Tag: The Golden Girls
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Miami Nice
Here’s a lovely little featurette about the first season of The Golden Girls. It’s got some great shots of the set, some wonderful interviews, a few fact bombs, and a shot of a shooting script. The decision to swap the roles of Betty White and Rue McClanahan was taken rather late in the show’s development,…
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The Dozen Golden Girls Remakes
Brighton Belles, the British remake of The Golden Girls for ITV, is infamous for being so ill-received by viewers that it was yanked off the air after only a handful of episodes. We might have a closer look at it soon, and maybe do a side-by-side comparison of the first episode, like we did with…
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The Golden Girls Extended Universe
It was nice to see that Disney+ has added the complete run of The Golden Girls, which I shall certainly be watching slowly. The show was created by Susan Harris and ran for 180 episodes over seven seasons. It also spawned a number of spin-off shows. After Bea Arthur decided not to sign on for…
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Clooney Sitcoms
Before his ascent into stardom, and literal use of the stratosphere and satellites, George Clooney appeared in a number of sictoms. Weirdly, as many people know, his first role in a sitcom was in E/R. E/R was a Normal Lear joint, that aired for one season on CBS in 1984-5. A year or so later,…
