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Norman Lear: TV hates old people

Source: She Knows, Nov 21 2012, 12:22pm CST

He was huge in the 1970s, with massive hits such as One Day at a Time and All in the Family. But though his new script is choice, the networks all run. Why? It's about older people. "Everybody thinks it's funny, bu ...

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Espionage, comedy veterans touted for upcoming TV season

Source: LA.com  |   May 17 2013, 11:59am CDT

A publicity image from "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", Marvel's first television series, is pictured in this undated handout photo. REUTERS/Bob D'Amico/ABC/Handout (HANDOUT) NEW YORK - The big four U.S. broadcast networks, in need of ne ...

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2 days ago

Hello From Hollywood

Source: The Northfield News  |   May 16 2013, 7:19pm CDT

AST WEEK the major broadcast networks began to release details of the 2013 – 2014 season, cancelling fan-favorites, on the fence or “bubble” shows and bombs while taking risks on new shows and relying on recognizable names among other ...

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25 weeks ago


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"There are plenty of people out there between 50 and 100."


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10 Classic TV Shows That Need to Be Brought Back

Source: Fansided  |   May 16 2013, 9:19am CDT

Hollywood seems more than happy to reconstitute an iconic TV show into a likely awful movie, but rarely does it remount a TV show back on the small screen. With so many awful television shows out there, wh ...

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3 days ago

CBS Really, Really Wants to Make You Laugh

Source: Vulture  |   May 15 2013, 2:25pm CDT

CBS is about to finish the season No. 1 in both viewers (yawn) and adults under 50 (for the first time in 22 years). It's the only network — broadcast or cable — with series that still break the 20 million vi ...

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4 days ago

Networks Cancel a Slew of LGBT TV Shows

Source: EDGE Boston  |   May 14 2013, 12:00am CDT

Last year, LGBT activists lauded network television for including a record number of LGBT characters on the small screen. But as the Hollywood Reporter points out a wave of cancellations may have activists booing. NBC’s "The New Normal" and CBS’ "Partn ...

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5 days ago

11 TV Theme Songs That Tell the Back Story

Source: Mental Floss  |   May 13 2013, 7:12pm CDT

TV theme songs are an endangered species, growing shorter and less creative each year. Why? Blame advertising. Commercial breaks are longer than they used to be—about eight minutes per half hour of broadcast progra ...

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After Playing It Safe, Fox Will Spend Lots of Rupert Murdoch’s Money to Find More Hits

Source: Vulture  |   May 13 2013, 4:15pm CDT

At first blush, the new fall schedule Fox unveiled today is not much different than last year's lineup, which itself wasn't radically different from the 2011 model. Mondays are still about drama, comedies are still on Sunday and Tuesday, peop ...

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TV: Newswire: Fall schedule analysis: Fox stands pat precisely when it should be jumping all over and waving its arms in desperation

Source: The A.V. Club  |   May 13 2013, 1:13pm CDT

When Fox picked up nine new shows—nearly double of what it picked up last year and exactly double if you could Junior MasterChef as a new show and not just a differently themed season of a pre-existing one—it was widely read ...

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