Blog Post Noted TV Producer Bob Banner Dies at 89 We've just learned that legendary TV producer Bob Banner has passed away at 89. Banner was one of the pioneers in the new medium of television, beginning his career at WBKB, and later WMAQ in Chicago -- part of the historic "Chicago School" -- where he worked on Kukla, Fran and Ollie and produced...
Blog Post "The Gong Show" turns 35! Happy 35th anniversary to the wacky TV talent show, The Gong Show , which premiered on June 14, 1976! Did you know that the show was originally pitched as a legitimate talent show? Creator/host Chuck Barris talks about the genesis of The Gong Show : See more about the show at the Archive of...
Blog Post 50 Years Later: A Vaster Wasteland? On May 9, 1961 FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow, an appointee of President Kennedy's administration, delivered his historic speech to the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, DC. The speech is best known for two words he uttered in reference to the programming found on TV stations...
Blog Post Happy St. Patrick's Day The Archive of American Television is getting in the St. Paddy’s Day spirit by recognizing some of the most beloved Irish-American television greats. So, if green beer isn’t your thing, but you’d still like to celebrate, EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG presents a few Irishmen (and women) who deserve some...
Blog Post "Robert Montgomery Presents" Debuted 60 Years Ago One of the top big-budget "live" anthology series of "The Golden Age of Television," Robert Montgomery Presents debuted on January 30, 1950 with an adaptation of "The Letter" starring screen star Madeleine Carroll. Although the kinescope copies of Robert Montgomery Presents are very little seen...
Blog Post Pioneering Female TV Director Frances Buss Buch Has Died Frances Buss Buch, the first woman director at CBS, died at the age of 92 on January 19. She was an on-camera assistant on the very first TV game show— CBS Television Quiz — and also assisted with Richard Hubbell's CBS newscast, which included the announcement of the attack on Pearl Harbor on...
Blog Post Tyne Daly Guest Stars on "Burn Notice" Tonight Burn Notice returns for the second half of season three with Sharon Gless' Cagney & Lacey co-star Tyne Daly in a guest role. After a few years off the small screen following Judging Amy , Tyne Daly has recently returned to TV in such projects as last year's television movie Georgia O'Keefe (...
Blog Post TV Academy Hall of Fame: 2010 Tonight, seven new inductees will be added to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame at a special ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel— actress Candice Bergen, art director Charles Lisanby, announcer Don Pardo, show creator-producer Gene Roddenberry (posthumously), performers...
Blog Post Bob Barker Out of Contestant's Row Bob Barker 's full Archive interview is now online. The legendary game show host discusses his long career and his activism in his July 7, 2000 interview. "When we started The Price is Right in 1972 we gave away automobiles with four numbers in the price and the first number was 2. Two-thousand-...
Blog Post "The Jeffersons" Celebrates its 35th Anniversary On January 18, 1975, The Jeffersons began its ten-year run on CBS. A spin-off, the series had its "pilot" episode air on All in the Family (on Jan. 11). The Jeffersons began in a period in TV history when African-American characters were becoming the leads of their own shows. Isabel Sanford, in...
