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LOS ANGELES - More people are watching older TV comedy sitcoms as opposed to newer shows amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic because it makes viewers feel nostalgic, according to Nielsen.
At the onset of the pandemic, millions of people were forced to stay home and take advantage of TV entertainment to keep from going stir crazy and many of those people resorted to older TV comedies.
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FILE - L-R: American actors Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, and Ron Howard sit on a metal swing, smiling, in a promotional portrait for the television series “The Andy Griffith Show.” Knotts wears a small cowboy hat.
Billie Hayes, Memorable Witch on âH.R. Pufnstuf,â Dies at 96
Ms. Hayes had quite a cackle, and it served her well in a number of witchy roles, beginning in 1969 on a short-lived but much remembered TV series.
The actress Billie Hayes in her best-known role, as Witchiepoo on the 1969 children’s television series “H.R. Pufnstuf.”Credit.Everett Collection
May 13, 2021
Billie Hayes, who rode a memorable cackle to kiddie-TV fame, playing a witch named Witchiepoo in the short-lived but much remembered 1969 series âH.R. Pufnstuf,â died on April 29 in Los Angeles. She was 96.
News of her death was posted on her website.
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New York Times reporter-at-large Sarah Lyall was granted the full back page of Sunday’s Arts & Leisure section to suck up to liberal voting activist and sore-loser Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Lyall has pivoted from mocking UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, to commiserating with U.S. Democrats when they feared a replay of 2016, and finally to Abrams worship.
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