TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 607.2: From October 2015: Rita Lakin, Edgar nominated screenwriter and author of The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes from My Life and Career as a Television Writer, talks to Ed about working with Arthur Bernard Lewis and her son Howard Lakin at Lorimar Productions; how she came to develop the Gladdy Gold mystery novel series; and what she learned the most from working alongside Aaron Spelling. Rita Lakin passed away Thursday, Mar. 23 at age ninety-three. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 607.3: Greg Ehrbar discusses The Automat, a charming documentary featuring Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Elliott Gould, Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and General Colin Powell. The Automat is available now on DVD through Kino Lorber. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 607.3a: Greg Ehrbar discusses Billy Flanigan: The Happiest Man on the Earth, a documentary about the life and career of the longest continually contracted Disney entertainment theme park performer in Disney history. Billy Flanigan is now available on DVD through Kino Lorber. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 607.4: Rita Lakin, Edgar nominated screenwriter and author of The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes from My Life and Career as a Television Writer, talks to Ed some of the parallels between her career and that of Peggy Olson, the copywriter played by Elisabeth Moss on AMC’s Mad Men. One of the first female writer/producers in network television, Rita opened doors for many other women at a time when the industry was run almost entirely by men. Rita Lakin passed away Thursday, Mar. 23 at age ninety-three. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 607.5: Ed welcomes Emmy Award-winning and Oscar nominated actor Thomas Haden Church (Wings, Sideways, Ned and Stacey, Divorce, Broken Trail, and the Sandman in the Spider-Man movie franchise). Thomas’ latest film, Acidman, is a character piece about a woman (played by Glee star Dianna Agron) who tracks down her estranged father (played by Thomas) in the Oregon wilderness, where he lives alone with his dog, Migo, and is obsessed with UFOs. Acidman is now showing in select theaters across the country. You can also see it on demand on Amazon Prime, Apple+, and other streaming platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 607.6: Emmy Award-winning and Oscar nominated actor Thomas Haden Church talks to Ed about working with director Alex Lehmann on the development of his character, Lloyd, in Acidman. Acidman is now showing in select theaters across the country. You can also see it on demand on Amazon Prime, Apple+, and other streaming platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 527.4: Ed welcomes actress and author Donzaleigh Abernathy, star of Any Day Now and the youngest daughter of the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy—the man who co-founded the Civil Rights Movement along with his best friend (and Donzaleigh’s godfather), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Donzaleigh’s book Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and The Civil Right Movement is a pictorial history of the Civil Rights Movement that also captures the words of both Dr. King and Rev. Abernathy, while showing you first-hand glimpses of who they were as husbands, fathers, and people. Donzaleigh Abernathy is also the lead soloist on “The Listening,” a unique social justice choral project inspired by “Beyond Vietnam: A Time for Break Silence,” a speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1967. “The Listening” is now available as a single through Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, and Pandora. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 527.5: Donzaleigh Abernathy tells Ed the backstory of how she came to write Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and The Civil Right Movement, plus she shares stories of her encounters with the likes of Dina Merrill, Dennis Haysbert, Gregory Peck, and Alicia Keys. Donzaleigh is also the lead soloist on “The Listening,” a unique social justice choral project inspired by “Beyond Vietnam: A Time for Break Silence,” a speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1967. “The Listening” is now available as a single through Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, and Pandora. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 528.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Donzaleigh Abernathy, star of Lifetime Television’s Any Day Now, and the youngest daughter of the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy—the man who co-founded the Civil Rights Movement along with his best friend, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Donzaleigh is the lead soloist on “The Listening,” a unique social justice choral project inspired by “Beyond Vietnam: A Time for Break Silence,” a speech delivered by Dr. King in April 1967. “The Listening” is now available as a single through Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, and Pandora. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 528.6: Actress, author, and vocalist Donzaleigh Abernathy talks to Ed about the direct line between her and national youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman, and how Donzaleigh’s father, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, encouraged Donzaleigh to pursue her career as an artist just before he died. Donzaleigh’s book Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and The Civil Right Movement is a pictorial history of the Civil Rights Movement that also captures the words of both Dr. King and Rev. Abernathy, while showing you first-hand glimpses of who they were as people. Donzaleigh is also the lead soloist on “The Listening,” a unique social justice choral project inspired by “Beyond Vietnam: A Time for Break Silence,” a speech that Dr. King gave in April 1967. “The Listening” is now available as a single through Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, and Pandora. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 606.1: From March 2012: Tony, Donna and Ed remember “A House Divided,” the famous episode of Dallas that launched the “Who Shot J.R.?” phenomenon of 1980. “A House Divided” originally aired Mar. 21, 1980. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 606.2: Ed welcomes Griff Furst, youngest son of Stephen Furst (Animal House, St. Elsewhere, Babylon 5), and an accomplished actor, screenwriter, producer, and director in his own right. Griff is the producer of Devil’s Peak, a crime thriller starring Billy Bob Thornton, Jackie Earle Healy, Robin Wright, and Hopper Penn about a father/son relationship that goes bad. Devil’s Peak is now available for viewing on demand on major streaming platforms, while Griff’s upcoming films as an actor include the upcoming sci-fi thriller 57 Seconds (also starring Josh Hutcherson, Morgan Freeman, and Greg Germann), the action thriller Deep Stage, and the romantic drama Uppercut (the last two of which feature Paul Sidhu and were directed by Robert Beaumont). Griff also produced the upcoming stoner comedy Half Baked. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 606.3: Actor/producer Griff Furst talks to Ed about working with his dad, Stephen Furst (Animal House, St. Elsewhere, Babylon 5), both as a young actor and as a partner in their production company, Curmudgeon Films. Griff is the producer of Devil’s Peak, a crime thriller starring Billy Bob Thornton, Jackie Earle Healy, Robin Wright, and Hopper Penn that is now available for streaming on demand on major streaming platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 606.4: A return appearance by actress, author, and documentary filmmaker Penny Peyser (All the President’s Men, The In-Laws, Crazy Like a Fox, Stillpoint, Trying to Get Good). Penny’s new book, Sonnets from Suburbia: More Candles Than Cake, provides a whimsical take on 21st century life—all by way of the Shakespearean sonnet form. If you’ve seen any of Penny’s “Lady Penelope” videos on YouTube, you’ll have a pretty good idea of what to expect in Sonnets from Suburbia. Sonnets from Suburbia is available now both as a print edition and as an eBook through Amazon.com, while the audiobook edition will be available soon. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 606.5: Actress and author Penny Peyser (All the President’s Men, Crazy Like a Fox, Sonnets from Suburbia) tells Ed the back story of how she came to be interviewed by legendary Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in 2022, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Watergate break-in; how she came to play the ukelele; and why it’s impossible to play a sad song on that particular instrument. Penny’s new book, Sonnets from Suburbia: More Candles Than Cake, provides a whimsical take on 21st century life—all by way of the Shakespearean sonnet form. Sonnets from Suburbia is available now both as a print edition and as an eBook through Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices