The BBC has chosen actor Matt LeBlanc to fill a vacant seat on the new reboot of the popular TV show 'Top Gear'. The network is scrambling to put together a cast of characters that can live up to the original hosts.
The BBC has chosen actor Matt LeBlanc to fill a vacant seat on the new reboot of the popular TV show 'Top Gear'. The network is scrambling to put together a cast of characters that can live up to the original hosts.
Despite their popularity, by the late 1880s dry goods stores were so full of unsold books that prices dropped to less than five cents per copy. Many titles that could still not sell were given away or destroyed.
Beadle dime novels became so popular that the company had to build a factory of hack writers to mass produce them. As urbanization spread, tales of the Wild West were in less demand, and tales of urban outlaws became popular.
Despite the warning from Lord Shaftsbury that the paperback literature was seducing middle-class society into an unproductive life of evil, the penny bloods grew in popularity.
Going out to see a film is becoming less popular. The number of movie goers in the US dropped to the lowest it's been in 20 years. The question is: why?
'London has Fallen' was shot at Nu Boyana, a large film studio in Bulgaria that's gaining popularity for movie-makers worldwide. They built an incredible London set including St. Paul’s cathedral.
Social networking is popular with US 13-17 year olds: 75% have a profile. Facebook is way more popular than Twitter. For every-day communicating, texting is most popular: 68% say they do it.
In a sign of how thoroughly the country has been turned upside down, even some of the nation’s revered soccer heroes have become targets of rage for distancing themselves from the popular uprising.
Popular in Iceland, Hakarl is a basking shark that has been cured with a particular fermentation process, hung to dry for five months, and served in cubes on toothpicks.
Popular in Iceland, Hakarl is a basking shark that has been cured with a particular fermentation process, hung to dry for five months, and served in cubes on toothpicks.
On the surface, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Larry the Cable Guy, and Rosie O'Donnell have little in common. Yet, these popular figures, successful in different fields, each had to take time off for the same reason: acid reflux.
Kid-focused augmented reality game Disney Infinity seems like a me-too cash grab. You can't really blame Disney: with a wealth of popular characters and franchises to choose from, it could be a money-making machine.
Tea is India's most popular drink, consuming 837,000 tons of it every year. The ritual of drinking chai transcends all boundaries, and roadsides are dotted with chai wallahs who serve it boiled up with spices, sugar and milk.