Fred Silverman (born September 13, 1937 in New York City) is an American television executive and producer. Events 509 BC - The Temple of Jupiter on Rome 's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The City of New York The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic He worked as an executive at CBS, ABC and NBC, and was responsible for bringing to television such programs as the series Scooby-Doo (1969-present), All in the Family (1971-1979), The Waltons (1972-1981), and Charlie's Angels (1976-1981), as well as the miniseries Roots (1977) and Shogun(1980). CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Scooby-Doo is a long-running American animated series produced for Saturday morning television in several different versions from 1969 to the Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The present is the Time that is perceived directly not as a recollection or a speculation All in the Family is an American Situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12 1971 to April Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) The Waltons is an American Television series created by Earl Hamner Jr Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency and is one of the first shows to showcase women Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Roots is a 1977 American television Miniseries based on Alex Haley 's work Roots The Saga of an American Family Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays
Biography
Silverman graduated from Syracuse University and then earned a Master's degree from the Ohio State University and went to work for WGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois overseeing children's programming. Syracuse University (SU is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York. The Ohio State University ( OSU) is a Coeducational public Research university in the state of Ohio. WGN-TV, channel 9 is a Television station in Chicago Illinois. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. He soon moved to CBS and took over responsibility for daytime programming and later, took charge of all of entertainment programming, day and night.
Silverman was the chief architect of the "rural purge" of 1971, which eventually eliminated many popular country-oriented shows, such as Green Acres, Mayberry R.F.D. and The Beverly Hillbillies from the CBS schedule. The " Rural Purge " of American television networks was a series of cancellations of still-popular rural-themed or senior citizen-skewing shows Green Acres is an American Television series starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City Mayberry RFD Mayberry RFD (RFD is a postal abbreviation for Rural Free Delivery was a Spin-off, or perhaps more accurately a direct continuation of The Beverly Hillbillies is an American Television series about a Hillbilly family transplanted to Beverly Hills California after finding In their place, however, came a new wave of classics aimed at the upscale baby boomer generation, such as All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore, M*A*S*H, the Waltons, Cannon, Barnaby Jones, Kojak and The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. All in the Family is an American Situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12 1971 to April The Mary Tyler Moore Show is an American Television sitcom created by James L M*A*S*H was a Medical drama / Black comedy produced by 20th Television Fox for CBS. Kojak refers to two separate but related American Crime drama Television series, with the original airing on CBS and the second series The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour is a Variety show that ran on CBS in the United States from August 1971 until May 1974
Silverman had an uncanny ability to spot burgeoning hit material, especially in the form of spin-offs, new TV series developed with characters that appeared on an existing series. Media spin-off is the process of deriving new Radio programs Television programs or Video games or even Novels from already existing ones For example, he spun-off Maude and The Jeffersons from All in the Family, and Rhoda from Mary Tyler Moore (as well as The Bob Newhart Show from MTM's writers). Maude is an Emmy and Golden Globe -winning half-hour American Television Sitcom that was originally broadcast on the All in the Family is an American Situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12 1971 to April Rhoda is an American television sitcom starring Valerie Harper. The Mary Tyler Moore Show is an American Television sitcom created by James L The Bob Newhart Show is the name of two different Television series, both starring comedian Bob Newhart. The Mary Tyler Moore Show is an American Television sitcom created by James L In early 1974, Silverman ordered a Maude spin-off titled Good Times; that show's success led Silverman to schedule it against ABC's new hit, Happy Days, the following fall. Good Times is a American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the Happy Days is an American Television sitcom that originally aired from 1974 to 1984 on ABC. However, he was named president of ABC in 1975, putting him in the awkward position of saving Happy Days. The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. Silverman, however, would bring Happy Days to the top of the ratings and generate two hit spin-offs from that show, Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy. Laverne & Shirley was a popular American television Situation comedy that ran on ABC from 1976 to 1983 Mork & Mindy is an American Sci-fi -based Sitcom broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on ABC.
At ABC, Silverman also greenlit other popular shows such as The Bionic Woman (a Six Million Dollar Man spin-off), Family, Donny and Marie, Three's Company, Eight Is Enough, The Love Boat, Soap, and Fantasy Island. The Bionic Woman is an American television series which spun off from The Six Million Dollar Man. The Six Million Dollar Man is an American Television series about a fictional Cyborg working for the OSI (which was usually said to refer Family is a Television drama series that aired on ABC from 1976 to 1980. Three's Company is an American Sitcom that aired from 1977 to 1984 on ABC. Eight Is Enough is an American Television Comedy-drama series which ran on ABC from March 15, 1977 until The Love Boat (simply Love Boat in its final season is an American Television series set on a Cruise ship, which Soap is an American Sitcom that originally ran on ABC from 1977 to 1981 This article is about the television series For the Amusement park, see Martin's Fantasy Island or Fantasy Island UK These moves brought ABC's long-dormant ratings from third place to first place.
Although Silverman's tenure at ABC was very successful, he left to become President and CEO of NBC in 1978. His 3-year tenure at NBC proved to be a difficult period, one marked by low ratings in prime time and failures of many of the shows he conceived. Nevertheless, there were high points, including the launch of the critically-lauded Hill Street Blues (1981) and The David Letterman Show (daytime, 1980), which would lead to Letterman's successful late night program in 1982. Hill Street Blues is a serial Police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987 The David Letterman Show was a live morning NBC Talk show hosted by David Letterman every weekday from Late Night with David Letterman was a nightly hour-long comedy Talk show on NBC hosted by David Letterman. Wisely, Silverman had Letterman in a holding deal after the morning show which kept the unemployed Letterman from going to another network. Silverman also developed successful comedies such as Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, and Gimme a Break!, and made the series commitments that led to Cheers and St. Elsewhere. Diff'rent Strokes is a popular American sitcom that aired on the NBC Television network from November 3, 1978 The Facts of Life is an American Sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979 Gimme a Break! is an American Sitcom which aired on NBC from October 29, 1981 until May 12, 1987 Cheers is an American Situation comedy television series that ran eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993 St Elsewhere is a US Drama series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. Silverman also pioneered entertainment reality programming with the 1979 launch of Real People. Real People was an NBC Reality television series that aired from 1979 to 1984, on Wednesday and then Sunday nights
In other areas of NBC, Silverman revitalized the news division, which resulted in Today and NBC Nightly News achieving parity with their competition for the first time in years. NBC News is the news division of American Television network NBC, a part of NBC Universal, which is majority-owned by General Electric Today, also referred to as The Today Show, is an American morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on NBC. NBC Nightly News is the flagship evening news program for NBC News and broadcasts from the GE Building, Rockefeller Center in New York City. He created a new FM Radio Division, with competitive full-service stations in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington. See also Frequency modulation, FM band FM broadcasting is a broadcast Technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that During his NBC tenure, Silverman also brought in an entirely new divisional and corporate management, a team that stayed in place long after Silverman's departure. (Among this group was a new Entertainment President, Brandon Tartikoff. Brandon Tartikoff ( January 13, 1949 &mdash August 27, 1997) was a television executive who was credited with turning around NBC's low ) Silverman also reintroduced the peacock as NBC's corporate logo. The NBC television network has used numerous logos at various times since the 1940s its familiar Peacock design originally introduced for color broadcasts in the
In 1981, Silverman left NBC and formed The Fred Silverman Company (formerly Intermedia Entertainment) to produce shows to sell to television. The company would generate several hits including the Perry Mason TV movie series (1985-1994) Matlock (1986-1995), Jake and the Fatman (1987-1992) In the Heat of the Night (1988-1994) Father Dowling Mysteries(1989-92), and Diagnosis Murder (1993-2001). Perry Mason is a fictional character a defense Attorney who originally was the main character in numerous pieces of Detective fiction authored by Matlock was a long-running American Television Legal drama. The show ran from September 23, 1986 to May Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J In the Heat of the Night is a television series based on the Motion picture, In the Heat of the Night, that ran from 1988 to 1995 Diagnosis Murder is a mystery / medical / Crime drama Television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr Most of these continue to run in syndication.
During the game-show revival that followed the success of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Silverman resurrected 50s game show Twenty One for NBC in 2000. In the United States, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (also known simply as Millionaire) is a Television Game show which The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's A few years later, he returned to ABC in an advisory capacity. The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network.
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