Blog Post Golden Girl Betty White Turns 95! Betty White celebrates her 95th birthday today! She's been in the business for over 70 years, and we can't get enough of her! Born January 17, 1922 in Oak Park, Illinois, White got her start in television when the medium first emerged onto the American landscape back in 1939, appearing in a closed...
Blog Post John Wells: Master Storyteller Let’s just name a few of the series this man has written for: China Beach , Third Watch , The West Wing , ER , and Shameless . That’s just a sampling of his writing credits. And in addition to writing in general, this man is particularly skilled at the art of the series finale. He wrote the China...
Blog Post Christmas Episodes: The Tradition Continues With the rapidly changing television landscape, we’re finding that some long-time traditions seem to be remaining in place, for the time being. Each September a spate of new series debut; each October a large number of those are cancelled. The networks still have “sweeps” periods every February,...
Blog Post Television's Holiday Specials Just in time for the holiday season, we've once again partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to create the exhibit: Television's Holiday Specials
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...
