Blog Post Harry Friedman-featured in this month's "Emmy" Harry Friedman, producer of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! among many other iconic programs, was interviewed by the Archive in 2007. His story is featured in this month's EMMY magazine, available now.
Blog Post Producer/Director Alan Neuman Has Died -- Archive Interview Online We're sorry to report that Archive interviewee, producer-director Alan Neuman passed away on November 23rd, at the age of 84. Alan directed innumerable “live” on-location dramatic, variety, and documentary productions, including NBC’s first televised presidential election coverage and the first...
Blog Post Archive Interviewee Steve Binder honored! Steve Binder has been honored by the Caucus for Television Producers, Writers, and Directors for his 26-year long career in variety television directing. You can watch the Archive's two-part "Living Television" interview with acclaimed producer/director Steve Binder here. He discusses his work on...
Blog Post Tonight on ABC: A Perennial Favorite: "A Charlie Brown Christmas" "A Charlie Brown Christmas" airs tonight, celebrating its 43rd anniversary. The timeless classic was the very first Charlie Brown special and Variety noted in its 1965 review that "author [Charles M.] Schulz is in such strong command of his charismatic characters that it would be successful in any...
Blog Post Hall of Fame 2008 Inductees This year the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will honor Bea Arthur , Dan Burke, Lar ry Gelbart , Merv Griffin, Tom Murphy , and Sherwood Schwartz as the latest inductees to the Hall of Fame . You can view many of our Archive Interviews online at youtube.com/tvlegends . In this excerpt...
Blog Post Too Hip for the Room We know you've been waiting, and now the wait is over! Finally, all 7 parts of our interview with legendary comedian George Carlin have been posted to our youtube channel. Visit youtube/tvlegends or see below.
Blog Post TV Art Director and Sculptor Dick Stiles Passes (Above) Dick Stiles (pictured 2nd from left) participates in the unveiling of the Jim Henson wall sculpture on the Television Academy's Hall of Fame Plaza in 2005. L to R: Phil Wayne, Sculpture Committee chairman; Dick Stiles, Hall of Fame Sculptor; Lisa Henson and Dick Askin, former chairman of...
Blog Post Say Kids.. What Time is It? " It's Howdy Doody Time!" is a 6-DVD box set chronicling the popular 50s children's show which aired on NBC from 1947-1960. The set includes a half-hour featurette with many of the Archive's interviewees, including "
Blog Post 50 Years Ago Today "Playhouse 90" Presented "Old Man" On November 20, 1958, Playhouse 90 , the preeminent dramatic television anthology of the day, presented William Faulkner's "Old Man," a program for which Variety wrote, "such a word as incomparable must be applied." Archive interviewee Del Reisman, the series story editor, explained, "there were...
Blog Post "Studio One" Celebrates Its 60th Anniversary Studio One , one of the first and most successful of the live dramatic anthologies of early television, celebrates its 60th anniversary today. The first Studio One was a presentation of the McKnight Malmar suspenser "The Storm," starring Margaret Sullavan and Dean Jagger (airing November 7, 1948)...
