Ann B Davis passed away today at the age of 88 after falling in her San Antonio bathroom according to NBC News. She is best known for playing Alice on The Brady Bunch in almost all of its incarnations. She was the maid we wanted our parents to hire, but never the one they got. Besides starring on the classic sitcom we all watched growing up, she starred in several commercials.
So today let’s honor by watching at least one episode on The Brady Bunch, a show, thanks to syndication, that has never stopped airing since its debut in 1969.
Tonight at 12m on Reelz Channel’s Totally Tracked Down, Marshall Jay Kaplan tracks down The Brady Bunch’s Christopher Knight and Knots Landing’s Joan Van Ark at 12:30a.
Kaplan is a Canadian journalist who loves pop culture and TV shows from his childhood. In each episode he will try to track down his favorite celebrities through their friends, family and employees. By talking to all of them, we find out more about the actor he is looking for, including things you never knew about them.
On tonight’s episode we find out about Peter Brady’s not-so-Brady family life as a kid from his older brother, what his co-star Barry Williams thinks about him and how far his ex-wife Adrienne Curry will go to entertain Marshall. Then finally Marshall gets to meet the middle Brady son and it is everything he hoped for.
On tonight’s second episode, Marshall goes the cul de sac where they filmed Knots Landing and he talks to the woman who lives in Val Ewing’s house now. When she has no information on where Ark is now, he moves on to her assistant, hairdresser, co-star Michelle Lee and her husband. Of course the last one leads him to his favorite diva and he chases after her, literally. That’s because she is going for a run in the Hollywood Hills. She agrees to talk to him, only if he goes for a run with her. But that is not an easy way to talk to someone, so she invites him to her house and he gets to chat with her in her bed. A total dream come true for him. Although she kind of kills the mood when she reveals what makes her marriage works. You will want to tune in to hear that. That and to get to know your favorite celebrities like you have never known them before. And you also get to find out where they are now and what they are doing.
I love where are they now shows and this one is really entertaining because it is unlike any show that came before it.
Forty years ago the cast of the Brady Bunch shot an episode at King’s Island in Ohio and yesterday Barry Williams, Christopher Knight and Susan Olsen put on a mini reunion show there. It was like an adult version of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, as in it came with cursing and they gave details you never would’ve heard on the show back in the day!
The trio shared behind the scenes stories from the show, what they are up to now, updates on the cast members who weren’t there, the oldest Brady kid sang The Real Greg Brady to the tune of that Eminem song and so much more.
So sit back and recapture your youth as you watch this mini-reunion of one of our favorite shows when we were growing. Let’s be real we all watched The Brady Bunch.
Here is the episode where they went to King’s Island, if you want to watch it again!
Ryan Seacrest was on Jimmy Kimmel Live yesterday and Kimmel told him that he hasn’t apologized to America yet for making them the celebrities that they are today. Which I completely think he needs to do. Instead of admitting his mistake the American Idol host said they are a blessing. Then Seacrest said, “They are today’s Brady Bunch.” Kimmel and I had the same reaction, WTF are you talking about Ryan? The Brady Bunch?
Let’s see the Bradys were a wholesome family whose biggest issues were Greg smoking a cigarette, Marsha saying she got Davy Jones for the dance when she didn’t and Jan not wearing her glasses. Now let’s look at the Kardashian, Kim has a boring sex tape and her second marriage lasted only 72 days, Khloe wore a see thru shirt with no bra showing off her nipples on her first day of hosting The X Factor, Bruce Jenner had some bad plastic surgery and Kris is rumored to have cheated on her first husband. Yeah I see how they are the new Brady…not. The only way I can say they are alike is that they melded their families together, but then again when was the last time you saw Bruce’s kids from his first wife on their show or in their lives? At least on the Brady Bunch we saw both families together all of the time.
So Ryan you might think your little money makers are the new Brady Bunch, but sorry to tell you you are the only one who feels that way.
Basically what I am saying is leave The Bradys alone!!!
Out of all the people that I could think of that would love The Brady Bunch, Vince Vaughn was on the bottom of my list. But I guess you can’t always assume what people like because he is working on bringing the show back. According to Deadline he came up with the idea and started working with writer Mike Mariano (Raising Hope, My Name Is Earl) on it. Like 90210 and Dallas, it will be about the next generation and this time little Bobby Brady is all grown up and he is a divorced father who married someone else who also is divorced with kids and together they have a kid of their own. Not only will the youngest Brady son, his wife and their kids be part of the show, so will their spouses who are still a part of their lives. In other words it a modern family Brady Bunch style.
Right now the show just has a script order, so it might not go any further then that but in Hollywood you never know.
Since the show is just in the early stages, we don’t know if Mike Lookinland will reprise his role or if any of the other Bradys will be part of the updated show. Personally I hope that is the case because having Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray on Dallas is what makes the great show even better.
