Norman Lear was not a man to shy away from controversy. If anything, he sprinted toward it, knowing that doing so would help open people’s minds to pervasive American issues related to discrimination, ...

Legendary producer Norman Lear's groundbreaking abortion episode of Maude also caused disagreement in his own household. In his star-studded birthday special Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and ...

Marcia Rodd, a Tony Award-nominated Broadway actor whose prolific TV career included two memorable episodes of the ...

For the last few years, ABC has been staging live, all-star re-creations of classic sitcom episodes from Norman Lear, the king of socially conscious TV comedies. It’s called Live in Front of a Studio ...

After successful live-episode remakes of classic episodes of “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons” and “Good Times,” legendary TV producer and screenwriter Norman Lear says the next series he wants to ...

The pioneering and perennially busy producer discusses the secret to longevity (no joke: It’s laughter) and the creative throughline to several decades of sitcoms: "The foolishness of the human ...

Jimmy Kimmel is no stranger when it comes to rebooting classic TV shows. However, with his next project Jimmy doesn’t just want to entertain, he will be making a political point that couldn’t be more ...

Norman Lear knows a thing or two about timely topics. So, what better time than now to recreate the famous “Maude” abortion episode, which originally aired in November 1972 — two months before Roe v.

In the heart of Texas, ATX TV Festival staged a live reading of "Maude's Dilemma" — wherein Bea Arthur's beloved character decides to get an abortion — as part of a closing night tribute to the late, ...