These 5 TV episodes are vital watches, especially during Black History Month
From 'The Wire' to 'Watchmen' to 'Arthur,' these are five TV episodes to watch during Black History Month, especially now ...
'The Jeffersons' at 50: Looking back at a classic sitcom that changed TV
Gibbs herself played the Jeffersons' maid, Florence Johnston. At the time a TV novice and mother of three, Gibbs had been working as a reservation agent for United Airlines and figured she'd have a ...
Laverne Cox transforms Norman Lear comedy in ‘Clean Slate’
Clean Slate” has Cox as Desiree Slate, who returns to her Alabama birthplace after a decades-long absence to confront her ...
Laverne Cox Says Developing ‘Clean Slate’ With Norman Lear Felt ‘Like a Miracle’
The Amazon show's star and co-creator also tells TheWrap about finding the humor in an authentic trans story The post Laverne ...
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Sally Struthers blasts ‘All in the Family’ creator Norman Lear: ‘Wasn’t a huge fan of his’
Sally Struthers wanted to quit “All in the Family” — and blames its creator, the late Norman Lear. The actress, 77, opened up about being on the sitcom from 1971 to 1979 and working with the ...
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Laverne Cox Says Developing ‘Clean Slate’ With Norman Lear Felt ‘Like a Miracle’
But when the duo pitched the idea to the NBC comedy’s uncredited executive producer Norman Lear, he passed unless the series could be reformatted with a twist. That’s how “Stanford and ...
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'The Jeffersons' at 50: How Norman Lear changed the way Black people were represented on TV
At 11 seasons, “The Jeffersons” ran longer than any of producer Norman Lear’s classic 1970s comedies, including its parent show “All in the Family.” But the more important history it ...