Take a quick trip back in time with that super peppy earworm ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty "It's Friday night, and the mood is right!" If you grew up sometime in ...

Jim Janicek revealed the actual acronym during a chat on the 'Pod Meets World' podcast Kate Hogan was Director of Digital Specials and Features at PEOPLE. She started at PEOPLE in 2008, leaving in ...

Thank god this got sorted. The marketing guru behind ABC's long-running TGIF programming block, Jim Janicek, dropped by the latest episode of the Pod Meets World podcast to reminisce on where the idea ...

Everyone’s been getting it wrong all along. Producer Jim Janicek, who created the popular 1990s TV programming block “TGIF” on ABC, recently revealed that — contrary to popular belief — the acronym ...

Fans of ABC’s 1990s “TGIF” programming block with Full House, Boy Meets World and more are in for a huge shock. “We were [first] talking about things like the ‘Friday Fun Club,’” Janicek revealed on ...

ABC‘s TGIF programming block had viewers hoping for Friday nights to watch their favorite sitcom. Over the years, many people believed the acronym stood for “Thank God It’s Friday.” However, in a new ...