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Ted Danson, Kelsey Grammer, and Rhea Perlman are remembering their Cheers co-star Kirstie Alley following her death on Monday from cancer. Also paying tribute to Alley is longtime Cheers director/executive producer James Burrows. "I was on a plane today and did something I rarely do. I watched an…

Kirstie Alley, who won an Emmy for Cheers, starred in numerous movies including the Look Who’s Talking trilogy and went on to lead Veronica’s Closet and appear in numerous unscripted shows, died today of cancer, according to a post on her official Instagram account (read it below). She was 71. RELATED…

The television business has a lot to be thankful for, if the number of Thanksgiving episodes it has churned out over the years is any indication. One of the most memorable for many people revolves around turkeys and their inability to fly. WKRP in Cincinnati's 1978 episode “Turkeys Away,” is about a…

The 12th season of the ATX TV Festival will take place June 1-4, 2023 in Austin, Texas, and has announced its first round of programming. The festival will present its annual "Achievement in Television eXcellence" Award to director, producer, creator, and author James Burrows. He will attend for a…

Cheer star Jerry Harris has been accused of sexual exploitation and abuse of minors. Court documents filed Monday detail that a pair of underage Texas twins claimed that Harris sent them sexually explicit messages when they were 13 years old. The lawsuit against Harris, 21, also claims that the Netflix breakout star…

Earl Pomerantz, a prolific TV writer whose credits include episodes of such popular sitcoms as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers, The Bob Newhart Show, Taxi and Sanford & Son who also developed and exec produced the 1990s Gerald McRaney comedy Major Dad, died Saturday, March 7. He was 75. His death was announced by…

“Is this project an attempt by NBC to fill a decades-long hole in pop culture left by Cheers departure?” was not the first question the cast and creators of Abby’s got asked during their TCA Q&A. It was the second. “It’s a nice comparison, but I think our show is much better,” EP Josh Malmuth joked to TV critics…

Harry Anderson, who earned multiple Emmy nominations for playing Judge Harry T. Stone on the NBC comedy Night Court, was found dead today at a home in Asheville, NC. He was 65. No cause of death was reported, but Asheville Police PIO Christina Hallingse confirmed his death to Deadline and said they do not suspect foul…

Jay Thomas, the Emmy-winning Murphy Brown, Cheers and Ray Donovan actor, radio host and annual football-throwing holiday visitor to Late Show with David Letterman, died today of cancer. He was 69. His death was announced to the New York Daily News by his agent and friend of 35 years Don Buchwald, who told the…

Warren Littlefield worked under NBC chairman and CEO Grant Tinker, who died last night at age 90. He rose to become NBC Entertainment president from 1990-98 during his two decades at the network amidst its Must See TV era; shows under Littlefield’s watch included Seinfeld, Frasier, Friends, Mad About You, Will…

This is quite a milestone — the doyen of TV sitcom directors James Burrows will have 1,000 episodes of television under his belt. Burrows will reach the number on NBC’s midseason multi-camera comedy series Crowded, on which he serves as director and executive producer. His achievement is being celebrated today though…

UPDATED with more details, Broadway to dim lights: Roger Rees, who won Olivier and Tony awards in the early 1980s for his performance as the title character in The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby, died Friday in New York of cancer. The Welsh-born actor, widely known for his recurring roles on Cheers and The We…