Influential TV mogul Lee Rich, who ran Lorimar Television and later MGM/UA, and won an Emmy for producing “The Waltons,” died Friday at in Los Angeles. He was 93 and died of lung cancer. Rich founded ...

Merv Adelson, who co-founded Lorimar Television and went on to produce a string of hit shows during the 1970s and ’80s, has died at age 85. Born in Los Angeles in 1929, Adelson moved to Las Vegas as a ...

He was a former advertising executive who became one of television’s top producers, bringing powerhouse shows such as “Dallas,” “Knots Landing” and “The Waltons” into American homes in the 1970s and ...

Philip Capice, an Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning producer who served as president of Lorimar Prods., died peacefully Dec. 30 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 78. By Mike Barnes, The Associated ...

Valerie Harper sounds like such a nice lady; too nice to be involved in one of the nastiest lawsuits in television. And yet, her firing from NBC’s Valerie sitcom — since retitled Valerie’s Family, ...

Edward O. Denault, who was head of production at CBS and later VP of production at Lorimar Television, died Aug. 21 in Mission Viejo, Calif., of heart failure. He was 86. Showbiz vet Denault joined ...