Showbiz Staff Writer, Content Specialist - CelebrityMore articles: TV
Lou Haviland
Lou Haviland joined the Showbiz Cheat Sheet team in 2019. Much of her focus is on classic TV, including The Andy Griffith Show, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, and Matlock. She also covers Jeopardy! and the Nat Geo Wild reality series The Incredible Dr. Pol.
Much of her coverage stems from the personal enjoyment she’s drawn from watching the shows herself, and she loves finding cast members’ accounts from their experiences on the shows to share with readers and fellow fans.
Find out what really happened to cause the actor who played Carrie Ingalls on 'Little House on the Prairie' to take a tumble in the show's opening credits.
Andy Griffith struggled to equal his success on 'The Andy Griffith Show' after it ended. Here are the series that he had varying success with - and the one that brought him back to the top.
It was important to Andy Griffith that he be by Don Knotts' side when Knotts was dying of lung cancer. It was the final act of love in a rare Hollywood friendship.
'I Love Lucy' star Keith Thibodeaux, who played Little Ricky on the series, revealed that he was hypnotized to get his lines right. Here's what he had to say.
'The Andy Griffith Show' star Don Knotts had a difficult childhood, especially at the hands of his father. Knotts eventually turned all that pain into comedy gold.
Beloved sitcom 'Everybody Loves Raymond' got Thanksgiving right in all of its turkey day episodes. Here's the one where Marie decides to start a diet - on Thanksgiving.