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Valerie Harper, the multiple-Emmy-winning sitcom star whose role as the somewhat neurotic Rhoda Morgenstern made her one of television’s biggest and most beloved actors in the 1970s, died today. She was 80 and had been suffering from various cancers for a number of years. Her family told KABC-TV entertainment reporter…

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…

Another year and another group of Hollywood and media industry icons left us in 2017, from TV legends like Mary Tyler Moore to comedy greats like Jerry Lewis and Don Rickles, and cultural standbys like Hugh Hefner. There were unexpected losses, like Bill Paxton’s death at age 61 after complications during surgery…

CBS will spend some holiday time with Rob, Laura, Sally, Buddy and Ritchie for a second consecutive year. The network said today that it will air two colorized episodes of classic sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show on December 22. This year’s special will feature the Season 1 episode "My Blonde-Haired Brunette," written by…

“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…

Candice Bergen visited Today show to say her CBS single-newswomen sitcom Murphy Brown owed an enormous debt to Mary Tyler Moore’s eponymous CBS sitcom a decade earlier.  In the series, Moore, who died Wednesday, played a single 30-year-old who moves to Minneapolis and applies for a secretarial job at a TV station but…

Not many are lucky enough to say this, but I can. The first “gig” I got in this business was at MTM Enterprises, hanging around the set of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show. One of my very first wide-eyed memories of actually realizing my dream of being a part of show business was meeting Mary Tyler…

Mary Tyler Moore got her big break when she was cast as Laura Petrie, wife of Dick Van Dyke’s Rob Petrie, on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Created by Carl Reiner, the show ran for 158 episodes from 1961-66 on CBS, earning Moore a pair of Emmys for her role. Van Dyke remained her friend for the next six decades. He tweeted a…

UPDATED with ABC 20/20, SundanceTV, MeTV, PBS: ABC has scheduled a special episode of 20/20 honoring the late actress. Mary Tyler Moore: After All airs Friday at 10 pm ET/9 Central. SundanceTV on Saturday will air all 24 episodes of the final season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, leading up, of course, to Episode 724…

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…

Carl Reiner in 2013 talked to Conan OBrien about casting Mary Tyler Moore in her first big TV role, as Laura Petrie, wife of Rob, on The Dick Van Dyke Show. The series ran from 1961-66 on CBS. “I saw 26 girls!” he told Conan of the difficulty in casting the role. Reiner said he was struck with Moore and her “great…

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…