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Alexander Payne's The Holdovers is set in the last weeks of 1970 and, if attention is paid, you'll see Da'Vine Joy Randolph pay homage to Isabel Sanford, particularly how the tv legend wore her hair when she played Louise "Weezy" Jefferson in the classic TV comedy The Jeffersons. "I do this all the…

Tributes continue to pour in after the death this week of 101-year-old television pioneer Norman Lear. Amid the celebration of and reflection on his towering legacy, a present-day realization has dawned about Lear’s singular catalog, which includes shows like All in the Family, The Jeffersons and Maud…

Norman Lear, who was responsible for revolutionizing television in the 1970s with such groundbreaking hit series as All in the Family, Good Times, and One Day at a Time, has died. He was 101. Lear died Tuesday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, a spokesperson said. RELATED: Hollywood…

Roseanna Christiansen, who played the Southfork ranch maid Teresa on the final nine seasons of the original Dallas on CBS, died July 14 at Antelope Valley Medical Center in Lancaster, CA. She was 71. No cause of death was given. Christiansen joined Dallas in 1982 for its sixth season, staying through the 14th and…

The great Norman Lear turns 100 today. He’s been creating tv and films for more than 70 years and is till going strong. It’s a career that, any decade of which, would make most artists proud. Among his producing credits are all-time TV classics like All in the Family and The Jeffersons. Lear wrote for Jerry…

Prime Video and IMDb TV, Amazon's premium free streaming service, have closed a licensing deal with Sony Pictures Television for a suite of classic television series from legendary producer Norman Lear. The series, including All in the Family, Good Times, Maude, One Day at a Time, 227, Diff'rent Strokes, The Jeffersons…

UPDATED with Norman Lear remarks: Just over two months after she wowed the crowd at ABC's Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family & Good Times, Ja'net DuBois died suddenly today. She was 74. As confirmed by her family and those close to the two-time Emmy winner, the seemingly healthy DuBois died early…

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of tonight's Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family and Good Times on ABC What a difference an impeachment vote or two can make. It's not that tonight's Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in The Family & Good Times was bad, it was actually "pretty great,"…

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…

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…