TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 577.5: A brand new conversation with Michael Learned, the four-time Emmy Award-winning actress known around the world as Olivia Walton, the matriarch of the Walton family. Michael’s latest film, Second Acts, is now available for streaming on demand. She is also about to star, along with Evan Peters, Richard Jenkins, and Penelope Ann Miller, in the forthcoming new Netflix series about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer (the working title of which is Monster). 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 577.6: Michael Learned shares a few memories about The Waltons (CBS, 1972-1981), including the story of she originally won the role of Olivia Walton. Michael’s latest film, Second Acts, is now available for streaming on demand. 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 577.1: Ed welcomes actor, author, screenwriter, producer, and acting teacher Joe Coyle (Promised Land, Jack Reacher, Ocean’s 11, Out of Sight, Three Kings, Zoolander, Fail Safe). Joe is one of the contributors to Beyond Where the Buses Run, an anthology of short stories edited by Theresa Griffin Kennedy that also features Robert Crane. 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 577.2: Greg Ehrbar talks to Ed about the Blu-ray release of The Wonderful World of The Brothers Grimm, a restoration of the 1962 fantasy musical starring Barbara Eden, Laurence Harvey, Russ Tamblyn, and Buddy Hackett that was not a huge hit when it was originally released, even though it was among the highest grossing movies of 1962. 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

From April 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the Captain Midnight incident of Apr. 27, 1986, when a video pirate known only as Captain Midnight managed to override the satellite transmission of the HBO broadcast of The Falcon and the Snowman. The culprit hijacked the feed to protest HBO's subscription fees.  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

From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the first coast-to-coast telecast by satellite communications, which took place on Apr. 24, 1962, a technological advance that changed the face of broadcast television.  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 577.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began on our last program with Stefanie Powers, the actress known around the world as Jennifer Hart on Hart to Hart, and the founder and president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, a nonprofit organization that Stefanie established in 1982 in memory of William Holden, the love of her life, that continues and furthers Holden’s conservation work in East Africa. Among other topics this segment, Ed asks Stefanie what first fueled her interest in animal wildlife preservation. Our friends at the Gold Coast International Film Festival will honor William Holden in early May as the next recipient of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, an award that honors legendary actors and actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Stefanie Powers will accept the award that night on Holden’s behalf in a ceremony that will take place in Great Neck, New York. For reservations and more information, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.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 577.5: Stefanie Powers answers listener email questions about her film and TV career, plus she tells Ed which motion picture was William Holden’s favorite, and why. The Gold Coast International Film Festival will honor William Holden as the next recipient of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, an award that honors legendary actors and actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Stefanie Powers will accept the award that night on Holden’s behalf in a ceremony that will take place in Great Neck, New York. For reservations and more information, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.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 577.6: Actor, author, screenwriter, producer, and acting teacher Joe Coyle talks to Ed about his experience working as a stand-in for George Clooney and Ben Affleck. Joe is one of the contributors to Beyond Where the Buses Run, an anthology of short stories edited by Theresa Griffin Kennedy that also features Robert Crane. 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 575.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Budd Burton Moss, legendary Hollywood talent manager and agent, and the namesake of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, an award that honors legendary actors and actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Topics this segment include a tribute to Budd’s dear friend Sidney Poitier and the role that Budd played in getting legendary attorney Melvin Belli to audition for the role of Don Corleone in The Godfather. Our friends at the Gold Coast International Film Festival will honor William Holden in early May as the next recipient of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award. Stefanie Powers will accept the award that night on Holden’s behalf in a ceremony that will take place in Great Neck, New York. For reservations and more information, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.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 575.2: Budd Burton Moss, legendary Hollywood talent manager and agent, tells Ed the story of how he helped convince Elizabeth Montgomery to accept the role of Samantha Stephens on Bewitched (after she had initially resisted), and how he eventually came to represent some legendary NFL stars as Jim Plunkett, Gene Washington, and Joe Theismann. Budd’s latest book, Act III, is schedule for release later in 2022. For more information on the Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, the Gold Coast International Film Festival, and the upcoming ceremony honoring William Holden, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.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 575.3: Ed welcomes actor, impressionist, voice artist, and improv comic Jim Meskimen. The current voice of Colonel Sanders for KFC, Jim has also produced a popular series of parody videos in which Colonel Sanders approaches celebrities like Bing Crosby, John Lennon, and Humphrey Bogart about endorsing Kentucky Fried Chicken. Topics this segment include the degree of physicality that is often involved when creating voice characters, as well as how long it takes for Jim to practice a voice before he feels ready to perform it. You can follow Jim Meskimen on Instagram, TikTok, and the Jim Meskimen channel on YouTube. 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 575.4: Actor and voice artist Jim Meskimen talks to Ed about the collaborative approach that Oscar-winning director Ron Howard take to working with actors on his films; his mother, Marion Ross, and the role that Jim, his wife, and his sister all played in the success of Marion’s memoir, My Days: Happy and Otherwise; and Jim’s upcoming roles in the Starz network limited series Gaslit, the new season of the Amazon Prime limited series Hunter, and the forthcoming Apple TV series The Big Door Prize. Gaslit premieres Sunday, Apr. 24 on Starz. You can follow Jim Meskimen on Instagram, TikTok, and the Jim Meskimen channel on YouTube. 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 575.5: Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Stefanie Powers, the actress known around the world as The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and Jennifer Hart on Hart to Hart, and the founder and president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, a nonprofit organization that Stefanie established in 1982 in memory of her long-time life partner that continues and furthers Holden’s conservation work in East Africa. Stefanie gives us a glimpse into the William Holden she knew during the nine years they spent together (including the many ways in which Holden fueled Stefanie’s lifelong passion for travel, adventure, animal preservation and protection, and life itself), while also debunking some of the myths about the Academy Award-winning actor. Our friends at the Gold Coast International Film Festival will honor William Holden in early May as the next recipient of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, an award that honors legendary actors and actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Stefanie Powers will accept the award that night on Holden’s behalf in a ceremony that will take place in Great Neck, New York. For reservations and more information, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.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 575.6: Stefanie Powers (Hart to Hart, One from the Hart) talks to Ed about the significance of William Holden being named the next recipient of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, and the tireless efforts of the award’s namesake, Budd Burton Moss, to preserve the legacy of the stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Stefanie Powers will accept the award on Holden’s behalf in a ceremony that will take place in early May as part of the Gold Coast International Film Festival in Great Neck, New York. For reservations and more information, call (516) 829-2570 or visit GoldCoastArts.org. For more information on the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, visit WHWF.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