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TV Obits: Harris, Monroe, Mallon, Monette

Posted Sep 16th 2008 8:04AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Obituaries, Reality-Free

A roundup of TV people from in front of the camera and behind the scenes who have passed away.

Mel Harris: He was an exec at both Paramount and Sony Television who helped launch USA Network, Star Trek: TNG, and Entertainment Tonight. He was also one of the first executives in the 70s to push the idea of selling movies to the public on videotapes. He died of cancer at age 65.

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thirtysomething actresses talk about being fiftysomething

Posted Jun 5th 2007 8:06AM by Meredith O'Brien
Filed under: Celebrities

thirtysomething actresses Despite the pleadings of many fans, DVDs of the 20-year-old Emmy-winning dramatic series thirtysomething have yet to be (officially) released.

While fans (like yours truly) patiently wait for thirtysomething DVDs to go on sale, the four actresses who starred in the yuppie-focused show spoke with People magazine about being in their 50s, about cosmetic surgery, about the fact that they're spokeswomen for an arthritis prevention campaign (Arthritis? It has been a long time!) and about their love lives.

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Short-Lived Shows: Something So Right

Posted Apr 27th 2006 9:09AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Short-Lived Shows

There are three types of sitcoms. One type includes the shows that are recognized to be at the very top: Seinfeld, The Simpsons, The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Cheers, and others. Then there are the shows universally recognized to be pretty bad: your Single Guys, your Suddenly Susans, your whatever NBC put on Thursday nights in the 90s after Friends.

And then there are the shows that not many people talk about. The shows that are the hidden gems. Shows that if people do talk about them, they shrug them off as short-lived or unmemorable (they must be unmemorable, because they didn't last long, right?). Something So Right, which ran on NBC in the mid 90s, is an example of a very underrated sitcom that everyone ignores for some reason. Not sure why, because it was a damn good comedy.

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