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 ...

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 ...

Steve Urkel for ABC's Family Matters shocked looking at the camera in front of TGIF Custom Image by Zanda Rice How we watch television has changed dramatically over the years. These days, with so much ...

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 ...

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 ...