Interview Mark Rothman In his four-hour Archive interview, Mark Rothman talks about becoming enthralled by television at an early age, and meeting his writing partner Lowell Ganz in college. He describes his first big break writing for The Mike Douglas Show , and how he and Ganz came to write for The Odd Couple . He...
Blog Post And the 2019 Emmy Nominees Are... See which of our interviewees are among this year's nominees!
Interview Louis J. Horvitz Louis J. Horvitz was interviewed for over three-and-a-half hours in Los Angeles, CA. Horvitz speaks about his schooling at the University of California (UCLA) and developing his interest in the arts. He describes his eye for pictorial art and how it shaped his style as a director. He discusses...
Blog Post And the 2018 Emmy Nominees Are... The 2018 Emmy Award season began today with the official nomination announcement at 8:30 AM PST
Show Emmy Awards, The: 71st Primetime (2019) The 2019 Creative Arts Emmys will be held on September 14th and 15th and the Primetime Emmys Telecast will be on September 22 on Fox. Congratulations to all the nominees for the 71st Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards, and a special congratulations to our interviewees who were nominated this...
Show Mothers-In-Law, The The Mothers-In-Law was the last series produced by Desi Arnaz (he also appeared in and directed some of the episodes). It was created by Bob Carroll and Madelyn Pugh Davis, the original writers of I Love Lucy. Set in the swinging late 1960s, The Mothers-In-Law centers on the misadventures of...
Show Ellen Ellen (originally titled These Friends of Mine for season one) is a U.S. television sitcom that ran on the ABC network from March 29, 1994 to July 22, 1998, producing 109 episodes. The theme song, "So-Called Friend" is by Scottish band Texas. An ongoing gag was that each episode had a distinct...
Profession Directors The television director, who sits atop the chain of command of the crew during the actual filming or taping of the show, is responsible for the visualization of the TV program, selecting the different camera angles and compositions that will used. Beyond this most general definition, however, the...
Blog Post If at First You Don’t Succeed ... Recast: "The Dick Van Dyke Show" Celebrates 50 Years Back in the summer of 1958, Carl Reiner , already an established writer and supporting actor on Sid Caesar ’s Your Show of Shows , sought to create a sitcom in which he would star. He followed the adage of “write what you know” and created thirteen scripts of Head of the Family , a largely...
Show 30 Rock From Wikipedia: 30 Rock is an American satirical television sitcom created by Tina Fey that ran on NBC from October 11, 2006 to January 31, 2013. The series, loosely based on Fey's experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live , takes place behind the scenes of a fictional live sketch comedy...
