George Wendt made Cheers' Norm feel both familiar and fresh every time / Jimmy Kimmel becomes a grandpa / Lady Gaga wins a Sports Emmy

PLUS: PBS forced American Masters filmmakers to edit out an anti-Trump portion of their documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse.

George Wendt showed that sitcom greatness can be the art of doing one simple thing over and over
On Cheers, "the setting was a place people came to escape somewhere else," says James Poniewozik. "And …