All in the Family (tv program)

Roscoe Lee Browne, the Emmy-award winning actor with the mellifluous baritone that he used to give voice to roles as varied as Shakespeare's plays and the popular animal film "Babe," died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81....

How far can sisterhood extend? Proof is supplied by the two siblings in "The Return of Jezebel James," the edgy new FOX sitcom from the creator of "Gilmore Girls" debuting Friday, March 14. Movie actress Parker Posey is appealing in her series debut as...

This is where you'd give them 22 minutes and they'd give you the world. Now the former KFWB news-radio studios in Hollywood have about 22 days left before what could be the end of its world. Authorities have declared the abandoned broadcast center at...

Beatrice Arthur, best known as the acerbic Maude Findlay on Norman Lear's sitcom "Maude" and as the strong-willed Dorothy Zbornak on the long-running "The Golden Girls," died Saturday. She was 86. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: The obituary of...

Seth MacFarlane, the creative mastermind on "Family Guy," was one of the co-creators of FOX's companion series "American Dad," which premiered last year after the Super Bowl. The Smiths, the central family in "American Dad," have more than just...

WHEN veteran Irish stage and film actor Fionnula Flanagan met with producers and writers of Showtime's "Brotherhood" to discuss her portrayal of the Irish-born working class matriarch of the show, Rose Caffee, one of the first questions she asked the...

Michael "Mickey" Ross, a writer-producer who reveled in speaking Yiddish and pushing society's buttons on the popular television sitcoms " All in the Family," "The Jeffersons" and "Three's Company," has died. He was 89. Ross, who lived in West Hollywood,...

The very first image viewers of the new NBC sitcom Whoopi will see tonight is that of Mavis Rae (Whoopi Goldberg) lighting a cigarette and taking a drag as she stands behind the front desk of the small Manhattan Hotel she owns. A guest standing nearby...

The on-screen arrival of the Boomerang Generation is not the only trend of the new fall season. While not as widespread, another theme that will be explored in several series involves multi-ethnic households - with an emphasis on the humor of ethnic...

A lot of noses were knocked out of joint this winter when NBC President Jeff Zucker declared Friends the best comedy of all time. The cast and crew of Frasier, which also is leaving NBC this month, were the most vocal of those miffed. However, champions...

Looking back, it's easy to see how Frasier and Friends became TV icons. Television has no more valuable commodity than buzz, unless it is a time slot between two popular series. Friends and Frasier, which arrived a season apart and are departing a week...

A case before the California Supreme Court is challenging one of TV's most sacred unwritten rules: What's said in the "writers' room" stays there. Amaani Lyle, a former writers' assistant for "Friends," sued the show's producer, Warner Bros., for sexual...