TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 538.2: Ed welcomes acclaimed singer/songwriter Severin Browne, the first white folk/country-type singer signed by Motown Records, and a popular guest at many singer-songwriter festivals and shows. Severin’s new CD, Overdue, is available wherever CDs are sold.  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 538.3: Ed welcomes TV historian and New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Armstrong. Jennifer’s latest book, When Women Invented Television, traces the history of the first decade of network television through the lives and accomplishments of four women: Irna Phillips, the originator of many of the first radio and TV soap operas; Gertrude Berg, star and creator of The Goldbergs, and the first woman to write and produce her own prime time series (not to mention brand herself); jazz pianist Hazel Scott, the first African American to host her own national prime time variety series (five years before Nat King Cole); and Betty White, who, long before The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls, hosted one of the very first experimental television shows in Los Angeles before becoming one of the first stars, and first Emmy winners, of daytime 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 538.4: New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Armstrong talks to Ed about the early television career of Betty White, including how, in many ways, White lived the life of Mary Richards long before The Mary Tyler Moore Show came into existence. Jennifer’s latest book, When Women Invented Television, traces the history of the first decade of network television through the lives and accomplishments of Irna Phillips, Gertrude Berg, Hazel Scott and Betty White—and shows how all four found themselves marginalized as television became more popular, and more lucrative, amidst the changing culture of the 1950s.  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 538.5: Jennifer Armstrong, author of When Women Invented Television, talks to Ed about how the Blacklist spelled the end for both The Goldbergs and The Hazel Scott Show; how Scott’s carefully managed persona paved the way for such other sophisticated African-American women as Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, the Claire Huxtable character on The Cosby Show, and Diahann Carroll’s character on Julia; and the spiritual connection between Betty White and television. When Women Invented Television, shows how Scott, White, Irna Phillips, and Gertrude Berg all paved the way for many of the forms of TV programming that we take for granted today—and how all four found themselves marginalized as television became more popular, and more lucrative, amidst the changing culture of the 1950s. Jennifer Armstrong joins us in our second hour. 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 538.6: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the lasting appeal of Leave It to Beaver. Ken Osmond, the actor who played Eddie Haskell on Leave It to Beaver, passed away one year ago during 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

From May 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember "Dancing Romeo," the final film in the Our Gang series of comedy shorts, which was released on Apr. 29, 1944. 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 September 2010: Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Aviva Kempner (Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg) joins Ed for a discussion on the life and career of television pioneer Gertrude Berg (The Goldbergs). 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 September 2010: Part 2 of our conversation with Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Aviva Kempner. Aviva's documentary Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg brings to light what a dynamic force Gertrude Berg was, while also putting a human face on the tragic circumstances that have overshadowed the history of The Goldbergs (including, most notably, the suicide of Berg's co-star Philip Loeb after he had been blacklisted during the "Red Scare" of the early 1950s) and the legacy of Berg herself. 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 March 2018: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the premiere of Dick Cavett's first network TV talk show on Mar. 4, 1968 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

From March 2018: An encore presentation of our March 2018 conversation with Grammy Award-nominated singer, author, comedian, radio host, and show business raconteur Geoffrey Mark. Geoff is the host of Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella, a new hour-long radio program featuring the music of the First Lady of Song, while his book Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald: Centennial Birthday Edition is a comprehensive biography, discography, and videography of the iconic songstress whose rags to riches story embodied the American Dream. This week, we’ll talk to Geoff about Ella’s remarkable range as a singer (including her ability to sing virtually any song, from any era, and still make it her own), as well as her numerous appearances on television all over the world (including her famous Memorex commercials. Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald: Centennial Edition is available in hardcover 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

From March 2018: Geoffrey Mark, host of Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella and author of Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald, talks to Ed about the kindred spirit that Ella shared with screen legend Marilyn Monroe. Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald: Centennial Edition is available in hardcover 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

From March 2018: An encore presentation of our March 2018 conversation with acclaimed actor, director, and screenwriter Lou Antonio. Lou’s memoir, Cool Hand Lou: My Fifty Years in Hollywood and on Broadway, not only provides a window into the ups and downs of an artist’s life, but shares many great stories of his work alongside some of the biggest names in stage, film and television. Topics this segment includes Lou’s experience acting with and directing David Janssen, James Arness, Elia Kazan, Wayne Rogers, Lee Remick, and Jaclyn Smith. Cool Hand Lou is available in softcover and as an eBook through McFarland Books. You can also order it by calling (800) 253-2187. If you’d like an autographed edition of Cool Hand Lou from Lou Antonio himself, you can contact Lou Antonio through his website, LouAntonio.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

From March 2018: Actor/director Lou Antonio talks to Ed about working with James Garner, Quinn Martin, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Elizabeth Taylor, and Patti LuPone, as well as the role he played in discovering such talents as Henry Thomas and Renée Zellweger. Lou’s memoir, Cool Hand Lou: My Fifty Years in Hollywood and on Broadway, is available in softcover and as an eBook through McFarland Books. If you’d like an autographed edition of Cool Hand Lou from Lou Antonio himself, you can contact Lou Antonio through his website, LouAntonio.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

From March 2018: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Warner Archive DVD release of The Roman Holidays (NBC, 1972-1973), a Hanna-Barbera animated series that is more or less a variation of The Flintstones, only set in ancient Rome. 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 March 2018: Greg and Ed discuss the Warner Entertainment DVD release of Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle (CBS, 1976-1978), the animated series produced by Filmation Associates that is also a surprisingly faithful adaptation of the classic character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. 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