DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2012
Oct
17
 
 
On this day in 1999, HBO presented what it thought would be a one-time, one-hour special, Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
16
 
 
This day in 2001 marked the series premiere of Smallville, which chronicled the life of a young Clark Kent in the years before he adopted his alter ego, Superman...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
15
 
 
This day in 1951 marked the start of one of television's most popular and enduring television shows, I Love Lucy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
14
 
 
This day in 1968 marked the first live television broadcast from a manned, orbiting American spacecraft...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
13
 
 
On this day in 1947, WBKB in Chicago introduced the children's show, Junior Jamboree. A little over a year later, the show moved to WNBQ (later WMAQ) and was renamed Kukla, Fran and Ollie...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
12
 
 
On this day in 1950, husband-and-wife radio stars George Burns and Gracie Allen made their television series debut with The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
11
 
 
On this day in 1962, ABC introduced the sitcom McHale's Navy, which starred Ernest Borgnine as the commanding officer of a WWII Navy PT boat...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
10
 
 
On this day in 1971, the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs debuted on Britian's ITV...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
9
 
 
On this day in 1990, TBS debuted Part 1 of the celebrated Australian miniseries, Bangkok Hilton...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
8
 
 
On this day in 1958, NBC introduced the Western, Bat Masterson, a series loosely based on the life of frontier lawman William Barclay "Bat" Masterson...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

Christy Slewinski

Managing Editor
Our TVWW managing editor, Christy Slewinski, passed away August 23rd, 2013, suddenly and unexpectedly. Earlier in her career, Christy covered the TV beat at the Tribune-Review and the New York Daily News, and also served as the lifestyles/specialty sections editor at the Orlando Sentinel. She also oversaw social media management and Internet projects for various clients nationwide.

She was as great a friend as she was an editor, and she was a terrific editor.

We still grieve the news, and the loss. To her family, whose losses are infinitely greater, our TVWW love and sympathy.

 
 
 
 

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