Norman Lear arrives at the 2018 Annual Producers Guild Awards Presented By Cadillac on January 20, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. Television writer and producer Norman Lear, whose trailblazing sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s revolutionized popular entertainment in America, has died at age 101, US media said Decdember 6, 2023. (Photo by CHRIS DELMAS / AFP)
Washington: Television writer and producer Norman Lear, whose trailblazing sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s revolutionized popular entertainment in America, has died at age 101, US media said Wednesday.
Lear, whose death was confirmed to the New York Times and other outlets by a family spokeswoman, created boundary-breaking hit shows like "All In the Family" and "The Jeffersons."