Blog Post Music's Big Night: The 54th Grammy Awards The 54th Grammy Awards air tonight at 8 p.m. PT/ET on CBS. Performers will include Adele, Jason Aldean, Kelly Clarkson, Foo Fighters, Bruno Mars, Nicki Minaj, Bruce Springstein, and Taylor Swift. Diana Ross will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Over the years the Archive has interviewed...
Blog Post How to Direct, Via Master Director John Frankenheimer John Frankenheimer (1930-2002) directed some of television’s most acclaimed productions on Playhouse 90 , Climax! and Danger . In his interview from 2000, Frankenheimer speaks in detail about his craft, techniques, and some of his favorite people to direct. He shares tales of working with Edward R...
Blog Post Happy Birthday to "All in the Family's" Jean Stapleton! Wishing a very happy birthday to actress Jean Stapleton !! The New York City native is best known for playing "Edith Bunker" on the '70s sitcom All in the Family , but has also appeared on Broadway and guest-starred on many TV shows, from Dr. Kildare to The Defenders (on which she first met Carroll...
Blog Post "It's Always Sunny's" Frank Reynolds Shows Up at Our Interview with Danny DeVito The Archive recently had the pleasure of conducting an interview with Mr. Danny Devito . Interviewer Amy Harrington of the Pop Culture Passionistas shares a few thoughts about the experience: I knew that Danny DeVito was a great actor when I signed up to interview him for the Archive of American...
Blog Post No Heart Attacks, Please, but "Sanford and Son" is Turning 40! Based on the BBC's Steptoe and Son , Sanford and Son is the creation of producers Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear . Comedian Redd Foxx starred as widower and junk dealer, "Fred G. Sanford," an Archie Bunker-type curmudgeon, Demond Wilson played his grown son, "Lamont," and the two lived together and ran...
Blog Post This is "Today" at 60 "When The Today Show started in the morning, every station manager in the country objected to it because they said, 'who’s gonna get up that early to watch television?'” - Former NBC Executive Michael Dann It was certainly a revolutionary premise for its day. Back in 1952, networks did not...
Blog Post Life in Llanview Comes to an End: "One Life to Live" Goes Off the Air After 43 years on daytime, soap opera One Life to Live will broadcast its final episode today. The creation of Agnes Nixon (who also created All My Children ), One Life to Live made its debut on ABC on July 15, 1968. The program started out as a half-hour show, and over the years expanded to 45...
Blog Post Ken Corday On “Days of Our Lives” and the Future of Soap Operas Bo and Hope, John and Marlena, Tom and Alice – some of the most beloved soap opera couples stem from Days of Our Lives . In his Archive interview, Days ’ Executive Producer Ken Corday takes us behind-the-scenes of one of America’s favorite soaps. Corday shares that his parents, Ted and Betty, were...
Blog Post Everybody Loves Patricia Heaton With her success on Everybody Loves Raymond and now The Middle , Patricia Heaton is a household name. But that wasn't always so. Heaton spent years as a struggling actress in New York and Los Angeles, doing bit parts and odd jobs to make a living. Her first appearance on a television show was on...
Blog Post From "Marty" to "Mermaid Man": Ernest Borgnine Turns 95! Ernest Borgnine turns the big 9-5 today! One of the most prolific, well-respected character actors of all time, Borgnine has appeared in over 200 films. He's starred in/been an ensemble player in several television series, and thanks to a voiceover role on SpongeBob SquarePants , he's recently...
