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In the year of the coronavirus pandemic, many TV producers have had to get creative, to figure out how to keep their shows on the air, even as production across the world was shut down. During the last seven months of lockdown, the visionaries behind two-live action sitcoms—ABC/ABC Signature's Black-ish and Pop/Sony…

Netflix has given a series order to an animated version of Norman Lear’s groundbreaking TV sitcom Good Times. The project hails from Lear and his Act III Productions, NBA star Steph Curry and his Unanimous Media, Seth MacFarlane and his Fuzzy Door, and Sony Pictures TV. Based on his iconic ’70s series, Good Times is…

Raymond Allen, an actor who had memorable recurring roles on classic ’70s sitcoms Sanford and Son and Good Times, died Monday of a non-COVID respiratory illness at a long-term care facility in California. He was 91. Allen’s death was announced by his daughter, Ta Ronce Allen, in a Facebook post. The actor was best…

Ja’Net DuBois is being remembered by her former co-workers for bringing “light” to the set of Good Times. DuBois, who played Willona Woods on the 1970s sitcom, passed away Tuesday at her home in Glendale, California. She was 74. As news of the actress and singer’s death spread, members of the Good Times family…

UPDATED with Norman Lear remarks: Just over two months after she wowed the crowd at ABC's Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family & Good Times, Ja'net DuBois died suddenly today. She was 74. As confirmed by her family and those close to the two-time Emmy winner, the seemingly healthy DuBois died early…

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…

Norman Lear continues to defy convention about career longevity and age. The TV icon, who today celebrates his 96th birthday, and his Act III production company have signed a two-year first look deal with Sony Pictures TV. The pact includes the option to re-imagine titles from Lear’s extensive library including All In…

The original cast of Norman Lear’s groundbreaking 1970s sitcom Good Times has taken to Kickstarter to fund an original movie the includes the same characters. The Original Good Times Cast Movie brings together all the original stars (sans Esther Rolle, who died in 1998). The project, which Jimmie “Dyn-o-mite” Walker…

UPDATED WITH DGA STATEMENT Bud Yorkin, a film and TV director, producer and writer who partnered with Norman Lear on the groundbreaking television comedies All In The Family, Maude, Good Times and Sanford and Son, died today of natural causes at his home in Bel-Air. He was 89. “As one of television's most influential…