http://www.tvhistorian.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:52:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How do I limit myself?! I could easily make this a worst 100 list, with all the reality shows, bloviating Fox News opinion makers and shows so horrible they lasted less than three weeks. To pare it down, I have limited myself to the most notorious examples – series that ... http://www.tvhistorian.com/?p=352 Picking out the best of the 2000s is more challenging than previous decades simply because there was so much more available to consider on more channels. Still, I believe what I have compiled here pretty well reflects the cream of the crop, as well as the dominance of drama over ... http://www.tvhistorian.com/?p=350 Welcome to TVHistorian.com.  We want to encourage you to give us your feedback on our site and what you like, don't like and would like to see more of on here.  (please refrain from offensive or vulgar comments, they will be removed) http://www.tvhistorian.com/?p=84 Every year since the late 1950s, the networks have put together a half-hour (or so) show spotlighting clips of its new and returning series for the fall. The UCLA library has ABC's 1958 and 1960 fall previews that were done shown on closed circuit TV strictly to their affiliates. However, ... http://www.tvhistorian.com/?p=77 On Oct. 13, 1958, "Operation Daybreak" dawned on ABC. After years of putting no more than three hours of daily programming to its affiliates before 7 p.m. Eastern Time, the network embarked on filling its schedule from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. by adding to its existing 3-6 p.m. lineup ... http://www.tvhistorian.com/?p=57 "Stop handing out all those statuettes to everyone!" That was my initial reaction upon studying who has won Emmys over the last 60 years. Even though TV's highest honors have been around for less time than the Oscars, the main awards for the motion picture industry, or the Tonys (for Broadway's ... http://www.tvhistorian.com/?p=35 On Monday, Jan. 5, 1959, from 11-11:30 a.m. Eastern Time, CBS inaugurated daily reruns of its most successful 1950s series, I Love Lucy. The sitcom had spent six years on the nighttime schedule - from Oct. 15, 1951 through June 24, 1957 - and finished #1 four of those years, ... http://www.tvhistorian.com/?p=24