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Diff'rent Strokes: News

  • Sony cutting down "classic" programs like Silver Spoons, Facts of Life to mere minutes for online digestion.

  • "It takes 'Diff'rent Strokes' to move the world, and nobody knows that better than Todd Bridges. Tonight, he begins a recurring gig as a crazed ex-military man named Monk on 'Everybody Hates Chris' (8 pm/ET, on the CW), so we had to see what the former Willis Drummond is talkin' 'bout these days."

    • 01/22/07 9:57 AM
  • "NBC will re-visit one of television's most popular comedy series -- 'Diff'rent Strokes' -- with a movie that serves as a powerful cautionary tale about the tragedies and challenges facing the child stars of the sitcom as well as all child stars in 'Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Diff'rent Strokes,' premiering on Monday, Sept. 4 (8-10 p.m. ET)."

    • 08/07/06 12:29 PM
  • "In an episode of 'Diff’rent Strokes' that aired Feb. 20, 1980, Dana Plato, as Kimberly Drummond, dresses in blackface after she “discovers her new friend is a bigot,” as TV.com says. Today, a little more than 26 years later, producers RJ Cutler and Ice Cube use that same idea for their new FX show 'Black. White.,' which debuts tonight at 10 p.m. ET."

    • 03/08/06 10:30 AM
  • TVGuide.com talks to Todd Bridges, recently eliminated from "Skating with Celebrities."

    • 01/30/06 11:47 AM
  • "A handful of has-been celebrities are hoping to heat up their careers by taking to the ice."

    • 09/07/05 3:48 PM
  • "The 10 most memorable drug moments on TV: Showtime's ''Weeds'' inspires a trip through television's history of mixed messages about controlled substances."

    • 08/05/05 4:54 PM
  • "The highest-paid TV dad of all time was oil man Blake Carrington of 'Dynasty' at $856,515 a year; followed closely by J.R. "Jock" Ewing, Sr., also an oil man, of 'Dallas' at $838,569; and Phillip Drummond, president of a company, of 'Diff'rent Strokes' at $720,600."

    • 06/20/05 12:16 PM
  • "VH1 has named Gary Coleman No. 1 on its list of the top 100 child stars ever."

    • 06/10/05 11:25 AM
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