Andrea Francese joined the Showbiz Cheat Sheet team in 2019 after seven years of working in content marketing. Most of her writing focuses on TV, and she’s an expert in her coverage of Gilmore Girls, Sex and the City, and Sister Wives. Andrea also writes about vintage TV series including Star Trek and The Andy Griffith Show.
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'Jeopardy!' host, Alex Trebek's Nov. 8 death has left fans and former contestants reeling. Did you know that Trebek had a series of famous cameos on TV, too?
Audrey Meadows is best known for portraying Alice Kramden on 'The Honeymooners', but in order to land the role she had to prove she was "unglamourous".
Did you ever notice that the voice of SpongeBob SquarePant's sidekick, Patrick Star, sounds awfully familiar? The actor who voices the character was on a popular TV show first.
Vivian Vance didn’t know it then, but when she signed up to portray Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy, it would define her career. The series went off the air on May 6, 1957, but the character of Ethel persists in pop culture even today. Feuds marred Vance’s time on the series, but the battle between …
'Gilmore Girls' fans who are looking to get into the Halloween spirit, might need to look to a different series. The show only aired one Halloween special during its seven-season run.
'Gilmore Girls' fans were floored when they heard Lauren Graham and Scott Patterson weren't close in real life. Where did the rumors of a feud get started?