2008 in American television
The following is a list of events affecting American television in 2008. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and new channel launches.
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Events
January
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | CourtTV is rebranded as TruTV |
| 2 | An interim agreement between Worldwide Pants Incorporated and the Writers Guild of America allows the Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, both on CBS, to return with their full writing staffs, in spite of the ongoing WGA strike. By contrast, NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and Last Call with Carson Daly and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which are all produced by their respective networks, went back on the air without writers (except for Jay Leno, who writes his own material). |
| 4 | Jason Luna become the program's first (and only) $1,000,000 winner in the NBC's game show 1 vs. 100 during the program's second-season premiere titled Battle of the Sexes. |
| Nick Jr. celebrates its 20th anniversary. | |
| 7 | Due to the writers strike, it is announced that plans to hold the 65th Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be scrapped. A press conference which announced the winners is substituted for the program, and NBC, which would've broadcast the ceremony, airs Golden Globe-related programming in its place.[1] |
| 27 | Discovery Times was renamed "Investigation Discovery".[2] In addition to the television network, an Investigation Discovery website was also launched. Contributors to the website include crime writers David Lohr, Corey Mitchell, and Gary C. King. |
February
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2 | VH1 Uno is discontinued by MTV Networks to expand distribution of mtvU beyond college campuses and onto regular cable systems. |
| 3 | Fox's telecast of Super Bowl XLII surpasses Super Bowl XXX as the most watched Super Bowl game on television (up to this point), and the most watched program in the network's history. It also becomes the second most watched television program trailing the 1983 M*A*S*H series finale and the highest rated telecast in Nielsen ratings since Super Bowl XXXIV. |
| Animal Planet "relaunched" itself as part of a new branding campaign that "sheds its soft and furry side for programming and an image with more bite."[3] As part of the relaunch, Animal Planet replaced its elephant and spinning globe logo for a starker text image that allows more flexibility in its usage.[4] | |
| 8 | The CW Television Network and the WWE announced that WWE Friday Night SmackDown would leave the CW prime time schedule at the end of the 2007–2008 season. The news stepped in after negotiations between the CW and WWE failed to reach a deal to keep the show on the CW lineup. Three weeks later on February 26, MyNetworkTV announced that they would pick up the program and would add it to its lineup in September. |
| 9 | Both the Writers Guild of America and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reach a tentative deal resolving the strike. Members vote three days later to end the strike. |
| 17 | The conversion of NTSC analog channels to DT channels using the ATSC system begins in the United States, with TV stations making last minute filings and their intentions about when they will start their switchover ahead of the February 17, 2009, mandatory date. Also, the US government starts mailing out (USD)$40.00 coupons/rebates to consumers to use in buying DTV converters before the switchover. |
| In a two-hour television film, Knight Rider returned to NBC with a new KITT being portrayed as a black 2008 Ford Shelby GT500KR Mustang and voiced by actor Val Kilmer. | |
| 18 | Nickelodeon celebrates the revival of its hit show The Fairly OddParents with the television film Fairly OddBaby. This has been the first new episode since 2006. |
| 22 | Adam Rose become the first $1,000,000 winner in Drew Carey's first primetime episode of The Price is Right on CBS. At $1,153,908 cash & prizes won, Rose surpassed Joanne Segeviano's winnings of A$664,667 (about $406,274.45; or $475,593 by Inflation as of 2020) from the Australian version as the franchise's largest winnings record in the show's history. Until James Holzhauer's Jeopardy! appearance on 2019, Rose was placed in the top ten largest game show winners in history until April 24, 2019 (Holzhauer's total game show career winnings at the time after the episode was $1,193,508.33 (including J!'s career winnings of $1,135,175; Holzhauer's final winnings was $2,464,216 after his defeat on his 33rd game on June 3, and $3,022,549 as of Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time tournament, the latter currently was placed third in the top ten list)).[5] |
| 24 | ABC's telecast of the 80th Academy Awards draws record low ratings in the history of the ceremony's telecast surpassing the ratings from the ceremony that took place in 2003. 31.76 million on average watched the show over its entire run with a Nielsen rating of 18.66 households watching. |
| 25 | Fox News Channel rebrands its Fox News Live and Weekend Live telecasts as America's Election Headquarters, a news program related to the 2008 presidential election. The weekday edition replaces The Big Story in the 5 p.m. timeslot. The Fox News Live name would still be used for headline segments through November. |
| 29 | CBS's soap opera Guiding Light unveils a new opening for the town of Peapack-Gladstone, New Jersey, while still filming in New York City, New York. |
March
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 7 | Michael Hanes, a former contestant on Press Your Luck, wins $1,127,062 on a prime-time episode of The Price is Right on CBS.[6] |
| 10 | Fox Sports New York rebranded MSG Plus because Cablevision announced that it would be (branded in logos as "MSG+"), restructuring it as a spin-off of MSG Network.[7] |
| 12 | The USA TV website Hulu went live. |
| 15 | Laurie Dhue, anchor of Fox Report Weekend, leaves Fox News Channel after opting not to renew her contract.[8] She is replaced by Julie Banderas, co-anchor of America's Election Headquarters on weekends. |
| 20 | As part of that same rebranding effort, The History Channel dropped "The" and "Channel" from its name to become simply "History".[9] |
| 26 | CBS's soap opera The Young and the Restless celebrates its 35th anniversary, a year after its sister soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful marks 20 years. |
| 27 | WNBC/New York City, NBC's flagship station, scraps the scheduled airing of Access Hollywood in favor of an infomercial for Lend America. Station GM Frank Comerford resigned in the wake of the controversy and the station management apologized a day after the incident.[10] 6 days after the incident, the station restored the "4 New York" branding for non-news programming and News 4 New York for news programing.[11] |
April
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | ABC's soap opera General Hospital celebrates its 45th anniversary, two years after the April 2, 2006 50th Anniversary of CBS's As the World Turns. |
| 4 | In CBS, Cynthia Azevedo became the third and final $1,000,000 winner (the only winner who won the $1,000,000 bonus from a Pricing Game, Clock Game) on a prime-time episode of The Price is Right with a total winnings of $1,089,017. Another contestant from the same episode won a $87,910 Dodge Viper on Golden Road, and this was the game's last win until December 23, 2014. Price would later cancel the $1,000,000 spectacular on May 7 due to budget.[12] |
| 7 | Bill Self's Kansas Jayhawks defeat John Calipari's Memphis Tigers 75–68 at the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, and celebrate their victory in front of a national television audience on CBS.[13] |
| 17 | In FOX, former American Idol contestant Kimberley Locke became the first contestant in history to attempt, but unsuccessfully, the final level ($1,000,000 song; Ringo Starr's You're Sixteen) in the game show Don't Forget the Lyrics! and left with $100,000 that was raised for Camp Heartland. Locke, however, announced after the game that she would raise the $400,000 that she risked earlier along with the help of host Wayne Brady. |
| 28 | The WB Television Network, a former television channel launches again as an online website only. |
May
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 11 | On CBS, former model Parvati Shallow was announced the winner of Survivor: Micronesia. It was also announced that the next season will be filmed in high definition. |
| 16 | The Wilmington, North Carolina television market is selected by the FCC to be the first television market in the United States to sign off their analog channels for ATSC early, starting September 8. |
| 21 | On Fox, David Cook became the seventh winner of American Idol. |
| 24 | After over thirteen years, Kids' WB, The CW's children's programming block, ceases airing and becomes The CW4Kids when the network sells the air time to Grupo Clarin (through its subsidiary 4Kids Entertainment).[14] (Kids' WB, like The WB Television Network that the block originated, then relaunches as an online-only video on demand service.) |
| Superstation WGN changed its name to WGN America (initially, the use of the new name was limited to on-air promotions, as the Superstation WGN channel IDs remained in place). The new WGN America name and logo went into full-time use on May 26, 2008. The new logo was also the first used by the superstation feed to not incorporate WGN-TV's on-air logo branding in some capacity (the "WGN" text was similar in resemblance, although the "G" was not formed into an ovular arrow as it is in WGN-TV's logo), and its design featured the eyes of a female, which was used alongside the new slogan "TV You Can't Ignore". |
June
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | A large fire damages portions of Universal Studios Hollywood near Los Angeles, south of Burbank where NBC's soap opera Days of Our Lives is filmed. |
| 4 | Facing increased competition in the home-oriented programming sector, Discovery Communications planned a 24-hour channel focused on eco-friendly living in an attempt to capitalize on a rising environmental movement.[15] Discovery Home was relaunched as the environmentally-themed Planet Green at 6:00 p.m. ET. |
| 19 | Big Ten Network and Comcast announced a carriage agreement deal. The channel was added to Comcast on August 15. |
| 28 | The first episode of Saturday Night Live is rerun on NBC following the death of first host George Carlin, who died six days earlier on June 22. |
July
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 7 | The Jewelry Channel, a U.S. home shopping service that was shown mostly on DirecTV and Dish Network, launches a going-out-of-business sale for its remaining items that was shown on the channel that would last until December 1. From December 1 onwards, TJC is now doing business as The Liquidation Channel. |
| 15 | ABC's soap opera One Life to Live (created by Agnes Nixon) celebrates its 40th anniversary, two years before another ABC soap opera All My Children (also created by Agnes Nixon) celebrates 40 years in 2010. |
| 21 | MGM Television and Weigel Broadcasting announce the launching of a new broadcast network designed for digital subchannels in the United States called This TV. |
August
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | Bowing to concerns by the Fox network over its Mexican-based operations, XETV, its affiliate in San Diego licensed to Tijuana, Mexico, swaps affiliations with CW affiliate KSWB-TV. |
| 6 | Disney-ABC Television Group announced they would close Toon Disney in early 2009 and replace it with Disney XD, which would be aimed at kids from ages 6 and up. |
| 7 | The Florence/Myrtle Beach, South Carolina television market gets its first-ever NBC affiliate, WMBF-TV. This move also gives Florence/Myrtle Beach in-market affiliates of all four major commercial networks. |
| 8 | After 50 years of being served by WTAE-TV/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Wheeling-Steubenville and Clarksburg-Fairmont TV markets get their first full-time ABC affiliates (as well as in-market affiliates of all four major commercial networks), as CBS affiliate WTRF/Wheeling, West Virginia adds an ABC affiliate on its DT3 subchannel and sister station & NBC affiliate WBOY-TV/Clarksburg, West Virginia does the same on its DT2 subchannel. Both stations had been ABC secondary affiliates in the past. |
| 22 | After 10 years on the air, PBS pulls Teletubbies off the PBS Kids block. The show remains off the air until 2015. |
| 28 | ESPNU launches its HD version to only five American cable television or satellite carriers.[16] |
| 31 | Big Ten Network reached carriage deal agreements with Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications, Brighthouse Networks, Mediacom and Cox Communications, ending the "cable carriage controversies" that the network had in its first year of existence. The network is now on all major cable TV systems in The Big Ten Region. |
September
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | Music: High Definition (MHD) is renamed Palladia. |
| PBS Kids re-brands its idents and promos, which are created by Primal Screen; Primal Screen had produced promotional elements for PBS Kids since 2000. | |
| Jessica Robinson become the program's first (of two) $1,000,000 winner in NBC's Deal or No Deal during the Million Dollar Mission special. Nearly two months later on October 29, Winnow "Tomorrow" Rodriquez became the second $1,000,000 winner after Rodriquez opened the last non-million briefcase before the final deal. | |
| 4 | Stand Up to Cancer, an event designed to raise cancer awareness, airs on ABC, CBS, NBC and E! in the United States, and on CTV, Citytv and Global in Canada. |
| Then-Georgian superintendent Kathy Cox became the program's first (of two) $1,000,000 winner in FOX's game show Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. | |
| 8 | The Wilmington, North Carolina television market officially becomes the first TV market in the United States to have all of its stations broadcast exclusively in digital, using the ATSC system. |
| The 26th season of Wheel of Fortune premiered with a new wedge introduced from the Australian version where contestants acquiring said wedge can win up to $1,000,000 in the bonus round, replacing with the usual $100,000 top prize. Its first such bonus round did not occur until October 3, and was not won until the October 14 episode. The first top prize loss happened on April 2, 2015. | |
| 15 | WTMJ-TV/Milwaukee drops almost all syndicated programming except for Better and weekend niche programs in late night, featuring a lineup that consists of local news (including a four-hour afternoon news block from 3 to 7 pm, a first in the United States Central Time Zone) and NBC programming. |
| 20 | After 11 years run on the Cartoon Network, the successful action-adventure block, Toonami, has been canceled, effective 11 pm EST and later it returned in 2012. |
| 21 | The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards broadcasts on ABC. |
| 26 | Programming block Ready Set Learn ends on TLC and children's programming are moved over to Discovery Kids. It would re-branded as The Hub two years later. |
October
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 7 | NBC announces that NBC Weather Plus would sign off at the end of the year. |
| 10 | Jeopardy! veteran Ken Jennings won $500,000 in the FOX's game show Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? though he chose not to risk his $475,000 winnings to attempt the $1,000,000 question (in which he answered correctly); with the total winnings accounted to $3,623,414.29, Jennings, for the first time since 2005, surpassed Brad Rutter's (another Jeopardy! veteran and then-current All-time champion) record of $3,455,102 as the biggest game show winner in the history of American and international television, a record which he would hold till this day (Jennings' record was surpassed by Rutter between May 16, 2014 after the finals of Jeopardy! Battle of the Decades until January 14, 2020 on Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time). |
| 14 | Michelle Lowenstein become the first $1,000,000 winner in the game show Wheel of Fortune. At $1,026,080 in cash & prizes won, Lowenstein surpassed Peter Argyropolous and Deborah Cohen's all-time winnings record of $146,529 back in February 1996, and Christine Denos and Jack Wagner's single-day record of $142,550 on February 28, 2006, to become the largest single-day winner in the show's history until on May 30, 2013, where another contestant Autumn Erhard (who won $1,030,340) surpassed Lowenstein's total.[17] |
| 17 | United States Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota 6th) makes headlines when she asks for an investigation into whether of members of the United States Congress are anti-American during a live interview on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. |
| 20 | CBS announces it has signed an affiliation deal with ABC affiliate WENY-TV in Elmira, New York, giving the Elmira-Corning market both its first locally based CBS affiliate and in-market affiliates of all four major commercial networks. The affiliation takes effect on cable February 17, 2009 (when WENY-TV requests a flash-cut from analog to digital broadcasting), and over-the-air on WENY-DT2 at the end of May (when WENY-TV performs its flash-cut). |
| 24 | Barack Obama airs a 30-minute infomercial that airs on CBS, NBC, Fox, BET, Univision, MSNBC and TV One. The infomercial is seen by 33.6 million viewers. |
| 25 | K07YM in Bend, Oregon, a translator of CBS affiliate KOIN in Portland, Oregon, is converted to a stand-alone station as KBNZ-LD, giving the Bend market both its first-ever CBS affiliate and in-market affiliates of all four major commercial networks. |
November
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | Cookie Jar Toons/This is for Kids debuts on This TV. |
| 4 | CNN becomes the first channel in the history to use hologram technology on television, during the 2008 United States Presidential Election. CNN's Jessica Yellin became the first person ever to be transmitted via hologram, followed by Will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas.[18] |
| 5 | At the end of the 2008 presidential election, Fox News Channel rebrands America's Election Headquarters as America's News Headquarters. Also, the headline segments now use that name. |
| 17 | Kathy Cox, who earlier appeared in Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? as the first $1,000,000 winner on September 4, along with his husband, declared Chapter 7 Bankruptcy because of a $3.5 million debt that came from the failure of her husband's home construction business. Fidelity Investments, who's responsible for charging a fund for the donor schools, donated the winnings back to Fox in December 2008 from the schools and placed the $1,000,000 prize won in a limbo that would not benefit anyone.[19] |
| 19 | Flint, Michigan PBS member station WFUM-TV (a.k.a. Michigan Television) permanently turns off its analog signal and begins broadcasting exclusively in digital, 9 months before the federally mandated analog shut off date of June 12, 2009, becoming the first station in its market, as well as the first PBS station in Michigan, to do so.[20][21] |
| 20 | The CW announces that it has terminated its Sunday night deal with Media Rights Capital. At the end of the season, the network returns its Sunday night programming time to its local affiliates.[22] |
| 29 | To settle a court dispute between itself and rival NBC affiliate WLIO, Metro Video Productions, owners of three low-power stations in Lima, Ohio (Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliate WOHL-CA, CBS affiliate WLMO-LP, and ABC affiliate WLQP-LP), sells all three stations to West Central Ohio Broadcasting, a division of Block Communications (parent company of WLIO). The dispute stems from Fox's plans in late 2007 to leave WOHL-CA and enter into talks to join a digital subchannel of full-power WLIO, despite WOHL-CA outrating WLIO in primetime. The sale is finalized on February 5, 2009. |
December
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | WBQC-CA/Cincinnati, Ohio asks the FCC permission to change its callsign to WKRP in honor of the television series that was set in the city. |
| 3 | The 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is broadcast on CBS. 8.7 million people tune in.[23][24][25][26][27] |
| 4 | For the first time ever, a live music special is used to announce the nominees for the 51st Grammy Awards. As usual for the Grammies, the special is broadcast by CBS. |
| 7 | In CBS, siblings Nicholas "Nick" Spangler and Emily "Starr" Spangler won the thirteenth season of the five-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning reality show The Amazing Race, with a record of becoming the youngest winning team in the show's history, and a record seven legs won in one season (which would later tie with the winners of the fifteenth season nearly a year later) until the twentieth season, where it was first surpassed by winners Rachel & Dave Brown Jr. with eight legs (tying Rovilson Fernanzes & Marc Nelson's record of eight legs from The Amazing Race Asia 2 in last year) in May 2012. |
| 8 | HD versions of Comcast's cable channels The Style Network, E! Entertainment Television and G4 launch. Golf Channel and Versus also break apart from their combined HD network to full simulcasts of their regular schedule on separate HD networks. |
| The Tribune Company, owners of WGN-TV/Chicago and KTLA/Los Angeles, among other properties, files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. | |
| 16 | Contestant Terry Kniess became the first contestant to achieve a perfect showcase bid on The Price is Right by guessing the exact price ($23,743) of the showcase he was offered, amid allegations of cheating.[28] |
| 27 | After over eighteen years, Fox drops children's programming. Its final children's programming block, 4Kids TV, goes off the air, and 4Kids Entertainment directs its programming to The CW4Kids, the block it programs for The CW. 4Kids TV would later launch as an online-only website on the same day. |
| 29 | After four years, Adult Swim adds an hour to its operating day (the block, which used to begin at 11:00 p.m., now starts at 10:00 p.m. and runs to 6:00 a.m.) |
| 31 | Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks announce they are no longer carrying Viacom channels unless they come to an agreement with Viacom. They come to an agreement at the last minute. |
| NBC Weather Plus is shut down. |
Programs
Debuts (including scheduled)
Entering syndication this year
| Show | Seasons | In Production | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Legal | 4 | No | |
| CSI: NY | 4 | Yes | |
| Desperate Housewives | 4 | Yes | |
| Monk | 6 | Yes | |
| Storm Stories | 7 | Yes |
Changes of network affiliation
| Show | Moved from | Moved to |
|---|---|---|
| The Zula Patrol | PBS Kids | Qubo |
| Franny's Feet | PBS Kids Sprout | |
| 1st and 10 | ESPN | ESPN2 |
| The Contender | Versus | |
| Emeril Live | Food Network | Fine Living |
| Friday Night Lights | NBC | The 101 Network |
| High School Reunion | The WB | TV Land |
| Inside the NFL | HBO | Showtime |
| Phineas and Ferb | Disney Channel | Toon Disney (second-run airings) |
| The Suite Life of Zack & Cody | ||
| The Whitest Kids U' Know | Fuse | IFC |
| Jon & Kate Plus 8 | Discovery Health Channel | TLC |
| Nashville Star | USA | NBC |
| One Piece | Toonami | Adult Swim and |
| Futurama | Fox, TBS, and Adult Swim | Comedy Central |
| Paradise Hotel | Fox | MyNetworkTV |
| WWE Friday Night SmackDown | The CW | |
| World Poker Tour | Travel Channel and GSN | GSN and Fox Sports Net |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! GX | 4KidsTV and Cartoon Network | The CW4Kids |
| Dinosaur King | 4KidsTV | |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | ||
| Viva Piñata | ||
| The Spectacular Spider-Man | Kids' WB | |
| Johnny Test | Cartoon Network | |
| Unsolved Mysteries | Lifetime | Spike |
| Mr. Meaty | Nickelodeon | Nicktoons Network |
| My Life as a Teenage Robot |
Returning this year
| Show | Previous network | Last aired | New Title | New network | Returning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yin Yang Yo! | Jetix | 2007 | Same | Same | January 1 |
| One Tree Hill | The CW | January 8 | |||
| Paradise Hotel | Fox | 2003 | MyNetworkTV | February 4 | |
| Bratz | 4Kids TV | 2005 | Nicktoons | ||
| My Life as a Teenage Robot | Nickelodeon | October 4 | |||
| Futurama | Fox | 2003 | Comedy Central | March 23 | |
| The Bachelorette | ABC | 2005 | Same | May 19 | |
| The Mole | 2004 | June 2 | |||
| ChalkZone | Nickelodeon | 2005 | Nicktoons | June 11 | |
| The Batman | Kids WB | 2008 | Batman: The Brave and the Bold | Cartoon Network | November 14 |
Ending this year
Made-for-TV movies
| Date of airing | Title | Channel |
|---|---|---|
| January 4 | Goodbye Zoey? | Nickelodeon |
| January 25 | Minutemen | Disney Channel |
| February 17 | Knight Rider | NBC |
| February 18 | Fairly OddBaby | Nickelodeon |
| March 16 | The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream | ABC Family |
| April 20 | Princess | |
| May 2 | Chasing Zoey | Nickelodeon |
| June 6 | Polar Bears | |
| June 8 | The Circuit | ABC Family |
| June 20 | Camp Rock | Disney Channel |
| July 13 | Picture This | ABC Family |
| July 19 | Sozin's Comet | Nickelodeon |
| August 22 | The Cheetah Girls: One World | Disney Channel |
| September 6 | Samurai Girl | ABC Family |
| September 12 | Gym Teacher: The Movie | Nickelodeon |
| October 12 | Underfist: Halloween Bash | Cartoon Network |
| October 18 | Polar Bears | Nickelodeon |
| Living Proof | Lifetime | |
| November 27 | Destination: Imagination | Cartoon Network |
| December 5 | Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh | Nickelodeon |
Miniseries
| Premiere | Title | Channel |
|---|---|---|
| March 16 | John Adams | HBO |
| May 26 | The Andromeda Strain | A&E |
| July 13 | Generation Kill | HBO |
| November 16 | Rugrats Pre-School Daze | Nickelodeon |
Births
| Date | Name | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| January 3 | Raegan Revord | Actress (Young Sheldon) |
| July 15 | Iain Armitage | Actor (Young Sheldon) |
| September 17 | Mia Talerico | Actress (Good Luck Charlie) |
| August 5 | Devin Trey Campbell | Actor (Single Parents) |
| October 10 | Santino Barnard | Actor (The Kids Are Alright) |
Deaths
| Date | Name | Age | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 6 | Bob LeMond | 94 | Radio and TV announcer (Ozzie and Harriet, Leave it to Beaver) |
| January 15 | Brad Renfro | 25 | Actor |
| January 17 | Allan Melvin | 84 | Actor (Magilla Gorilla, The Brady Bunch, All in the Family) |
| January 18 | Lois Nettleton | 80 | Actress (In the Heat of the Night) |
| January 19 | Suzanne Pleshette | 70 | Actress (Emily Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show) |
| January 22 | Heath Ledger | 28 | Australian actor |
| January 24 | Jahna Steele | 49 | Transgender entertainer (was "outed" on A Current Affair in 1992, guest-starred on NYPD Blue) |
| February 1 | Shell Kepler | 49 | Actress and presenter (General Hospital, HSN host) |
| February 4 | Augusta Dabney | 89 | Actress (Another World, A World Apart, Loving) |
| February 6 | John McWethy | 60 | ABC News correspondent from 1979 to 2006 |
| February 10 | Ron Leavitt | 60 | Writer and producer (Happy Days, Married... with Children) |
| Roy Scheider | 75 | Actor (Capt. Bridger on seaQuest) | |
| Steve Gerber | 60 | Illustrator/animator (Thundarr The Barbarian) | |
| February 12 | David Groh | 68 | Actor (Joe Gerard on Rhoda) |
| February 14 | Perry Lopez | 78 | Character actor (Star Trek) |
| February 18 | Grits Gresham | 85 | Outdoor sportscaster (The American Sportsman) |
| February 27 | Myron Cope | 79 | Sportscaster at WTAE/Pittsburgh and color commentator for Pittsburgh Steelers broadcasts |
| William F. Buckley, Jr. | 82 | Host and commentator (Firing Line) | |
| March 16 | Ivan Dixon | 76 | Actor, producer and director (Hogan's Heroes) |
| April 5 | Charlton Heston | 84 | Actor (The Colbys) |
| April 8 | Stanley Kamel | 65 | Actor (Monk) |
| May 1 | Hager Twins | 66 | One-half of Hager Twins and a regular on Hee Haw |
| May 2 | Beverlee McKinsey | 72 | Soap opera actress (Another World, Texas, Guiding Light) |
| May 11 | Dick Sutcliffe | 90 | Christian children's' TV producer/animator (Davey and Goliath) |
| May 15 | Alexander Courage | 88 | Composer (Star Trek theme song) |
| May 18 | Joseph Pevney | 96 | Director (Bonanza) |
| May 24 | Dick Martin | 86 | Comedian and director (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) |
| May 25 | Mitch Mullany | 39 | Actor (Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher) |
| May 26 | Earle Hagen | 88 | Music composer (The Andy Griffith Show) |
| Sydney Pollack | 73 | Producer, director and actor (The Fugitive, Will & Grace, The Sopranos) | |
| May 29 | Harvey Korman | 81 | Actor and comedian (The Carol Burnett Show, The Flintstones) |
| June 2 | Mel Ferrer | 90 | Actor, producer and director (Falcon Crest, Return of the Saint) |
| June 7 | Jim McKay | 86 | Sportscaster and journalist for ABC, CBS and NBC Sports |
| Neil MacNeil | 85 | Journalist (Washington Week in Review) | |
| June 12 | Charlie Jones | 77 | Sportscaster for NBC and ABC Sports; play-by-play TV announcer for AFL and NFL games |
| June 13 | Tim Russert | 58 | Journalist for NBC News and host of Meet the Press from 1991 to 2008 |
| June 15 | Tony Schwartz | 84 | Sound archivist, ad executive and creator of Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 "Daisy" political ad |
| June 17 | Cyd Charisse | 86 | Actress, dancer (The Love Boat, Frasier, Fantasy Island, Burke's Law) |
| June 21 | Kermit Love | 91 | Puppeteer, costume designer, actor (Sesame Street) |
| June 22 | Dody Goodman | 93 | Actress (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) |
| George Carlin | 71 | Actor, writer, comedian (The George Carlin Show, Shining Time Station) | |
| June 29 | Don S. Davis | 65 | Actor (Stargate SG-1, Twin Peaks) |
| July 3 | Larry Harmon | 83 | Entertainer (Bozo the Clown) |
| July 4 | Jesse Helms | 86 | Politician and journalist for WRAL-TV, Raleigh, North Carolina |
| July 12 | Tony Snow | 53 | Commentator (Fox News Sunday) and White House Press Secretary |
| July 17 | Larry Haines | 89 | Actor (Search for Tomorrow) |
| July 21 | K-Swift | 29 | Club radio DJ, hip-hop producer and remixer (The Wire, BET's Rap City) |
| July 22 | Estelle Getty | 84 | Actress (The Golden Girls) |
| August 6 | John K. Cooley | 80 | Journalist and author (ABC News) |
| August 7 | Bernie Brillstein | 77 | Producer and agent (Buffalo Bill, ALF, The Larry Sanders Show, NewsRadio) |
| August 9 | Bernie Mac | 50 | Actor and comedian (The Bernie Mac Show) |
| August 10 | Isaac Hayes | 65 | Singer, songwriter and voiceover artist (South Park) |
| August 12 | Bill Stulla | 97 | "Engineer Bill" – children's show host ("Cartoon Express" on KHJ-TV/Los Angeles from 1954 to 1966) |
| August 19 | Julius Carry | 56 | Actor (Doctor, Doctor, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.) |
| August 22 | Jeff MacKay | 59 | Actor (Magnum, P.I.) |
| August 31 | Ike Pappas | 75 | News reporter (CBS News) |
| September 1 | Don LaFontaine | 68 | Voice-over announcer (Entertainment Tonight) |
| Jerry Reed | 71 | Actor and singer (The New Scooby-Doo Movies, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, The Concrete Cowboys, Hee Haw) | |
| September 12 | George Putnam | 94 | News personality |
| October 5 | Lloyd Thaxton | 81 | Host and producer (The Lloyd Thaxton Show, Fight Back! With David Horowitz) |
| October 11 | Neal Hefti | 85 | Theme music composer (Batman, The Odd Couple (the film) and the TV series)) |
| October 15 | Jack Narz | 85 | Game show host (Beat the Clock, Concentration) |
| October 25 | Anne Pressly | 26 | Anchorwoman and special assignment reporter for KATV/Little Rock, Arkansas |
| November 4 | Michael Crichton | 66 | Author and screenwriter (ER) |
| November 11 | Herb Score | 75 | Baseball player and TV/Radio play-by-play announcer for the Cleveland Indians |
| December 1 | Paul Benedict | 70 | Character actor, writer and director (The Jeffersons, Sesame Street) |
| December 5 | Beverly Garland | 82 | Actress, singer and businesswoman (My Three Sons, Scarecrow and Mrs. King) |
| December 8 | Robert Prosky | 77 | Actor (Hill Street Blues) |
| December 12 | Van Johnson | 92 | Actor and singer (Batman, Here's Lucy, The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957 television film)) |
| December 13 | Maddie Blaustein | 48 | Voice actress (Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Dinosaur King) |
| December 18 | Majel Barrett | 76 | Actress (Star Trek: The Original Series) |
| December 25 | Eartha Kitt | 81 | Actress, dancer and singer (Batman, The Emperor's New School) |
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