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Refresh for updates… “Friends Forever,” writes Betty White of her late Mary Tyler Moore Show friend and co-star Georgia Engel. White posted a photograph on Instagram of the two pals and animal lovers snuggling with a large bear. Engel, the beloved actress from The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Everybody Loves Raymond as…

Georgia Engel, who earned two Emmy noms for playing Ted Baxter’s significant other Georgette Franklin on The Mary Tyler Moore and three consecutive for Everybody Loves Raymond, has died. She was 70. She died Friday in Princeton, NJ,  of undetermined causes, her friend and executor John Quilty told The New York…

Phil Rosenthal is known as one of TV’s most successful writer-producers, especially after the nine-season run of Everybody Loves Raymond, the smash-hit CBS sitcom he created for Ray Romano. He even starred in and produced a hilarious documentary called Exporting Raymond, which followed him as he went to Russia to help…

CBS recently renewed its biggest comedy series, The Big Bang Theory, for Seasons 11 and 12. And CBS Corp. CEO Leslie Moonves hopes that will not be the last renewal for the multi-camera sitcom. “I hope it goes beyond that,” he said during CBS’ traditional upfront breakfast on Wednesday morning. “In my book, Everybody L…

An Everybody Loves Raymond spinoff was almost a reality, according to creator Phil Rosenthal who spoke at a panel at the ATX Television Festival Friday on The New American TV Family. When asked by fellow panelist Nahnatchka Khan (Fresh Off the Boat) if a spinoff had ever been ordered, Rosenthal said, the idea first…

A Broadway farewell to Doris Roberts will be held Monday, May 16. The tribute to the Emmy-winning actress and stage veteran, to be held at the Ambassador Theatre on West 49th Street, will be hosted by Everybody Loves Raymond star Ray Romano. The program, which will be open to the public, will include a special…

An Everybody Loves Raymond reunion panel that had been planned as part of the ATX Television Festival June 9-12 in Austin, TX, is not going forward. Organizers tweeted that “Many factors made this not the right time” for the panel that would have marked the 20th anniversary of the long-running sitcom’s debut on CBS…

Refresh for updates… Friends, fans, co-stars and her Everybody Loves Raymond colleagues are posting remembrances of Doris Roberts, who died today at 90. Ray Romano, star and EP of Everybody Loves Raymond: Doris Roberts had an energy and a spirit that amazed me.  She never stopped.  Whether working professionally or…

In one of the biggest personnel changes in the broadcast comedy business in years, network TV’s preeminent comedy development executive, CBS’ EVP Wendi Trilling, is leaving after a stint at the net spanning a quarter of a century. She will depart at the end of her contract in June after opting not to renew it. "After…

UPDATED: Sawyer Sweeten and his twin brother Sullivan were one year old when they were cast, along with their older sister Madylin, on the CBS family comedy Everybody Loves Raymond, inspired by the life of star Ray Romano, also a father of twins. The Sweeten brothers spent virtually their entire childhood on the set…