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Byline: Chris Tomasson Former Broncos wide receiver and longtime Denver sportscaster Mike Haffner has died. He was 82. Hank Siegel, a former Denver television producer who was executive producer at [...]

In his wide-ranging career, he also helped write Elvis Presley's comeback special and appeared on an early version of ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.'' Allan Blye, a television comedy writer and producer [...]

Byline: Isabel Heycock My husband David Heycock, who has died aged 80, from complications from multiple sclerosis, was a prominent producer in the music and arts department of BBC television [...]

Shelley Duvall never intended to become a movie star, or an actor of any kind, but when she did she changed the medium forever. Her long association with Robert Altman [...]

Shelley Duvall never intended to become a movie star, or an actor of any kind, but when she did she changed the medium forever. Her long association with Robert Altman [...]

With an emphasis on younger viewers, he established the networks as serious rivals to ABC, CBS and NBC, which had ruled television for nearly 40 years. Jamie Kellner, a media [...]

Byline: Emily Langer Russell Morash, a behind-the-scenes presence in public television who made Julia Child a celebrity chef and created the fix-it show 'This Old House,' prototypes of an enduringly [...]

Hailed as a pioneer of D.I.Y. programming, he oversaw groundbreaking how-to shows on public television in the days before HGTV and YouTube. Russell Morash, a public television producer and director [...]

In his decade at ABC, long the doormat network in prime time, he helped guide it toward the No. 1 spot. He later produced ''Nashville'' and won an Emmy for [...]

By making entertainment as well as education part of its mission, he gave the world ''Great Performances'' and other enduring programs. Jac Venza, a shoemaker's son who almost single-handedly delivered [...]

Byline: By, Mollie Quirk Al Ruddy, who was famed for producing The Godfather, has sadly died at the age of 94 after suffering a 'brief illness', it has been reported. [...]

He challenged racial barriers in Hollywood, was a producer of ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'' and earned a Tony nomination for ''Home,'' a paean to his Southern roots. Samm-Art Williams, [...]

Byline: Clyde Jeavons Before he embarked on his career as a television director, Roy Battersby and I met when he cast me as The Ghost in his ambitious 'black jeans' [...]

Byline: Sophie Walters My father, Alan Afriat, who has died aged 88, was a producer, director and editor of television programmes. Among other things, he was supervising editor of Thames [...]

She worked as a secretary before being hired as an associate producer at the NBC News public affairs show in 1956. She went on to spend 41 years there. Betty [...]

She worked as a secretary before being hired as an associate producer at the NBC News public affairs show in 1956. She went on to spend 41 years there. Betty [...]

Raised by a McCarthy-era rebel, the producer and journalist Hannah Weinstein, she followed her mother’s path into movies and television, advocacy and action. Paula Weinstein, a movie producer, studio executive [...]

Byline: Anthony Hayward John B Hobbs, who has died aged 87, formed his first theatre company at the age of 12, and the stage remained his first love. He even [...]

Byline: Alexander Graham My friend and former colleague Andrew Payne was a master of writing for popular television, and generous with both his time and his talent. As a young [...]

RICHARD LEWIS, who has died after a heart attack aged 76, was a former stand-up comedian who achieved success poking fun at his neuroses and hypochondria; known for his dark [...]

Byline: By, Mollie Quirk Beverly Hills 90210 producer, E. Duke Vincent, has sadly died at the age of 91. The television producer's death was confirmed by his wife Pamela Hensley [...]

Byline: Matthew Blakstad My father, Michael Blakstad, who has died aged 83, was a television producer and director whose credits include the popular BBC science programme Tomorrow's World. He was [...]

Byline: Les Allamby My stepdaughter, Ruth McCance, who has died of cancer aged 53, was a writer and executive producer for film and TV, based for the last decade in [...]

Byline: Louis Bayard - - - Correction: An earlier version of this obituary misstated the name of the BBC comedy series that helped inspire Lear's CBS sitcom 'All in the [...]

It is hard to overemphasize just how shocked the world was after All in the Family, Norman Lear's sitcom about a lovable bigot living in Astoria, premiered in January 1971. [...]

Byline: Washington Post Staff Norman Lear, the TV writer and producer who transformed the bland porridge of situation comedy into a zesty stew of sociopolitical strife and brutally funny speech [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries Richard Lewis, who has died after a heart attack aged 76, was a former stand-up comedian who achieved success poking fun at his neuroses and hypochondria; known [...]

Byline: ANNIE MARTIN Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Legendary TV writer and producer http://www.upi.com/topic/Norman_Lear/ has died. Lear died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles, a spokesperson for the family confirmed [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Joseph and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Famed television producer Norman Lear, whose wildly successful TV sitcoms including 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons' fused [...]

Byline: Eric Levenson and Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Famed television producer Norman Lear, whose wildly successful TV sitcoms including 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons' fused [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Joseph and Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Famed television producer Norman Lear, whose wildly successful TV sitcoms including 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons' fused [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Joseph, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Famed television producer Norman Lear, whose sitcom spinoffs of 'All in the Family' dominated 1970s and 1980s television, died Tuesday at his [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Joseph and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Famed television producer Norman Lear, whose wildly successful TV sitcoms including 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons' fused [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Joseph and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Famed television producer Norman Lear, whose wildly successful TV sitcoms including 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons' fused [...]

Byline: Harrison Smith Marty Krofft, who partnered with his older brother Sid to become a king of Saturday morning television in the Nixon era and beyond, producing trippy, off-kilter children's [...]

Byline: Stephen La Rivière Like many film back-room boys, my friend David Elliott, who has died aged 92, was not a household name, although he had seven decades worth of [...]

He spent many years as a writer and producer of the hit mystery series starring Angela Lansbury. He later wrote his own mystery novels, set in Hollywood. Peter S. Fischer, [...]