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It's hard to imagine a time when Hollywood didn't exist. So many people spend hours upon hours indulging in the television series and films that it produces. It is a place intimately woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. Hollywood has made some of the most impossible dreams real, and those dreams have inspired millions. Hollywood films have given audiences hope in a bleak time, or at the very least, have helped keep boredom at bay. Hollywood is a legendary place full of magic and mystery, and it all started with a silent Western film called In Old California, directed by the legendary director D.W. Griffith.

The Western genre was the backbone of American cinema for decades. Westerns have begun to create a new Golden Age on TV. Westerns can tell character-driven stories that are exciting and compelling.

While mainstream cinema is being dominated by the superhero genre, TV has quietly entered a new golden age for a nearly forgotten — yet just as important — film genre. Westerns have been a staple of cinema for decades and helped revolutionize the film industry when it was only beginning its rise to prominence. Telling timeless tales of lawmen, cowboys, bank robbers and regular, ordinary citizens, westerns go a long way in exploring the human condition in a sometimes simpler manner.

Now, while theaters are filled with spandex and superpowers, television shows like Justified, Yellowstone and even The Mandalorian are reintroducing audiences to the more prominent elements found in the western genre. These shows — and many more — are offering brand-new...

Hulu has announced the new titles that will be available to stream on the platform during the month of April. Leading the pack is the new original series “The Handmaid’s Tale,” based on Margaret Atwood’s classic novel of the same name and starring Elisabeth Moss. The series premieres April 26.

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Also available to stream next month are a handful of modern classics, such as “Robocop,” “Days of Thunder,” “Thelma & Louise,” “The Usual Suspects,” “Election,” “JFK,” and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” as well as indie favorites like “Short Term 12,” “The Babadook,” “In a World,” and “Hello, My Name is Doris.”

Find the list of all titles coming to Hulu in April below.

April 1

1408 (2007) (*Showtime)

A Horse Tale (2015)

Agent Cody Banks (2003)

Affliction (1998)

Almost Famous (2000)

America’s Sweethearts (2001) (*Showtime)

Bad Company (1995) (*Showtime)

Bangkok Dangerous (2008) (*Showtime...

Some lucky people are getting out of town for Memorial Day 2010. But some of us are staying at home. Luckily, all your favorite channels are doing mega marathons of all your favorite shows.

Zap2it is the one-stop shop for all your Memorial Day programming. From delightfully bad reality TV like "Real Housewives" and "Jersey Shore" to the quirky 1990s dramedy "Twin Peaks" to the serious TCM salute to war movies, there's something for everyone on TV this weekend. All times Eastern, but check your local listings for times and channel numbers.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

A&E (11 a.m. - 6 p.m.): Flip This House

Animal Planet (1 p.m. - 7 p.m.): River Monsters

BBC America (8 p.m. - 8 a.m.): Doctor Who

Bet (10 a.m. - 7 p.m.): Everybody Hates Chris

Biography (8 p.m. - 3 a.m.): Celebrity Ghost Stories

Bravo (9 p.m. - 2 a.

Next month marks the centenary of In Old California, a 17-minute adventure yarn directed by Dw Griffith and the first Hollywood production. Philip French records the changes in film and Us society in the past century, and names the films that defined each decade

1910-1919: The birth of Hollywood

According to Hollywood myth, the first film made there was Cecil B DeMille's The Squaw Man in 1914, after the director decided not to alight in a snowbound Flagstaff, Arizona, but to proceed to Los Angeles. In fact, four years earlier the prolific Dw Griffith had come west to take advantage of the California sunshine, and the 17-minute In Old California, an adventure set in Spanish colonial days, was the first to be filmed in its entirety in the village of Hollywood. Now commemorated by a monument at 1713 Vine Street, it was released on 10 March 1910, one of Griffith's 98 films of that year.