Blog Post Phil Rosenthal Talks "Everybody Loves Raymond" and the Craft of Writing Phil Rosenthal wanted to be an actor. He and several friends in New York wrote a show called "Tony and Tina's Wedding", in which he acted, and an agent saw his work and told him to come to LA to pursue acting. Rosenthal did, and instead wound up meeting up with high school friend Alan Kirschenbaum...
Blog Post Mary Tyler Moore Honored at SAG Awards Actress Mary Tyler Moore received the Screen Actor's Guild Lifetime Achievement Award at Sunday's SAG Awards. Dick Van Dyke presented the award. In her 1997 Archive interview, Moore reflects on some of her favorite moments with Van Dyke on The Dick Van Dyke Show : The SAG Awards aired on TBS and...
Blog Post "Ladies and Gentlemen ... The Beatles!" The February 9, 1964 audience of The Ed Sullivan Show got the treat of a lifetime. On the stage that night, John, Paul, George and Ringo performed for the first time ever on live, American television. You've seen the footage - the matching dark suits, the screaming teenage fans, the coordinated...
Blog Post It's Ba-ack! New Version of Edward R. Murrow's "Person to Person" Debuts Tonight CBS has revived Person to Person , the 1953-61 interview series hosted by newsman Edward R. Murrow. Charlie Rose and Lara Logan will host the modern-day program, which will air as a series of one-hour specials beginning tonight at 8pm ET/PT. The hosts will get a tour of George Clooney's LA home,...
Blog Post Lessons in Lighting Design from Imero Fiorentino Even if you haven't heard of Imero Fiorentino , chances are you're familiar with his work. He was the lighting designer on may of ABC's earliest programs, including U.S. Steel Hour, Omnibus , Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue , and Tales of Tomorrow . He lit the scene for Telstar I's first live...
Blog Post Mom Always Liked You Best: "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" Turns 50! Tom and Dick. Tea with Goldie. Pete Seeger. These are just a few associations one makes at the mention of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour . Some others: controversy, cancellation, law suit. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour first premiered on CBS on February 5, 1967 with brothers Tom and Dick...
Blog Post Superbowl Showdown: The Art of Televising The Game It's Superbowl Sunday! Time for junk food, expensive commercials, a halftime spectacular, and of course, football! Today the AFC's New England Patriots take on the NFC's New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium at 6:30 p.m. ET on NBC. The game will also be streamed online for the first time ever. The...
Blog Post The Bluths are Back: "Arrested Development" is in Development! This week Executive Producer Dean Lorey announced that the full cast of Arrested Development is back for season four! Creator Mitch Hurwitz, writer Jim Valley, and Lorey are hard at work writing the episodes now. The series enjoyed three seasons on FOX before it was cancelled in 2006, but next year...
Blog Post "Three's Company's" Chrissy and Janet, Together Again After 30 years of not speaking, Three's Company actresses Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt reunited on Somers' web series, “Suzanne Somers Breaking Through.” The two had not spoken since Somers left the sitcom after a salary dispute, but one of Somers' web series producers approached DeWitt about...
Blog Post Three Decades of Stupid Human Tricks: David Letterman Celebrates 30 Years in Late Night Tonight David Letterman marks 30 years in late night television. His first late night talk show, Late Night with David Letterman , premiered February 2, 1982 on NBC, replacing Tomorrow with Tom Snyder . On August 30, 1993, Letterman moved to CBS with the program Late Show with David Letterman ,...
