Television and Radio “The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour” debuted on CBS in 1971. The show was scheduled to return for a fourth season in October 1974, but Sonny and Cher separated that fall, resulting in it being canceled. After failed solo attempts by the pair to host their own variety series, they reunited in February […]
Television MGM’s Leo the Lion roared for the first time in 1928. He introduced MGM’s first talking picture, “White Shadows on the South Seas.” Chet Huntley retired from NBC in 1970, which resulted in the renaming of daily newscast “The Huntley-Brinkley Report” to the “NBC Nightly News.” The initial anchors of the “NBC Nightly News” were David Brinkley, John Chancellor and Frank McGee…In 1984, Leeza Gibbons made her first appearance on “Entertainment Tonight”… Movies “The Living Daylights,” the 15th film of the James Bond franchise, […]
Television In 1948, professional wresting premiered in primetime on the long-defunct DuMont Network. Eventual game show host Dennis James (“The Price is Right,” “Name the Tune”) was DuMont’s sports announcer for boxing and wrestling. His phrase “Okay Mother” became so identified with him that is was later used for the title of one of his numerous daytime […]
With the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards taking place Sunday, September 15, 2024 on ABC, here is your chance to predict who will win via the Programming Insider Primetime Emmy Awards Pick’Em Game! The deadline is when the ceremony starts on Sunday, September 15, 2024 at 8 p.m. Eastern. For mobile device visitors, you may visit […]
Television Jack Paar began his five season hosting duties on NBC’s “The Tonight Show” in 1957. In 1974, Jim Hartz became the first host of NBC’s “The Today Show” to share the title of co-anchor with a woman (who was Barbara Walters)…The “wedding of the century,” Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Frances Spencer, took place at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, United Kingdom […]
Television: The live NBC quiz show “Up to Paar,“ hosted by Jack Paar five years before he sat in “The Tonight Show” chair, debuted in 1952. It aired three nights per week for two months and it was Paar’s first television series…In 1957, the country crooner Jerry Lee Lewis made his first TV appearance ever on “The Steve Allen Show” on NBC…Comedian Andy Kaufman and wrestler Jerry Lawler appeared […]
Television: Serial drama “The Hamptons,” starring Michael Goodwin and Leigh Taylor-Young, debuted on ABC in 1983. Its limited five-episode run, recorded on videotape in lieu of film, was all that was produced for this project…”Our Time,” the summer nostalgia series that harkened back to the 1960’s and was hosted by Karen Valentine and Harry Anderson, debuted on NBC in 1985…Science-fiction drama “Stargate […]
