Tinker’s to Never, So No Chance

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Tinker Failing, Older: Dies

 

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No Moore

Grant Tinker, the prick bastard who cheated on America’s Sweetheart Mary Tyler Moore, has died at the age of 90. Tinker and Moore formed MTM Enterprises, and for their first foray into television productions, went way out on a limb with The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Success there led to developing more sitcoms, notably Rhoda, The Bob Newhart Show and WKRP in Cincinnati. MTM also branched out, apparently because they thought it would be cute to put a kitty in a surgical mask or a policeman’s hat, and invented the ensemble drama with St. Elsewhere and Hill Street Blues. After their divorce, staff meetings at MTM got awkward, so Tinker took over struggling NBC, which would have been eating Dumont’s dust if it still existed. Under his direction, and with not a little help from Brandon Tartikoff, NBC found itself on top, thanks to programming like The Cosby Show, Cheers, Family Ties, The Golden Girls, Cheers and Night Court. Tinker earned a Peabody Award in 1994 and was inducted into the TV Hall of Fame in 1997.