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RIP thread for people involved in TV - Mod warning, see OP (21/08/25)

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  • #572
    dubstarr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Nicholas Parsons has died.I remember him from Sale of The Century


  • #573
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,736 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    dubstarr wrote: »
    Nicholas Parsons has died.I remember her from Sale of The Century

    Him! He used to be a regular face on tv alright.


  • #574
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Just A Minute!
    RIP Nicholas Parsons


  • #575
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    dubstarr wrote: »
    Nicholas Parsons has died.I remember him from Sale of The Century

    He must have been some age.


  • #576
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    He must have been some age.
    96.
    He was still doing Just A Minute at 95!


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  • #577
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    And now from Norwich, it's the quiz of the week!




  • #578
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Well that must be end of an era on BBC radio. A legend in his own 60 seconds.


  • #579
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs3s30t5duw

    From Mr Jolly by the Comic Strip. Thats Peter Cook behind the door. RIP Nicholas.


  • #580
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,151 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    One for the older readers i feel but Neville Buswell, who played womaniser Ray Langton in the ITV soap in the 1960s and 70s, has died at the age of 77. He was deirdre barlows first husband and the father of Tracey. RIP.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51268078

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  • #581
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Fred Silverman died aged 82.

    He was only person to run programming at ABC, CBS & NBC.

    He ordered to air and produced so many legendary shows

    CBS
    The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H, The Waltons, Good Times, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, Kojak, Cannon, The Jeffersons, and the animated — and later iconic — Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

    ABC
    Charlie’s Angels, The Love Boat, Family, Donny & Marie, Three’s Company, Eight Is Enough, The Bionic Woman and Good Morning America.

    Another popular Happy Days spinoff of the late 1970s was Mork & Mindy,

    NBC
    There he greenlighted the influential cop drama Hill Street Blues, supervised the launch of the miniseries Shōgun and gave David Letterman his first series as a host. He scheduled series including The Facts of Life, Diff’rent Strokes, Gimme a Break! and reality forebear Real People and also was credited with revitalizing NBC’s news division.

    His own production company
    Perry Mason as a TV movie series — with Paul Sorvino and later Hal Holbrook stepping into the lead after Burr’s 1993 death — Matlock, Diagnosis: Murder, Jake and the Fatman and In the Heat of the Night.

    https://deadline.com/2020/01/fred-silverman-dies-legendary-tv-executive-producer-was-82-1202847035/


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  • #582
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Gene Reynolds passed away on February 3rd aged 96 RIP.

    He was co creator of MASH & Lou Grant.

    He was also an actor in and a director and producer on many classic US shows.

    https://twitter.com/alanalda/status/1225083053548109825?s=20


  • #583
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,200 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Ken Levine has a long tribute to Gene Reynolds here: it was Gene who hired Ken Levine & David Isaacs for MASH, which was their big break as writers. Gene left the show but kept advising them on stories regardless. Their first script for the show was Out of Sight/Out of Mind, the one in which Hawkeye is temporarily blinded and learns to appreciate his other senses.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #584
    serfboard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,708 ✭✭✭serfboard


    bnt wrote: »
    Ken Levine has a long tribute to Gene Reynolds here:
    That's a great tribute - thanks for posting it.


  • #585
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Kirk Douglas, 103 finally shuffles off this mortal coil.
    https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0206/1113468-kirk-douglas/

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51394855


  • #586
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,151 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    Kirk Douglas, 103 finally shuffles off this mortal coil.
    https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0206/1113468-kirk-douglas/

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51394855

    No I shuffled off this mortal coil.


  • #587
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,520 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Very sad news about Keelin Shanley

    https://twitter.com/AudreyCarville/status/1226176963989114882


  • #588
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    RIP one of the best RTE and journalism in Ireland had.


  • #589
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,708 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Very sad this. Young woman with two children. Tragic..

    I think she beat cancer a few years ago..


  • #590
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    Stunned by that news about Keelin Shanley. Fine journalist who had only just got the job she deserved in RTE. I had no idea of her illness. RIP.


  • #591
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,708 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Skid X wrote: »
    Stunned by that news about Keelin Shanley. Fine journalist who had only just got the job she deserved in RTE. I had no idea of her illness. RIP.

    I am almost certain that she battled it a few years ago.


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  • #592
    STB.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭STB.


    51, far too young. RIP.


  • #593
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,747 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    STB. wrote: »
    51, far too young. RIP.

    51 is no age sure.


  • #594
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,452 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Actor Orson Bean dies aged 91 after being hit by car in Los Angeles.
    https://www.thejournal.ie/orson-bean-dies-los-angeles-accident-4998153-Feb2020/

    In the 1990s, he played the shopkeeper Loren Bray on the long-running drama Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. He remained active on the screen in recent years with guest shots in such shows as Desperate Housewives, How I Met Your Mother and Modern Family.

    orson-bean-dies-los-angeles-accident-2-310x415.jpg

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #595
    Mr.Nice Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,643 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    Shocked to hear about Keelin Shanley. Didn't realise she had been having health problems. Very sad.


  • #596
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Very sad news about Keelin Shanley

    https://twitter.com/AudreyCarville/status/1226176963989114882


    Was only the other week someone mentioned on boards that it wouldn't be long for her after someone asked where was she.


    RIP
    Way, way too young and I enjoyed her programs.


  • #597
    Mike Litoris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,207 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    Ah man, shocked about Keelin Shanley. :(


  • #598
    Mrcaramelchoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭Mrcaramelchoc


    Mike Litoris wrote: »
    Ah man, shocked about Keelin Shanley. :(

    Very sad.i liked her she was very good at what she did on morning Ireland in particular. my condolences to her family. R.i.p.


  • #599
    kravmaga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,001 ✭✭✭kravmaga


    Terrible shock, just saw the RTE News earlier.

    Terrible news as I know she had discussed beating cancer back in 2013 on the LLS interview.

    Way too young to go. Great investigative journalist and a nice outgoing personality.

    RIP


  • #600
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,367 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    RIP

    A really professional presenter.
    I never saw her to put a foot wrong in anything she worked on.


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  • #601
    The Satanist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 686 ✭✭✭The Satanist


    RIP, wonderful journalist, presenter and broadcaster. She seemed like a genuinely likeable personality too.


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