Articles about "classic TV"
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News8 years agoRobin Williams’ Life Remembered By One Of The People Who Knew Him Best
In most cases, stardom brings with it a certain shelf life, which could last decades, but even the biggest celebrity in the world will experience a...
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Reality TV8 years ago‘Modern Family’ Loses A Cast Member And Now We Know Why (Beware Spoilers Ahead!)
From the beginning of its current season, there’s been word that the writers of Modern Family were planning on killing off what has been described as one of...
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Reality TV8 years agoMatthew Broderick Is Joining ‘The Conners’ As A Love Interest For Jackie
While it’s true that much of this season of The Conners will be dealing with the loss of matriarch Roseanne, it’s obvious that the writers are doing their...
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Reality TV8 years agoBob Newhart Returns To ‘The Big Bang Theory’ As Sheldon’s Imaginary Version Of Professor Proton
As The Big Bang Theory makes its way through what is going to be its final season, it’s a great opportunity to bring back some old friends. With...
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Reality TV8 years ago‘NYPD Blue’ Gets A Sequel Series Focusing On Andy Sipowicz’s Son
One of the biggest hits in TV cop history — not counting the Law & Order juggernaut, to which there is no comparison — was ABC’s NYPD Blue, which ran for 12...
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Reality TV8 years ago‘The Conners’ — Revealing And Dealing With The Death Of Roseanne Conner
In some ways, the premiere of The Conners was not surprising in its matter of fact dealing with the departure of the Roseanne Conner character. As Roseanne...
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Reality TV8 years agoMaureen McCormick (Our Own Marcia Brady) Reveals She Wanted To Buy ‘The Brady Bunch’ House
It seems entirely appropriate that a Brady wanted to take ownership of The Brady Bunch house, but, alas, that wasn’t to be. Still, it’s pretty cool...
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Reality TV8 years ago‘Murphy Brown’ Then And Now — Plus Why We Need The Reboot More Than Ever
It’s difficult to look back at 1988 and not recognize how important it was in terms of television sitcom history, as writers had begun tackling issues...
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Reality TV8 years ago‘Magnum, P.I.’ Premieres Tonight — Here’s Your Chance to Meet Actor Jay Hernandez
There’s no question that there will be a lot of people watching Magnum, P.I. pretty closely when it premires on the evening of Sept. 24, and...
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Misc8 years ago‘Designing Women’ Sequel Series In The Works — The Reboot Wave Continues
Everything old is definitely new again — with word that ABC is looking at a reboot sequel series to the 1986 until 1993 groundbreaking TV show,...
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Reality TV8 years agoJohn Ritter Remembered On The 15th Anniversary Of His Death With a Reelz TV Special (EXCLUSIVE)
On a national level, the pain that accompanies 9/11 can’t be measured, but for a great many there was the added tragedy, two years later to...
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Reality TV8 years agoReboot Fever Continues To Spread With Freeform Preparing A New Version Of ‘Party Of Five’
Reboots, reboots, reboots! Everywhere we turn, it’s reboots, though that’s not always a bad thing. Sometimes it means we get to catch up with some old...
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Misc8 years agoHow ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Brought Fans of the Original and New Series Together (EXCLUSIVE)
The new oral history of Battlestar Galactica, So Say We All (Tor Books), from bestselling authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross, tells the story of...
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News8 years ago‘Odd Couple’ Creator Neil Simon Remembered in a Newly Recovered Interview (EXCLUSIVE)
There are a lot of people who, until this past weekend, probably weren’t as familiar with the name Neil Simon as others once had been. Yes,...
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Reality TV8 years agoMark-Paul Gosselaar Says His New Show ‘The Passage’ Will Scare the Hell Out of You (EXCLUSIVE)
Paving the road to hell are good intentions, and that probably best sums up the new FOX series The Passage, about the search for a cure...
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Misc8 years ago‘Will & Grace’ Get a New ‘Friend’ This Season — David Schwimmer as Grace’s Boyfriend
Admittedly it’s not like a crossover between Friends and Will & Grace, but it’s still pretty amazing news: actor David Schwimmer (perhaps you caught him once...
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Misc8 years agoThe Side of Steve McQueen, Hollywood’s King of Cool, You Don’t Know (EXCLUSIVE)
The King of Cool is certainly not a new concept in Hollywood. We've seen it used in reference to Marlon Brando (Streetcar Named Desire—era), Clint Eastwood...
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Reality TV8 years agoDean Cain Loves ‘Lois & Clark’, but There Is Much More to His Life (EXCLUSIVE)
By the time that Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman ended its four season run in 1997, actor Dean Cain — playing the dual...
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Misc8 years agoMonkee Business and a Whole Lot More: Catching up With Micky Dolenz (EXCLUSIVE)
When looking back at his days as a member of the TV show The Monkees, Micky Dolenz has no illusions about what he had gotten himself...
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Misc8 years agoGarry Marshall Reflects on ‘The Odd Couple’ in a Recovered Interview (EXCLUSIVE)
The loss of writer/producer/occasional actor Garry Marshall in 2016 was something felt by anyone who is or ever has been a fan of Classic TV. Think...
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Misc8 years agoMeet the Don Knotts You Didn’t Know From ‘The Andy Griffith Show’
When you look back at different Classic TV shows featuring comedy duos, you're often left wondering what it is that brings these two characters together. And...
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Misc8 years agoCops & Ladies: Sharon Gless Remembers the Original ‘Cagney & Lacey’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Excitement is building over the pilot for cop series reboot Cagney & Lacey, which is set to star Grey Anatomy’s Sarah Drew as Christine Cagney and...
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Misc8 years ago30 Years of ‘Roseanne’ — What Really Went on Behind the Scenes of the Show
Can magic be recaptured? That is most likely the question on the minds of Roseanne Barr, John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, and the rest of the cast...
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Misc8 years agoBarry Williams Celebrates Life on ‘The Brady Bunch’ and Beyond (EXCLUSIVE)
A key element of The Brady Bunch was the little life lessons and morals that the show would offer up in pretty much every episode. Whether...
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Misc8 years agoYou Got It, Dude: Secrets About ‘Full House’ Fans Always Wanted to Know
Reboots walk a fine line between what made something popular in its prime and what will connect with the modern television audience. And then there's Full...
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Misc8 years agoRemembering ‘Family Ties’ and How the Show Made Michael J. Fox a Star
The 1980s were a long time ago, and while Michael J. Fox is still so well known around the world, it may be difficult to remember...
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Misc8 years agoThe ‘Lost in Space’ Cast Remembers the Campy Sci-Fi Classic (EXCLUSIVE)
When you think of Classic TV from the 1960s that were sci-fi in nature, odds are that your mind will go to the original Star Trek...
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Misc8 years agoJim Parsons Shares the Challenges of Being Sheldon on ‘The Big Bang Theory’ (EXCLUSIVE)
There’s no denying that CBS' The Big Bang Theory has come a long way. Currently in its 11th season, the series usually resides at the top...
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Misc8 years ago‘Star Trek’ Fans Should Really Love Lucille Ball — Without Her, It Wouldn’t Exist
You wouldn't think Star Trek and I Love Lucy have anything in common, but there is a major, hidden connection between the beloved shows. In 1950,...
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Misc8 years agoHal Linden Remembers the Life and Times of ‘Barney Miller’ (EXCLUSIVE)
There were some truly memorable police shows introduced to television in 1975, but nothing was like Barney Miller. There was Robert Blake’s Baretta, the original S.W.A.T.,...
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Misc8 years agoJust Sit Right Back and You’ll Uncover Secrets About ‘Gilligan’s Island’
Sometimes it’s difficult to define what makes a classic TV show, but one that has entertained generations of viewers, not with the goal of changing...
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Misc8 years ago‘Mork and Mindy’ Set Secrets That Prove Robin Williams’ Show Was Pure Magic
Forty years ago, you could say that it was almost like catching lightning in a bottle when Robin Williams was introduced to the world with the...
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Misc8 years agoDo These Beloved Movies Sound Familiar? Yep, They Were Once TV Shows First
While there have been quite a number of Classic TV shows based on movies, the opposite is true as well. This summer alone we're getting new...
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Misc8 years agoA Look Back at Some of Our Favorite TV Shows That Are Actually Based on Movies
There's certainly nothing new in the idea of taking a successful movie and turning it into a television series. Truth is, it's been done for many...
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Misc8 years agoTV and Movie Characters From My Childhood Who Still Inspire Me Today
Growing up, I'm going to bet that your heroes — the people who had a profound influence on you — were different than mine. Oh, sure,...
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Misc8 years agoTV Spin-Offs That Time Forgot: How Many of These Shows Do You Remember?
TV spin-offs — the idea of a successful show spawning one or more series featuring either a regular or recurring character — are certainly nothing new...
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Reality TV8 years agoRemembering Tom Hanks’ TV Career, From’ Bosom Buddies’ to… David S. Pumpkins?
A perfect example of Tom Hanks movies is the recent release of The Post, starring Tom and Meryl Streep, which once again showcases the actor's dramatic...
‘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...