Editing I Love Lucy (section)

==After ''I Love Lucy''==
{{Main|The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour}}
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===Hour-long format===
[[File:Lucy Goes To Havana Lucy Desi Comedy Hour 1957.JPG|thumb|right|upright=1.25|The first one-hour episode, "Lucy Takes a Cruise to Havana", is an extended flashback of how Lucy met Ricky. L–R: [[Ann Sothern]], [[Rudy Vallee]], [[Lucille Ball]], [[Desi Arnaz]], [[Cesar Romero]], [[Vivian Vance]] and [[William Frawley]] (1957) ]]
After the conclusion of the sixth season of ''I Love Lucy'', Ball and Arnaz decided to cut down on the number of episodes that were filmed. Renamed ''[[The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour|The Lucille Ball–Desi Arnaz Show]]'', also known as ''[[The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour]]'', the program was extended to an hour and included guest stars in each episode. Thirteen episodes aired from 1957 to 1960. The main cast, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley and Little Ricky/Richard Keith (birth name Keith Thibodeaux), were all in the show. ''The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour'' is available on DVD, released as ''I Love Lucy: The Final Seasons 7, 8, & 9''. On March 2, 1960, Arnaz's birthday, the day after the last hour-long episode was filmed, Ball filed for divorce from Arnaz.{{Citation needed |date= September 2022}}

===Vivian Vance and William Frawley===
As previously mentioned, Vance and Frawley were offered a chance to take their characters to their own spin-off series. Frawley was willing, but Vance refused to ever work with Frawley again since the two did not get along. Frawley appeared once more with Lucille Ball{{dash}}in an episode of ''[[The Lucy Show]]'' in 1965, which did not include Vance (who by then had ceased to be a regular on that show). This was his last screen appearance with Ball. Frawley died in Hollywood on March 3, 1966, of a heart attack at age 79.

===Lucille Ball's subsequent network shows===
In 1962, Ball began a six-year run with ''The Lucy Show'', followed immediately in 1968 by six more years on a third sitcom, ''[[Here's Lucy]]'', ending her regular appearances on CBS in 1974. Both ''The Lucy Show'' and ''Here's Lucy'' included Vance as recurring characters named Viv (Vivian Bagley Bunson on ''The Lucy Show'' and Vivian Jones on ''Here's Lucy''), so named because she was tired of being recognized on the street and addressed as "Ethel". Vance was a regular during the first three seasons of ''The Lucy Show'' and continued to make guest appearances through the years on ''The Lucy Show'' and on ''Here's Lucy''. In 1977, Vance and Ball were reunited one last time in the CBS special ''Lucy Calls the President'',<ref>{{IMDb title|id=0272711|title=Lucy Calls the President}}</ref> which co-starred [[Gale Gordon]], whom Ball had known for very many years and who had appeared as a regular on her television shows since 1963, becoming even more prominent once Vance left ''The Lucy Show'' in 1965.

In 1986, Ball tried another sitcom, ''[[Life with Lucy]]''. The series debuted on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] to solid ratings, landing in Nielsen's Top 25 for the week. Its ratings quickly declined, however, and resulted in a cancellation after eight episodes.

===Legacy, critical acclaim and other honors===
In 1989, the never-seen pilot episode of ''I Love Lucy'' was discovered and revealed in a CBS television special, hosted by Lucie Arnaz, becoming the highest-rated program of the season.

In 2012, Emily VanDerWerff of ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' wrote retrospectively:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/article/why-does-ii-love-lucy-iendure-after-all-these-year-72062 |title=Why does ''I Love Lucy'' endure after all these years? |last=VanDerWerff |first=Emily |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |date=April 9, 2012 |access-date=August 2, 2019 |archive-date=August 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821082035/http://www.avclub.com/article/why-does-ii-love-lucy-iendure-after-all-these-year-72062 |url-status=live }}</ref><blockquote>''I Love Lucy'' […] is one of the two foundational texts of American TV comedy, along with ''[[The Honeymooners]]''. The series is legitimately the most influential in TV history, pioneering so many innovations and normalizing so many others that it would be easy to write an appreciation of simply, say, the show’s accidental invention of the TV rerun.</blockquote>

''I Love Lucy'' continues to be held in high esteem by television critics and remains perennially popular. It was one of the first American programs seen on [[British television]]{{dash}}which became more open to commerce with the September 1955 launch of [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]], a commercial network that aired the series. In 1982, the launch of a second terrestrial TV station devoted to advertising-funded broadcasting ([[Channel 4]]) saw the show introduced to a new generation of fans in the UK, with the ''Channel 4'' network repeating the program several times between 1983 and 1994. {{As of|January 2015}}, meanwhile, it remains the longest-running program to air continuously in the Los Angeles area, almost 60 years after production ended. However, the series is currently aired on [[KTTV]] on weekends and now [[KCOP-TV|KCOP]] on weekdays because both stations are a [[duopoly]]. KTTV was the original CBS-affiliated station in Los Angeles until 1951, just before ''I Love Lucy'' premiered on KNXT Channel 2 (now [[KCBS-TV]]) when CBS bought that station the same year. In the US, reruns have aired nationally on [[TBS (American TV channel)|TBS]] (1980s–1990s), [[Nick at Nite]] (1994–2001), and [[TV Land]] (2001–2008) in addition to local channels. TV Land ended its run of the series by giving viewers the opportunity to vote on the show's top 25 greatest episodes on December 31, 2008, through the network's website. Unlike some shows, to which a cable channel is given exclusive rights to maximize ratings, ''I Love Lucy'' has been consistently broadcast on multiple channels simultaneously. [[Hallmark Channel]] is now the home for ''I Love Lucy'' in the United States, with the show having moved to the network on January 2, 2009, while the national version of [[Weigel Broadcasting]]'s [[MeTV]] [[digital subchannel]] network has carried the program since its debut on December 15, 2010, depending on the market (in markets where another station holds the rights, ''The Lucy Show'' is substituted). The show is seen on [[Fox Classics]] in Australia.

In addition to Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations, ''I Love Lucy'' has many honors including the following:

* The [[Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum]] in [[Jamestown, New York]] is a museum memorializing Lucy and ''I Love Lucy'', including replicas of the NYC apartment set (located in the Desilu Playhouse facility in the Rapaport Center).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol38/vol38n37/articles/RapaportDesilu.html |title=UB faculty member loves Lucy |first=Kevin |last=Fryling |work=UB Reporter |publisher=buffalo.edu |date=May 27, 2007 |access-date=February 29, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908040648/http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol38/vol38n37/articles/RapaportDesilu.html |archive-date=September 8, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* In 1990, ''I Love Lucy'' became the first television show to be inducted into the [[Television Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/hall-of-fame/honorees|title=Honorees|website=Television Academy|access-date=January 3, 2021|archive-date=October 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013163201/http://www.emmys.com/awards/hall-of-fame-honorees|url-status=live}}</ref>
* In 1997, the episodes "[[Lucy Does a TV Commercial]]" and "Lucy's Italian Movie" were respectively ranked No. 2 and No. 18 on ''TV Guide'''s list of the 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.<ref>{{cite magazine|year=1997 |title=Special Collector's Issue: 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time |magazine=[[TV Guide]] |issue=June 28 – July 4 }}</ref>
* In 1999, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' ranked the birth of Little Ricky as the fifth greatest moment in television history.<ref name="ewtop100">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,274575,00.html |title=The Top 100 Moments in Television |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=February 19, 1999 |access-date=November 27, 2007 |first=Kelly |last=Connolly |archive-date=October 16, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016051357/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,274575,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* In 2002, ''[[TV Guide]]'' ranked ''I Love Lucy'' No. 2 on its list of the 50 greatest shows, behind ''[[Seinfeld]]'' and ahead of ''[[The Honeymooners]]''<ref>{{cite news |title=''TV Guide'' Names Top 50 Shows |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tv-guide-names-top-50-shows/ |publisher=[[CBS News]] |date=April 26, 2002 |access-date=October 6, 2007 |archive-date=September 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904061715/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/26/entertainment/main507388.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> (According to ''TV Guide'' columnist Matt Roush, there was a "passionate" internal debate about whether ''I Love Lucy'' should have been first instead of ''Seinfeld''. He stated that this was the main source of controversy in putting together the list.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Columnists/Ask-Matt/default.aspx?posting={25137E4C-7131-4DA3-B40C-300A87ACC9E1} |title=Ask Matt |magazine=TV Guide |date=April 22, 2005 |access-date=January 20, 2008}}</ref>)
* In 2007, ''Time'' magazine placed the show on its unranked list of the 100 best television shows.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1651341_1659192_1652529,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028100904/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1651341_1659192_1652529,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 28, 2007 |title=The 100 Best TV Shows of All-''TIME'' |first=James |last=Poniewozik |author-link=James Poniewozik |magazine=Time |publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=March 4, 2010 | date=September 6, 2007}}</ref>
* In 2012, ''I Love Lucy'' was ranked the Best TV Comedy and the Best TV Show in ''Best in TV: The Greatest TV Shows of Our Time''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Best_In_TV/love-lucy-voted-best-tv-show-time/story?id=17263942#1|title='I Love Lucy' Voted the Best TV Show of All Time|author=John Green|author2=Alice Gomstyn|date=September 18, 2012|work=ABC News|access-date=April 20, 2015|archive-date=November 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118132431/https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Best_In_TV/love-lucy-voted-best-tv-show-time/story?id=17263942#1|url-status=live}}</ref>
* In 2013, ''TV Guide'' ranked ''I Love Lucy'' as the third greatest show of all time.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Fretts |first1=Bruce |last2=Roush |first2=Matt |title=The Greatest Shows on Earth |magazine=TV Guide Magazine |volume=61 |issue=3194–3195 |pages=16–19 }}</ref>
* In 2015, a survey of 2,800 actors, producers, directors, and other industry people conducted by ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' named ''I Love Lucy'' as their #8 favorite show.<ref name="thr20150916">{{Cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-tv-shows-ever-top-819499/item/friends-hollywoods-100-favorite-tv-821361 |title=Hollywood's 100 Favorite TV Shows |date=September 16, 2015 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=July 17, 2019 |language=en |archive-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717030112/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-tv-shows-ever-top-819499/item/friends-hollywoods-100-favorite-tv-821361 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* In 2023, ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' chose ''I Love Lucy'' as the greatest TV show of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/lists/greatest-tv-shows-of-all-time/|title=The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time|publisher=Variety|date=December 20, 2023}}</ref>

===Documentaries and dramatizations===
On April 28, 1990, CBS aired a television movie titled ''I Love Lucy: The Very First Show'' hosted by [[Lucie Arnaz]], daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, with commentary that showed the original unaired pilot episode of ''I Love Lucy'' that was produced by Ball and Desi Arnaz themselves and found after 40 years. The movie was nominated for a [[Primetime Emmy Awards|Primetime Emmy Award]] as an "Outstanding Informational Special".<ref>{{cite web |title=I Love Lucy: The Very First Show |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448547/ |website=imdb.com |publisher=IMDb.com, Inc., an Amazon company |access-date=June 5, 2021 |archive-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927082203/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448547/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Hemming |first1=Roy |title=I Love Lucy: The Very First Show |url=https://ew.com/article/1994/06/10/i-love-lucy-very-first-show/ |access-date=June 5, 2021 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |publisher=Meredith Corporation |date=June 10, 1994 |archive-date=June 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605200244/https://ew.com/article/1994/06/10/i-love-lucy-very-first-show/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

On February 10, 1991, CBS aired a television movie titled ''[[Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter]]'', about the lives of Ball and Desi Arnaz. The movie recreated a number of scenes from classic ''I Love Lucy'' episodes, including "Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her" and "Lucy Does a TV Commercial". [[Frances Fisher]] starred as Ball and [[Maurice Benard]] as Desi Arnaz.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102353/reference | title=Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter (TV Movie 1991) | website=[[IMDb]] | access-date=December 18, 2019 | archive-date=October 1, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001172139/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102353/reference | url-status=live }}</ref>

On May 4, 2003, CBS aired a television movie titled ''[[Lucy (2003 film)|Lucy]]'', portraying the life of Ball and recreating a number of scenes from classic ''I Love Lucy'' episodes, including "[[Lucy Does a TV Commercial]]", "Lucy Is Enceinte", and "Job Switching". Near the end of the movie, a selection of ''[[TV Guide]]'' covers is seen in a hallway, showing ''I Love Lucy'' franchises on their covers. Also included is close-up of a ''[[New York Post]]'' article about the birth of Little Ricky. [[Rachel York]] starred as Ball and [[Danny Pino]] as Desi Arnaz.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361856/reference | title=Lucy (TV Movie 2003) | website=[[IMDb]] | access-date=December 18, 2019 | archive-date=July 18, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718220200/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361856/reference | url-status=live }}</ref>

In October 2011, the stage play ''I Love Lucy Live on Stage'' premiered to sold-out houses at the Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles. Staged and directed by Rick Sparks, the show featured the performance of two ''I Love Lucy'' episodes{{dash}}"The Benefit" and "Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined", presented to the theater audience as though they were attending a filming at the Desilu Playhouse in the 1950s. In 2012, the show began a national tour which lasted until 2015.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.ilovelucylive.com/ | title=I Love Lucy Live &#124; Live on Stage | access-date=December 18, 2019 | archive-date=December 18, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218203721/http://www.ilovelucylive.com/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

In July 2018, ''I Love Lucy: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom'', a behind-the-scenes comedy about ''I Love Lucy'' by Gregg Oppenheimer (son of series creator [[Jess Oppenheimer]]), had its world premiere in a Los Angeles production by [[L.A. Theatre Works]]. Recorded before a live audience at the James Bridges Theater, UCLA, the production, directed by Michael Hackett, aired on public radio and was released on audio CD and as a downloadable file in September of that year.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Love-Lucy-Funny-Happened-Sitcom/dp/B07HHKRGKC Amazon.com product page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001172138/https://www.amazon.com/Love-Lucy-Funny-Happened-Sitcom/dp/B07HHKRGKC |date=October 1, 2022 }} for "I Love Lucy: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom" recording.</ref> The performance starred [[Sarah Drew]] as Ball, [[Oscar Nuñez]] as Desi Arnaz, and [[Seamus Dever]] as Oppenheimer.<ref>[https://latw.org/title/i-love-lucy-funny-thing L.A. Theatre Works catalog page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805190307/https://latw.org/title/i-love-lucy-funny-thing |date=August 5, 2020 }} for "I Love Lucy: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom" recording.</ref> A serialized version, titled ''LUCY LOVES DESI: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom'', was produced in August 2020 by Jarvis & Ayres Productions and aired in the UK on [[BBC Radio 4]], starring [[Anne Heche]] as Ball, [[Wilmer Valderamma]] as Desi Arnaz, [[Jared Harris]] as Oppenheimer, [[Stacy Keach]] as William Frawley, and [[Alfred Molina]] as CBS Executive [[Harry Ackerman]].<ref name="BBC2020" /> In January 2023, [[L.A. Theatre Works]] mounted a 22-city U.S. national tour of the play as ''LUCY LOVES DESI: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom.''<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/national-tours/article/LA-Theatre-Works-17th-Annual-National-Tour-Brings-Hilarious-LUCY-LOVES-DESI-To-Performing-Arts-Venues-Across-US-20221215 | title=LA Theatre Works 17th Annual National Tour Brings Hilarious LUCY LOVES DESI to Performing Arts Venues Across US | access-date=March 12, 2023 | url-status=live | archive-date=March 12, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312210354/https://www.broadwayworld.com/national-tours/article/LA-Theatre-Works-17th-Annual-National-Tour-Brings-Hilarious-LUCY-LOVES-DESI-To-Performing-Arts-Venues-Across-US-20221215 }}</ref> In November 2023, Next Stage Press published the play's script, making performance licenses available to schools, community theater groups, and local theater companies.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nextstagepress.com/lucy-loves-desi/ | title=Lucy Loves Desi }}</ref>

In the spring of 2020, NBC's sitcom ''[[Will & Grace]]'' paid tribute to ''I Love Lucy'' with a special episode titled "We Love Lucy".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/will-grace-will-do-special-i-love-lucy-episode-t168330|title='Will & Grace' will do a special 'I Love Lucy' episode – here are the details|website=TODAY.com|date=November 25, 2019 |language=en|access-date=January 4, 2020|archive-date=November 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191127233129/https://www.today.com/popculture/will-grace-will-do-special-i-love-lucy-episode-t168330|url-status=live}}</ref> During the episode Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, along with Ethel and Fred Mertz, appear in dream sequences based on scenes from the 1951 CBS series. Lucie Arnaz made a cameo in the episode in the role originated in the "Job Switching" episode by actress [[Elvia Allman]] as the Factory Foreperson.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://doyouremember.com/108291/will-grace-i-love-lucy|title='Will & Grace' Will Air An 'I Love Lucy'-Themed Special Episode|date=November 26, 2019|website=DoYouRemember?|language=en-US|access-date=January 4, 2020|archive-date=November 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191128155504/https://doyouremember.com/108291/will-grace-i-love-lucy|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2021, ''[[Being the Ricardos]]'', a film written and directed by [[Aaron Sorkin]], about the relationship between ''I Love Lucy'' stars Ball and Desi Arnaz, was released. [[Nicole Kidman]] and [[Javier Bardem]] star as Ball and Desi Arnaz, while [[J. K. Simmons]], [[Nina Arianda]], [[Tony Hale]], [[Alia Shawkat]], [[Jake Lacy]], and [[Clark Gregg]] are featured in supporting roles. It received a limited theatrical release by Amazon Studios in the United States on December 10, 2021, prior to streaming worldwide on Prime Video on December 21, 2021.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/movies/being-the-ricardos-teaser-trailer-aaron-sorkin-interview/|title=Aaron Sorkin shows a new side of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos teaser|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|first=Maureen|last=Lee Linker|date=October 19, 2021|access-date=October 19, 2021|archive-date=October 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019131102/https://ew.com/movies/being-the-ricardos-teaser-trailer-aaron-sorkin-interview/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2022, Amazon Prime Video released the documentary ''[[Lucy and Desi]]''. Directed by [[Amy Poehler]], it was nominated for a [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2022/outstanding-directing-for-nonfiction-programming |title=Nominees/Winners &#124; Television Academy |publisher=[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]] |access-date=July 12, 2022 |archive-date=July 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220712160649/https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2022/outstanding-directing-for-nonfiction-programming |url-status=live }}</ref>