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Sherwood Schwartz's 1969 sitcom "The Brady Bunch" was progressive and retrogressive at the same time. On the one hand, it vaunted the virtues of remarrying and finding new families, showing that step-siblings and second spouses could produce as harmonious a domestic unit as more traditional nuclear families. On the other hand, the characters were clean-cut and virtuous to a cartoonish degree, only expressing the blandest sorts of domestic turmoil. It's easy to be harmonious when every member of the family is scrupulous and clean. The show was more about mild, silly pet peeves than about legitimately hard-hitting clashes of character. 

Of course, "hard-hitting" was not Schwartz's métier. He was a writer of high-concept, light-hearted comedies. This was, after all, the "Gilligan's Island" guy. He wasn't about to skew into Neil Labute family dramas with "The Brady Bunch." 

And "The Brady Bunch" was huge. It lasted a gangbusters 117 episodes over its five seasons,...

MTV launched on August 1, 1981, famously charging out of the gate with The Buggles' hit song "Video Killed the Radio Star." It was pretty presumptuous and cheeky for the suits at MTV to assume that their new network was instantly ripping apart an old media landscape, but they were eventually proven somewhat right. MTV became, for a prolonged spell, a brand new cultural fulcrum for Gen-x youths. The network didn't just randomly showcase hip music videos — a medium that exploded in popularity thanks to MTV's machinations — but carefully curated them, allowing viewers to appreciate certain genres, labels, or artists they may not have known otherwise. Some early MTV explorers may recall 1983's "I.R.S. Records Presents The Cutting Edge." Hosts would introduce blocks of videos and even take requests. The term VJ entered the pop lexicon.

Also, to round out their programming blocks, MTV ran multiple news segments and documentary shows, updating...

It’s been 50 years since The Brady Bunch left the airwaves, so why does Robby Rist still have to put up with this crap?

Half a century after the kid actor was brought in to juice ratings for the flagging sitcom, Susan Olsen, who played Cindy Brady, is still calling his character, cousin Oliver, “our shark jump.” To make matters worse, Christopher “Peter” Knight called out Barry “Greg” Williams for hating on the tyke. “Barry was not a fan of Robbie Rist,” Knight explained. “When Robbie came on the show to play cousin Oliver, Barry wasn’t… Maybe because he was older and more conscious of what that could mean, he didn’t like him.”

Rist defended himself this week on The Patrick LabyorSheaux podcast. “I really got a sense from them over the years that they felt like I was some kind of interloper,” Rist said. “That I — you know,...

In sitcom lore, Fonzie leaving Milwaukee to water ski over a California shark — wearing an inexplicable fashion combo of swimming trunks and leather biker jacket — defined the moment when a popular TV comedy like Happy Days goes off the rails for good. Susan Olsen, who played Cindy Brady on The Brady Bunch, believes her sitcom had a similar “we’ve officially lost it” moment.

“What was the deal with Cousin Oliver?” asked a fan at the Chocolate Expo earlier this month as Olsen, Barry “Greg” Williams, Christopher “Peter” Knight and Mike “Bobby” Lookinland interacted with Brady buffs.

“Our shark jump,” Olsen answered, as reported by People.

Oliver, played by kid actor Robbie Rist, joined The Brady Bunch in its fifth and final season. The character was convinced he brought bad luck to the Bradys, and Olsen believes art was imitating life. “Every time a show is starting to get a...

The Brady Bunch remains one of television history's most well-known sitcoms, but at the time of its airing, the show started to lose some steam after several seasons. With the show's children getting older, the decision was made to introduce a new family member, but the cast agrees that this was the moment that the show jumped the shark.

Per People, some of the stars of The Brady Bunch reunited for a panel at The Chocolate Expo at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, earlier this month. Cast members in attendance included Christopher Knight, Barry Williams, Mike Lookinland, and Susan Olsen. When the Brady Bunch stars were taking questions from fans, one person asked, "What was the deal with Cousin Oliver?"

"Our shark jump," Olsen responded. "Every time a show is starting to get a little bit lower in the ratings, they start to add in the cute kid."

Our shark jump.

After years of re-runs and all new generations finding the show, it might seem as if The Brady Bunchhas thousands of episodes to watch. The reality is that the show only ran for five seasons and had 117 episodes in total, but the cast themselves all thought the show would keep on running when it was originally airing on ABC. Now, Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, and Susan Olsen spoke with People at The Chocolate Expo at Hofstra University about saying goodbye to the Brady family.

A fairly harmless question had the former Brady kids talking about how they learned of The Brady Bunch's fate. When People asked about keeping props and things from the set, Knight shared that no one took anything because they thought the show was coming back. "We didn't know whether we were picked up." Williams went on to explain what happened after Season 5 of the show.

Were the sitcom gods picking on Susan Olsen, or did the actress who played Cindy simply have worse luck than a Brady kid carrying the tiki idol during the Hawaiian vacation episodes?

She recently complained on The Real Brady Bros podcast that she was nearly killed on the first day of filming, thanks to falling production equipment bonking her on the skull. And at last week’s Chocolate Expo, per People, Olsen revealed more physical maladies suffered on The Brady Bunch set.

Olsen told the story during a question-and-answer session when one fan asked if she was required to dye her hair to play the part of Cindy. “You bet,” she said. “Every three weeks they had to dye my hair. If you look at the third season, my hair is kind of a different shade of blonde every episode.”

Pouring a bunch of bleach in a kid’s hair...

The Brady Bunchis a staple of American television. You either watched it on TV Land reruns, watched it as it aired, or know the lore thanks to movies like The Brady Bunch Moviefrom 1995 — which really was a staple of parody film making (and a history lesson for those unaware of The Brady Bunch as a television show). Now, the cast of the 1969 series has reunited to talk a bit about their characters, who was the most like themselves, and more. At a panel at The Chocolate Expo, Barry Williams opened up about trying to be both Greg Brady and himself.

Williams was there with his fellow castmates Christopher McKnight, Susan Olsen, and Mike Lookinland to recount working together on the series. There, Williams said that trying to separate himself from Greg was hard. "It was impossible to juggle the two identities, so I just combined them. And the truth is,...

Susan Olsen, the Brady Bunch actress blamed for tanking another revival thanks to her conservative rants, lit up The Real Brady Bros podcast recently with a series of hot takes about her time on the original show. In addition to regrets about not suing Paramount over on-set injuries, she told TV brothers Christopher Knight (Peter), Barry Williams (Greg) and Mike Lookinland (Bobby) that she resented playing the dumbest Brady of them all.

Williams called out Cindy’s stupidity in the kindest way possible, remembering young Olsen as bright and not at all like her Brady character. Especially in the show’s early days, writers found “comedy” in Cindy not understanding, well, just about everything. An example from the first episode, in which mother Carol prepares for her marriage to Mike:

Carol: To tell the truth, I’ve got a few butterflies in my stomach.

Cindy: Were you sleeping with your mouth open,...

The marriage of Mike Brady to Carol Tyler resulted in a merged family with six freaking kids, but if a plummeting piece of studio equipment had bounced a different way, it might have been five, according to Susan Olsen on this week’s episode of The Real Brady Bros podcast, per Entertainment Weekly.

Olsen, who played Cindy, “the youngest one in curls,” almost didn’t survive the Brady Bunch pilot, she told her former co-stars Barry (Greg) Williams and Christopher (Peter) Knight. She was getting body makeup on her legs while a crew was filming a scene on an adjacent set. “I was standing on a makeup chair and something from the catwalk, where they keep all the lights and everything, fell,” she said. “It hit the makeup man first, off the body makeup woman, and hit me in the face.”

Pow! What an ominous introduction to show business. While...

Susan Olsen — who played Cindy Brady, the “youngest one in curls” — suffered a terrible injury filming the first episode of The Brady Bunch.

The former child actor opened up about a backstage accident in a Wednesday episode of The Real Brady Bros podcast alongside her former co-stars Christopher Knight and Barry Williams.

During the show’s first pilot episode in 1969, where blended-family parents Mike and Carol Brady tie the knot, they revisited a moment when the camera struggled to focus on Cindy’s face. Olsen affirmed that it wasn’t a mistake but happened because she “got injured” before filming.

“I almost died,” Olsen said, adding that she suffered an injury while “standing on a makeup chair and something from the catwalk, where they keep all the lights and everything, fell.”

“It hit the makeup man first, [fell] off the body makeup woman, and hit me in the face,” she said.

Being a kid on a sitcom is tough. If you manage to dodge addiction issues and kleptomaniacal parents, one thing will still always be gunning for you: Father Time. When sitcoms center around a family with at least one young child, a decent percentage of its humor usually comes from the young kid saying impossibly pithy lines crafted by adults.

But as the kid gets older, they often get less cute and their character is forced to change. So, where do all those snarky remarks and cutesy moments go? The solution is usually the same: bring in a brand-new cute kid regardless how much shoe-horning you need to do.

It’s happened a lot in sitcoms — like, dozens of them — but here are five of the best examples...

1 The Brady Bunch

The most famous example of this is Cousin Oliver (Robbie Rist) fromThe Brady Bunch, who was introduced in Season Five,...

It's not uncommon for aspiring actors to start young, but there wasn't any time wasted when it came to queer icon Jodie Foster. She started in commercials as young as three and made her television debut as early as six in an episode of "Mayberry R.F.D." Long before she played the vulnerable defendant in "The Accused" or faced off against Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs," the child prodigy slowly made her way into film with roles in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and "Freaky Friday." By the time she was 12, Foster was not only working on her second Martin Scorsese picture with "Taxi Driver," but it was also the role that led her first of five Oscar nominations — and two wins.

In the interim before her big breaks, however, Foster was kept super busy when it came to guest appearances on a plethora of television shows. She...

Since getting his big break crafting jokes for Bette Midler in the early 1970s, Emmy-winning comedy writer and personality Bruce Vilanch has found success writing for the small screen and stage. But by his own admission, the scribe behind 25 Academy Award ceremonies and more than his fair share of Miss Universe and USA pageants has also penned some real flops.

In his new book, “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote,” Vilanch walks readers through some of the most ill-conceived projects he’s been attached to over the years — from 1978’s “The Star Wars Holiday Special” to the now infamous 1989 Oscars ceremony that opened with Rob Lowe and Snow White pirouetting to “Proud Mary.”

“‘It was a terrible idea, and I shouldn’t have gotten involved’ didn’t even occur to us at the time,” Vilanch told IndieWire on a Zoom call,...

Susan Olsen, known for her role as Cindy Brady on The Brady Bunch, recently revealed on the WalkAway Campaign podcast that a planned revival of the iconic sitcom was scrapped because of her support for Donald Trump and her controversial political views.

Now 63, Olsen detailed that the reboot was in the works at CBS Studios, featuring her and her fellow cast members as adults, with Olsen portraying a libertarian podcaster. She expressed excitement about the show’s treatment, likening it to the successful reboot of Roseanne.

However, Olsen stated that CBS raised concerns after learning of a 2016 incident in which she reportedly sent anti-gay remarks to actor Leon Acord-Whiting following his appearance on her political radio show, LA Talk Radio’s Two Chicks Talkin’ Politics.

This incident led to her termination from the radio station, which issued a statement emphasizing its intolerance for hateful speech.

Misrepresented Details Surrounding Olsen’s Firing

Despite the backlash,...

Susan Olsen, better known to America as “The Youngest One in Curls,” or Cindy from the beloved sitcom The Brady Bunch, revealed that a potential revival of the beloved television show was called off due to her controversial political views.

The sitcom aired in color from 1969 to 1974.

Olsen, 63, shared in an episode of the Walk Away Campaign podcast that the revival would have seen the Brady siblings functioning as adults in the modern world, with Cindy a libertarian podcaster.

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Olsen has a long history of controversial political opinions regarding vaccines and particularly on topics of the LGBTQ community. In 2016, Olsen was fired from the radio show Two Chicks Talkin’ Politics after she went on a homophobic rant and gay actor Leon Acord-Whiting forward shared a series of offensive messages she had sent him.

According to one star of the series, a revival of The Brady Bunch came close to happening, only to be squashed before getting to production. Allegedly, this was due in part to Susan Olsen publicly expressing her political opinions.

In the classic sitcom, Olsen played Cindy Brady, the youngest of Carol's (Florence Henderson) three girls. During a recent interview for the "Walk Away Campaign" podcast (per Vanity Fair), Olsen said that CBS Studios had a planned Brady Bunch revival series in the works. The show was said to have followed Cindy and her siblings, now as adults, with Olsen's character portrayed as a libertarian podcaster. However, it's alleged that the network wound up scrapping the project due to Olsen's conservative views, particularly about her support for Donald Trump and criticism of the Covid-19 vaccine.

Related 'I Can't Tell A Joke:' Modern Family Actor Believed She Wasn't Funny Enough To Star...

The blended family from The Brady Bunch were not as popular during their original run on ABC as they are today. The ’70s sitcom became a favorite among children and teenagers, who loved to see the sibling dynamics between the three brothers and three sisters. However, they apparently shared more than sibling love off-screen.

A still poster of The Brady Bunch | Credits: Paramount Television

The Brady Bunch saw Robert Reed’s Mike Brady and Florence Henderson’s Carol Martin marry each other, both having been married earlier with kids. Mike has three sons—Greg, Peter, and Bobby—and Carol has three daughters—Marcia, Jan, and Cindy. The couple adopts each other’s children and the sitcom explores this unconventional big family.

The Cast Of The Brady Bunch: What Are They Doing Now? The cast of The Brady Bunch | Credits: Paramount Television

The Brady Bunch ran for five seasons and a total of 117 episodes.

CBS Studios has officially axed another reboot of The Brady Bunch, and Cindy Brady actress Susan Olsen is supposedly taking the blame. According to Olsen, the studio disliked her conservative opinions and support for Donald Trump but some sources are arguing that the cancelation was actually due to a hateful tirade from Olsen that included homophobic slurs and offensive language.

The newest Brady Brunch project was tentatively in the works two years ago, but had not been picked up by networks or streaming services, and it's unclear if a script was ever written. The revival would have focused on the lives of the original Brady Bunch children as they navigated adulthood, but unfortunately never came to fruition due to Olsen's comments. Appearing on the Walk Away Campaign podcast, Olsen reported that she had been fired from the role by CBS due to her political beliefs, stating, "I did have a...

The Brady Bunch revival was reportedly canceled due to hate speech by one of its original stars. Aired on ABC from 1969 to 1974, the iconic sitcom follows the misadventures of a blended family, consisting of three boys and three girls, after a widower and a widow marry. Though it was never a ratings hit nor a critical success during its original run, the series gained popularity in syndication, spawning several Brady Bunch spin-offs, including The Brady Bunch Hour, The Brady Girls Get Married, The Brady Brides, and The Bradys.

Now, a Brady Bunch revival was reportedly canceled due to Cindy Brady actor Susan Olsen's hate speech. Though she recently claimed on her Walk Away Campaign podcast that CBS canceled the revival due to her political opinions, a new Variety report reveals that it was canceled because of Olsen's hate speech, including homophobic slurs, which earlier had led to her being fired from a radio job.

It sounds like we have Susan Olsen and her long history of unhinged rants to thank for stopping a terrible Brady Bunch reboot in its tracks.

Yep, apparently another reset of the 1970s sitcom was in the works. It wouldn’t have been the first (or second or third). There was The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, a supremely odd showcase for Robert Reed’s nonexistent song-and-dance skills; The Brady Brides, featuring Marcia and Jan buying a house to share with their new husbands (kinky!); The Bradys, an hourlong dramedy that aspired to be the Thirtysomething of blended families; and A Very Brady Renovation, featuring the six kids reuniting for a reality show about renovating the original sitcom’s house.

The relative success of A Very Brady Renovation led to conversations about yet another Brady remake. According to Olsen, who played lisping Cindy on the original show, the reboot would have...

“The Brady Bunch” star Susan Olsen was among the Og actors included in a reboot of the beloved sitcom, though it failed to get off the ground due to her controversial comments and hate speech.

The revival series, which was in early development at CBS Studios, would’ve seen the “Brady Bunch” siblings all the grown up, and provided updates on where each one was at in life, with families of their own. Olsen’s character Cindy (the youngest “Brady Brunch” sibling) was on track to be portrayed as a libertarian podcaster, until Olsen’s real-life views thwarted the series, Olsen revealed on the #WalkAway Campaign podcast.

After a homophobic and inflammatory private message — which resulted in her firing from L.A. Talk Radio — was discovered by the studio, Olsen said the studio conducted a web search into her past controversial comments, which eventually turned into a 50 page document that...

Cindy Brady actor Susan Olsen recently claimed on the “Walk Away Campaign” podcast (via Vanity Fair) that CBS killed a revival of “The Brady Bunch” due to her support of Donald Trump and her controversial stances on hot button issues like Covid vaccines and the LGBTQ+ community — but that’s not the whole story, insiders note. For one thing, the show was set up at CBS Studios and hadn’t even been pitched to networks or streamers yet. More importantly, sources note that it was scrapped due to hate speech by Olsen, including homophobic slurs that had previously gotten her fired from a radio gig.

The updated Brady project was considered two years ago, but it’s unclear whether even a script had been written. The project never got past those early stages when Olsen’s behavior stopped it from moving forward. The series would have picked up with the Brady Bunch children as adults.

Susan Olsen, best known for playing Cindy Brady in The Brady Bunch, claims that CBS Studios canceled a sitcom revival due to her political views.

In a new interview, Olsen says a sequel show being developed at CBS Studios was scrapped due to her support of Donald Trump, her views on Covid vaccines, and her stance on the LGBTQ+ community.

“I am what I was going to portray, so what kind of show would this be if I can’t say anything controversial?” Olsen said on the Walk Away Campaign podcast.

In the updated Brady Bunch series, Olsen would have reprised her role of Cindy Brady and play a Libertarian podcaster.

“I did have a phone call with my [TV] siblings and my agent. Everybody was saying, ‘We’re sorry, but they just won’t budge. They just will not have you in this.’ I was like wow, I’ve been canceled,...

Photo credit: “Shutterstock.AI” The Brady Bunch was a pop-culture phenomenon, changing how families were portrayed on TV over 50 years ago! Creator Sherwood Schwartz’s blended family of six kids struck a relatable chord as family dynamics were changing. Stars like Barry Williams (Greg) and Susan Olsen (Cindy) had no idea of the show’s massive reach until they ventured outside the studio. At a fan event a few years ago, they shared they had no idea how popular the show was until they got out of Los Angeles and saw and heard the reactions from across the country. (Click on the media bar below to hear Barry Williams & Susan Olsen) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Barry_Williams_Susan_Olsen_Brady_Bunch.mp3

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“The Brady Bunch” star Barry Williams was inspired by TV mom Florence Henderson to go on “Dancing With the Stars,” he told TheWrap in an interview last week.

Henderson, who played mom Carol Brady on the ’70s sitcom, competed in Season 11 of the ABC competition. “She was my inspiration,” he said. When asked if he thinks of the actress, who died on Nov. 24, 2016, whenever he hits the dance floor, he answered, “Yes. Every week.”

Williams visited the set in 2010 to watch Henderson rehearse and perform. “I was really taken with it,” he said. “She had always mentored me in one way or another. She knew that I had been active theatrically in a lot of musicals, and she thought this would be a great fit for me. I got the bug, and she made me promise to go for it.”

The Brady Bunch cast at the 5th Annual TV Land...

Anyone who grew up in the 1970s can tell you the story of a lovely lady, who was bringing up three very lovely girls, and a man named Brady, who was busy with three boys of his own. Of course, one day, the lady met this fellow, and the rest is TV history. When Carol Martin (Florence Henderson) married Mike Brady (Robert Reed), all six of their children came together, along with their trusty maid Alice (Ann B. Davis), to become the sitcom family known as "The Brady Bunch."

"The Brady Bunch" is one of the most beloved and memorable sitcoms of all time. The adolescent antics of Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher McKnight), Bobby (Mike Lookinland), Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb), and Cindy (Susan Olsen) made for plenty of comedy and drama as the bunch dealt with the trials and tribulations of a blended family, sibling rivalries, growing up,...

HGTV suffered a significant financial loss when the iconic Brady Bunch house sold for $2.3 million less than the original listing price of $5.5 million. The property was ultimately sold for $3.2 million, which the listing agent believed was a more accurate value for a house that is not suitable for living and subject to restrictive Airbnb rental laws. Despite the loss, HGTV invested $1.9 million in renovations to transform the house into a full replica of the famous show, preserving its iconic status in television history.

Back in May, one of television's most iconic homes was put on the market: The Brady Bunch house. It now has new owners, but not without certain financial repercussions for HGTV. According to reports, the house sold for a significant amount under the original listing price, ouch! The network originally listed the home at $5.5 million, and its new owners purchased it for $3.2 million. This is a full...

HGTV has sold The Brady Bunch house and it did so at below the asking price and below the price they paid when they purchased it back in 2018.

The Los Angeles home served as the exterior shot of the popular 1970s sitcom. HGTV bought the home and renovated the interior to replicate the Hollywood sets of the comedy that starred Florence Henderson and Robert Reed.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the home sold for $3.2 million, which the cable network had listed at $5.5 million earlier this year. HGTV bought the home for $3.5 million at the time and documented the renovations with specials like A Very Brady Renovation and A Very Brady Renovation: Holiday Edition.

Tina Trahan, a self-proclaimed fan of the show and the 1995 parody film, bought the home and said she would use the house located in Studio City for charitable events.

Brady Bunch cast: (left to right) Maureen McCormack,...

If you've been fantasizing about living in the actual house from The Brady Bunch, as if you had just stepped straight into the sitcom from your living room, you are in luck... as long as you have $5.5 million to spend. The Los Angeles house used for the exterior shots of The Brady Bunch house is back on the market, but with some major changes. Located at 11222 Dilling St., the home was previously up for sale in 2018 when it was purchased by HGTV. The network then invited back the actors who played the Brady Bunch children to help renovate the home's interiors alongside HGTV stars, making the inside look just like the set that was used for the sitcom, complete with the familiar staircase.

The process was documented for the HGTV special A Very Brady Renovation, which drew 28 million viewers when it aired. The special notably brought back cast members Barry Williams...

As the person who played Cindy Brady on the classic sitcom The Brady Bunch, former child star Susan Olsen discovered worldwide fame when she was still just a very young girl. She was just under eight years old when she was cast in the role of Cindy, becoming part of a phenomenon as The Brady Bunch would become one of the era's most popular television programs. But with that fame came a lot of stress that was hard for Olsen to handle at the time. As Olsen recalls in a new interview with Fox News:

"Fame was the one part I didn’t like. I loved the work. I loved my castmates. I really loved the industry. I really liked what I did. I was a kid who wanted a job. [But] fame to me was silly. Just really, really ridiculous. It was like fool’s gold."

Olsen also remembers...

The Masked Singer season 9's third place finisher was California Roll, who was revealed to be a capella singing group, Pentatonix, and there are several other groups who would also be perfect for the mystery singing competition. Pentatonix is a five-member act, which is the largest in Masked Singer history. They brought their signature harmonies to songs such as "Paparazzi" by Lady Gaga, "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler, "Creep" by Radiohead, and "Breakaway" by Kelly Clarkson.

The Masked Singer season 9's California Roll was not the first group to compete. That distinction belongs to Hanson, who competed on The Masked Singer season 5 as the Russian Dolls. In season 7, En Vogue appeared as the Queen Cobras, while The Brady Bunch brothers, Barry Williams (Greg), Christopher Knight (Peter), and Mike Lookinland (Bobby) were revealed to be the Mummies in season 8. Wilson Phillips were the season 8 runner-up, impressing everyone with...

Kelly Osbourne is paying homage to her birth decade as the host of the upcoming Axs TV series “The Very Very Best Of The 80s,” TheWrap can exclusively reveal.

The series will examine the big names, big hits and big moments that defined a generation. It “takes viewers on a nostalgia-fueled journey through the bodacious popular culture that made the decade most triumphant—and continues to captivate fans both old and new to this day,” per the channel.

Some of the topics explored in each episode include a breakdown of TV’s catchiest theme songs, top action movie stars, the biggest celebrity couples, the buzziest toys of the decade and the horror movies that continue to define the genre nearly four decades later.

In a clip from the series, Osbourne discusses the “Dukes of Hazzard” theme song with celebrities including Morgan Fairchild, Chris Kirkpatrick and Chris Reid — all of whom...

You know someone is doing something right when your inner child squeals in delight.

That's what happened when Lifetime announced Blending Christmas, starring Haylie Duff, Aaron O'Connell, and members of The Brady Bunch!

We had a chance to chat with Peter Brady himself, Christopher Knight, who shared his thoughts on the enduring love for the iconic show and working again with Barry Williams, Susan Olsen, and Mike Lookinland.

Hello, Carissa.

Hi, Christopher. How are you?

I'm very well, thank you. How are you?

I'm doing just great. When I was a kid, I would've never imagined I'd have a chance to talk with Peter Brady.

[laughs] You didn't think you'd still be alive. Well, it's the holiday season. Dreams do come true, no matter how small they might have been.

Exactly. Blending Christmas is such a fun concept to get all of you guys back together. How was it presented to you?...

Your long wait for The Witcher Season 2 is over!

Lifetime sprinkles a bit of The Brady Bunch magic across its Christmas programming. And HBO reveals a deep and personal look into a 60-year-old case with Murders at Starved Rock.

In other words, we've got a lot to look forward to this week.

Saturday, December 11

8/7c The Holiday Fix-Up (Lifetime)

Jana Kramer is back as one of the reigning Christmas movie queens!

This time, she plays Sam, a young home renovator who finds herself working alongside and old flame, Cooper, played by Ryan McPartlin. They’re both back in their hometown to flip a coveted inn, but while they’re working, can they reignite their old love?

This second chance at love holiday film also has a soundtrack, “Second Chances” by Kramer herself.

We could all use some Christmas cheer!

Haylie Duff and Aaron O'Connell star as a couple in love in Lifetime's Blending Christmas.

O'Connell's character decides on a Christmas proposal that includes extended family from both sides, which turns out to be a little more complicated than he imagined. Thankfully, with The Brady Bunch's Barry Williams, Susan Olsen, Christopher Knight, and Mike Lookinland around, complications didn't overshadow the love.

We had a chance to talk with Aaron about the movie, and his peek inside of The Brady Bunch magic.

Hi, Aaron. How are you?

Hi, Carissa. How's it going? I'm doing great here. How are you?

I'm doing good. Thank you for asking.

Good.

You've got quite a few Christmas romcoms under your belt. Why do you keep coming back to those?

I just enjoy spreading the holiday cheer?

Do you?

I love doing the holiday films, because I just feel like, with all of the stuff...

It's that time again!

For all you Christmas buffs who adore those cheesy, fuzzy flicks that put you in the holiday spirit , you'll be pleased to know from Lifetime, to Hallmark, Netflix, Freeform, and more, everyone is getting in on spreading the holiday cheer!

Lifetime continues to up its game with an ambitious pledge of 30 in 30. That's right; once Thanksgiving hits, Lifetime will air 30 brand-new Christmas movies in 30 days, every single day between Nov. 26 and Dec. 25.

But the even better news is that you will not need to wait until then for new Christmas flicks. It's a Wonderful Lifetime officially kicks off November. 12, with new movies airing every Saturday and Sunday from then until Thanksgiving hits us with the daily fun and festivities.

It's the network's largest holiday movie slate to date, and they're doing it in style with musical superstars, icons, and legends, fan-favorite TV stars, Holiday and Lifetime favorites.

A “Brady Bunch” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race” crossover, “Dragging the Classics: The Brady Bunch,” premieres Wednesday on Paramount+. And according to the O.G. “Brady Bunch” stars who took part, fans are in for “a real hoot and holler” of an episode.

The special, made in celebration of Pride Month, reunites the original cast of “The Brady Bunch” alongside queens from the Emmy-winning competition series “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Together, they recreated the classic episode “Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?” complete with a remixed “Brady Bunch” theme song and RuPaul playing a wig attendant.

“I have all sorts of memories from this episode and show and [this special] just seemed like a really fun, new take on it,” Eve Plumb, who played Jan Brady on the beloved family sitcom, told TheWrap. “It ended up being a real hoot and holler.”

Plumb even got the chance to step out of Jan...

Get ready to go watch members of the cast of The Brady Bunch together again. A recreation of an episode of the iconic family comedy is planned by Paramount+ and MTV Entertainment. Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland, Eve Plumb and Susan Olsen will reunite for the special event and two of the actors will be playing their original roles.

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The casts of The Brady Bunch and RuPaul's Drag Race are uniting to reimagine a classic episode of the famous comedy series. Dubbed Dragging the Classics: The Brady Bunch, the special is set to premiere on the streaming platform Paramount+ on June 30, just as Pride Month comes to a close. The merger will see the season 2 episode "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" recreated with many Brady Bunch stars playing different roles.

In the special, Barry Williams (Greg Brady) will play Mike Brady, the father of his character from the original series. Other surviving cast members from The Brady Bunch that will return for new roles include Christopher Knight (Peter Brady), Mike Lookinland (Bobby Brady), Eve Plumb (Jan Brady), and Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady). Plumb will play "Lucy" with Olsen playing "Margie," though it's unclear who Knight and Lookinland will portray.

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As Hollywood returns to normalcy and production returns amid Covid protocols still in place, Variety was invited for an exclusive set visit to “Dragging the Classics: The Brady Bunch.”

The special, which airs June 30 Paramount Plus, was filmed at Castle Studios in Burbank. Audiences will see cultural history as two phenomenons come together: queens from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and original cast members from “The Brady Bunch.” The iconic merger will recreate the famous “Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?” episode from Season 2.

The Brady Bunch returning cast members include Barry Williams, Christopher Knight (Peter Brady), Mike Lookinland (Bobby Brady), Eve Plumb (Jan Brady) and Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady).

In this iteration, Eve Plumb will play “Lucy” and Susan Olsen will play “Margie,” while Drag Race performers Kylie Sonique Love will play Jan, Kandy Muse stars as Cindy, Shea Couleé stars as Marcia, Bianca Del Rio is Carol, BenDeLaCreme is Greg,...

Nope, this is not the result of a game of Mad Libs, some “RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars” favorites will be reenacting the classic “The Brady Bunch” episode, “Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?” alongside the stars of the iconic 70s sitcom. The crossover event will drop on Paramount+ on June 30.

The special will see original cast members Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland, Eve Plumb and Susan Olsen will reunite alongside the likes of RuPaul, Michelle Visage and more in honor of Pride Month.

Airing from 1969 to 1974 on ABC, “The Brady Bunch” remains one of the most popular sitcoms of all time. Check out which “Drag Race” all-stars are slated to portray which classic characters in the “Dragging the Classics” crossover.

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! The eldest Brady sister, originally played by Maureen McCormick, will be portrayed by Shea Couleé, a “Drag Race” legend known for competing on...

One of the great camp classics of 1970s television is getting a drag makeover.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” producer World of Wonder is mounting “Dragging the Classics: The Brady Bunch,” in which the original stars of the iconic TV series “The Brady Bunch” will recreate a beloved episode of the show alongside several “Drag Race” alumni. The special, produced in partnership with MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Plus, will debut on the streamer on June 30, just in time for the end of Pride Month.

The episode in question — “Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?” from Season 2 — fits the drag theme perfectly: After receiving a birthday party invitation accidentally addressed to her older sister Marcia, Jan decides that the only way she can make herself stand-out from her two blonde-haired sisters is to buy an ill-fitting brown, curly wig.

From the original “Brady Bunch” series, Christopher Knight and Mike Lookinland...

Here’s the story of how RuPaul’s Drag Race crossed over with… The Brady Bunch!

Original cast members of the classic family sitcom will team up with fan favorites from the Drag Race franchise for Dragging the Classics: The Brady Bunch, in which they recreate the iconic Brady Bunch episode “Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?”

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In the 1971 sitcom episode,...

The fierce queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race will collide with original cast members of The Brady Bunch for a Pride crossover event from Paramount+ and MTV Entertainment Studios.

Set to drop Wednesday, June 30 exclusively on Paramount+, Dragging The Classics: The Brady Bunch will see Barry Williams, Christopher Knight and Mike Lookinland play Mike Brady, Peter Brady and Bobby Brady, respectively. Eve Plumb and Susan Olsen will also return as Lucy and Margie, respectively.

Filling the gaps are Drag Race superstars. All Stars 5 winner Shea Couleé will appear as Marcia Brady, Drag Race season six winner Bianca Del Rio as Carol Brady, Ben DeLaCreme as Greg Brady and Kylie Sonique Love as Jan Brady. Additional participating Drag Race queens are Nina West as Alice and Kandy Muse as Cindy Brady.

The special will also feature appearances from RuPaul as Wig Attendant and Michelle Visage as Helen.

Dragging The Classics: The...

Lifetime is ramping up its holiday movie programming. The network has announced two new movies, A Christmas Dance Reunion, which reunites High School Musical alums Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman, and Blending Christmas, starring Haylie Duff and Aaron O’Connell. Directed by Marla Sokoloff, Blending Christmas also stars Beth Broderick, Telma Hopkins, Greg Evigan and former The Brady Bunch actors Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland, Susan Olsen, Jennifer Elise Cox and Robbie Rist.

Official descriptions follow below:

In A Christmas Dance Reunion, successful attorney Lucy Mortimer (Coleman), along with her mother Virginia (Kim Roberts) return to the Winterleigh Resort to help celebrate the hotel’s final Christmas season before the resort closes its doors permanently. Once there, Lucy is reunited with the owner’s nephew and her childhood Christmas Dance partner, Barrett Brewster (Bleu). Though the resort has fallen on hard times and has stopped most holiday events, Lucy leads...

Everyone loves at least one Christmas movies. Even the Grinches and Scrooges among us can’t deny that there is at least one flick out there that can inspire the spirit of the season within them.

In order to find it, however, you’re going to have to cast a wide net. Thankfully we now have the streaming world to turn to for help.

Here we’ve gathered a list of all the Christmas movies available to stream on Hulu. Surely among them is at least one that will make your heart grow three sizes – or more! And if you find that movie and it’s not on the list, let us know!

Anna and the Apocalypse

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What is it about the holidays that makes it feel like we’re on the verge of the end of the world? Regardless, if you’re going to capture Christmas season ennui in a movie,...

“I’ve gotta say, I love hearing everybody’s stories,” says Eve Plumb, who played Jan on The Brady Bunch, as she and her five fellow child actors-turned-legends from that classic ABC sitcom — Barry Williams, who played Greg; Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia; Christopher Knight, who played Peter; Mike Lookinland, who played Bobby; and Susan Olsen, who played Cindy — convene on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast for a rare reunion. “You know, we’ve known each other our whole lives, but yet I’m finding out really interesting things!”

The Brady Bunch, a show about two families that come together as one, was ...

“I’ve gotta say, I love hearing everybody’s stories,” says Eve Plumb, who played Jan on The Brady Bunch, as she and her five fellow child actors-turned-legends from that classic ABC sitcom — Barry Williams, who played Greg; Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia; Christopher Knight, who played Peter; Mike Lookinland, who played Bobby; and Susan Olsen, who played Cindy — convene on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast for a rare reunion. “You know, we’ve known each other our whole lives, but yet I’m finding out really interesting things!”

The Brady Bunch, a show about two families that come together as one, was ...

Here's the story of two lovely ladies, both of them with hair of gold like their TV mother, who spent their childhood on and then parlayed that sitcom stardom into new careers as TV home décor experts. Maureen McCormick and Eve Plumb, known worldwide as The Brady Bunch's Marcia and Jan, respectively, joined the Hgtv family with A Very Brady Renovation in 2019. The TV siblings, along with Barry Williams, Susan Olsen, Christopher Knight and Mike Lookinland, teamed up with a variety of Hgtv stars to redo the inside of the home that provided the exterior shots of the Brady compound to look like the TV set. A pilot, Generation Renovation, followed for Plumb, as did a new gig for McCormick hosting...