TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 593.5: Actress Michael Learned (The Waltons, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story) tells Ed the back story of her unusual first name, and how her being named Michael often confused other people, including members of the Television Academy on the night when she won her first Emmy for playing Olivia Walton. Monster is available for viewing on demand on Netflixt, while The Waltons is available on several viewing 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 593.5a: From June 2012: Two-time Grammy-nominated comedienne and actress Judy Tenuta talks to Ed about some of the features in her book Full Frontal Tenudity, including Big Fat Secrets, Stoner Snacks for Love Slaves, and the “Hollywood to English” dictionary. Judy Tenuta passed away Thursday, Oct. 6 at age seventy-two. 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 593.6: A special edition of This Week in TV History that originally aired in October 2017, a few weeks after the passing of Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-winning actor Martin Landau (Mission: Impossible, Space: 1999, Ed Wood).   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 592.1: Ed welcomes Paul Friedman, longtime marketing and promotions executive for CBS Television and the author of The Unexpected Danny Green, the inspiring story of an African-American athlete who was born on the wrong side of the tracks, but rises to the top to become a gifted boxer, a published author, and a major Hollywood star. 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 592.2: Tony Figueroa joins Ed for a look at Tony Dow’s life and career before, during, and after Leave It to Beaver (ABC/CBS, 1957-1963), including Dow’s lengthy and successful career as a director in television post-Beaver. Tony Dow passed away this past Wednesday, July 27 at age seventy-seven. 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 592.3: Chuck Harter, author of Mr. Novak: An Acclaimed Television Series and other books on music and television, talks to Ed about the recurring role that Tony Dow had on Mr. Novak (NBC, 1963-1965), and why Dow considered his experience on that series among the best work he’d ever done as an actor. Chuck interviewed Tony Dow several times for Mr. Novak: An Acclaimed Television Series and remained friends with Tony over the rest of his life. Tony Dow passed away this past Wednesday, July 27 at age seventy-seven. 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 592.4: Ed welcomes back Grammy Award-winning singer, actress and songwriter Toni Tennille. Toni will star as matchmaker Dolly Levi—a role that has long been on her bucket list—in a lavish production of Jerry Herman’s Hello, Dolly! at the Yavapai College Performing Arts Center, 1100 East Sheldon Street in Prescott, Arizona, beginning Thursday, Nov. 3 and continuing through Sunday, Nov. 20. For tickets and more information, call (928) 776-2000 or visit YCPAC.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

TVC 592.5: Greg Ehrbar talks about the recent home entertainment releases of the Hanna-Barbera animated series Space Stars, Yogi’s Space Race, and Galaxy Goof-Ups. Calendar year 2022 marks the 65th anniversary of the start of Hanna-Barbera Productions. 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 592.6: Paul Friedman, longtime marketing and promotions executive for CBS Television, talks to Ed about some of the notable marketing campaigns on which he worked over the years, including those for Survivor, The Amazing Race, Big Brother, and such high-profile specials as The Grammy Awards, the Kennedy Center Honors, and the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Paul’s debut novel, The Unexpected Danny Green, is available wherever books are sold online.  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 591.1: We’ll bring you Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and director Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Judging Amy, Pretty Little Liars). Topics this segment include Joe’s award-winning stage play Chester Bailey, and how the works of Rod Serling, Herb Gardner, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ray Bradbury both influenced and inspired Joe to become a writer. Joe’s new book, A Screenwriter’s Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement offers insights and advice, both practical and nonpractical, to writers and would-be writers about the writing process, how to survive in “the business,” and reflections on the influences that led Joe to a successful career. A Screenwriter’s Companion is available now through Amazon.com as well as your local bookseller; a select number of autographed editions are available through Fayetteville Mafia Press. A new production of Chester Bailey opens Wednesday, Oct. 5 at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York City and continues through Sunday, Nov. 6. For tickets and more information, call (212) 727-2737 or visit IrishRep.org. 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 591.2: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and director Joseph Dougherty talks to Ed about why novelist Stephen King is the Charles Dickens of our generation; why imagination is another essential tool that every writer should have; and why the process of writing and editing is often like peeling an onion. Joe’s new book, A Screenwriter’s Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement is available now through Amazon.com as well as your local bookseller; a select number of autographed editions are available through Fayetteville Mafia Press. 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 591.3: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and director Joseph Dougherty talks to Ed about some of the challenges posed when adapting a novel into a screenplay. Joe’s new book, A Screenwriter’s Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement is available now through Amazon.com as well as your local bookseller; a select number of autographed editions are available through Fayetteville Mafia Press. 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 590.1: Ed welcomes back Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and director Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Saving Grace, Pretty Little Liars, Chester Bailey). Joe’s new book, A Screenwriter’s Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement offers insights and advice, both practical and nonpractical, to writers and would-be writers about the writing process, how to survive in “the business,” and reflections on the influences that led Joe to a successful career. A Screenwriter’s Companion is available now through Amazon.com as well as your local bookseller; a select number of autographed editions are available through Fayetteville Mafia Press. 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 590.2: From September 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed go back to Sept. 17, 1972, the night that M*A*S*H premiered on CBS television, as part of This Week in TV History. 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 590.3: From September 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the famous, movie-length series finale of M*A*S*H, which originally aired in February 1983 (and remains the highest-rated TV episode ever), as well as when the series morphed from being a comedy with occasional moments of drama to a drama with humor.   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