Norman Lear was not a man to shy away from controversy. If anything, he sprinted toward it, knowing that doing so would help open people’s minds to pervasive American issues related to discrimination, ...

For the last few years, ABC has been staging live, all-star re-creations of classic sitcom episodes from Norman Lear, the king of socially conscious TV comedies. It’s called Live in Front of a Studio ...

Marcia Rodd, a Tony Award-nominated Broadway actor whose prolific TV career included two memorable episodes of the ...

When I heard the news about Norman Lear’s death, I was sitting with my writing team at Abortion Access Front. We had just finished writing this social post when the notification came in on Slack: ...

"Persuasive" was a word that came up often on Monday night at the Television Academy in North Hollywood, where Norman Lear spoke at an event that honored his past and continued contributions to TV. As ...

The pioneering and perennially busy producer discusses the secret to longevity (no joke: It’s laughter) and the creative throughline to several decades of sitcoms: "The foolishness of the human ...

Jimmy Kimmel is no stranger when it comes to rebooting classic TV shows. However, with his next project Jimmy doesn’t just want to entertain, he will be making a political point that couldn’t be more ...

Norman Lear knows a thing or two about timely topics. So, what better time than now to recreate the famous “Maude” abortion episode, which originally aired in November 1972 — two months before Roe v.

Nothing has been set in stone for now, but Norman Lear and Brent Miller have a pretty good idea what they’d like to do if ABC decides to air another edition of Live In Front of a Studio Audience.

Norman Lear at the “Live in Front of a Studio Audience" after party in Los Angeles (Credit: Phillip Faraone/Getty Images) Baseball had Babe Ruth. Rock ‘n’ roll had The Beatles. Television had Norman ...

In the heart of Texas, ATX TV Festival staged a live reading of "Maude's Dilemma" — wherein Bea Arthur's beloved character decides to get an abortion — as part of a closing night tribute to the late, ...