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Rick Hurst, the classic television actor best known for his role as Deputy Cletus Hogg in the hit series The Dukes of Hazzard, has passed away. Hurst's death was announced by Dukes of Hazzard co-star Ben Jones in a post shared on Facebook by the Cooter's Place museum. He was 79 years old, per CNN.

"It doesn't seem right that Rick Hurst passed away this afternoon," Jones' statement, posted on the evening of June 26, reads. "When something so unexpected happens, it is 'harder to process,' as the current expression goes. I have known Rick for over 45 years and there wasn't a minute of that time that he didn't leave me smiling or laughing. Sure he was a professional comedian, but mostly he just had a heart as big as Texas. He was a fine actor, a splendid comic, and a wonderfully supportive colleague."

Jones continued, "I had seen him in...

Rick Hurst, the actor known for playing Deputy Cletus Hogg on The Dukes of Hazzard, has died. He was 79.

According to the actor’s wife Candace Kaniecki, he died unexpectedly on Thursday in Los Angeles, TMZ reported. His cause of death was not immediately disclosed.

Hurst’s co-star Ben Jones, who played Cooter Davenport on the 1979-’85 CBS sitcom, announced his death on Facebook after Hurst was scheduled to appear at Cooter’s Place in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee next month.

“It doesn’t seem right that Rick Hurst passed away this afternoon. When something so unexpected happens, it is ‘harder to process,’ as the current expression goes,” he said in a statement. “I have known Rick for over 45 years and there wasn’t a minute of that time that he didn’t leave me smiling or laughing. Sure he was a professional comedian, but mostly he just had a heart as big as Texas.

Rick Hurst, best known for playing Deputy Cletus Hogg on CBS’ The Dukes of Hazzard, died on Thursday. He was 79.

Hurst’s death was announced on Facebook by Ben Jones, who played Dukes of Hazzard mechanic Cooter Davenport and now owns the Cooter’s Place Museum at Pigeon Forge in Sevierville, Tenn.

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“I have known Rick for over 45 years and there wasn’t a minute of that time that he...

Rick Hurst, who portrayed the good-hearted Deputy Cletus Hogg on the long-running CBS action comedy The Dukes of Hazzard, died Thursday. He was 79.

Hurst’s death was announced by the Cooter’s Place museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. He had just canceled a scheduled July 3-7 appearance there.

“To fans, he was more than a character — he was family,” reads a Dukes of Hazzard post on Instagram. “His gentle smile, impeccable comedic timing and kind-hearted spirit made every scene brighter.

“Offscreen, Rick was known for his generosity, humility and love for connecting with fans at events across the country. Whether it was a reunion special or a meet-and-greet at Cooter’s, he never stopped sharing his joy with the people who adored him.”

Before his most famous role, Hurst played a prisoner named Cleaver alongside Tom Poston and Hal Williams on the 1975-76 ABC sitcom On the Rocks, which revolved...

Bobby Sherman, the beloved singer, actor, and humanitarian who stole hearts in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 81. As reported by multiple outlets, Sherman passed away on June 24, 2025, following a battle with cancer (via USA Today). His wife, Brigitte Poublon, had publicly shared news of his diagnosis in March 2025, and later revealed that the former teen idol had been receiving palliative care at home since April. Sherman’s death brings a wave of mourning to fans across generations who grew up watching him on TV and listening to his chart-topping hits.

Bobby Sherman’s passing was confirmed by longtime friend and Full House star John Stamos on Instagram. Stamos, who served as an ambassador for the Brigitte & Bobby Sherman Children’s Foundation, shared a heartfelt tribute on behalf of Brigitte Poublon that celebrated Sherman’s impact on and off screen. The announcement quickly spread across social media,...

Bobby Sherman, a hitmaking teen-idol singer and actor who starred in the ABC comedy Here Come the Brides and appeared on such hit series as The Partridge Family, Emergency! and Mod Squad, died Tuesday morning of cancer. He was 81.

His wife Brigitte Poublon Sherman announced the news on social media via her friend John Stamos (read his post below). She had said in March that her husband was fighting terminal Stage 4 cancer.

“He lived with integrity, gave without hesitation, and loved with his whole heart,” Poublon Sherman said in Stamos’ post. “And though our family feels his loss profoundly, we also feel the warmth of his legacy — his voice, his laughter, his music, his mission. Thank you to every fan who ever sang along, who ever wrote a letter, who ever sent love his way. He felt it. Rest gently, my love.”

Inner sleeve of the 1970 LP ‘Here Comes Bobby...

Bobby Sherman, the pop singer and Here Come the Brides actor whose image graced bedroom posters, lunch boxes and fan magazines as a heart-fluttering teen idol of the 1960s, has died. He was 81.

Sherman’s death was announced Tuesday by his second wife, Brigitte Poublon. It was revealed in March that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer.

“Bobby left this world holding my hand — just as he held up our life with love, courage, and unwavering grace through all 29 beautiful years of marriage. I was his Cinderella, and he was my Prince Charming,” she wrote.

Discovered at a Hollywood cast party when he was 20, Sherman got a big break when he was signed as a regular vocalist for the ABC musical variety show Shindig! in 1964. He spent about 16 months on the program, which showcased the top acts and songs of the day, through January 1966.

The blue-eyed, brown-haired Sherman had...

Richard Pryor was in the midst of a career transformation in the early 1970s. He abandoned the Bill Cosby-esque routines that earned him a shot on 1960s TV variety shows, recording albums like 1971’s Craps that “brought the language of the streets to stand-up,” according to the biography Becoming Richard Pryor. But while Pryor was shattering racial and sexual boundaries on stage, he was still taking showbiz jobs that required a more family-friendly style. None of those gigs was weirder than when he guested on The Partridge Family.

Even by sitcom standards, the plot of 1971's “Soul Club” episode was ridiculous. Pryor and future Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr. played A.E. and Sam Simon, two Detroit brothers who turned an old firehouse into a music club to uplift the “ghetto” community. Right on!

But the Soul Club is in trouble, owing big-time bucks to Black mobsters who want to take over the operation.

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...

The 1976 action series "Charlie's Angels" was a massive success for a very simple reason: the lead actresses were dazzling. Yes, the premise was fun, but most of the show's fans will sooner talk about how the original Angels -- Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson, and Farrah Fawcett -- were objects of their crushes. The makers of "Charlie's Angels" seemingly spent just as much time filming the Angels running in slow-motion as they did setting up plots or working on character development. 

The series followed three recent graduates of the LAPD's police academy who, despite their excellent fighting and crime-stopping skills, are given menial, sexist jobs that do not challenge them. Instead, they pursue a job with a secretive private investigation company, run by a wealthy, off-screen benefactor named Charlie Townsend (John Forsythe). He gives them assignments in secret (Charlie has a lot of enemies) and nicknames them his "Angels." 

The series progressed for five seasons,...

The 1960s and '70s were a turbulent time in myriad aspects for people all over the world. The United States was mired in a pointless war in Vietnam, while, at home, the nation's young populace were taking to the streets to protest this conflict as well as to show support for the Civil Rights Movement, women's equality, and other social/political causes. As often occurs during such highly contentious times, art got revolutionary and deeply weird.

Inspired by experimentation with consciousness-altering substances like marijuana and acid, artists in a variety of media explored psychedelia with gleefully reckless abandon. The Beatles recorded "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," Dennis Hopper made "Easy Rider," and designers incorporated the loud, swirling colors of this creative movement into clothing and home fashions. Shag carpeting became a thing, and people dug it so much they put it on their walls. The whole world had gone groovy,...

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In the "The Simpsons" episode "Alone Again, Natura-Diddly", the Simpsons discover a new outdoor auto racing track inside their favorite nature preserve and decide to stay and watch a race or two. Indeed, many recognizable characters are there, including Ned Flanders (Harry Shearer) and his wife Maude (Marcia Mitzman Gaven), who sit in the back row. In between races, cheerleaders take to the track and use a t-shirt cannon to fire free clothing into the stands. Tragically, one of the errant t-shirts strikes Maude in the chest, throwing her over the back railing of the stadium. She plunges to her death, landing in the parking lot below.

The rest of the episode follows Ned's grieving process as he mourns the loss of his wife. Ned, perhaps shockingly, even finds his faith in God shaken over the tragedy; ordinarily, Ned is ultra-Christian.

Charles Shyer, director of Father of the Bride and Baby Boom and cowriter of the Oscar-nominated Private Benjamin, died Friday, as Variety reports. He was 83. The cause of death was not disclosed.

“It’s with an indescribably heavy heart that we share the news of our beloved father, Charles Shyer’s passing,” his family said in a statement to Deadline. “His loss leaves an unfillable hole in our lives, but his legacy lives on through his children and the five decades of wonderful work he’s left behind. We honor...

Charles Shyer, who was Oscar-nominated for co-writing “Private Benjamin” with Nancy Meyers and went on to direct a string of hit comedies including “Father of the Bride” and “Baby Boom,” died Friday. He was 83.

His family said in a statement to Deadline, “It’s with an indescribably heavy heart that we share the news of our beloved father, Charles Shyer’s passing. His loss leaves an unfillable hole in our lives, but his legacy lives on through his children and the five decades of wonderful work he’s left behind. We honor the extraordinary life he led and know there will never be another quite like him.”

After Shyer’s collaboration with Meyers, whom he married the same year as “Private Benjamin” was released, the pair were Oscar-nominated for original screenplay along with Harvey Miller, kicking off a fruitful professional and personal relationship that produced some of the 1980s and ’90s most successful comedies.

Charles Shyer, the director and Oscar-nominated writer who teamed with then-wife Nancy Meyers on such audience-pleasing, feel-good comedies as Private Benjamin, Irreconcilable Differences, Baby Boom and Father of the Bride, has died. He was 83.

Shyer died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a brief illness, his daughter Hallie Meyers-Shyer, writer and director of the 2017 Reese Witherspoon comedy Home Again, told The Hollywood Reporter.

The son of veteran assistant director Melville Shyer, one of the founders of the DGA, Shyer started out writing for sitcoms like The Odd Couple and The Partridge Family with then-partner Alan Mandel before they broke into the movies with the box office smash Smokey and the Bandit (1977), starring Burt Reynolds and Sally Field.

Shyer’s career skyrocketed when he joined forces with Meyers and Harvey Miller to pen the screenplay for Private Benjamin (1980), directed by Howard Zieff and featuring Goldie Hawn in her first big-screen starring role.

TV Legend: A high school class wrote a Bewitched script that was adapted into a classic Christmas episode of the famous TV series.

As you might imagine, in the world of network television, when you have to come up with material for over 20 episodes a season, there is a constant need for content. That's why there are so many famous clichés that pop up in most famous sitcoms. Cliches happen because they pretty much Work, so shows find themselves turning to them to fill out the episode order.

However, there are sometimes much stranger origins for certain episodes of notable TV shows, like "Sisters at Heart," the beloved 1970 Christmas episode of Bewitched.

Bewitched, of course, starred Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha Stephens, a witch who married a mortal named Darrin Stephens. The show was about Samantha trying to hide her magical powers, while also often Using those magical powers for misadventures...

Chicago – The force was with the Chicago Fan Expo on August 16th … what the heck else can be said? Mark Hamill is making a rare appearance and fan meet/greet all this weekend at the Expo, which runs until Sunday, August 18th. Photographer Joe Arce was at his live panel event and captured two Exclusive Portraits.

Mark Richard Hamill was born in Oakland, one of seven siblings. His father William was a naval officer and the family moved often, but Hamill eventually landed at Los Angeles College, where he studied drama. He began in television in the 1970s, making appearances on “General Hospital,” the original pilot of “Eight is Enough.” “The Partridge Family,” and “One Day at a Time.” And in the age of the high-quality TV movie, he had a role opposite Linda Blair in “Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic.”

Mark Hamill at Chicago Fan Expo,...

General Hospital (Gh) spoilers note that it’s been a hot minute since Luke Spencer has been in the land of Port Charles.

He arrived in town in 1978, and his love story with Laura Webber (Genie Francis) revolutionized the term “super couple” and drew many eyes to the daytime drama and the world of soaps, in general.

Yes, Luke and Laura were a romantic phenomenon drawing record-breaking viewers to watch them get hitched in November 1981.

Sadly, Luke ended up leaving PC in 2015 and returned for a very short stint in 2017. Since then, he’s been off-screen, and Tracy Quartermaine (Jane Elliott) returned to the canvas in early 2022 to reveal that Luke had passed away.

Still, his portrayer, Anthony Geary, is still very much alive, and recently celebrated a nice milestone.

General Hospital News: Happy Birthday Tony Geary!

The retired Gh star recently celebrated his 77th birthday in Amsterdam on Wednesday,...

Star Trek: Voyager had a version of WandaVision in an episode from season 3. Voyager's finale "Endgame" also shares similarities with Avengers: Endgame in plot and villains. Both Star Trek: Voyager and the MCU have more similarities than are initially apparent.

Star Trek: Voyager did a version of WandaVision nearly 30 years before the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Although Star Trek and the MCU are both huge franchises, there generally aren't a lot of similarities between the two. The MCU took a decidedly science fiction lean during its first three phases but in a different way than the Star Trek timeline, which depicts a utopian vision of the future while the MCU runs concurrently with the present. However, one MCU show that did seemingly borrow a story idea from Star Trek was WandaVision.

Kicking off Phase Four of the MCU in 2021, WandaVision followed Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) living a...

Al Onorato, who handled casting for such TV shows as Bewitched, The Partridge Family, Police Story and Fantasy Island and represented Mark Harmon, Kristin Chenoweth and others as a talent manager, has died. He was 88.

Onorato died April 21 in Los Angeles, his nephew Chris Onorato announced.

Onorato founded the Casting Society of America (then known as the American Society of Casting Directors) with Mike Fenton and Joe Reich in 1982, and he received a lifetime achievement award from the organization in 2019.

Onorato won the CSA’s Artios Award for best casting for a comedy film for Bagdad Café (1987), sharing it with Jerold Franks, his partner in Onorato/Franks Independent Casting.

Alfred Louis Onorato was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on Nov. 10, 1935. He graduated from Hackensack High School and Fairleigh Dickinson University, then worked as a page at NBC Studios in New York City.

He was a vice president in charge...

The cancelation of Young Sheldon after season seven despite still being a hit show on CBS and Netflix was surprising. Annie Potts expressed sadness over the cancelation and shared her disappointment with the decision. The producers and some actors agreed to end the show on a high note as Sheldon's life transitions to college at Cal Tech.

In the middle of November 2023, the decision was made to end Young Sheldon with season seven. It was perceived as a strange choice by some cast, crew, and viewers, considering the show was still a hit on CBS. It became an even bigger hit once it arrived on Netflix in the U.S. about 10 days after the cancelation was announced. While some of the cast and producers have come out to say, essentially, that it's time to move on, other cast members like Annie Potts have expressed their disappointment.

Potts portrays Meemaw, or Constance "Connie" Tucker,...

Very few directors have ever had the kind of run Rob Reiner did as a director between 1984 and 1992. Think about it. This is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery and A Few Good Men. Surely, that run alone would be enough to solidify him as one of the greatest Hollywood directors of all time? Those movies are so good it almost doesn’t matter how much money-losing crap he puts out now…and there is a lot of it… and North isn’t even the worst of it! So how did this man go from making a few great movies that defined and elevated our pop culture on so many different levels to suddenly pumping out nothing but heartless, soulless political flicks (did anyone see Lbj?) and rom-coms that are neither romantic nor comedic?

So, how did this jack of...

Legendary actor Louis Gossett Jr. has passed away.

Per the Associated Press, Louis Gossett Jr. died on Friday morning in Santa Monica, California. No details were shared about a cause of death, though his passing was confirmed by the actor's cousin, Neal L. Gossett. He was 87 years old.

“Never mind the awards, never mind the glitz and glamor, the Rolls-Royces and the big houses in Malibu. It’s about the humanity of the people that he stood for," Neal told the outlet, remembering his cousin and the ways he used dignity and humor to fight racism.

After beginning his career as an actor with stage work, Gossett rose to great fame with his role as Fiddler in the hit television miniseries Roots, which aired in 1977. For his performance, Gossett won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series. The acclaimed series was very acclaimed,...

There are few television shows where one moment, you can see wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper fully freaked over a poltergeist and the next, catch The Partridge Family‘s Shirley Jones in an ascot mildly put out by a haunted house. Such is the joy of Celebrity Ghost Stories.

One of the show’s many notable qualities is that the celebrities within one episode are strangely matched, like someone tore out pages from a bunch of People magazines from the 1970s and beyond, threw them in the air like confetti, and then picked 3 or 4 celebs at random to group together per episode. This isn’t a criticism — what would the alternative even be, weird theme nights? — but it’s amusingly whiplash-inducing all the same.

So naturally, Guide to the Unknown followed suit. This week, join Kristen and Will as they recount and comment on the hauntings of a batch of public...

"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" isn't quite like any other "Star Trek" show, and when it debuted in 1993, it was quite the departure from both the original series and "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Instead of following intrepid explorers on starships trekking across the galaxy, "Deep Space Nine" followed the stories of the people who lived on board the space station Deep Space Nine (DS9) — civilians, Bajoran militia, and Starfleet officers alike. Showrunner Rick Berman was in charge of taking the "Star Trek" universe in a new direction following the success of "The Next Generation," but he ended up looking to a rather old television series for inspiration.

In an interview with StarTrek.com, Berman explained the inspiration behind "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and revealed that he and writer/producer Michael Piller got their biggest idea from a classic 1950s Western. That's pretty great given the fact that "Star Trek...

David Seidler, the London-born playwright and screenwriter best known for “The King’s Speech,” has died while on a fly-fishing vacation in New Zealand, as per a report in The Guardian. His spokesperson said he was in the location he most revered, doing the activity he most loved when he passed: “It is exactly as he would have scripted it.” The winner of the Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay for the Colin Firth-led film was 86 years old.

Seidler’s career began in Australian television in the late 1960s. He came to the United States in the early 1980s, working for the soap opera “Another World,” then writing television movies like “Malice in Wonderland,” something of an early version of the series “Feud” as it concerned Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons starring Jane Alexander and Elizabeth Taylor. He also wrote “Onassis: The Richest Man in the World” starring...

Come on, get happy … because you’ll be able to rewatch a classic comedy. Axs TV is adding the quintessential ’70s sitcom The Partridge Family to its classic programming lineup, TV Insider has learned exclusively. Back-to-back episodes will air in the primetime every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 9/8c starting October 2. The series will also air daily on Axs TV as part of its new “Retro Binge” daytime block, starting that same day at 1/12c, along with fellow music sitcom The Monkees, star-studded pop culture series The Very Very Best Of The 80s, and informative retrospective A Year In Music. Watch a promo above. “The Partridge Family is one of television’s most beloved sitcom classics, fueled by its iconic soundtrack featuring enduring hits such as ‘C’mon Get Happy’ and ‘I Think I Love You’,” said Katie Daryl, Vice President of Programming for Axs TV, in a statement. “Axs...

We’ve all made the “Cop Rock” jokes. The Steven Bochco musical drama, which premiered in fall 1990, was a big swing: marrying original music with procedural storytelling. It was a colossal flop that we still talk about three decades later, and a reminder that musicals are hard.

Music has been a part of the TV landscape going back to the 1950s and shows like “Your Hit Parade.” But few series have successfully integrated regular music performances into their storytelling: “The Monkees” and “The Partridge Family” worked in the 1960s and ’70s. “Fame” did it in the early ’80s. And then “Cop Rock” scared people off the concept.

The 1990s animation boom incorporated music in shows like “The Simpsons” and “Animaniacs.” But not until the 21st century did scripted series really figure out how to make musical numbers work as part of the narrative. “Flight of the Conchords” did it with satiric tracks,...

Actor and radio show host Danny Bonaduce is looking well after his recent brain surgery, letting his followers know with a new image that he's now working on his recovery. Recently, Bonaduce announced that he'd been diagnosed with hydrocephalus, a neurological disorder caused by fluid buildup in the brain. He underwent brain surgery on June 5, hoping that this would cure his hydrocephalus. Just under a week later, the Partridge Family star shared a new photo on Instagram of himself on an exercise bike, noting in the caption, "On the road to recovery."

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"Looking good and on the way… all the way back," Barry Williams of The Brady Bunch says in the comments section.

Bonaduce's rep, Paul Anderson, also confirmed to Radar that the surgery "went really well." He also said how the former child star is eager to...

Animated reboots of Bewitched and The Partridge Family are in the works. Premiered first in 1964, Bewitched followed a witch named Samantha who, after marrying an ordinary mortal man, Darrin Stephens, vows to live the life of a typical suburban housewife but is unable to resist using her magical powers to solve everyday problems. The classic sitcom-inspired the 2005 film of the same name starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell. On the other hand, The Partridge Family premiered in 1970 and is loosely based on the Cowsills, following a family of pop musicians who embark on humorous adventures.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Sony is developing animated takes on the two classic sitcoms, Bewitched and The Partridge Family. The animated reboots are said to be aimed at younger viewers. However, both projects are in early development and do not yet have writers attached due to the WGA strike. Sony Pictures Television executive Joe D’Ambrosia...

Sony Pictures is ready to make some magic happen with a new Bewitched animated TV series. First premiered in 1962 on ABC, the original show starred Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York and lasted for eight seasons, becoming one of the most popular sitcoms in television’s history.

The story followed Samantha and Darrin, a seemingly regular married couple whose simple life changes completely when she confesses to him that she’s a witch during their honeymoon. Since that moment, their daily lives are filled with weird and comedic situations, especially because Samantha’s mother, Endora is not a fan of the idea of her daughter being married to a mortal, so she tries to make Darrin’s days a living hell.

On Thursday, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Sony Pictures is developing a new animated series inspired by Bewitched, described as "Hannah Montana meets Harry Potter."

The announcement is...

The powers that be at Sony Pictures Television — Kids want to come on and get happy, as a new take on The Partridge Family is now in development. THR reports that Sony has been looking at its library of intellectual properties to see which programs could be rebooted for a new slate of programming aimed at younger viewers. This includes animated reboots of both The Partridge Family and Bewitched, along with kid-focused versions of Wheel of Fortune and Shark Tank.

Word is that The Partridge Family reboot will "focus on a Black family from Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood that operates a food truck." The family travels throughout New York's five boroughs to "serve up treats and tunes." It's similar to the premise of the original show, though they're touring their music for different reasons. Given that it's keeping the Partridge Family title, we can presume that the animated reboot's family will have the same last name,...

Sony is looking to relaunch some of its classic TV programs and unscripted series for younger audiences, with its Kids division looking to create animated spinoffs of Bewitched and The Partridge Family, as well as kid-centric versions of Wheel of Fortune and Shark Tank. Sony’s kid-centered spinoff of Wheel of Fortune could add new twists such as physical and comedic challenges to earn letters and buy vowels. “Our mission is straightforward and clear,” Joe D’Ambrosia, executive VP and general manager of Sony Pictures Television — Kids, told The Hollywood Reporter. “We’d like to be known as a premier content creator for kids who build new global franchises for Sony, like the Spt scripted team has done with Cobra Kai, the game show division has accomplished with Jeopardy! and the international team with The Crown, but in the kids’ space.” “There’s such a vast history at Sony Pictures Television...

Sony is reaching into its vast catalog of TV properties to develop programming aimed at young viewers.

The studio’s Sony Pictures Television — Kids (formerly known as Silvergate Media) is developing animated takes on classic sitcoms Bewitched and The Partridge Family. It’s also delving into its library of game shows and unscripted series, with early takes on kid-centric versions of Wheel of Fortune and Shark Tank.

“There’s such a vast history at Sony Pictures Television with properties that we could play around with and reinvent, introducing a whole new generation of kids to them,” Joe D’Ambrosia, executive vp and general manager of Spt — Kids (and a member of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Kids Entertainment Power List), told THR.

The Bewitched update would focus on Tabitha Stevens, the 13-year-old daughter of witch Samantha and human Darrin. She juggles two lives attending middle school while also being secretly enrolled in...

Proof that actor and radio host Danny Bonaduce is doing just fine after his brain surgery on Monday? The ever-funny “Partridge Family” star tweeted, “I lived, bitch” on Tuesday night.

His wife Amy shared a post-surgery update on Monday, saying, “It’s been a long day but I just wanted to let you guys know that Danny’s surgery went according to plan and he’s doing well.”

His agent, Paul Anderson, had previously told TMZ that Bonaduce’s surgery was successful and that he is expected to go home within the next few days. Bonaduce also co-hosts a morning radio show on Seattle station Kzok.

I lived, bitch https://t.co/sqFfdNDq6d

— Danny Bonaduce (@TheDoochMan) June 6, 2023

It’s been a long day but I just wanted to let you guys know that Danny’s surgery went according to plan and he’s doing well.

— Amy Bonaduce (@AmyBonaduce) June 6, 2023

Last year,...

Danny Bonaduce’s brain surgery was a success, his agent Paul Anderson told TMZ on Tuesday.

The “Partridge Family” star, who was recently diagnosed with hydrocephalus, had a stent and a drainage port put in to relieve the pressure on his brain. Ahead of the surgery, Bondaduce said he hoped it would restore his ability to walk.

“From what I hear, if the diagnosis is correct, it’ll be 50 percent better right [away]. But I’d rather be safe than sorry. I don’t wanna get my hopes up too much that I’ll be cured … I will be completely bummed out if this doesn’t work. I can’t walk currently, I just can’t,” he said.

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Danny Bonaduce, an actor who played Danny Partridge on the 70s television series The Partridge Family, is scheduled to undergo brain surgery on Monday to restore his ability to walk.

Last spring, Bondauce took time off from his radio show, The Danny Bonaduce & Sarah Morning Show, to receive medical attention for a condition that left him using a cane to walk. He was later diagnosed with hydrocephalus, a neurological disorder caused by a buildup of fluid that increases pressure on the brain.

In an interview with TMZ, Bonaduce explained that the surgery will consist of a stent and drainage port being placed in his brain to eliminate the fluid and relieve the pressure. “From what I hear, if the diagnosis is correct, it’ll be 50 percent better right [away]. But I’d rather be safe than sorry. I don’t wanna get my hopes up too much that I’ll be cured.

Danny Bonaduce revealed that he’s set to undergo brain surgery after being recently diagnosed with a neurological disorder.

During an interview with TMZ, posted online Friday, The Partridge Family star said he was diagnosed in March with hydrocephalus – a build-up of fluid in the cavities deep within the brain – after seeing hundreds of doctors regarding a mystery illness.

“My life was talking to doctors,” he recalled. “I had meetings with five doctors on one single Tuesday, and nobody could figure out what it was. And I thought, ‘Well, this is a big deal. I’m falling down now. That can’t be good.'”

In April last year, Bonaduce shared on his social media that he was taking a break from his daytime radio show The Danny Bonaduce & Sarah Morning Show on Seattle-based Kzok to focus on his health journey.

While he didn’t share many details at the time,...

Actor and radio host Danny Bonaduce will undergo brain surgery next week in hopes of curing a long-standing health issue.

Bonaduce, age 63, was a beloved member of TV classic The Partridge Family before moving on to reality shows like Breaking Bonaduce. He currently hosts The Danny Bonaduce & Sarah Morning Show on iHeart Radio.

Bonaduce dropped out of his radio show for two months last year because of his health, but kept talking to doctors even after returning.

He told TMZ about his condition, claiming his brain felt “fuzzy.” But the medical teams couldn’t decide on what the issue was. Finally, one provided a diagnosis of hydrocephalus, a fluid buildup on the brain.

“I can’t figure out what caused it, ’cause I’ve done so many stupid things on reality TV shows,” he said to TMZ. “I took a guitar to the head. That hurt, and was possibly the cause of all this.

In recent months, Danny Bonaduce, former “The Partridge Family” star and “The Danny Bonaduce Show” radio host, has revealed to his fans that he will be undergoing brain surgery after being on a difficult health journey.

In a recent interview with TMZ, Bonaduce explained after visiting “100 doctors” and going through a period of time without a diagnosis, he’s been diagnosed with hydrocephalus, a neurological disorder that is also referred as “water on the brain.”

Bonaduce described for TMZ that during the upcoming operation, the surgeons will place a “shunt in my head” and a “drainboard” to remove the liquid from his brain.

While Bonaduce remains hopeful for the potential relief the surgery could provide, he admits he “will be completely bummed out if this doesn’t work.” Bonaduce added, “I’d rather be safe than sorry. I don’t want to get my hopes up too much that I’ll be cured.

Danny Bonaduce, who costarred on the ’70s hit “Partridge Family,” told TMZ on Friday that he will undergo brain surgery on Monday that he hopes will restore his ability to walk.

In April 2022, Bonaduce took a leave of absence from The Danny Bonaduce & Sarah Morning Show on iHeart Radio to seek treatment for what was then a mysterious illness that had him using a cane to walk. He has since seen “100 doctors,” and been diagnosed with hydrocephalus, a neurological disorder caused by an abnormal buildup of cerebrospinal fluid, which puts harmful pressure on the brain’s tissues.

“I thought, ‘Well, this is a big deal. I’m falling down now. That can’t be good,'” he told the outlet of finally getting the diagnosis.

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The wrecking ball is set to fall on several historic TV homes, including the one used in both ’60s sitcom “Bewitched” and ’70s musical series “The Partridge Family,” and the retro location for Marvel’s “WandaVision,” TheWrap has confirmed.

According to a Warner Bros. Ranch source who spoke with TheWrap, the demolition is slated for an unspecified point this summer.

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Judy Farrell, known for her role as Nurse Able in “M*A*S*H,” died on Sunday. She was 84.

Her “M*A*S*H” co-star Loretta Swit told Entertainment Weekly, “Judy was a most beautiful woman — inside and out. We grew up together. She was family. This has been a painful loss, but we will always have the beauty of her memory. Rest in peace, Nurse Able.”

She had suffered a stroke eight days prior to her death, TMZ reported.

Farrell was featured on eight episodes of “M*A*S*H,” the television series based on the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital that cared for patients during the Korean War. The TV series aired from 1972 to 1983. She played Nurse Able alongside Alan Alda as Captain Benjamin “Hawkeye” Piece.” Farrell also held roles in popular TV shows such as “Fame” and “Quincy M.E.” while making guest appearances on “Get Smart” and “The Partridge Family.”

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Actress Judy Farrell, best known for playing Nurse Able on hit 1970s-’80s sitcom “M*A*S*H”, has died at age 84.

The actress’ son, Michael Farrell, told TMZ that she died Sunday in hospital, having suffered a stroke nine days earlier.

Farrell appeared in eight episodes of “M*A*S*H”, and at the time was married to series star Mike Farrell, who joined the cast in 1975 as surgeon B.J. Hunnicutt.

Mike Farrell and then-wife Judy. (Photo by Tony Korody/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

In addition to “M*A*S*H”, Farrell’s acting career also included guest-starring appearances on such TV series as “Get Smart”, “The Partridge Family” and “Quincy, M.E.”. On the big screen, she was featured in the movies “J.W. Coop” (1971), “Chapter Two” (1979) and “Long-Term Relationship” (2006).

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Following the Farrells’ divorce in 1983, she subsequently married actor/producer Joe Bratcher.

Coslough Johnson, the Emmy-winning writer who worked with his late older brother, Arte Johnson, on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and wrote for two variety shows toplined by Sonny and Cher, has died. He was 91.

Johnson died March 23 of prostate cancer at a nursing facility in the Thousand Oaks area, his wife, Mary Jane, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Johnson also worked on sitcoms including The Monkees, Bewitched, That Girl, The Partridge Family, Good Times, Flo, Operation Petticoat and Cpo Sharkey and on cartoons featuring Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle, The Flintstones, Voltron and He-Man.

He wrote on the first three seasons (1968-70) of NBC’s Laugh-In, the final three seasons (1971-74) of The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour and the lone season (1976-77) of The Sonny and Cher Show, those last two for CBS.

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The original "Grease" stage musical first debuted at the Kingston Mines night club in Chicago in 1971. The book was by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, who also wrote the music and lyrics with John Farrar. Set in the 1950s, "Grease" was a winking, somewhat bawdy anti-nostalgia piece about high school greasers and car nuts falling in love after a significant summer vacation. It banked on the images of squeaky-clean 1950s teeny-bopper movies, but inserted sexuality, a teen pregnancy, gang violence, and themes of class. The main characters were Danny the greaser and Sandy the square. They had a romantic fling in the summer, but may be too embarrassed to date one another during the school year. Their relationship is reconciled when Sandy adopts the clothes and mannerisms of the greasers. "Grease" moved to Broadway in 1972 and played all the way through 1980, making it the longest-running Broadway show at the time.

When word got out that HBO Max was working on a Velma origin story, fan responses were all over the place. It's not that "Scooby-Doo" fans dislike the four-eyed, orange-clad investigator who's been integral to Mystery Inc. since it first began in 1969. Rather, the hesitant responses to "Velma" were related to other aspects of the Mindy Kaling-led show, including its adult humor and violence, changes in animation style and characterization, and a conspicuous lack of the crime-solving Great Dane himself.

But if you look closely at the history of the long-running franchise, it's clear that for as long as Scooby and the gang have been on the air in some form or another, the shows have been repeatedly reinventing. And while that constant reinvention has often caused cyclical, ahistorical outrage from picky viewers, it's also the key to what makes "Scooby-Doo" so satisfying after all these years.

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Actor Stuart Margolin, the two-time Emmy winner known for his performance as Evelyn “Angel” Martin in the “The Rockford Files,” died of natural causes in Staunton, Va. on Monday, family members confirmed. He was 82.

Margolin also appeared in “M*A*S*H,” “The Fall Guy,” “Cannon,” “Hill Street Blues,” “30 Rock” and in films including “Days of Heaven” and “S.O.B.”

Margolin’s stepson, “Bosch: Legacy” cast member Max Martini, took to Instagram with a heartfelt tribute as he explained how the veteran actor’s immediate family surrounded him during his final moments: “The two most profound moments in my life… the birth of my kids and being bedside as my step-father passed this morning. My mother, brother and I holding his hands.”

Margolin got his start acting in the early 1960s, with some of his earliest acting credits being guest star roles on black-and-white sitcoms like “The Gertrude Berg Show” and “Ensign O’Toole.

Stuart Margolin, best known for his Emmy Award-winning portrayal of Evelyn “Angel” Martin on The Rockford Files, has died. He was 82.

The actor’s passing was announced on social media earlier today by his stepson, actor Max Martini, who paid tribute to Margolin with an emotional Instagram post.

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Stuart Margolin, who won back-to-back Emmys for his recurring role as Evelyn “Angel” Martin in The Rockford Files and racked up more than 120 career screen credits, died today, his stepson Max Martini said on social media. He was 82.

In an Instagram post (see it below), Bosch: Legacy regular Martini wrote: “A profoundly gifted step-father that was always there with love and support for his family. Rip Pappy. Keep ‘em cold.” He did not provide a cause of death or other details.

Margolin won Emmys in 1979 and 1980 for the respective fifth and sixth seasons of NBC’s The Rockford Files, playing the former cellmate of Jim Rockford (James Garner). Appeared in more than three dozen episodes, including the series’ first and last, his shady-but-endearing character constantly sought Rockford’s help after getting mixed up with former criminal associates.

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