Mary Tyler Moore pivotal one-hour musical special called "Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman", Moore and husband Grant Tinker successfully pitched a sitcom centered on Moore to CBS. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" is a half-hour newsroom sitcom featuring Ed Asner as her gruff boss Lou Grant. Moore's show proved so popular that three other regular characters, Valerie Harper as Rhoda Morgenstern, Cloris Leachman as Phyllis Lindstrom and Ed Asner as Lou Grant were also spun off into their own series. The premise of the single working woman's life, alternating during the program between work and home, became a television staple. After
2018–19 Canadian network television schedule 2018–19 Canadian network television schedule The 2018–19 network television schedule for the five major English commercial broadcast networks in Canada covers primetime hours from September 2018 through August 2019. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2017-18 television season, for Canadian, American and other series. CBC Television was first to announce its fall schedule on May 24, 2018, followed by Global on June 4, Citytv on June 5, and CTV and CTV Two on June 7, 2018. As in the past, the commercial networks' announcements come shortly after