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    Fred Silverman (September 13, 1937 – January 30, 2020) was an American television executive and producer. He worked as an executive at all of the Big Three...
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  • insistence she enter the field, Alonso signed with television producer Fred Silverman in 1988, who thought she could equal the success Roseanne Barr achieved...
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  • network which broadcasts the program, Franken attacked network president Fred Silverman for NBC's poor showing in the Nielsen ratings during his tenure. It...
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  • episode of Matlock during its first season on NBC. Executive producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove decided to use this character as a model for one of...
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  • of Fred with brown hair; Originally named "Ronnie" when production for Scooby-Doo began in spring 1969, Fred was named by and after Fred Silverman, who...
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    animation studios to ensure that new programs would be safe for children. Fred Silverman, an executive for daytime programming at CBS, was then looking for a...
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    comedy programming). Tartikoff took over programming duties at NBC from Fred Silverman in 1981. At age 32, Tartikoff became the youngest president of NBC's...
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  • produced by Intermedia Entertainment Company (first season only), The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions (called Strathmore Productions in...
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  • October 28, 1992-May 16, 1995. Its executive producers were O'Connor, Fred Silverman and Juanita Bartlett. This series marked O'Connor's return to a series...
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  • executive Fred Silverman went forward in producing Mrs. Columbo as a spin-off to the original series. Levinson and Link further objected to Silverman's insistence...
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    ABC's Fred Silverman read the script, he felt that middle America would not like the concept, and he decided to pass on the script. Silverman asked Larry...
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    executive Robert Wood, who replaced longtime CBS programming head Dann with Fred Silverman, following research highlighting the greater attraction to advertisers...
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  • Big Pumpkin Fred Silverman (1937–2020), American TV executive and producer Jonathan Silverman (born 1966), American actor Joseph Silverman (1860–1930)...
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    criticize ABC's television production and marketing strategy under Fred Silverman. Klein referred to ABC's programs as "porn" in order to tap into the...
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  • 1973). The siblings were offered a weekly show by ABC-TV President Fred Silverman after he saw the duo co-host a week on The Mike Douglas Show which followed...
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  • Great Dane. Both the dog and the series would be renamed Scooby-Doo by Fred Silverman, CBS's head of daytime programming, between its unsuccessful first pitch...
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  • Schwartz, Fred Rogers and Dick Wolf; newscasters Walter Cronkite, Ed Bradley, Bob Schieffer and David Brinkley; executives Fred Silverman, Sumner Redstone...
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  • creating mystery series. He frequently worked with television producer Fred Silverman and television writer Joel Steiger. Hargrove received an Emmy nomination...
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  • simply Lynne Farr during the 1987–88 season). The executive producer was Fred Silverman. The show focuses on Mickey Mackenzie (Teri Copley), a girl in her early...
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    role of Monica Quartermaine in the ABC soap opera General Hospital. Fred Silverman, then president of ABC, asked her to join the series, which at that...
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    the duties as host on Wheel of Fortune from Chuck Woolery. However, Fred Silverman, the president and CEO of NBC, rejected his hiring, claiming Sajak was...
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  • attached. The budget was $5 million, $4 million of which was raised from Fred Silverman of NBC. The remainder came from EMI Films. For his second feature and...
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  • occasionally served as guest host in Carson's absence. NBC's president Fred Silverman was so impressed by Letterman's performance that he decided to offer...
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  • was produced by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group in association with Fred Silverman. The plan was to have 100 new episodes made by the fall of 1987. It...
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  • for television by Dean Hargrove and Joel Steiger, and produced by The Fred Silverman Company and Dean Hargrove Productions in association with Viacom Productions...
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    Carroll O'Connor, Howard E. Rollins Jr, Alan Autry, Anne-Marie Johnson, Fred Silverman Company, Juanita Bartlett Production, MGM Television, retrieved August...
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    Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, debuted on CBS in September 1969. After Fred Silverman, then head of daytime programming at CBS, concluded that, after about...
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  • as Audra Lindley Michael David Simms as Don Taffner Brian Dennehy as Fred Silverman Liz Crawford as Jenilee Harrison Anne Ross as Priscilla Barnes The movie...
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    ten-year-old Gary Coleman at the suggestion of ABC President Fred Silverman. Silverman was a huge proponent of Coleman and, feeling that breakout stardom...
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    suggested by ABC president Fred Silverman, who had seen her in her initial appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Silverman hired her the day before...
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