Television
On the second Friday in September, after a thunderstorm had blown a week’s worth of swampy heat from the streets of New York, Candice Bergen, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford and Grant Shaud taped the 251st episode of “Murphy Brown.”
Sept. 20, 2018
Entertainment & Arts
If you love horror stories of WASP dysfunction, John Bunzel’s new comedy, “Expecting Bobby,” will make you shiver like hearing nails dragging across a chalkboard might.
Dec. 13, 1996
Fox’s new comedy takes its cues from successful family shows but can’t rise above dull writing and poor casting.
March 8, 2003
Many people read Christopher Durang’s “Laughing Wild” as his update on the kids in his “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You.”
July 13, 1990
CBS is unveiling its new series orders for the 2018-19 season.
May 9, 2018
Ernest-Frank Taylor sits at a table in Murphy Brown’s FYI newsroom, pretending to eat fried rice with chopsticks.
May 29, 1992
Mary Beth Lacey, meet Murphy Brown.
April 19, 2018
The new CBS comedy series “Murphy Brown” doesn’t exactly sizzle in its debut at 9 tonight on Channels 2 and 8.
Nov. 14, 1988
ABC’s new “Madigan Men” is a comedy starring that good actor, Gabriel Byrne, but mainly it’s sort of gentle and nice.
Oct. 6, 2000
Season-ending episodes last week drove a number of series to strong showings in the ratings, including ABC’s “Home Improvement,” which finished No. 1 in the figures released Wednesday by Nielsen Media Research.
May 30, 1996