“Let me start with Mary,” said James L. Brooks stepping up to the podium tonight at the Producers Guild Awards where the TV creator/filmmaker was receiving the Norman Lear Achievement Award. “I promise you as a woman, she was everything you sensed. She had dignity, worth, legs, wit, she was intrinsically valiant, she…

Mary Tyler Moore was more than a TV star who happened to star in two of the most influential series in the history of television. After starring alongside Dick Van Dyke in The Dick Van Dyke Show from 1961-1966, she along with creators James L. Brooks and Allan Burns launched The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which she…

Mary Tyler Moore, the iconic actress who starred in two of the most influential television series of all time, has died at a Greenwich, Connecticut hospital. She was 80 and had battled diabetes for decades. Her family announced that the cause of death was a heart attack after she had contracted pneumonia. “A…

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…

Mary Tyler Moore is remembering her former husband, TV giant and ex-NBC chairman and CEO Grant Tinker, who died Tuesday at age 90. “I am deeply saddened to learn that my former husband and professional mentor Grant Tinker has passed away,” Moore said in a statement. “I’m forever grateful for and proud of what we…

Grant Tinker, former chairman and CEO of NBC, died on Tuesday, Nov. 29. He was  90. In 1969, Tinker and his then-wife, actress Mary Tyler Moore, launched MTM Enterprises. The company became an indie powerhouse, producing such popular series as the ground-breaking The Mary Tyler Moore Show, starring Moore, Rhoda, The Bo…