CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Bilbo Baggins addresses his birthday party in "Khraniteli," a Russian language adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings" from 1991 This recovered version, which apparently only aired once, is now ...

Tolkien fans received an unexpected gift with the rediscovery of an all-but-forgotten 1991 production. They were also left with questions, like “why is Gollum wearing a lettuce on his head?” By Alan ...

J.R.R. Tolkien fans across the globe encountered the seemingly impossible last month: a film version of “The Lord of the Rings” they’d never heard of. There was Gollum gargling in his cave. Except ...

Though Amazon is already working on its own The Lord of the Rings series, many J.R.R. Tolkien fans encountered an unseen television adaptation of the author's fantasy novels earlier this year. A ...

MOSCOW — The specter of renewed political control over Russia’s media returned Thursday after a Moscow court ordered the liquidation of independent broadcaster TV-6. The channel has become home to ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — As a wildly popular television journalist when the Soviet Union was falling apart, Aleksandr G. Nevzorov took up a gun in January 1991 and joined the Soviet special forces on ...

Vladimir Pozner helped changed the way Americans view Russians with his late-night appearances on Nightline. Now he may become a fixture on U.S. television. Pozner, often a spokesman for the Soviet ...

Poster for the Soviet Union version of The Lord of the Rings. Pic credit: 5TV If you can’t wait until The Lord of the Rings comes to Amazon Prime, why not check out the campy version released in the ...

I know. Some of you are probably thinking, "What the heck is this Burhan Beg?" Bear with me for a minute. There's an anniversary coming up -- four anniversaries, actually -- of something that happened ...

Viasat Broadcasting U.K. will air Shaw Brothers kung fu movies across the former Soviet Union via an exclusive pay TV deal which Celestial Pictures said will boost the potential global audience for ...