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Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life came back in a big way on ABC as the network’s latest iteration of Live in Front of a Studio Audience topped Tuesday ratings.  The ABC event earned a 0.9 rating in the 18-49 demo and 4.62 million viewers, per fast affiliates. Live in Front of a Studio Audience best a big night…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about Tuesday’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience, which aired live on the East Coast on ABC. After four decades, cameras rolled once again on the classic ’70s/’80s comedies, Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life, as part of ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience…

Jon Stewart joins ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience that’ll see the characters from Diff’rent Strokes and the Facts of Life back to life by a new, all-star cast of talent. The special airs Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. ET. Stewart will appear as part of the Facts of Life cast in a surprise role. He will work opposite Jennife…

Jennifer Aniston, Gabrielle Union, Kathryn Hahn, and Allison Tolman have joined the cast of ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience that’ll see characters from Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes brought back to life on Dec. 7 starting at 8 p.m. The quad will portray private school teens from the Facts of Life‘s…

ABC has pulled back the curtain on the third installment of its Live in Front of a Studio Audience franchise. Jimmy Kimmel announced on his late-night show Thursday that the 90-minute special will re-create episodes of comedies Diff’rent Strokes and its spinoff The Facts of Life. The live event will air at from 8-9:30…

Wrapping up the weeklong Disney Drive-In Series, a live nightly event that magically turned Pasadena’s Rose Bowl parking lot into a vintage drive-in theater, we welcomed the legendary Norman Lear for a conversation about his multiple Emmy-nominated special Live in Front of A Studio Audience: All in the Family and Good…

Last year, Norman Lear became the oldest Emmy winner in history when his special, Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family and The Jeffersons, won for Outstanding Variety Special – Live. Jimmy Kimmel, another executive producer on the show, came to Lear with the idea of redoing selected episodes from his…

The Primetime Emmy nominations came unusually late this year, pushed by the coronavirus pandemic. The week or so delay from their traditional time frame made the announcement almost coincide with Norman Lear’s July 27 birthday. The TV great turned 98. Lear, who last September became the oldest Emmy winner in history…

Kerry Washington earned an Emmy nomination for her turn as conflicted mother Mia in the Hulu drama Little Fires Everywhere which was adapted from the novel of the same name by Celeste Ng. However, it was one of three projects she received Emmy love for on Tuesday morning. In addition to acting in and serving as…

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,"…