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Golden Girls pay tribute to Getty
The stars of US sitcom The Golden Girls have paid tribute to actress Estelle Getty, who has died at the age of 84.
Bea Arthur, who played her on-screen daughter Dorothy Zbornak, called their partnership "one of the greatest comic duos", adding: "I will miss her."
Rue McClanahan, Blanche in the series, said: "She'll always be with us in her crowning achievement, Sophia Petrillo."
Getty, whose role as the sarcastic pensioner won her an Emmy award, had been suffering from advanced dementia.
Her son, Carl Gettleman, said she was "one of the most talented comedic actresses who ever lived".
Apart from the Golden Girls, Getty's credits included films like Mannequin and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.
According to her official website, the actress was born Estelle Scher in the Lower East Side of New York City after her parents emigrated to the US from Poland.
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1 Fantasma X Coinquilino
E' il promo di un pilot, realizzato a budget zero, di un progetto di sit-com da me ideato. Narra principalmente dell'anomalo rapporto tra Leo (Raffaele Monti), giovane universitario in una nuova casa a Roma, e Edo (Daniele Monterosi), fantasma dell'appartamento che solo Leo può vedere e toccare!!
La puntata pilota racconta il primo giorno di Leo in questa nuova "realtà" e presenta la lunga serie di personaggi che gravitano intorno a questa situazione "particolare": lo stralunato coinquilino "in carne ed ossa" Marco (Francesco Bucci); la simpatica canaglia Romano (Daniele Antonini), amico di Leo; le tipiche ragazze della porta accanto, la dolce Giulia (Valeria Mei) e l'intraprendente Luana (Valentina Correani); la famiglia vicina di casa, composta dal rude signor Cesare (Gabriele Guerra), l'avvenente signora Pamela (Chiara Pavoni) e la pestifera figlia Anastasia (Camilla Bertinato); infine, la "signorina" Elvira (Alessandra Maravia), l'anziana inquilina del piano di sotto.
La sit-com "1 Fantasma X Coinquilino" (in inglese "A Ghost Tenant") è in cerca di una produzione e di un canale audiovisivo disposti a dargli sviluppo e visibilità (linkando l'URL potete visionare l'intero pilota).
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INCONTRO CON "SIGNORINA" IN ASCENSORE
Il video è un estratto del pilota della sit-com "Un fantasma x coinquilino", in cui Leo (Raffaele Monti) conosce l'inquilina del piano di sotto, cioè la "signorina" Elvira (Alessandra Maravia). Il progetto di sitcom è attualmente in cerca di produzione e canale. Il video è un estratto del pilota della sit-com "Un fantasma x coinquilino", in cui Leo (Raffaele Monti) conosce l'inquilina del piano... more
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Il fantasma in camera (da "1 Fantasma X Coinquilino")
Estratto dal pilota della sit-com "1 Fantasma x Coinquilino": Leo (Raffaele Monti) scopre che la sua nuova camera è abitata da un fantasma di nome Edo (Daniele Monterosi), che lui può vedere e toccare! Estratto dal pilota della sit-com "1 Fantasma x Coinquilino": Leo (Raffaele Monti) scopre che la sua nuova camera è abitata da un fant... more
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Little Mosque sitcom gives CBC highest ratings in over a decade!
A Canadian channel (CBC) gained its highest for a decade with 2.1 million viewers for the first episode of the rib tickling Muslim sitcom, in a country where 1 million viewers is a hit!
This is a fantastic opportunity for removing stereotypes through humour!
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Melora Hardin - IMDb
Very excited to see that Melora will be working with Kate Flannery! But it's a drama...thoughts?
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Spencer Grammer on Kimmel
Watch Jimmy Kimmel's interview with Spencer Grammer
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Check out ABC's Family hit TV show: GREEK!
This past summer ABC Family aired the popular TV show Greek following the college Greek life experiences of several college students in a fictional setting. This past summer ABC Family aired the popular TV show Greek following the college Greek life experiences of several college students i... more
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Spencer Grammer IMDb
Did you know she wanted to be a Zoologist?
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Former "Laugh In" writer and Emmy award winner Jack Hanrahan Dies Destitute
Jack Hanrahan wrote for some of the most popular television shows in the 1960s and 1970s, including "Get Smart," "Police Woman," "The Waltons" and "The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour."
In December of 2006, Hanrahan arrived in Cleveland from Californian by bus, penniless and disheveled, his tangled hair hanging to his shoulders and smoking self-rolled cigarettes.
All he had were the clothes on his back, a bag of tobacco and rolling papers. Even his false teeth were missing. And his Emmy was in hock.
Hanrahan tried to connect with relatives here, but his state of mind and needs were too much to handle, said a nephew. So Hanrahan lived on the streets
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Death of the sitcom frees up 2,000 Wikipedias worth of cognitive capacity
Summary from Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing: Clay Shirky's posted a transcript of a recent talk he gave on "cognitive surplus" -- the idea that automation gave us an enormous amount of free time to think and cogitate, and that sitcoms and other light entertainment from the past century were a way of absorbing that surplus, something we're just shaking off now:
[S]he shook her head and said, "Where do people find the time?" That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years."
So how big is that surplus? So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in--that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. I worked this out with Martin Wattenberg at IBM; it's a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but it's the right order of magnitude, about 100 million hours of thought.
And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television. Or put still another way, in the U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads. This is a pretty big surplus. People asking, "Where do they find the time?" when they're looking at things like Wikipedia don't understand how tiny that entire project is, as a carve-out of this asset that's finally being dragged into what Tim calls an architecture of participation.
Now, the interesting thing about a surplus like that is that society doesn't know what to do with it at first--hence the gin, hence the sitcoms. Because if people knew what to do with a surplus with reference to the existing social institutions, then it wouldn't be a surplus, would it? It's precisely when no one has any idea how to deploy something that people have to start experimenting with it, in order for the surplus to get integrated, and the course of that integration can transform society.
The early phase for taking advantage of this cognitive surplus, the phase I think we're still in, is all special cases. The physics of participation is much more like the physics of weather than it is like the physics of gravity. We know all the forces that combine to make these kinds of things work: there's an interesting community over here, there's an interesting sharing model over there, those people are collaborating on open source software. But despite knowing the inputs, we can't predict the outputs yet because there's so much complexity. Summary from Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing: Clay Shirky's posted a transcript of a recent talk he gave on "cognitive surplus" -- the ide... more -
Josh Dean and Erin Cahill in the Chemosphere
Ages ago a coupla kids named Josh Dean and Erin Cahill were on a show called Free Ride. The show has faded from our memory, but how cute they were the day they came to promote the show lives on. Ages ago a coupla kids named Josh Dean and Erin Cahill were on a show called Free Ride. The show has faded from our memory, but how c... more
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Dorm Life
These 5-minute sitcoms are hilarious! Check 'em out. Thanks to Kelsey and Jony for showing me this.
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Will Ferrell: "I'll finance Arrested Development movie"
During a college comedy tour, Will Ferrell told the student audience that he'd be willing to totally finance the Arrested Development movie, but it would have to be on his terms. He was wearing a bikini print t-shirt and driving around on a mobility scooter at the time, so don't expect too serious an answer. Skip to 2:30 in to watch it.
The good news is that Will Arnett, who plays Gob Bluth, was there as well and he confirmed there is a film in the pipeline. During a college comedy tour, Will Ferrell told the student audience that he'd be willing to totally finance the Arrested Development ... more -
Official: Del Boy won't be falling through the bar again
The brains behind the classic sitcom Only Fools And Horses has revealed that the TV legend will never return. Writer John Sullivan says he is finally “laying Del Boy to rest” after more than 20 “cushty” years with the comedy.
The brains behind the classic sitcom Only Fools And Horses has revealed that the TV legend will never return. Writer John Sullivan say... more -
Finally Some Good TV
It's about time NBC put on a show I can laugh at. Oh wait, they didn't.
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BIG BANG THEORY
A new comedy that shows what happens when two hyperintelligent scientists meet a beautiful woman--and realize they know next to nothing about life outside of the lab A new comedy that shows what happens when two hyperintelligent scientists meet a beautiful woman--and realize they know next to nothin... more
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