Acting legend Phylicia Rashad took the stage with This Is Us star Susan Kelechi Watson at the ATX Television Festival for a conversation — but before discussing her remarkable career, the Houston native was the recipient of ATX’s “Award in Television eXcellence”. After graciously accepting the award, the actress, who…

Ethel Ayler, whose career spanned prominent Broadway, film and TV roles for five decades, died at age 88 on Nov. 18 in Loma Linda, Calif., according to her family. The cause of death was not given. Born on May 1, 1930 in Whistler, Alabama, Ayler attended Nashville’s Fisk University as a voice major. But the lure of…

After a picture of Geoffrey Owens working at Trader Joe’s circulated around social media, the theater actor and Cosby Show alum’s life changed. While some people saw his job as a fall from grace, Owens was just trying to earn an honest living. As his name began to appear in headlines and social media began to shame…

Shortly after disgraced comedian Bill Cosby was found guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand, Bounce TV has moved in to scrub repeats of his classic 1980s sitcom The Cosby Show. “Effective immediately, Bounce is removing The Cosby Show from our schedule,” the digital network…

Ensa Cosby, the daughter of Bill Cosby, died Friday in Massachusetts from kidney disease. She was 44. A Cosby family spokesman confirmed the news in a statement today and asked for prayers for the family; he did not provide further details. Ensa Cosby’s, who appeared on one episode of her father’s famed NBC series The…

Two years ago at TCA, Tom Werner told reporters that as EP of iconic sitcom The Cosby Show, he felt the show had been “kind of tarnished” by the scandal surrounding Bill Cosby. The actor has been accused by more than 60 women of sexually assaulting and/or drugging them over a period of many years, and reruns of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Caryn Mandabach is a multi-award-winning veteran producer whose credits include hit U.S. series from The Cosby Show to Roseanne, Grace Under Fire, Cybill, 3rd Rock From the Sun, That 70s Show and Nurse Jackie. More recently, Mandabach is the proud executive producer of period gangster epic Peaky Blinders…

Earle Hyman, a classically trained actor of steady grace, imposing presence and consummate skill, died Friday at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, NJ. He was 91. Hyman’s career on and off-Broadway spanned more than six decades and a multiplicity of Shakespearean roles at Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare…

Last night’s episode of Fox’s Family Guy had some fun with the low-hanging fruit that The Cosby Show has become. With the Griffins and others gathered ’round the tube, they and we see a tooned-up Cos in familiar bad sweater doing his familiar bad dance — but with his female co-stars a little less lively. As if the…

Was NBC’s 1980s regime aware of any inappropriate off-stage behavior by their biggest comedy star Bill Cosby? A 90-year-old former NBC employee, Frank Scotti, says he arranged meetings, cash payments, apartments and more with a string of models and other women on behalf of Cosby during The Cosby Show run on the…

Add TV Land to the list of distributors getting out of business with Bill Cosby. The network said today that it will stop airing reruns of The Cosby Show. Also today, the network that first broadcast The Cosby Show, NBC announced it had plowed under its plans to develop a new Bill Cosby comedy. Both announcements came…