Bob Newhart
  • 'The Tonight Show' with Bob Newhart instead of Johnny Carson? 'I think I was being groomed'

    "I'd done it for three weeks in New York, and I was a zombie after that," Bob Newhart says of having possibly replaced Johnny Carson as "Tonight Show" host. "And that man did it for 30 years!"...

  • 'Bob: The Complete Series'

    Bob Newhart had a couple of classic television sitcoms, but one not as well-known was his early-1990s CBS show about a cartoonist......

  • Lifetime's 'Five' rates a 10

    ...still adores her. Besides playing the doctor to the women with breast cancer, Pearl finds out from her doctor ( Bob Newhart ) that she has it. "It's such a painful subject matter," Tripplehorn says. "With scripts like this, I......

  • 'Horrible Bosses'

    ...them with their plans. Donald Sutherland , Julie Bowen ("Modern Family") and comedy legend Bob Newhart also appear. *** (R and unrated versions: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray and Movies on Demand) Buy ......

  • Will Ferrell joins Cosby, Carlin, Pryor in the Mark Twain humor prize ranks

    ...are Tina Fey, Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Billy Crystal, Neil Simon, Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels, Lily Tomlin, Bob Newhart, Whoopi Goldberg, Carl Reiner, Jonathan Winters and Richard Pryor, who took the inaugural award in 1998. This......

  • Bob Newhart, David McCallum unite on 'NCIS': What did you think?

    Newhart took the role in part because "NCIS" is his wife, Ginnie's favorite show, but he didn't have to be persuaded much. "If you can pick and choose, why not go with the No. 1 drama on TV?" he says....

  • Veteran Directors Take Pilot Controls

    ...wants to get married. Burrows, whose much-lauded career stretches back to " Mary Tyler Moore " and "The Bob Newhart Show," currently helms FOX's " Back to You ." He also directed the pilot for CBS' "Big Bang......

  • TNT Checks Out 'Librarian' Again

    ...The movie, titled "The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice," is scheduled to premiere in late 2008. Bob Newhart and Jane Curtin will reprise their roles as well, and Bruce Davison ("Knight Rider," "X-Men") and......

  • 'Bob Newhart Show's' Suzanne Pleshette Dies at 70

    ...voiced actress who played Bob Newhart 's confident and sexy wife...the popular 1970s sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show," has died. She was 70...sensible yet woolly wife" on "The Bob Newhart Show," which ran from 1972 to......

  • 'Newhart' Handyman Poston Dies

    ...1961, first on NBC and then ABC . In the 1970s, Poston made occasional guest appearances on "The Bob Newhart Show" as Newhart's college chum. But he earned lasting recognition playing handyman George Utley on "Newhart......

  • Actress-Singer McNair Dies

    ...played nightclubs and had a recurring role on the soap opera "General Hospital." In 2005, she opened for comedian Bob Newhart at appearances in Philadelphia and New Jersey . Born March 4, 1934, in Racine, Wis., McNair began......

  • Back to the Books for Noah Wyle

    ... 's roles as if I was Don Knotts ," he says. Three of Wyle's co-stars from that first film -- Bob Newhart , Jane Curtin and Olympia Dukakis -- join him for "Return to King Solomon's Mines." In this go......

  • Analysis: 2006 Emmy Winners and Losers

    ...comedy writing and directing. Bob Newhart : O'Brien ran all over the...He insulted Mel Gibson . Bob Newhart only had to sit in an air-tight booth and give that Bob Newhart stare to get nearly as many laughs......

  • Emmys 2006: Minute By Minute

    ...If the Emmys run one second over three-hours, Bob Newhart dies," O'Brien announces, as Newhart is wheeled...writers win. "I have decided right here and now to kill Bob Newhart," Stewart says before standing in silence. He also......

  • Cowell Leads Emmy Tribute to Dick Clark

    ...Freshly added presenters also include father and son Martin and Charlie Sheen -- who will present together, Bob Newhart , nominee Candice Bergen and Ray Liotta. Jeffrey Tambor and John Lithgow , the stars of NBC......

  • Veteran TV Grandpa, Stage Actor Hughes Dies

    ...Guiding Light" for several years. Among the other prolific actor's roles were Bob Newhart 's fisherman dad on the '70s-era "The Bob Newhart Show," the titular sorcerer-turned-grease monkey in the short-lived but much beloved......

  • News and Notes from Press Tour

    ...Cheeky bunch that we are, we also asked joking questions about, yes, "The Beverly Hillbillies," as well as the Bob Newhart - Judd Hirsch sitcom "George & Leo." The answer on both fronts, you should know, is no. - RP Saturday......

  • Carol Burnett Visits 'Desperate Housewives'

    ...re open to the character returning. Burnett will be the second comedic legend to guest-star on the show. Bob Newhart has made several appearances as Morty Flickman, the hapless beau of Susan's ( Teri Hatcher ) mom Sophie......