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…
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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…
ABC said today that last week’s special Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons totaled 15 million combined viewers when including Live+3 and a Saturday repeat. And the originals series’ creator thinks he knows why so many people tuned in.
"Clearly, there is still a large…
ABC says it will rebroadcast its last-night-of-season special, Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons,' on Saturday, May 25 at 8 PM ET.
Following the broadcast, ABC also will replay the Nightline doc on creator Norman Lear that followed the live remounting of an…
UPDATED with fast nationals: Fueled by big turnout for Jimmy Kimmel’s passion project: Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons,"ABC won the final night of the 2018-19 season by strong margins, beating runner-up NBC and its season finales of three Chicago dramas…
"I'll tell you, seriously, the most amazing thing is listening to these two shows where we agreed word for word — we would not change a word, and nothing has been changed, and I can’t believe how relevant it is to this moment," Norman Lear says of ABC's star-studded Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All…
A featurette clip discussing the re-creations of two of television’s most beloved shows it out, all part of the warmup to a 90-minute tribute to the TV classics All In The FamilyandThe Jeffersons.
Jimmy Kimmel and show producer Norman Lear trip down memory lane in support of the upcoming Live In Front Of A Studio Aud…
