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Norman Lear, Prolific Producer Who Revolutionized Television, Dies at 101
Prolific television producer Norman Lear has died at the age of 101.
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Norman Lear Brought America's Culture War To Prime Time
This post was originally published on September 22, 2022.
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Posted Monday 2/14/22 at 9:37AM EST
Beryl Vertue, renowned Sherlock executive producer who brought All in the Family and Sanford and Son to America, dies at 90
Through her British independent television production company Hartford Films, Beryl Vertue worked closely with her daughter Sue Vertue and Sue's...
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Posted Tuesday 3/23/21 at 9:04PM EDT
How All in the Family paved the way for Atlanta, Fleabag, The Wire and Peak TV
In an excerpt from Ronald Brownstein's new book Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music,...
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A Taxonomy of Super Bowl Lead-Out Programs
In a TV landscape that increasingly relies on live TV events for ratings, there is no more valuable real estate...
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Posted Saturday 1/23/21 at 6:45AM EST
Sanford and Son and Barney Miller actor Gregory Sierra dies at 83
For 1970s sitcom fans, Sierra is best remembered as genial Julio Fuentes on Sanford and Son and the impassioned Sgt.
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The Jeffersons Premiered 46 Years Ago Today
On January 18, 1975, the first ever-episode of The Jeffersons aired on CBS, kicking off an 11 season run.
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All in the Family turns 50: Why the Norman Lear sitcom was so radical for 1971
Norman Lear, who with Bud Yorkin pitched the working-class comedy based on British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part to...
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Norman Lear's "Bunkerverse" Turns 50 Years Old Today
The night of January 12th, 1971 marked the first time TV audiences would see (and hear) the now-iconic opening credits for...
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Posted Saturday 10/24/20 at 3:45AM EDT
From I Love Lucy to Friends to Seinfeld: How sitcoms changed how the world sees New York City
"In its seven-plus decades, the sitcom has uncannily mirrored, and shaped, public perceptions of New York City," writes Kathryn VanArendonk...
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A Taxonomy of TV Clip Shows
It probably seemed like television had evolved past the need for clip shows.
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Posted Thursday 1/30/20 at 1:39PM EST
Legendary TV programmer Fred Silverman, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Gut," dies at 82
Silverman, the only executive to have programmed CBS, ABC and NBC, died at his home in Los Angeles Thursday.
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Posted Thursday 12/19/19 at 2:41PM EST
Live in Front of a Studio Audience's viewership tumbles in second special
About 5.
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Posted Thursday 12/19/19 at 9:27AM EST
It's too bad Live in Front of a Studio Audience's Good Times restaging "fell victim, briefly, to a more substantial bit of 1970s cosplay"
As a result of the House impeachment vote last night, "viewers missed several minutes of a story that positioned the...
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ABC cut away from Live in Front of a Studio Audience twice for Trump's impeachment
During the House impeachment votes Wednesday night, CBS stuck with the Survivor: Island of the Idols finale until the second...