"In the Heat of the Night" TV show was a sequel to the movie and dealt with themes of racism and police brutality. Lead actor ...

Purely coincidental, said Heat Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Michael McCullough. “These uniform plans are seeded years in advance,” McCullough said of the timing of the ...

In the Heat of the Night continues to resonate with audiences as a powerful historical artifact. Moreover, just as the relationship between Tibbs and his white counterpart, Chief Bill Gillespie ...

Besides “In the Heat of the Night,” which starred Sidney Poitier ... blundering Southern-chief-of-police slob.” Jewison was proud that the film put onto the screen the first Black movie ...

Anthony James, an instantly recognizable character actor who often played the creepy guy including in Best Picture Oscar winners In the Heat of the Night and Unforgiven, died May 26 of cancer.

Walter Mirisch, producer of the 1967 Best Picture Oscar winner “In the Heat of the Night” and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died on Friday evening at the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Norman Jewison, the acclaimed and versatile Canadian-born director whose Hollywood films ranged from Doris Day comedies and “Moonstruck” to social dramas such as the Oscar ...