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50 Years Ago, ‘An American Family’ Rocked the Culture – and the Business of TV (Guest Blog)
The 1973 PBS docuseries chronicled a family with an out gay son and a wife seeking a divorce after 21 years of marriage
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50 Years Ago Today, ‘The Corner Bar’ Made History With TV’s First Out Gay Character (Guest Blog)
Character actor Vincent Schiavelli played the ascot-wearing set designer Peter Panama in a small but bold sign of changing times, writes TV historian Jim McKairnes
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Who’s Really to Blame for the Lack of ‘Empire’-Sized Comedies? (Guest Blog)
When trying to finger the culprit for a failed sitcom, it’s always the last place where execs look — themselves
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How a Shower Scene Changed Television History (Guest Blog)
TV in the 1970s was a lot racier than you might think, until the ”family viewing hour“ crashed the party 40 years ago this month
