The 1960s satire boom opened up the way for a fresh, inventive generation of young comedy writer-performers to flourish on TV and to take comedy in a new and exciting direction. Among them were five ...

KERA was the first American TV station to air 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' back in 1974 ...

The Office writer and actress Mindy Kaling may be one of the highest-paid women in Hollywood, but she is no stranger to controversy Eleanor Halls is a writer covering music, books, film and TV, as ...

All good things must come to an end, an expression particularly apt when it comes to television shows. Not every series can be "The Simpsons," running from what seems like the beginning of time until, ...

From the BBC Oral History Collection here are some of the key personalities, producers, and innovators that tell the inside story of the BBC. Curated by leading academics from the University of Sussex ...

In the words of that profound articulator of Stone Age angst and innocent pleasure Fred Flintstone: yabba-dabba-doo. Or as Emerson, Lake and Palmer should have had the wit to put it: welcome back, my ...

The TV. The box. The small screen. The television set (if you want to be formal). Call it what you want, we’re living in its golden age. Long gone is the time where all you had was a fistful of ...

The outpouring of admiration and popular affection for British broadcaster David Attenborough on his 100th birthday (May 8, 1926) is well deserved. It reflects his seriousness in making science ...

But what a triumph this film was for Chapman, who gave a convincing, touching performance as the bewildered everyman who decides to make a stand, and in his battle with the evil empire makes a Luke ...