ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty The popular 1990s Friday night programming block on ABC, fondly known as "TGIF," was ... sit and watch TV," he recalled, helping ...

Everyone’s been getting it wrong all along. Producer Jim Janicek, who created the popular 1990s TV programming block “TGIF” on ABC, recently revealed that — contrary to popular belief ...

We wanna call it TGIF,'" he said. "So that’s where we got the name, and we started animating those letters into the open and went from there." The TV executive went on: "Bob, I believe ...

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If you grew up sometime in the 1990s, chances are your Friday nights kicked off with that jazzy jingle ahead of your favorite TV night of the ... spot on the couch. TGIF was a family-friendly ...

Related: Do You Remember the TGIF Theme Song? It'll Instantly Take You Back to the '90s Janicek was tasked with ... "and then would sit and watch TV," he recalled, helping inspire the idea.

ABC‘s TGIF programming block had viewers hoping for Friday nights to watch their favorite sitcom. Over the years, many people believed the acronym stood for “Thank God It’s Friday.” ...

The marketing guru behind ABC's long-running TGIF programming block ... Weekly's free daily newsletter to get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your ...