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Richard Gilliland, a prolific actor who nearly 50-year career included Designing Women, Thirtysomething and series-regular roles on Just Our Luck, Operation Petticoat and Heartland, has died. He was 71. His family said he died March 18 in Los Angeles after an unspecified brief illness. Born on January 23, 1950, in…

The Designing Women are back and will reunite for a good cause on Thursday. Sony Pictures Television announced Tuesday that stars Annie Potts, Jean Smart and Scott Bakula will reprise their Designing Women roles for a charity table reading of the 1986 pilot. Potts will read for Mary Jo Shively, Smart for Charlene…

Hulu has acquired classic 90s sitcom Designing Women and will launch all seven seasons of the Linda Bloodworth-Thomason-created show on August 26, Women's Equality Day. The digital platform will air all 163 episodes of the series, which was produced by Bloodworth/Thomason Mozark Productions in association with…

ABC has given a script commitment to what is described as a “sequel” to the classic 1990s sitcom Designing Women, with the series' original creator Linda Bloodworth Thomason heading the new iteration, Deadline has confirmed. The previously announced project had been in the works at original series producer Sony…

Twenty-five years after the original series wrapped its seven-season run on CBS, a revival of the classic 1990s sitcom Designing Women is in the works at Sony Pictures TV, with the series’ original creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason heading the new iteration, Deadline has confirmed. The series, which ran from September…

Michael Ogiens, a longtime CBS programming executive who also produced telefilms, served as MTM Productions president and created TV’s The Lazarus Man starring Robert Urich, died May 25. He was 69. A Los Angeles native, Ogiens began his executive career at CBS, spending 14 years between its New York and Los Angeles…

Former Saturday Night Live cast member Jan Hooks died today in New York City, NBC News reports. She was 57. Hooks, an SNL regular from 1986-91, left the NBC late-night series to join the cast of CBS’ popular primetime comedy Designing Women when Jean Smart exited. She starred on that show’s final two seasons while…