"Norman Lear: His Life and Times" is a new biography ... But no one could play Archie Bunker like Carroll O'Connor. What was the most surprising thing you learned about Lear in doing the book?

A new show from the late All in the Family producer centers on an Alabama widower and his trans daughter. Clean Slate delivers laughs and tenderness, courtesy of stars George Wallace and Laverne Cox.

The show is one of the last TV series from pioneering sitcom producer Norman Lear ... Wallace's Harry Slate, just like Carroll O'Connor's Archie Bunker, manages to be liable, even lovable ...