SAN FRANCISCO - Talk show host Tom Snyder, whose smoke-filled interviews were a staple of late night television, has died after a struggle with leukemia. He was 71.
Snyder died Sunday in San Francisco from complications associated with leukemia, his longtime producer and friend Mike Horowicz told The Associated Press on Monday.
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[Read more...]ABC7, KGO-TV has established The Pete Wilson Journalism Scholarship in memory of the Bay Area news anchor who died of a heart attack Friday during hip replacement surgery.
The $4,000 scholarship will be awarded annually by the Radio and Television News Director to Bay Area students pursuing graduate or undergraduate degrees in journalism, [...]
[Read more...]For Bob Barker, the soon-to-retire host of “The Price Is Right,” it hasn’t been the years or the miles so much as the contestants.
For more than three decades, the 83-year-old host has been tackled, bearhugged and smooched by jubilant hysterics. He’s witnessed them trip, collapse, faint and even fall [...]
[Read more...]Nancy Drew has sold more than 200 million books worldwide and spawned a top-selling computer-game series. But on television and in film, the mystery girl has had a spotty showing.
Among three TV outings in the past 30 years, Nancy Drew’s best was the kitschy late-’70s series that paired her [...]
[Read more...]It appears that fans of “Jericho” have pulled off one of the rarest of television feats: bringing a canceled series back from the dead.
CBS is close to finalizing a deal to resurrect the post-nuclear holocaust drama, less than a month after the network dropped the show from its schedule. Since the series’ [...]
[Read more...]WHAT’S NEW AND HOT
These are the new TV series with early buzz triggered by clips, scripts, a survey of network executives and media buyers for major advertisers and, in a few cases, a full pilot episode.
ABC
“Pushing Daisies”
(8 p.m. Wednesdays)
The premise: Mild-mannered guy discovers he can bring people (and other things) back from the dead.
The buzz: [...]
[Read more...]Call it “American Idol” redux.
One minimally talented finalist that everybody loved to hate? (Sanjaya. Check.) A clear front-runner who gets voted off before the finals? (Melinda Doolittle in the Chris Daughtry role.) A final twosome whose success seems more based on personality than skill? (Well, that could be a [...]
[Read more...]“American Idol” is still TV’s Big Dog. But let’s not underrate the appeal of “Dancing With the Stars,” which will air its final two episodes of the season tonight and Tuesday (8 p.m., Ch. 7).
The ballroom dancing competition, pairing what loosely could be described as celebrities with pro dancers, looked like a [...]
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`THE SIMPSONS’
THROUGH THE YEARS
Debut: April 1987 as part of “The Tracey Ullman Show.”
Series debut: December 1989.
Total seasons: 18
Total episodes: 400
Historical status: Longest-
running comedy in TV history; longest-running primetime entertainment show still on the air.
First film: “The Simpsons” opens July 27.
Tonight: The series’ 399th episode, a spoof of “24,” airs at 8 (Chs. 2, 35) with [...]
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