Bob Ebel, who specializes in making commercials ... and kids need guts and plenty of stamina to audition for TV spots. “You have to be able to take rejection,” he says. “If your little ...

Sprint PCS commercial (2003) Little Richard turned out to be quite the in-demand TV pitchman in the 21st century, with commercials for Geico, Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Lipton, and Revlon all under ...

The gist of all this stuff: Kids’ ads have grown more ... to emulate the lonely, TV-centric life of the latchkey kid. Some things haven’t changed since I was little. For one, the toys are ...

Bob Esponja—SpongeBob SquarePants—dances in his spurs as an announcer greets young viewers with a jaunty “Oye vaquero!”—Hello cowboys! Then he invites them, in Spanish, to the nearest ...

Have you ever seen a children’s show on commercial television that told kids not to buy the stuff they see advertised on TV? I never had — until I screened the pilot for “Little Bill,” a ...

One such tribute came in via Spike Lee, who recalled a commercial he shot with Little Richard back in 1991. As was the case for many ads Lee shot during that era, this was for Air Jordan ...

For the majority of television's existence, commercials have ... which comes out to a little over 2.5 hours a day. (Apparently some extremes put some kids watching around 9 hours a day, so just ...

Looking for something for the littlest kids to watch? There's more than "Bluey" out there! Here are a few shows parents love, and some shows we hate.

In TV advertising ethics, the border between old-fashioned puffery and outright deception is sometimes ill-defined. For a while admen debated on what side of the boundary belonged the blatant ads ...

By THR Staff Richard M. Kerns, who produced TV commercials for the Columbia Pictures offshoot EUE Screen Gems and for his own firm, has died. He was 88. Kerns died Dec. 15 of natural causes at the ...

Daddy, can I have this?’” Kids like Morris’s, who rarely or never see toy commercials, because they don’t watch broadcast TV at home, are part of a growing population. To be sure ...