NBC’s landmark “Your Show of Shows” won its second consecutive best variety program statuette at the primetime Emmy Awards held Feb. 5, 1953 at the old Hotel Statler hosted by Art Linkletter. The 90-minute live program had strong competition- “Arthur Godfrey and His Friends” (CBS); “The Colgate Comedy Hour” (NBC); “The Jackie Gleason Show” (CBS) and “The Toast of the Town” (CBS).
Other winners that evening included another landmark series, CBS’ “I Love Lucy” which was named best situation comedy with NBC’s “Robert Montgomery Presents” receiving best dramatic program honors. CBS’ “What’s My Line? claimed the title of best audience participation, quiz or panel show. NBC’s “Dragnet” was the recipient of the best mystery, action or adventure program. Ktla’s “Time for Beany” won best children’s program, while Edward R. Murrow’s “See It Now” (CBS) received the Emmy for public affairs program.
On the acting front, Oscar-winners...
Other winners that evening included another landmark series, CBS’ “I Love Lucy” which was named best situation comedy with NBC’s “Robert Montgomery Presents” receiving best dramatic program honors. CBS’ “What’s My Line? claimed the title of best audience participation, quiz or panel show. NBC’s “Dragnet” was the recipient of the best mystery, action or adventure program. Ktla’s “Time for Beany” won best children’s program, while Edward R. Murrow’s “See It Now” (CBS) received the Emmy for public affairs program.
On the acting front, Oscar-winners...
- 3/21/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
The Catholic Archdiocese of New York's new downtown cultural initiative, The Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, located at 18 Bleecker Street, today announced a schedule of diverse and dynamic programming, as part of its upcoming Grand Opening. The celebratory events will run from Monday, September 14 through Sunday, October 4, 2015, presenting works that explore the heights and depths of the human condition through thought and culture.
- 8/26/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadcasting veteran Ted Bergmann, who produced the first NFL and Grammy telecasts and was present to record the German surrender to the Allies for radio in 1945, has died. He was 93. Bergmann died March 2 following surgery at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica. During the course of his 70-year broadcast career, Bergmann produced such shows as Three’s Company and its two spinoffs; The Arthur Godfrey Show; and Love Thy Neighbor, a 1973 ABC series about a black couple in a white neighborhood that was so controversial that Sears and Proctor & Gamble pulled their advertising. A Brooklyn native, Bergmann started his TV career as an NBC page. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Army, soon earning the rank of captain and covering stories in the European theater for the NBC radio program Army Hour. On May 6, 1945, the 24-year-old Bergmann took a recording crew to a schoolhouse Reims,...
- 3/8/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Charlie Sheen has reportedly decided to get back to his roots by using his given name for his role in the upcoming Robert Rodriguez movie "Machete Kills."
TMZ has obtained a picture from the credits, which shows Sheen being billed as "Carlos Estevez," which is the name he was born with. Sheen has never gone by that name in his professional career.
Actor Martin Sheen, Charlie's father, was born Ramon Estevez, as his father, Francisco Estevez Martinez, was from Spain. The elder Sheen said in an interview 10 years ago that he adopted the stage name "Martin Sheen" because he had trouble getting acting jobs with the Spanish name, but he never changed it legally, which means all four of Sheen's children have Estevez as a last name. It's something Sheen said he regrets.
"I started using Sheen, I thought I'd give it a try, and before I knew it, I...
TMZ has obtained a picture from the credits, which shows Sheen being billed as "Carlos Estevez," which is the name he was born with. Sheen has never gone by that name in his professional career.
Actor Martin Sheen, Charlie's father, was born Ramon Estevez, as his father, Francisco Estevez Martinez, was from Spain. The elder Sheen said in an interview 10 years ago that he adopted the stage name "Martin Sheen" because he had trouble getting acting jobs with the Spanish name, but he never changed it legally, which means all four of Sheen's children have Estevez as a last name. It's something Sheen said he regrets.
"I started using Sheen, I thought I'd give it a try, and before I knew it, I...
- 5/24/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Charlie Sheen appears in the upcoming Robert Rodriguez film "Machete Kills," he's just not using the name Charlie Sheen. According to TMZ, Sheen is credited in "Machete Kills" with his birth name, Carlos Estevez.
Sheen has said in the past that he took the name Charlie when he was a kid to avoid confusion with an uncle who was also named Carlos. Sheen's father, Martin Sheen, was born with the name Ramon Antonio Gerardo Estevez; according to the New York Times, the 72-year-old acting legend took the stage name of Sheen as a tribute to Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. He also hoped it would get him more acting parts. Sheen never legally changed his name, however, and passed the Estevez name down to his four children, including to his son, actor Emilio Estevez.
"I started using Sheen, I thought I'd give it a try, and before I knew it, I...
Sheen has said in the past that he took the name Charlie when he was a kid to avoid confusion with an uncle who was also named Carlos. Sheen's father, Martin Sheen, was born with the name Ramon Antonio Gerardo Estevez; according to the New York Times, the 72-year-old acting legend took the stage name of Sheen as a tribute to Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. He also hoped it would get him more acting parts. Sheen never legally changed his name, however, and passed the Estevez name down to his four children, including to his son, actor Emilio Estevez.
"I started using Sheen, I thought I'd give it a try, and before I knew it, I...
- 5/24/2013
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
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