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The future-of-journalism crowd stops ignoring local TV news
Take The Breakfast Club or Fast Times at Ridgemont High or High School Musical, or any other Hollywoodized version of high school. Now map this on as a metaphor for local news ecologies. Local TV journalists are the beautiful, popular people in this hierarchy — with local newspapers and local nonprofits some version of the…
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Fox announces new special: ‘M*A*S*H’: The Comedy That Changed Television’
L-R: Alda, Rogers, Swit – CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images On the evening of Monday, January 1, Fox is taking a look back at one of the most celebrated television series in history. M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television will feature all new interviews with cast members including Alan Alda (Hawkeye), Gary Burghoff (Radar), Jamie Farr…
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Fox announces new special: ‘M*A*S*H’: The Comedy That Changed Television’
L-R: Alda, Rogers, Swit – CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images On the evening of Monday, January 1, Fox is taking a look back at one of the most celebrated television series in history. M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television will feature all new interviews with cast members including Alan Alda (Hawkeye), Gary Burghoff (Radar), Jamie Farr…
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Norman Lear changed sitcoms and America for the better
The canon of English letters has Shakespeare, Russian literature has Pushkin and American television has Norman Lear. No single figure has exerted a greater influence over the evolution of the sitcom in particular, but also the medium in general – the visual vocabulary for live-studio-audience cinematography, the rhythms of writing for the 21-minute format and…
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End of television contract creates some revenue uncertainty for Twins, other MLB teams
NASHVILLE — It may be some time still before the Twins know where their television home is — and thus, how much revenue they’ll be getting from their new deal — creating some uncertainty for the front office as it tries to attend to the Twins’ offseason needs. It was a relatively quiet Winter Meetings…
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Norman Lear, Groundbreaking Television Producer, Dead at 101
Groundbreaking television writer and producer Norman Lear has died. Lear’s shows dominated television in the 1970s and 80s. They featured diverse casts and stories that crossed generational and socio-economic lines. Even his comedies tackled issues like racism, sexual assault, misogyny, homophobia, and extremism. The World War II veteran founded People for the American Way in…
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Critic’s Appreciation: Norman Lear Was Television’s Comedy Lodestar
I truly think Norman Lear would have appreciated — and perhaps been a bit embarrassed by — The Hollywood Reporter headline acknowledging his passing. “Norman Lear, Sitcom Genius and Citizen Activist, Dies at 101.” The “genius” part simply expresses what’s hardest to capture when it comes to Norman Lear, whose roster of mostly broadcast sitcoms…
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City Life Org – Television Academy Foundation Announces Nominees for 43rd College Television Awards
Exceptional Student-Produced Programs Recognized in National Competition by Television Academy Members The Television Academy Foundation today announced nominees for the 43rd College Television Awards, which recognizes and rewards excellence in student-produced programs from colleges nationwide and revealed the recipient of the $10,000 Loreen Arbus Focus on Disability Scholarship. The College Television Awards ceremony will be held Saturday, April…
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Norman Lear’s Influence on Black Television is Unmatched, Unforgettable
Norman Lear reinvented the modern television comedy. He moved away from the “traditional” family presented on series like “Ozzie & Harriet,” offering more authentic blended and extended families on shows like “All in the Family” and “Maude.” As the man behind influential titles like “The Jeffersons,” “Sanford and Son” and “Good Times,” Lear told Black…
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Norman Lear’s Impact on Television Looms Large Today, Monmouth
Monmouth College communication studies faculty member Chris Goble, right, meets with legendary television creator Norman Lear at the 2015 meeting of the National Association of Television Program Executives in Miami MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (December 6, 2023) — Few people did more to revolutionize television than the late Norman Lear, the writer-producer who died Tuesday at the…