Carol Duvall, crafting queen and host of HGTV’s decade-long program “The Carol Duvall Show,” has died. She was 97.
Duvall died on July 31 in Traverse City, Mich., according to her former daughter-in-law Rita Ann Doerr via the New York Times.
While everyone else was busy turning lemons in lemonade, Duvall spent her time turning household trash into treasure and teaching others to do the same. She first began her television career on a televsion show back in 1951 and in 1962, joined Detroit’s Wwj-tv network as news anchor and host of her craft segment “Here’s Carol Duvall.”
Duvall was then asked to join ABC’s “Home Show” around two decades later when a former intern called on behalf of the network looking to get a “craft person” for the program. When “Home Show” ended in 1994, host Robb Weller and production company partner Gary Grossman developed Duvall her very own program,...
Duvall died on July 31 in Traverse City, Mich., according to her former daughter-in-law Rita Ann Doerr via the New York Times.
While everyone else was busy turning lemons in lemonade, Duvall spent her time turning household trash into treasure and teaching others to do the same. She first began her television career on a televsion show back in 1951 and in 1962, joined Detroit’s Wwj-tv network as news anchor and host of her craft segment “Here’s Carol Duvall.”
Duvall was then asked to join ABC’s “Home Show” around two decades later when a former intern called on behalf of the network looking to get a “craft person” for the program. When “Home Show” ended in 1994, host Robb Weller and production company partner Gary Grossman developed Duvall her very own program,...
- 8/19/2023
- by Sophia Scorziello
- Variety Film + TV
Carol Duvall, known as HGTV’s “Queen of Crafts” and beloved host of The Carol Duvall Show, which ran on the network for more than a decade, died July 31 in Traverse City, Michigan, the New York Times reports. She was 97. DuVall passed at an assisted living facility, where she had lived for several years, her family told the Times.
Duvall began her decades-long career on local television in Grand Rapids and Detroit, Mi eventually rising to national prominence with her arts-and-crafts programming with shows on ABC and HGTV.
Known for her warm presence and sunny outlook, her first broadcasting stint came in 1951 at Wood-tv in Grand Rapids, where she hosted a children’s program. She went from there to Wwj-tv in Detroit where she spent the next 18 years in a variety of positions, including news anchor, co-producer and host of her first craft-focused program Here’s Carol Duvall. That led...
Duvall began her decades-long career on local television in Grand Rapids and Detroit, Mi eventually rising to national prominence with her arts-and-crafts programming with shows on ABC and HGTV.
Known for her warm presence and sunny outlook, her first broadcasting stint came in 1951 at Wood-tv in Grand Rapids, where she hosted a children’s program. She went from there to Wwj-tv in Detroit where she spent the next 18 years in a variety of positions, including news anchor, co-producer and host of her first craft-focused program Here’s Carol Duvall. That led...
- 8/18/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Marvin Kaplan has died of natural causes at the age of 89. Between 1978 and 1985, Kaplan recurred as Mel's Diner regular Henry Beesmeyer on the CBS comedy Alice, starring Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Philip McKeon, and Polly Holliday. He also voiced Choo-Choo on Hanna-Barbera's Top Cat cartoon, which first ran on ABC in the 1961-62 television season.Kaplan played producer Dwight McGonigle on the show-within-a-show sitcom, On the Air, starring Ian Buchanan, Marla Rubinoff, Nancye Ferguson, Miguel Ferrer, Gary Grossman, and Mel Johnson, Jr. Despite its title, of the seven episodes shot, only three aired, before the show was cancelled by ABC in 1992.Read More…...
- 8/26/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
ReelzChannel has taken you to the red carpets of the Oscars, Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards, Critics' Choice Television Awards, and the Emmys. Now, we're taking our viewers to the red carpet of the Critics' Choice Movie Awards for the first time. Reelzchannel will be on the ground at the red carpet show for the Critics' Choice Movie Awards on Thursday, Jan. 12.
“We’re excited to show our viewers all of the live red carpet action from the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards,” said Matthew Singerman, Svp of ReelzChannel Programming. “Reelz is continuing its commitment to TV About Movies by covering one of the biggest red carpets packed with tons of America’s favorite movie stars.”
Hollywood Uncensored host Sam Rubin and Jessica Holmes will host two hours of live coverage from the Hollywood Palladium. Rubin, Joey Berlin, Robb Weller, and Gary Grossman will executive produce.
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“We’re excited to show our viewers all of the live red carpet action from the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards,” said Matthew Singerman, Svp of ReelzChannel Programming. “Reelz is continuing its commitment to TV About Movies by covering one of the biggest red carpets packed with tons of America’s favorite movie stars.”
Hollywood Uncensored host Sam Rubin and Jessica Holmes will host two hours of live coverage from the Hollywood Palladium. Rubin, Joey Berlin, Robb Weller, and Gary Grossman will executive produce.
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- 12/6/2011
- by reelz reelz
- Reelzchannel.com
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