Blog Post Producer's Pointers: How to Turn Your Holiday into Family History 101 The holidays are often occasions when families gather together to share a meal, to catch up, and at times, to argue. Instead of the latter, if you are lucky enough to be surrounded by family members, consider taking advantage of having them all together by starting a conversation about your family'...
Blog Post Aspects of the JFK Assassination: Our Interviewees Remember In its roughly seventy-year history, television has, at its best, served to bring the country together in times of crisis and sadness. Watergate, the Iranian Hostage Crisis, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, and 9/11 are a few that come to mind. But never more so than on November 22, 1963. The...
Blog Post Black History Month! Celebrate Black History Month with our Google Cultural Institute exhibit: African Americans in News & Entertainment!
Blog Post Yeardley Smith: in her own voice Born in Paris to a Harvard-educated ex-Marine who worked for the UPI and a Radcliffe grad who worked for the Smithsonian, Yeardley Smith’ s background was a far cry from the family she would become an indelible part of, in The Simpsons . But there may be more similarities than differences between...
Blog Post April 17, 1967... Fifty Years Ago Today "The Joey Bishop Show" Debuted On ABC ABC's conversations about getting serious in late-night programming began in the fall of 1966. Coincidentally, or not, that was around the time they bought the great 1313 Vine Street studio facility that Don Lee had built. There were four huge audience studios and plenty of room for lots of new...
Blog Post Reiner on Reiner We're so excited that talented father-son duo Carl Reiner and Rob Reiner are being honored by getting their hand and footprints imprinted in the sidewalk in front of Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theatre. The pair already has adjoining stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. While having a parent in the...
Blog Post Growing Up with Dan Wilcox When we were first offered the chance to interview TV writer Dan Wilcox we immediately got a vision, a very familiar screenshot of the credits rolling during an episode of one of our favorite ‘70s/’80s TV shows — M*A*S*H . Close your eyes, you can see it, too — the yellow, stencil font that reads “...
