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One Day at a Time, the Latinx reboot of the classic Norman Lear series, made a little bit of streaming history in June when the acclaimed multicamera comedy was canceled by Netflix in March picked up by Pop TV, the first time a series canceled by the streaming giant was able to find a new home. During Vulture…

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…

Jane Fonda was the talk of Friday night’s British Academy Britannia Awards – and she didn’t even have to show up to steal the spotlight. Receiving the prestigious Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award For Excellence In Film, Fonda pulled off what is easily the most unusual acceptance speech ever given in the annals of…

Al Burton, the creator of Charles in Charge and Win Ben Stein’s Money and a key figure in the success of signature sitcom hits such as The Jeffersons, Diff’rent Strokes, Silver Spoons, Facts of Life and One Day at a Time, has died. He was 91. Burton died Tuesday at his San Mateo home, according to Damon Schwartz, a…

Norman Lear is to receive the Britannia Award for Excellence in Television at the BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards. The One Day At A Time exec producer, who also recently partnered with Jimmy Kimmel on ABC's Live In Front Of A Studio Audience, is the latest high-profile creative talent to be feted at the event…

Tonight at the Creative Arts Emmys, Norman Lear, 97, 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.’ “Thank you, thank you, and holy sh*t,” laughed Lear, who…

The Paley Center for Media will celebrate some of the greatest comedic moments and legends in television at this year's The Paley Honors: A Special Tribute to Television's Comedy Legends. Honorees include Carol Burnett, Norman Lear, Bob Newhart, Carl Reiner, Lily Tomlin The event will take place on November 21 at 6:30…

ABC is bringing back Live in Front of a Studio Audience for two more outings. The broadcaster is to air a live holiday special this winter as well as another special in spring 2020. This comes after Jimmy Kimmel's live staging on Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons scored over 22M viewers when it aired…

One Day At A Time will not lose any of its charm while adjusting to shorter runtimes on ad-supported cable, producers say. Even the hashtag #SaveODAAT couldn't save the LatinX remake of Norman Lear's 1975-84 family comedy One Day At A Time from cancellation at Netflix. But the series has been rescued by CBS–owned Pop T…

Norman Lear and Lin-Manuel Miranda have partnered on a new doc exploring the life of West Side Story and One Day At A Time star Rita Moreno. The pair are working up Rita Moreno: The Girl Who Decided to Go For It (w/t) for PBS and its Thirteen strand. The film, which will premiere in 2020, will explore the Puerto Rican…

The success of ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience continued this morning when the live special received three Emmy nominations including Outstanding Variety Special (Live), Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special for James Burrows and Andy Fisher and Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special. The…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. Emmy-nomination balloting has been open since Monday, but already there have been skirmishes, some small (a network name creeping illegally into the description of one of the zillion entries — heavens to Murgatroyd!) and some big (an unknown number…