Blog Post TV's Most Memorable Moments - Vote online! The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards are soon approaching, and many of our Archive interviewees have been honored with nominations this year. Visit emmys.com/abc to watch and vote on your favorite comedy and dramatic moments from classic television shows. The audience favorites will be revealed on the...
Blog Post The Many Layers of Julia Child The National Women's History Museum exhibit, Clandestine Women: The Untold Stories of Women in Espionage, highlights the story of an unlikely operative, Julia Child. It has recently been brought to light that decades before becoming a famous chef, Julia Child, in 1944, worked for the OSS. She...
Blog Post 50th Anniversary of the Beginning of the Quiz Show Scandals A year before Charles Van Doren and Herb Stempel squared off on Twenty-One , a contestant on the quiz show Dotto discovered that the program he was on was rigged. As related in Jeff Kisseloff's The Box: An Oral History of Television 1920-1961 , on August 15, 1958 Dotto contestant Edward Hilgemeier...
Blog Post 2008 Summer Olympics Begin Today The Summer Olympics begin today from Beijing, China. NBC Universal will be airing the most Olympic coverage in history with 3,600 hours on NBC, USA, MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, Telemundo, Universal HD and NBCOlympics.com. American television began to air the Olympic Games as early as August 1936. Variety...
Blog Post Manager Bernie Brillstein Has Died Bernie Brillstein, who represented many comedy legends and helped shephard classic television programming, has died at age 77. Bernie Brillstein full 8-part interview will be online soon and can be viewed in its entirety at Academy Headquarters. Interview description: Brillstein talked about his...
Blog Post Peanuts Animator Bill Melendez Has Died Bill Melendez, who was the animator for the classic Peanuts television specials, including A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown , has died at the age of 91. In his early career, he worked on numerous Walt Disney animated features from the 1940s. His Archive interview...
Blog Post Vote for your Favorite TV moment! Carol Burnett channels Scarlett O'Hara, Sammy Davis Jr. plants a kiss on Archie Bunker.. as does Mulder on Scully.. Who Shot JR is finally revealed.. and it's Suzanne Pleshette at a B&B in Vermont...! Vote for your favorite TV moment! Visit emmys.abc.com to cast your ballot for the most...
Blog Post Producer/Director E. Roger Muir Has Died-- Interview Online E. Roger Muir, who produced Howdy Doody (as well as such other early NBC series as Geographically Speaking , I Love to Eat , and The Chesterfield Club ), has died at the age of 89. In part four, below, he talks about Howdy Doody :
Blog Post Art Director/Graphic Designer Louis Dorfsman Has Died -- Interview Online Louis Dorfsman, who designed every aspect of CBS's branding for forty years until his retirement in 1991, has died at the age of 90. In his later years he was the creative director for the Museum of Broadcasting (now the Paley Center for Media). Mr. Dorfsman was interviewed by the Archive in May of...
