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Multiple Emmy Award-winning actress and animal rights activist Betty White, who most famously starred in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls, has died, just days short of her 100th birthday. White passed peacefully Thursday night at her home, her agent Jeff Witjas confirmed to Deadline. “Even though Betty…

Picture it, Miami. 1992. The Golden Palace, a 90s spin-off series of The Golden Girls, will stream exclusively via Hulu starting Jan. 10. The streamer is releasing Palace in celebration of franchise star Betty White’s 100th birthday just 7 days later. Though it only ran for one season, The Golden Palace is a treasured…

Jay Sandrich, the Emmy-winning TV director who was behind such iconic comedies as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Cosby Show, The Golden Girls, WKRP in Cincinnati and Soap among others, has died. He was 89. Showbiz & Media Figures We’ve Lost In 2021 – Photo Gallery The news was confirmed Thursday by his former agency…

For one night only, Regina King, Tracee Ellis Ross, Alfre Woodard and Sanaa Lathan will be the iconic ladies of The Golden Girls. Playing Rose, Dorothy, Sophia and Blanche, respectively, the actresses will kick off the Zoom Where It Happens series, a weekly live table read program centered on informing and raising…

UPDATE: It pays to be a part of television history. The Brentwood home that served as the exterior establishing shot in the first season of The Golden Girls has sold for $4,000,260. That’s one million dollars over the asking price. The sale closed today. The buyer was not immediately identified. EARLIER: You can spend…

Hulu has removed an episode of The Golden Girls containing a scene of characters in blackface after a request from the series’ distributor, Disney-ABC Domestic Television, sources tell Deadline. The episode, titled "Mixed Blessings” and which aired in 1988, is the 23rd episode in the third season of the sitcom. In the…

Move over, Mr. Pink, Mr. White and Mr. Blue. Quentin Tarantino credits a certain Ms. Golden as the real hero behind Reservoir Dogs. On last night’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Tarantino, promoting Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, told Fallon that residuals he received from playing an Elvis impersonator on a…

It’s been 26 years since NBC’s The Golden Girls retired from the airwaves but the geriatric sitcom is alive and well as a licensing brand name and — as flaky as it may sound — fan demand for The Golden Girls breakfast cereal is so high that boxes are being hawked on eBay for as much as $100. The limited-edition Golden…

Ryan Reynolds and 20th Century Fox are celebrating Deadpool 2‘s superheroic start at the box office by thanking the film’s fans in suitable Deadpool fashion: tweaking pop culture with equal parts wit and raunch. On Friday, ahead of the Marvel pic’s full second weekend in theaters, Reynolds tweeted out to his 11.1…

Lena Dunham is Jimmy Kimmel’s guest tonight on ABC’s JLK, because the penultimate episode of her HBO series Girls debuts this Sunday. To mark the occasion, Dunham and her Girls colleagues shot what they billed as a spoof of The Golden Girls, the long-running, mid-’80s/early-’90s NBC sitcom that starred Betty White…

The Golden Girl are heading to Hulu, said the streaming site’s Head Of Content Craig Erich, during his opening remarks at TCA. The complete series will be available to stream February 13. The comedy ran from 1985 to 1992, and starred Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty as four older single…

Tom Whedon, an Emmy-winning writer-producer on such popular TV shows as The Golden Girls, Benson and Alice and the father of filmmaker Joss Whedon, died Thursday. He was 83. His son Jed Whedon, co-creator and co-showrunner of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., announced the news in an Instagram post but offered no…