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Jun 18, 2024 · In 1969 Moore and her husband, Grant Tinker, formed the production company MTM, and a year later they launched The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–77) on the Columbia Broadcasting System . The new situation comedy was a hit, and during its seven-season run, it won 29 Emmys, with Moore receiving four of the awards for her portrayal of ...
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Dick Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925, West Plains,...
- Dick Van Dyke
Jun 17, 2024 · Producer Joe Hamilton sold the idea of Mama's Family to NBC chairman Grant Tinker over a game a golf. Not that NBC was buying the idea cold. The Carol Burnett Show's "The Family" skits and the popular 1982 television movie Eunice had established the characters and concept.
1 day ago · “My bosses – (NBC chief executive) Grant Tinker in particular – believed there would never be a fourth network,” Ancier said. “And they said, ‘On top of that, most of those stations they’re putting together are UHF,’ as if it was like the plague. It just meant we had to be different from the other networks.”
6 days ago · Brooks and Burns were hired by CBS programming executive Grant Tinker to create a series together with MTM Productions for Tinker's wife Mary Tyler Moore which became The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Drawing on his own background in journalism, Brooks set the show in a newsroom.
5 days ago · Ancier added: "My bosses — (NBC chief executive) Grant Tinker in particular — believed there would never be a fourth network. And they said, ‘On top of that, most of those stations they’re putting together are UHF,’ as if it was like the plague.
1 day ago · Box office. $87.4 million (United States and Canada) [1] Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated adventure fantasy film produced in 1952 by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on J. M. Barrie 's 1904 play Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, the film was directed by Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, and Wilfred ...
Jun 20, 2024 · As the result of several executive miscalculations, NBC entered the 1980s as the television industry’s lowest-rated network, running a distant third place to ABC and CBS. The situation improved dramatically when Grant Tinker and Brandon Tartikoff took over, respectively, as network chairman and chief programmer at the beginning of ...
