TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 567.7: From the floor of the Hollywood Museum’s recent Celebrity Authors Forum: Actor and entrepreneur Anson Williams (Happy Days) talks to Ed about his memoir, Singing to a Bulldog; the benefits of Alert Drops; and The Perfect Portion Cookbook, a book that Anson co-authored that includes recipes for 150 comfort food favorites, all crafted in multiples of 100 calories. 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 566.1: Part 2 of our final conversation with Ron Bacon, the Emmy Award-winning associate director whose four-decade career in network TV production spanned more than 12,500 broadcasts and covered just about every type of programming available. Topics this segment include the live country western music program that Ron hosted every week on WMAN radio (Mansfield, Ohio) before he entered television, and the night that a young Wayne Newton performed on his show. Ron Bacon passed away Tuesday, Dec. 21 at age ninety-one. 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 566.7: Emmy Award-winning associate director Ron Bacon talks to Ed about some of the music legends that he met throughout his career, including Little Richard. Ron Bacon passed away Tuesday, Dec. 21 at age ninety-one. 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 566.3: Retired television journalist and sports announcer Steve Beverly joins Ed for a look back at the broadcast career of John Madden, the legendary Super Bowl-winning and NFL Hall of Fame coach of the Oakland Raiders who also enjoyed an extraordinarily successful career on television as an NFL game analyst and commentator, including seventeen Emmy Awards. John Madden passed away Tuesday, Dec. 28 at age eighty-five. Besides his extensive background as a TV news professional, Steve did play-by-play for men’s and women’s college basketball on television for twenty-five years, including thirteen years on a national level. 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 566.4: Steve Beverly and Ed continue their look at John Madden’s legacy as a sports broadcaster, including how Madden prepared for each NFL game telecast almost as if he were coaching; his on-air partnership with Pat Summerall; Madden’s career in radio, which began with San Francisco disc jockey Gene Nelson; and his masterful use of such technology as the telestrator. John Madden passed away Tuesday, Dec. 28 at age eighty-five. Also in this segment: A look at what’s on tap on Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, the weekly TCM-like look at classic television that Steve hosts every week on EPlusTV6.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 566.5: Ed welcomes Gabriel Jarret, the actor that many of you remember as the fourteen-year-old whiz in the 1985 teen comedy Real Genius. Gabe recently appeared in the true tornado survival motion picture 13 Minutes, plus he’ll soon be seen in the romantic comedy Ask Me to Dance (also starring Tom Malloy, Briana Evigan, Jesse Kove, and Joyce DeWitt). We discuss both films, as well as Gabe’s background in American Sign Language. 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 566.6: Actor Gabriel Jarret talks to Ed about his role in the upcoming limited series Bring on the Dancing Horses (starring Kate Bosworth); his early roles in television, including the short-lived sitcom Goodnight, Beantown (CBS, 1983); and working with such actor/directors as Ron Howard, Rob Reiner, and Tom Malloy. 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 566.7: Emmy Award-winning associate director Ron Bacon talks to Ed about some of the music legends that he met throughout his career, including Little Richard. Ron Bacon passed away Tuesday, Dec. 21 at age ninety-one. 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 565.1: TV Confidential celebrates the life and career of Betty White with a special program-length tribute to the legendary actress who was not only The First Lady of Television, but one of the very first television stars, period, having appeared on one of the very first experimental television broadcasts in 1939, then also hosting one of the first TV talk shows, Hollywood on Television, in 1949. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine, just a few days shy of what would have been her 100th birthday. 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 565.2: Ed, Tony, and Donna discuss Betty White’s versatility as an actress, including the iconic characters she played on The Golden Girls, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Hot in Cleveland. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine. 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 565.3: Game show historian Steve Beverly talks to Ed about Betty White’s long association with TV game shows, particularly the many classic games produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman (including, most notably, Password and the CBS Match Game). Steve interviewed Betty about a dozen times throughout his career as a TV journalist. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine. 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 565.4: Game show historian Steve Beverly talks to Ed about the Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host that Betty White won in 1983 for hosting the short-lived NBC game show Just Men; why she and Allen Ludden were the consummate couple; and Betty’s heartfelt tribute to Allen at the 2009 Game Show Congress in Hollywood. Steve Beverly interviewed Betty White about a dozen times throughout his career as a TV journalist. 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 565.5: A special Betty White-centric DVD report with Greg Ehrbar that covers White’s widespread appeal across all kinds of TV audiences, including her years hosting coverage of the Thanksgiving Day Parade and Tournament of Roses Parade; her voiceover career; and her guest appearance on the classic “Password” episode of The Odd Couple. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine. 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 565.5a: From October 2020: Emmy nominated costume designer Diana Eden talks to Ed about the two times that she worked with Betty White. Diana’s memoir, Diana’s memoir, Stars in Their Underwear: My Unpredictable Journey from Broadway Dancer to Costume Designer for Some of Hollywood’s Biggest Stars, is available in softcover and as an eBook. 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 565.6: Emmy Award-winning producer and showbiz raconteur Geoffrey Mark talks to Ed about Betty White’s professionalism and innate understanding about how television worked. Geoff interviewed Betty for his documentary on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine. 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