With Norman Lear, I think the novelty of his shows started to wear off. America was in an angry place in 1971 when these shows were first airing—you had the tail end of the civil rights movement ...

legendary TV writer and producer Norman Lear. “Every time you see a black man on the tube, he is dirt poor, wears s--- clothes, can’t afford nothing ... That’s bulls---,” one of them told ...

The Big Bang Theory's upcoming spinoff will feature what could have been the flagship's version of Sheldon and Leonard. Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady's sitcom about genius social outcasts dominated ...