The “Other Shoe” Drops In Burbank
Entire ‘Tonight Show’ Staff Laid Off as Jimmy Fallon Moves Show From Burbank to NYC – TheWrap
All 164 employees are being encouraged to apply for positions in New York
September 7, 1956…NBC Debuts The Animated Peacock 57 years ago today, this animated film clip rolled at NBC for the first time at the start of ‘Your Hit Parade’ which at the time, was originating live and in living color from NBC Studio 8H. The voice belongs to legendary NBC announcer Ben Grauer. The animation […]
‘Tic Tac Dough’…NBC Studio 6B Below is host Jay Jackson with contestants on the primetime version of the show that ran from September ’57 till September ’58. The daytime version came from the Ziegfeld Theater. At the link is a clip from the show with Jackson as host, just before the Quiz Show scandals hit. […]
Director Jerry Foley…’The Late Show With David Letterman’ http://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/0902-Summer-2009/Television-Directing-David-Letterman.aspx If you can imagine paving a road while staying ten feet in front of a car going eighty miles and hour, you get an idea of what Jerry Foley’s job is like. Jerry took over ‘Late Night’ directing duties from Hal Gurnee in 1995, but as […]
ULTRA RARE! 1956 ‘Peter Pan’ Promo As we just read in this morning’s first story, the first television production of ‘Peter Pan’ was March 7, 1955. On January 9, 1956, NBC Brooklyn did it again…live and in color. Here is a promo for the second broadcast that fortunately was captured from inside a kinescope of […]