Jim Janicek revealed the actual acronym during a chat on the 'Pod Meets World' podcast Kate Hogan was Director of Digital Specials and Features at PEOPLE. She started at PEOPLE in 2008, leaving in ...

Producer Jim Janicek and the "Boy Meets World" cast including Rider Strong and Danielle Fishel. Everyone’s been getting it wrong all along. Producer Jim Janicek, who created the popular 1990s TV ...

Thank god this got sorted. The marketing guru behind ABC's long-running TGIF programming block, Jim Janicek, dropped by the latest episode of the Pod Meets World podcast to reminisce on where the idea ...

Fans of ABC’s 1990s “TGIF” programming block with Full House, Boy Meets World and more are in for a huge shock. “We were [first] talking about things like the ‘Friday Fun Club,’” Janicek revealed on ...

Starting in 1989, ABC created a television programming block called "TGIF," the acronym for the phrase "Thank God It's Friday," although in this context it stood for "Thank God It's Funny." The ...

Years before Must See TV took over NBC Thursdays, ABC ruled the comedy roost during the late 1980s and 1990s with its TGIF comedy block, which helped introduce and popularize a slew of iconic series, ...

TGIF (Thank God, It's Friday) is not just a popular phrase used to show excitement for the end of the work week but it also has another meaning, "Thank Goodness, It's Funny." Back when sitcoms and ...

Last year's Emmy nominees for Best Comedy Series gave us a wide array of different shows. Something like Abbott Elementary has little in common with Barry, and Ted Lasso isn't much like Only Murders ...

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 — the acronym ...

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.” However, in a new ...