Blog Post And The 2016 Emmy Nominees Are ... The 2016 Primetime Emmy Award season began today with the official nomination announcement at 8:30 AM PST! Congratulations to all the nominees for the 68th Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards and a special congratulations to o ur interviewees who were nominated this year: Hank Azaria for...
Blog Post Notes on Shark Jumping In 1985 at The University of Michigan, a term was quietly coined that would one day enter the lexicon and forever change the way we talked about television. Sean Connolly, Jon Hein’s roommate, invented the phrase “jump the shark” to describe that heretofore undefined moment when a television show...
Blog Post IT'S THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR VERY FIRST INTERVIEW! 20 years ago today, on May 14, 1996, we conducted our very first Archive of American Television interview! Leonard H. Goldenson , the founder of ABC, was interviewee #1. Back in 1996 we were a pilot program approved to conduct ten interviews, and have since become a full-fledged, integral part of...
Blog Post Remembering Marlene Sanders We’re sad to hear that pioneering journalist/news correspondent Marlene Sanders passed away yesterday, July 14, 2015, at the age of 84. In the 1950s, Sanders landed a job at WABD–TV working with Mike Wallace on his then-new show, Night Bea t. She became associate producer on the program and soon...
Blog Post And The 2015 Emmy Nominees Are ... The 2015 Primetime Emmy Award season began today with the official nomination announcement at 8:30 AM PST. Congratulations to all the nominees for the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards! The Archive of American Television would also like to congratulate our interviewees who were nominated this year: Alan...
Blog Post Vince Gilligan: Go Down Swingin' At Something That's Important There are ups and downs in life, that's just part of the territory. But as Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan says, "if you're gonna fail, you might as well fail doing something you love." Invite sometone to sign on to your crazy dream with you! And then watch Vince Gilligan's full Archive...
Blog Post Goodnight, Chet. Goodnight, David, And Goodnight For NBC News Huntley was in New York, Brinkley in Washington, D.C. From these two East Coast cities, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley co-anchored The Huntley Brinkley Report from October 29, 1956 to July 31, 1970. When the program ended, Brinkley remained with NBC News, anchoring with John Chancellor and Frank...
