What could be more evocative of the 1950s than a good old-fashioned TV dinner? These pinnacles of innovation were built on ...

Commercials for fast food are simply inescapable. We see them almost every time we watch television, flaunting their glossy burgers, fries, shakes, and whichever other product du jour they're ...

Dog Gets Revenge: a dog gets revenge (and a bag of Doritos) by shocking a man with his own anti-bark collar. Play Nice: a little boy lays down some ground rules for his Mom’s date. Casket: a man ...

Mid 1950s, early morning on the farm ... We live in such an artificial time now. TV ads depict various races jollying it up ...

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Readers spoke, we listened. After we published a report about supermarket foods that bear no resemblance to the photo on their packaging, some of you said that we had missed a similar annoyance ...

If you’re of a certain age, you probably recall how unavoidable TV commercials used to be. These short advertisements would appear between programs on television sets. These days on streaming ...

These time constraints led food manufacturers ... the company behind the first TV dinners, reportedly received letters from angry husbands accusing the brand of killing home-cooked meals (per ...

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) debated the proper way to safeguard consumers from ...

BBC TV’s second big debut of the decade came in 1958 with the start of Blue Peter - still running to this day. The Archers is the world's longest running soap opera, and is set in and around the ...

Elle Smith has been an advertising professional for more than 25 years. Her work for ABC, CBS and Sony Pictures Television has appeared on radio, on air, in print and outdoors. In addition, Smith ...