Roseanne, 19881997Among the very best family shows ever on TV, the original nine seasons of Roseanne were an astonishing feat. Their mothers, Emily "Cissy" Drinkard and Lee Drinkard, were sisters. But Bobs Burgers is much, much weirder than most TV families ever allow themselves to be who else but Tina could really lean into the horrible intensity of puberty? Its nun versus AI in Damon Lindelofs new series. The Wonder Years captured that truth with more depth and heart than any family comedy has since. Everything You Never Thought to Ask About In-flight Entertainment, Warner Bros. Discoverys licensing chief on how movies and TV get on planes, editing decisions, and the curious case of. The most powerful images in the series, including the newborn Kunta Kinte being held aloft and the traumatic departure of Kizzy, are ultimately about families being regenerated or ripped apart. The New England Genealogical Society discovered the childhood pals are both descendants of William Knowlton Jr., an English bricklayer from the 1600s. If theres a model of the oh-so-sincere TV sitcom family, its Ozzie and Harriet, where all of lifes problems can be solved by a good talk from father and a batch of cookies from mother. But beyond that, the rhythms and thematic foundations of Golden Girls share a deep DNA with what makes a family show distinct: These women are bonded in a way that goes beyond being roommates, and the shows stories are about how they react to events as a unit. ScarJo?! "Criminal Minds". The pair costarred in a 2004 revival of A Raisin in the Sun. We had seen rich, flawed families on TV before the Bluths, but never had their misdeeds been portrayed at such a rapid pace, with so much acid humor (I dont care for GOB), absurdity (The jurys still out on science), and energetic skewering of the clueless, privileged one percent. It's like through marriage, my aunt Rosile.". Second cousin of actress-director Ida Lupino.First cousin of Stanley Lupino and Barry Lupino.Cousin of Stanley Lupino, Barry Lupino and Ida Lupino, Rita Lupino, Antoinette Lupino. See production, box office & company info. But the icing on the cast cake is the fact that Ron Howard, the son in two stand-up TV families, serves as narrator, which means that every episode provides the chance to hear Opie Taylor/Richie Cunningham call out these wonderful jerks on their constant bullshit. They just wish they had the reach of the Kardashians. Actress Melissa McCarthy and media personality Jenny McCarthy are first cousins. Al was Archie Bunker stripped of context, so that the only thing left was self-immolating glee at tearing everything down. Queen Sugar, 2016presentSet on and near a sugarcane farm in Louisiana, Ava DuVernays Queen Sugar is the multigenerational epic family drama that American television hasnt been able to stage before. It focused on Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond), who married into a very wealthy family, and her working-class sister, Mary Campbell (Cathryn Damon), who once was married to a gangster but had settled down with a second husband, Burt (Richard Mulligan). The Slice of Life from HBO's Dexter. "She's my cousin!" The perfect family looked like Cliff, Clair, Sondra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa, and Rudy. This show is another childhood gem of mine, it's also another under the radar gem, it was really popular for it's time but as I said for it's time as time went on its became slightly forgotten. "I Will Always Love You" singer Whitney Houston and "I Say a Little Prayer" singer Dionne Warwick are cousins. According to genealogy website MyHeritage, the pop stars are ninth cousins. Each woman has her own life and her own desires, but Jane, Xo, and Alba are most astonishing as that rare TV family who insist on loving one another, and truly seeing one another as people. The Addams Family stands apart from the rest for its beatnik haunted house music; its elegant costuming, makeup and set design; the quality of its ensemble acting by Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Jackie Coogan, Ted Cassidy, Blossom Rock, Ken Weatherwax; the array of hands that played Thing T. Thing; and all the shows memorable guest stars, including Felix Silla as Cousin It and Margaret Hamilton as Grandma Hester Franny Frump. The Osbournes wasnt the first reality show focused on a family (that was An American Family) but it was the first important one of the modern era a messier, more goth, and less self-aware precursor to Keeping Up With the Kardashians. "And we were just always close. 21. Cousin of Marc Coppola, Christopher Coppola, Nicolas Cage, Sofia Coppola and Roman Coppola. 17. 2023 Vox Media, LLC. Vietnam, civil rights, gay rights, feminism, abortion, you name it, the Bunkers and Stivics talked about it, and sometimes drew lively supporting characters (including African-American next-door neighbor George Jefferson) into the mix. This allowed us to include shows like Frasier and Golden Girls, which feature adult parents and their adult children, but did exclude series like I Love Lucy and Mad About You, which are more about self, marriage, and work than they are about intergenerational relationships. Nielsen's first ratings found that more than 60 percent of all homes with TV sets were watching the show. Assistant_director | By the time it became a regular series, the network was presenting it as a more clever and visually imaginative companion piece to their popular anti-sitcom, MarriedWith Children, stressing the politically incorrect nature of Homer Simpsons stupidity and gluttony and his son Barts rebellious attitude and trash-talking. Cousin of actress Tracy Reiner, assistant editor Penny Lee Hallin, production coordinator Judy Hallin and production assistant Wendy S. Hallin. Her grandma is my aunt Joanne Glass who I based Eva from 'Deliver Us From Eva' on. 49. This password will be used to sign into all, How TV Changed Our Definition of Housewife, Norman Lear on Redefining the American Family Sitcom, Family TV Shows: The 50 Most Definitive Series, Ranked, Okay, TikTok, You Can Calm Down About Aubrey Plaza at the SAG Awards Now, All 165 Pink Floyd Songs Ranked, From Worst to Best, Vanessa Bryant Settles Helicopter-Crash Photo Lawsuit for $28.85 Million. At least partially, Raymonds success was due to how much audience there was for what Ray represented: feeling like a vaguely aggrieved participant in a new family paradigm. But even beyond the history-making depiction of a person in transition, Transparent is one of the most interesting TV stories about how families work. 1. Roots, 1977Still the most-watched mini-series in the history of television, this adaptation of Alex Haleys nonfiction(-y) book about his ancestors journey from Africa confronted tens of millions of 1970s Americans with the harrowing facts of the slave trade and its role in the founding of the country. We considered and quickly set aside appropriate for a family to watch as a defining element; if wed gone with that, wed have to exclude shows like The Sopranos and most family dramas. It did that by eliminating the mom and dad entirely they die in a car accident before the series begins and literally putting the offspring in charge, with the irresponsible but technically adult Charlie (Matthew Fox) acting as official guardian. Much to the exasperation of his wife, its the same approach he brings to parenthood and his marriage, and for the most part, Home Improvement casts her as the nag and Tim as the sympathetic hero. Genre: Drama Year Running: 2018-Now IMDb Rating: 8.8/10 Did You Know? All in the Family, 19711979 Lear and Bud Yorkins Americanized version of the popular British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part swept aside a 20-year tradition of avoiding controversy and became one of the most popular series on television and the initial building block in a cluster of Lear-produced sitcoms that dominated prime time in the 70s. The main characters are Charley Bordelon (Dawn-Lyen Gardner), a rich woman who leaves L.A. with her teenage son to make a new life; Nova Bordelon (Rutina Wesley), a journalist and activist from New Orleans; and their brother Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe), an employment-challenged single father trying to raise a child abandoned by a drug-addict mother. In a voice-over to introduce the series, the announcer is clear that the Louds are not being pitched as the American family, or even a normal or typical American family. Cousin of Gian-Carlo Coppola, Roman Coppola, Sofia Coppola and Jason Schwartzman, Robert Schwartzman, connected through marriage to Spike Jonze. 1. One famous pair of cousins includes an NBA superstar and a world famous comedian. The MTV series Daria was a spin-off of Beavis and Butt-Head. 29. Its the finest scripted drama about sports, and one of the most sincere portraits of marriage ever broadcast, and, as this 2016 Vulture bracket proved, the best high-school show of the modern era. They're not typically the main characters, but they often steal the show with their humor and intriguing storylines. Better Things, 2016presentWriter-director-star Pamela Adlons series about Sam, an actress and single mother to three daughters, is one of the most insightful and uncomfortably honest TV series about parenting ever made. | Public. 13. 33. Cast: Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Levy, Annie Murphy, Emily Hampshire, Chris Elliott, and Jenn Robertson. You can find specific show content by clicking the menu system at the top of the screen. But mostly, this was feel-good retro entertainment, with some shark-jumping thrown in for good measure. (1968), The Wild, Wild West (1965), and the coincidentally similar The Munsters (1964). Both Matthew and Courteney are descendants of the same family, the Haskells, from the 17th century. 16. (One of them is Justin Bieber!) Juliet O'Hara - Psych (2006-2014) Detective Juliet O'Hara is another determined personality who has a similar personality to the Capricorn and is a main protagonist on the comedic police procedural show Psych. That makes the talented trio first cousins. Cousin to Late Country Music Singer Johnny Cash. Most of the belly laughs came from the cheerful nihilism of Bart and the slobbish enthusiasm of Homer, but the wisdom and stability came from blue-haired mama Marge and Barts jazz-loving bookworm sister Lisa. What's even more recognizable, however, is her last name, since she's first cousins with Beyonc and Solange Knowles. Second cousin of Stanley Lupino, Barry Lupino and Ida Lupino, Rita Lupino, Antoinette Lupino. There are compassionate adults inside these self-centered children, and one of these days, with a mother like this one, theyre sure to emerge. The Hadid sisters have a cousin just as gorgeous as they are. But Family was the decades most acclaimed representation of a contemporary middle-class family, one that included a daughter played by Kristy McNichol, whose rising-star status helped make it must-see TV. It is revelatory, and its also more than a little voyeuristic. In Michael Landons Michael, we got to know a father who had manly qualities but was still sensitive to his wifes and daughters needs. The father, Louis (Randall Park), runs a steakhouse with a meat-and-potatoes-heavy menu. Nicolas Cageor as his relatives know him, Nicolas Coppolacomes from quite the famous family. George Clooney and Miguel Ferrer top our list. Here is a list of celebrities that you probably didn't know are cousins. From gang boss Tony Sopranos opening statement that he worries he came in at the end and that the best was over, through the final seasons obsessions with decline, death, loss of memory, and climate change, The Sopranos depicts a family unit angling to grab as much as it can for itself before the shrinking ice floe theyre clinging to finally disappears. Timbaland shocked the industry after revealing he and cousin Pharrell are related through their grandmothers. From creator/writer Craig Mazin and director Johan Renck, the five-part HBO miniseries Chernobyl explores how the 1986 nuclear accident becomes one of the worst human-made catastrophes in history . Cousin of actress Ever Carradine Cousin of actress Martha Plimpton. So many things about this series made it extraordinary: writing that overflowed with an understanding of the human condition; an ability to veer from the shocking to the melodramatic, without ever losing a firm, Grim Reapers grip on reality; performances that came from a place in every actor that always felt deep and personal. We also tried to weigh family series that are mostly about a chosen family of adults so many of our favorite series fall into that category, and it was hard to differentiate some of the features we most wanted to emphasize from workplace comedies or friend-group shows. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) #76. One Day at a Time, 19751984The most famous Lear sitcom is All in the Family, but One Day at a Time holds its own as a landmark in TV family life. The African Queen from the movie starring Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. While it's rare to have two musical legends in one family, Dionne Warwick and Whitney Houston are the exception. George Clooney has starred in such films as Syriana and Oceans 11. Its done it by spooling out the complicated, often tragic story of the Pearson family using tools more often seen in high-concept shows, including narrative twists and the careful parceling out of clues that deepens our understanding of the Pearsons history. CJ ENM and Scott Sternberg Productions have agreed a deal under which popular Korean lifestyle show " Get it Beauty " will be adapted for the U.S. market. Cousin of actress Katie Cassidy 22. But it did. Good Times, 19741979One of the most important sitcoms ever to be undone by its own success, Good Times was a spinoff of Maude, itself a spinoff of All in the Family, and the flip side of The Jeffersons, a series about upper-middle-class black characters whod made it. All were part of executive producer Norman Lears mini-empire of popular, pot-stirring sitcoms that took on hot-button issues TV used to avoid. 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