The brothers constantly battled with CBS’s censors and occasionally outraged viewers as well with its daring sketches and irreverent jokes.
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Maine filmmakers explore 1970s disco backlash
Lisa Quijano Wolfinger and Rushmore DeNooyer, of Lone Wolf Media in South Portland, made the new documentary “The War on Disco,” airing Monday on PBS.
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‘Frasier’ returns to TV, but you don’t need to be a superfan of the original to laugh at its jokes
After two decades, Dr. Frasier Crane returns in a new sitcom, “Frasier,” set to debut Thursday on Paramount+.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Televising Trump’s trials is a major mistake
My concern is less about whether televised proceedings are fair to the defendant and more about their effect on the viewer.
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Another View: Allow courtroom cameras for Trump trials
Televising the proceedings could have several benefits, including increasing confidence that the eventual verdicts are justified by a fair process.
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Boots and dog tags Alan Alda wore on ‘M-A-S-H’ sell at auction for $125,000 that will go to charity
The money raised from the auction will go to the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University in New York.
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‘The Bear,’ an omelet with potato chips that’s got everyone talking
A scene featuring an omelet in the second season of FX’s ‘The Bear’ shows how nourishing others is at the heart of hospitality.
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CNN, Don Lemon part ways weeks after Nikki Haley comments
The ‘CNN This Morning’ co-host said on Twitter that the news came as a surprise to him and characterized it as a firing, which CNN disputed.
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Barbara Bosson of ‘Hill Street Blues’ dies at 83
She was nominated for a supporting drama actress Emmy during each of the first five years of the show’s run.
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Maine Voices: What constitutes news depends on where you get the news
I decided to take media analysis into my own hands and was discouraged by what I found.