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#AnniePotts  #CBS  #DeltaBurke  #DixieCarter  #JeanSmart #LindaBloodworthThomason #MeshachTaylor Twenty-five years after wrapping its seven-season run on CBS,  Designing Women  is plotting a return to the small screen. Series creator  Linda Bloodworth-Thomason  is behind the revival, which hails from producers Sony Pictures Television Studios. The project has been in the works for months as the indie studio searches for a home for its revival of the comedy about for women (and one man) working together at an interior designing firm in Atlanta. Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, Annie Potts, Jean Smart and Meshach Taylor starred in the original series, which took on subjects including women's rights, domestic abuse, homophobia, and racism during its run from 1986 to 1993. A season two episode exploring AIDS prejudice — inspired by Bloodworth-Thomason, whose mother died from the disease — earned two Emmy nominations. The series was nominated multip...

#JordanPeele #TwilightZone #RodSerling  #CBS #CBSAllAccess Though we still use its title as shorthand for the bizarre, dystopian times in which we live, a reboot of  The Twilight Zone  is a dicey proposition. Rod Serling’s classic genre-spanning anthology series has long been a standard-bearer for suspenseful storytelling suffused with social commentary—so long, in fact, that it’s already been reimagined on three previous occasions, including two TV revivals two decades apart and a 1983 feature film from Steven Spielberg, George Miller, John Landis, and Joe Dante. Try as they might, none of those iterations ever recaptured the unnerving magic of the original, not even when CBS, home to Serling’s series, took another stab at it in the ’80s.  Black Mirror   is a worthy enough successor, though its focus is a bit more narrow (mostly techno-nightmares) and its outlook far bleaker. Despite practically being embedded in the public consciousness, for TV creators ...

#BigBangTheory #CBS #JimParsons It turns out Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons is responsible for bringing about an end to the longest-running and most universally despised multi-camera series in television history. Entertainment Weekly reports that the decision to end the series after the 12th season was made because Parsons was “ready to say goodbye.” CBS could not entreat Dr. Sheldon Cooper to stay for two more years, even though he stood to make more than $50 million if he did, and the show could not realistically go on without him. All five original cast members—Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar—were reported to be making around $1 million per episode, something they had won through hard-fought, lengthy negotiations over the years. Nayyar is apparently not holding a grudge, telling Entertainment Tonight that “we love each other and we’re a family.” Parsons has apparently broken Cuoco’s heart, however—she posted on Instagram saying “No ma...