Happy Birthday   Lucille Ball   who would have been 102 years old today... Lucy and Desi at Desilu Productions in 1957. Desilu was formed in 1950 and went on to produce: I Love Lucy, Star Trek, The Dick Van Dyke Show, My Three Sons, That Girl, and Hogan's Heroes, to name a few. She sold the company in 1967 to Gulf+Western; after the sale, company officials renamed it Paramount Television. Lucy was not only funny, she was smart! XO. ~PC*

It's the 60 th   anniversary of the adored “I Love Lucy” TV show. Staring the legendary Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz, which first aired on this day (October 15th), in 1951 - The show was filmed in front of a live audience, they filmed the show with three cameras at once rather than one, which at that time was rare for sitcom TV. The director was able to call for multiple retakes for the same scene (which would have been difficult with a live audience watching). Even when the actors would mess up their lines, there most likely wasn't a retake - instead, everyone played off the mistake for extra laughs.  “I Love Lucy” was the most-watched show of its time.  This smash hit ended its successful run at the top of the ratings and ended up winning five Emmy Awards! 'FUN FACT!'... The "I Love Lucy" show is still being rerun all over the world - AND forty million people in the U.S. still watch it every year! This is one sh

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 To a New Year! Good times! & Good laughs!  xo PC.