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Bill Cosby's back and CBS has him
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Mel Tapley
New York Amsterdam News
12-16-1995
Bill Cosby's back and CBS has him.
Not too long ago, Bill Cosby was making a bid to buy NBC, the network that made "The Cosby Show" famous for eight years. His offer was turned down.
With the announcement that he has joined the CBS family, maybe NBC will wince a little for letting the Cosby name, wit and charisma slip through their fingers. If the Coz was inwardly boiling over the NBC rejection -- even though it ran "The Cosby Mysteries" -- this was his chance to join the other star members from the pillaged peacock and the other networks: John ...
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The Cosby Show.
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...today is NBC's The Cosby Show, a traditional family...middle-class viewers, The Cosby Show is an exercise in...from this angle, The Cosby Show is a hip pipedream...the fact that The Cosby Show systematically avoids...message. For him The Cosby Show is ...
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Bill Cosby headlines NTI participant-exhibitor event.
Newspaper article from: AACN News
; ...comedian or as America's dad on the Bill Cosby Show, you'll cherish the opportunity to get reacquainted with Bill Cosby at NTI. The legendary comedian will...albums and concerts or the I Spy and Cosby Show television programs, his poignant style...the Presidential Medal of ...
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BILL COSBY: IN WORDS AND PICTURES.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Ebony
; ...on TV's Emmy Award-winning The Cosby Show as Dr. Cliff Huxtable--husband...watched and best loved family man--Bill Cosby, the real life husband and father...daughters to date White boys on The Cosby Show. * He has startling views on children...
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This week in Black History.(Bill Cosby)(Bobby Frank Cherry)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Jet
; May 22, 1966 Bill Cosby, comedian and actor, became the first...series I Spy on this day. On the show, Cosby played an undercover agent disguised...roles in the weekly TV series The Bill Cosby Show (1969-71), The New Bill Cosby Show (1972-73), the animated TV ...
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This Week In Black History.(noteworthy achievements by African Americans)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Jet
; May 22, 1966-- * Bill Cosby, comedian, actor, became...for his role in I Spy. Cosby played an undercover...weekly TV series The Bill Cosby Show (1969-71), The New Bill Cosby Show (1972-73), The Cosby Show (1984-92), a landmark...
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This week in Black history.(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Jet
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] May 22, 1966-- Bill Cosby, comedian and actor, became the first...series I Spy on this day. On the show, Cosby played an undercover agent disguised...roles in the weekly TV series The Bill Cosby Show (1969-71), The New Bill Cosby Show ...
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Life after the Cosby show: activist-actor celebrates 30 years of wedded bliss, continues fight against black stereotypes on TV. (Bill Cosby)
Magazine article from: Ebony
; For Bill Cosby, 1994 started off with...fact, two years after The Cosby Show ended its glorious, history-maki...NBC into the Network of Bill Cosby. In the end, however, I...didn't work out, since The Cosby Show completed its final season...
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 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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The return of the conscience of comedy.(Entertainment)(Bill Cosby, in the news lately for remarks on racial responsibility, plans two stand-up shows at the Hult)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...hey, hey, it's - the conscience of black America? Bill Cosby became famous because he is funny. He became infamous...the 1960s, then starred on TV in both I Spy and The Bill Cosby Show. He also created the popular cartoon series Fat Albert...was 6-foot-9 and weighed something like 50 ...
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Cosby Show reunion. (Celebrities).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Jet
; * Cosby Show Reunion: Members of Bill Cosby's former television family, the...long-running No. 1 sitcom The Cosby Show, get together in NBC's Today...Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Theo). A Cosby Show retrospective special airs May...
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Cosby only black on Forbes' '400 richest' list; worth over $315 million. (Bill Cosby)
Magazine article from: Jet
; TV superstar Bill Cosby is the only Black American to make...Cosby, 56, whose former TV series The Cosby Show pushed the NBC network to the No. 1...magazine's The Forbes Four Hundred list. The Cosby Show's syndicated reruns earn $1 billion...
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