s guest tonight on ABC’s JLK, because the penultimate episode of her HBO series Girls debuts this Sunday. To mark the occasion, Dunham and her Girls colleagues shot what they billed as a spoof of The Golden Girls, the long-running, mid-’80s/early-’90s NBC sitcom that starred Betty White…

The Golden Girl are heading to Hulu, said the streaming site’s Head Of Content Craig Erich, during his opening remarks at TCA. The complete series will be available to stream February 13. The comedy ran from 1985 to 1992, and starred Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty as four older single…

Tom Whedon, an Emmy-winning writer-producer on such popular TV shows as The Golden Girls, Benson and Alice and the father of filmmaker Joss Whedon, died Thursday. He was 83. His son Jed Whedon, co-creator and co-showrunner of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., announced the news in an Instagram post but offered no…