Carolyn Jenkins is a voracious consumer of film and television. She graduated from Long Island University with an MFA in Screenwriting and Producing where she learned the art of character, plot, and ...

On September 30, 1960, television audiences first met Fred and Wilma Flintstone, their best pals Barney and Betty Rubble, and a Stone Age world that looked suspiciously like suburban America. While ...

The pilot episode of a series is a chance to introduce the premise of the series and the characters playing it out on a weekly basis, hopefully. It gives the network and showrunners an opportunity to ...

Before "The Simpsons," TV families were mostly functional, supportive, wholesome groups who represented a nostalgic vision of suburban America that had long since faded despite what the small screen ...