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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.
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It was just a month ago when people were scrambling to get appointments for COVID vaccines, trying to get into pharmacies, Benny s, the Dunk.
Now the state practically has to provide incentives: Come on down for a vaccine and get a free toaster. And we ll add a vintage Rhode Island CD . Sundlun Sings Sinatra.
According to the state, we are at about 38 percent herd immunity. Medical officials want that level to reach 70 percent statewide and nationally before we can act as if it s yesteryear.
The same officials are wondering aloud whether we will get there, or just have to go with what we get at some point. The biggest scam phrase of the pandemic has been We re all in this together.
When you buy a buffalo, what do you get at the first of the month?
Decades before Letterman was lowered into a huge water vat wearing an Alka-Seltzer suit, Allen was covered with tea bags and submerged into warm water.
The Story Of Late Night – which repeats 10 p.m. this Saturday, May 8 – airs a clip of Allen showing the proper technique for smashing a cream pie into a mannequin s face. A stage hand then volunteers to do it, but instead slammed the pie into Allen s face. So Allen chased him into the studio audience, where everyone tossed a pie at him.
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This image released by William Morrow shows cover art for the upcoming memoir The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron Howard and Clint Howard. It s scheduled to come out Oct. 12. (William Morrow via AP)
NEW YORK Filmmaker-actor Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard, brothers, former child stars and fellow Hollywood veterans, will now share their unusual story in book-length form.
The Howards have a deal with William Morrow for “The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family,” scheduled to come out Oct. 12. According to William Morrow, a HarperCollins Publishers imprint, the book will help answer a perennial question asked of Ron Howard: What was it like to grow up on television?