Lecture Six:Lecture Six:Everybody Loves RaymondEverybody Loves Raymond

Professor Kevin Sandler

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• The State of US Television Production

• The Production Process• Case Study: My Name

is Earl

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EVERYBODY

LOVES

RAYMOND

Phil Rosenthal

A Family for Joe

The original 1990 telefilm and a very young Robert Mitchum

“Guitar Pick” of a Show

Juilette Lewis, a co-star on A Family for Joe and Josie Bissett, a guest star

Baby Talk

With George Clooney, Connie Selleca, cast to play Maggie, but quit after two episode due to dissatisfaction with the role and replaced with Julia Duffy;

the second season of Baby Talk with Mary Page Keller and Scott Baio

Other Rosenthal Shows

Down the Shore (FOX), which lasted two seasons from 1992-1993, and Coach (ABC) which ran for nine seasons from 1989-1997

Ray Romano on Letterman

A later appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, after Ray Romano became a big star

Worldwide Pants

Pilot Production

Key Figures at CBS

Wendi Trilling and Les Moonves (with wife Julie Chen)

Deficit Financing

Paramount Deal

Ray Romano, Phil Rosenthal and Patricia Heaton, later on the picket lines during the Writers Guild strike in 1997

The Honeymooners

“The Canister”“[Those are] revealing moments that make the show for

me, just as much as the laughs. No matter how seemingly silly the episode was, we felt the need to

tie each one down to some sort of emotional underpinning, something that would resonate with

viewers after the show was over.”

“Everything Needs to be Justified”

“No matter what the situation, no matter how crazy, you have to believe that it

could happen in real life”

“Standard Deviation”

“Pilot”

“Bad Moon Rising”

“Bad Moon Rising” Outtake

“The Tenth Anniversary”

“Marie’s Sculpture”

Marie’s sculpture and the original one, outside the Rockland County Courthouse in Clarkstown, New York

The Final Days

“No Fat”

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TV Distribution and Transmission

The taping of the final episode that aired on May 16, 2005