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When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
The Saturday Afternoon Matinee on the radio were a pre-television phenomenon in the US which often featured Western series. Film Westerns turned John Wayne, Ken Maynard, Audie Murphy, Tom Mix, and Johnny Mack Brown into major idols of a young audience, plus "singing cowboys" such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Dick Foran, Rex Allen, Tex Ritter, Ken Curtis, and Bob Steele.
Grit is an American free-to-air television network owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. [ 4] The network features classic westerns, both TV series and films. [ 5] The network is available in many media markets via the digital subchannels of free-to-air television stations and on the digital tiers of select ...
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
Indigenous faces are hardly seen in movies and on television shows, according to the 2020 Hollywood Diversity Report (the most recent available) from the University of California Los Angeles. The ...
The English is a revisionist Western television miniseries written and directed by Hugo Blick, and produced by the BBC and Amazon Prime. Starring Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer, it follows an Englishwoman who travels to the American West in 1890 to seek revenge on the man she blames for the death of her son. It premiered in the United Kingdom ...
Red, White & Royal Blue. Watch Now. Red, White & Royal Blue, the love story between a British prince and a son of the American president, is based on Casey McQuiston's bestselling novel. It's a ...
Title Director Cast Country Subgenre/notes 1960: 13 Fighting Men: Harry W. Gerstad: Grant Williams, Brad Dexter, Carole Mathews: United States: B Western The Alamo: John Wayne: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Joan O'Brien, Chill Wills, Ken Curtis, Denver Pyle, Chuck Roberson, Guinn Williams, Richard Boone, "Big" John Hamilton