Blog Post He's Catching Up to the 2000 Year-Old Man: Carl Reiner Turns 96! Happy 96th birthday, Carl Reiner!
Blog Post The Mary Tyler Moore Show Finale at 40 Forty years ago, on March 19, 1977, the cast of The Mary Tyler Moore Show took their final bow. The series finale, “The Last Show” saw the gang at WJM facing a new station manager and a round of surprise firings. Show creators Allan Burns and James L. Brooks brought back every writer who had...
Blog Post TV Tunes: Some Thoughts on the Theme Song Television theme songs, at their best, trigger an almost Pavlovian response in the viewer. After seven years, when one heard, “Woke up this morning…” one became instantly primed for the superb writing, fine acting, and sometimes horrifying violence of The Sopranos . The jaunty I Love Lucy theme...
Blog Post Felicity Huffman And William H. Macy Prove Love And A Whole Lot of Talent Are Alive And Well In Hollywood They're a celebrity couple, but I got the sense that they're way more couple than "celebrity." They’re down to earth, extremely skilled at their craft, and delightfully warm towards each other. I not only got to witness what a loving relationship looks like when I recently sat down with Felicity...
Blog Post Guest Post: Pop Culture Passionistas Share Their Highlights from the 68th Emmys Red Carpet Our good friends the Pop Culture Passionistas helped us cover the red carpet and press room at the Emmys this year! Here's their behind-the-scenes scoop on the 68th Creative Arts and Primetime Emmys - enjoy! We are pleased to say that for the seventh straight year the Television Academy Foundation’...
Blog Post Composer Mark Snow Explains The Origins of His Music for Some Files Marked “X” It’s one of THE most iconic TV themes of all time. It starts with a spooky echo, followed by 6 whistled notes. It’s from a popular sci-fi show, which was recently revived after its original 1993-2002 run. Yep, that would be The X-Files theme, composed by the talented Mark Snow . I recently had the...
Blog Post Learn the Facts of Geri Jewell’s Life in her Archive interview! As Cousin Geri on The Facts of Life , Geri Jewell broke ground on American television: she became the first person with a visible disability to have a recurring role on an American primetime TV series. The character was tailored to Geri, a real-life stand-up comic, and at times incorporated jokes...
Blog Post Celebrate "That Girl’s" 50th Anniversary with New Interviews from Producers Saul Turteltaub and Bernie Orenstein! That Girl came into our lives on September 8, 1966 when actress Ann Marie met magazine writer Donald Hollinger. But That Girl wasn’t your typical “girl meets boy; girl marries boy” show. This was a show in which the main character, a woman, did not (spolier alert) tie the knot at the end of the...
