Articles about "classic TV"
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News7 years agoRevisiting ‘Gilligan’s Island’ With Mary Ann Herself, Dawn Wells (Exclusive)
Seven people on a three-hour boat tour ending up shipwrecked on a deserted island and having to learn to survive sounds like the premise of a...
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Misc7 years agoThe Brady Kids Need Your Help Finding ’70s Items for HGTV’s ‘Brady Bunch’ House Reality Series
The big news for Classic TV lovers is not only the recent announcement that HGTV had purchased the home used as the exterior for The Brady...
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News7 years agoRemembering 1969 as We Look Back at the Top Film, TV Show, Album, Events and More From 50 Years Ago
We’ll give you that every year represents an anniversary of something, but one of the standout aspects of 2019 is that it’s an opportunity to celebrate...
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Misc7 years agoWelcome to the All New ‘The Twilight Zone’ With This Super Bowl Trailer — Watch!
Rod Serling‘s classic television series The Twilight Zone is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, and there’s probably no better way to herald this fact than with the...
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Misc7 years agoThe True Farrah Fawcett Revealed — ‘She Was the Marilyn Monroe of the ‘70s’ (Exclusive)
It’s almost unimaginable that nearly 10 years has passed since Farrah Fawcett lost her battle with cancer, and nearly as impossible to fathom that this would...
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Reality TV7 years agoRemembering a TV Icon! Read an Excerpt From the New Book ‘Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story’ (Exclusive)
Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story is a new biography about sitcom icon Mary Tyler Moore, who soared to fame as the star of both The Dick Van...
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Misc7 years agoClassic TV in 1979: Your Guide to All the Shows Celebrating 40th Anniversaries This Year!
Climb back aboard our time machine as we take another trip into the past of television history. We’ve gone as far back as 60 years with...
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News7 years agoMichael Landon’s Daughter Jennifer Shares Fond Memories of Her Famous Dad: ‘He Was Just the Best!’ (Exclusive)
Most people remember late actor Michael Landon for portraying Charles Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie or Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven. But to his daughter Jennifer...
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Misc7 years agoThey Made Him an Offer He Couldn’t Refuse! Michael Gandolfini to Play Young Tony in the ‘Sopranos’ Prequel
It seems The Sopranos is kind of like the mob itself: once you’re in, it’s tough to get out. Well, the HBO series has been all over...
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Reality TV7 years ago‘Hee Haw’ Cast Shares Their Favorite Show Memories for the Sitcom’s 50th Anniversary (Exclusive)
If you thought Hee Haw was a hoot to watch, pfft! You ain’t heard nothin’ yet! To celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary, Closer Weekly exclusively caught...
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Reality TV7 years ago‘The Golden Girls’ Revealed! Things You Didn’t Know About The Classic Series (Exclusive)
In all truthfulness, The Golden Girls probably shouldn’t have worked as a TV series. Seriously, why should it have? The idea of focusing on four aging...
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Misc7 years agoClassic TV In 1959: Looking Back At 10 Shows Celebrating Their 60th Anniversaries This Year
It’s bad enough for anyone who grew up with them to think about the fact that there are so many Classic TV shows celebrating their 50th...
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Reality TV7 years agoClassic TV In 1969: A Look Back At The Shows Celebrating 50th Anniversaries This Year!
Now that we’ve reached 2019, we realize that there’s a lot of pop culture celebrating to be had. We kicked things off with a 50th Anniversary...
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News7 years ago‘The West Wing’ Could Return To Television With A Reboot And Feature A Completely New Administration
According to recent comments, it seems that the critically acclaimed show The West Wing, which was created by Aaron Sorkin, could be just the latest in a...
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Reality TV7 years agoCarol Burnett Accepts The First Golden Globes TV Achievement Award With Touching Speech
If anyone is deserving of honor and recognition for her accomplishments in television, it’s absolutely Carol Burnett, who just received the Golden Globes’ first special award in...
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Reality TV7 years agoTimothy Busfield On A ‘Thirtysomething’ Reboot — ‘I Would Do It In A Minute!’ (Exclusive)
It was a mini thirtysomething reunion when Ken Olin, Patricia Wettig, and Timothy Busfield — three of the stars of the groundbreaking 1987–91 drama — appeared...
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Misc7 years agoJerry Mathers Looks Back At His Days On ‘Leave It To Beaver’ In Our Classic TV Podcast (Exclusive)
When you’re talking about Classic TV, you can’t get much more classic than Leave It to Beaver, the beloved 1957-63 sitcom focused on the Cleaver family that...
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Misc8 years agoMeet Rich Little, The Man Of A Thousand Voices, On Our Classic TV Podcast (Exclusive)
He was dubbed “The Man of a Thousand Voices,” and there is no more appropriate nickname for Rich Little, the world’s foremost celebrity impersonator. Born Nov....
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Misc8 years agoThe ‘Happy Days’ Cast Offers Their Goodbyes To Penny Marshall: ‘There Will Be A Lot More Laughs Up In Heaven’
While people are still dealing with the fact that actress and director Penny Marshall has passed away at age 75, more of them are offering their...
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News8 years agoLoretta Swit Looks Back At ‘MASH’ And So Much More On Our Classic TV Podcast (Exclusive)
MASH has been very much in the news lately thanks to Alan Alda’s podcast and word of a cast reunion taking place on it. We recently spoke...
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Reality TV8 years agoFrom ‘Gilligan’s Island’ The Show To The Unfilmed Movie, There’s So Much You Don’t Know (Exclusive)
In the history of Classic TV sitcoms, there would seem to be few that have had the staying power — or managed to reinvent themselves —...
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News8 years ago‘Charlie’s Angels’ — First Photo Released Of The New Angels From The Movie Reboot
When Charlie’s Angels gets rebooted for the big screen next year — with stars Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska — the concept is definitely being given...
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News8 years agoMary Tyler Moore Turned The World On With Her Smile, But She Hid So Much About Herself (Exclusive)
She could turn the world on with her smile, but personal joy and inner happiness was something that seemed to elude the late Mary Tyler Moore....
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Reality TV8 years agoDoris Day Gushes About How Funny She And Late Friend Rock Hudson Were Together In New Biography
She made his day. Author Mark Griffin reached out to Doris Day when he was researching his new book, All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of...
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Reality TV8 years agoFor Loretta Swit, The ‘MASH’ Reunion On Alan Alda’s Podcast Is More Like A Family Gathering (EXCLUSIVE)
The final episode of MASH — “Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen” — aired 35 years ago, and the power of that finale, as well as the series itself, still...
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News8 years agoBurt Ward Says He And Late Co-Star Adam West ‘Never Stopped Laughing’ While Filming ‘Batman’ (EXCLUSIVE)
They were a Dynamic Duo from day one. “I met Adam West 15 minutes before we did our first screen test,” Burt “Robin” Ward dished to...
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Reality TV8 years ago‘Murphy Brown’ Creator Diane English Debunks Reports That The Reboot Has Been Cancelled
The Murphy Brown reboot cancelled! That’s the headline burning across the Internet today, with word that CBS would not extend the show’s 13-episode commitment. But cancellation may not...
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Misc8 years agoRemembering ‘Charlie’s Angels’ With A Behind The Scenes Look On Our Classic TV Podcast (EXCLUSIVE)
“Jiggle TV” was the name given to ABC in the mid ’70s by competitor NBC, execs of which having the nerve to accuse the alphabet network...
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Misc8 years agoInside ‘Friends’: How It Worked, Why It’s Bigger Than Ever, And If There Should Be A Reboot (EXCLUSIVE)
When Friends made its debut in 1994, there were few who really believed that a sitcom about six twentysomethings who seemed to be spending an awful amount of...
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Reality TV8 years agoConnie Britton Provides An Update On That ‘Friday Night Lights’ Reunion Fans Are Hoping For
Most Classic TV shows have fan bases that can’t quite let their favorite series go, rewatching episodes and hoping that some day there will be a...
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Reality TV8 years agoThe ‘Petticoat Junction’ Cast Shares Behind-The-Scenes Show Secrets: ‘We Were All A Family!’ (EXCLUSIVE)
As the Hooterville Cannonball rumbled down the tracks in the opening credits of Petticoat Junction from 1963 until 1970, families across America gathered for another visit...
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Misc8 years agoClassic TV & Film Podcast From Closerweekly.com — Your Guide To Every Episode
The Closerweekly.com Classic Film & TV Podcast celebrates the Golden Age of television and movies then and now. The guests range from actors, to behind the scenes talent,...
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Misc8 years agoRob Morrow Is Back In The New TV Series Sequel To ‘Northern Exposure’
And the TV sequels continue. Thanks to the success of the revived Roseanne, Will & Grace, and Murphy Brown, we’ve gotten announcements of sequels to Designing Women, NYPD Blue, and,...
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News8 years agoMicky Dolenz Looks Back On Over 50 Years Of ‘The Monkees’ In Our Classic TV Podcast (EXCLUSIVE)
Back in the 1960s, the arrival of The Beatles inspired everything from hairstyles to clothing and, of course, other music. One of the biggest offshoots of...
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Reality TV8 years agoLearn How ‘The Flintstones’ Met ‘Star Trek’ In The Classic Webseries ‘Stone Trek’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Back in the ancient early days of the Internet, before the studios realized that there was gold in them thar hills, a number of people went...
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Reality TV8 years agoKen Olin Discusses ‘thirtysomething,’ ‘Alias,’ And ‘This Is Us’ In Our Classic TV Podcast (EXCLUSIVE)
CloserWeekly.com’s Classic TV & Film podcast describes itself as celebrating the golden age of television and movies, then and now. Well, it’s not easy finding somebody...
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Misc8 years agoKelsey Grammer Has Plans For The ‘Frasier’ Reboot, Including Keeping His Original Co-Stars
As Frasier celebrates its 25th Anniversary, Kelsey Grammer along with his original co-stars and producers from the show all took to the stage for a celebratory panel held...
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Reality TV8 years ago‘The Brady Bunch’ Cast Reunites For HGTV’s ‘A Very Brady Renovation’ Series — See The Pic!
You have to give Maureen McCormick credit for being a good sport. Even though the former Marcia Brady was disappointed she didn’t get to acquire the...
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Reality TV8 years ago‘Bewitched’ Is Getting A Reboot — And The Timing Couldn’t Be More Perfect (EXCLUSIVE)
TV Reboots aren’t going anywhere. Last season saw the re-arrival of Will & Grace and Roseanne, while this year’s new addition is Last Man Standing. But...
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News8 years agoBarry Williams Remembers ‘The Brady Bunch’ And Much More On Our New Classic TV Podcast (EXCLUSIVE)
You can consider The Brady Bunch a genuine example of classic TV in that the show has never been off the air since its original ABC run from...
‘Gilmore Girls’ Netflix Goodbye Isn’t the End After All
'Gilmore Girls' leaves Netflix on June 30, but the series has already been picked up by another streamer beginning on...
How This ‘Days of our Lives’ Star Ended Up in an Iconic ‘Young and the Restless’ Role
Lauren Koslow temporarily replaces Jess Walton as Jill Foster Abbott on 'The Young and the Restless,' with both soaps produced...