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The great Norman Lear turns 100 today. He’s been creating TV shows and films for more than 70 years and is still going strong. It’s a career that, any decade of which, would make most artists proud. Among his producing credits are such all-time TV classics as All in the Family and The Jeffersons. Lear wrote for Jerry…

Rae Allen, the Tony-winning actress known for roles in Damn Yankees, A League of Their Own and The Sopranos, died early Wednesday morning peacefully in her sleep. She was 95. Allen was described by many who knew her as "a force of nature" and she had a career to match. Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo…

Just more than a month before the Super Bowl kicks off in the Southland, the NFL and NBC are already doing an end zone victory dance. Capped by the strong ratings of the Las Vegas Raiders' wafer-thin 35-32 win over the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday, Sunday Night Football has again topped primetime for its latest…

Irma Kalish, one of television’s first female producers whose writing and producing credits with her husband and writing partner include the Norman Lear series Maude, All in the Family and Good Times as well as My Favorite Martian, My Three Sons, Gilligan’s Island, I Dream of Jeannie, The Bob Newhart Show and Too Close…

Prime Video and IMDb TV, Amazon's premium free streaming service, have closed a licensing deal with Sony Pictures Television for a suite of classic television series from legendary producer Norman Lear. The series, including All in the Family, Good Times, Maude, One Day at a Time, 227, Diff'rent Strokes, The Jeffersons…

Los Angeles' turbulent year of mass Covid-19 closures, racial unrest and exacerbated homelessness has led to a somewhat predictable stream of media coverage tied to the notion that the California dream is ending. If you lived for any length of time in the city, you've heard the pessimistic outlook all before, only to…

Wednesday proved quite a busy night in primetime, with a pair of huge finales, a nostalgic special, and by the way, the House of Representatives voting to impeach Donald Trump. As for entertainment programming, Fox’s The Masked Singer unmasked the winner of its Season 2 run, with the singing competition topping the…

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of tonight's Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family and Good Times on ABC What a difference an impeachment vote or two can make. It's not that tonight's Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in The Family & Good Times was bad, it was actually "pretty great,"…

Tiffany Haddish, Viola Davis, Andre Braugher, Jay Pharoah, Asante Blackk, Corinne Foxx and Jharrel Jerome are set for ABC’s Live In Front Of A Studio Audience 'All in the Family' and 'Good Times,' a live staging of the Norman Lear sitcom classics. The six will take on the roles first portrayed in the iconic sitcom Good…

ABC’s Emmy-winning Live In Front Of A Studio Audience is returning December 18 with a re-creation of classic episodes from Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin’s All In the Family and groundbreaking sitcom Good Times, created by Mike Evans, Eric Monte and developed by Lear. Additionally, Kerry Washington, who portrayed Helen…

The success of ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience continued this morning when the live special received three Emmy nominations including Outstanding Variety Special (Live), Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special for James Burrows and Andy Fisher and Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special. The…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. Emmy-nomination balloting has been open since Monday, but already there have been skirmishes, some small (a network name creeping illegally into the description of one of the zillion entries — heavens to Murgatroyd!) and some big (an unknown number…