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Industry juggernaut and legend Norman Lear celebrated Joe Biden’s Presidential Election success on Saturday morning, joining a number of Hollywood figures rejoicing in the former VP’s win. “In 98 years, I don’t believe I’ve experienced a more joyous morning than this one,” the multi-hyphenate said in a social media…

NBC has put in development a drama series based on the novel and movie Fried Green Tomatoes, with Reba McEntire attached to star, and Norman Lear executive producing, Deadline has confirmed. Written by Jennifer Cecil, the project is described as a modernization of the beloved novel and movie that explores the lives of…

Forty-five years after Norman Lear’s One Day at a Time premiered on CBS, the Once Day at a Time reboot is debuting there, marking Lear’s return to the network where he was a staple in the 1970s. The Season 4 broadcast run, which kicks off October 5 with back-to-back episodes over three weeks, was part of the deal…

Last September at the Creative Arts Emmys, Norman Lear became the oldest Emmy winner in history with a victory in the category of Outstanding Variety Special (Live) for Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All In the Family' And 'The Jeffersons’. He was 97 at the time. A year later, Lear, 98, set a new…

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…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: One of the most beloved television comedies is making a comeback. A Who's the Boss? sequel is in development at Sony Pictures Television. Tony Danza and Alyssa Milano are on board to reprise their iconic roles as Tony and Samantha Micelli, a father/daughter relationship that families around the world grew…

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…

Norman Lear will reunite with the surviving cast members of the original One Day At A Time – Valerie Bertinelli, Mackenzie Phillips, Michael Lembeck and Glenn Scarpelli – to support The Actors Fund. The One Day gang, along with producer Patricia Fass Palmer, will be live-from-home guests on this Thursday’s episode of S…

Certified legend Norman Lear joined EGOT winner Rita Moreno and producer/showrunner Gloria Calderon Kellett at Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event for Pop TV’s One Day at a Time. The series got a new lease on life after Pop picked it up for a fourth season following Netflix’s cancellation of the series…

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…