TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 488.5: From April 2019: Kirk Taylor, the actor who plays Simon Peter in Revival: The Experience, talks to Ed about how the film gave him a “second life” as a performer—and how Kirk’s own life story is truly a miracle in every sense of the word. A musical film based on the Gospel According to John, Revival! also features Harry Lennix, Chaka Khan, Michelle Williams, T’Keyah Crystal Keyman, Dawnn Lewis, and Grammy nominee Mali Music. Revival! is now available on DVD. 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

Today being April 7 (James Garner’s birthday), we’ll mark the occasion with this minisode edition featuring our April 2012 conversation with Jon Winokur. Jon is the co-author, along with James Garner, of The Garner Files, the story of Jim’s life and career in the motion picture industry. Among other topics, Jon and Ed talk about Jim’s passion for auto racing, including the lengths he took while working with John Frankenheimer during the filming of Grand Prix. 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 January 2011: We continue our celebration of James Garner's birthday with a replay of our conversation with "star car" researcher Jim Suva. Jim not only contributed to the "Crime Drama" segment of Pioneers of Television (PBS, 2011), but provided an authentic replica of Jim Rockford's famous Pontiac Firebird that was featured on the program.  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 488.6: From April 2019: Part 2 of our special Easter Weekend conversation with actor Kirk Taylor (Revival: The Experience). In this segment, Kirk talks about the movie’s original score by Mali Music (who also plays Jesus in Revival!), and how the story of Simon Peter particularly brings out the human side of Jesus. Revival is now available on DVD. 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 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the events that led CBS-TV to fire Tom and Dick Smothers on Apr. 4, 1969. 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 454.1: Emmy Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated writer, producer, performer, author, music and TV historian, and showbiz raconteur Geoffrey Mark joins Ed for a remembrance of singer, actress, and animal rights activist Doris Day. Geoff's new podcasts, Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella and Hitting the Mark with Geoffrey Mark, are both available wherever podcasts are found. 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 June 2019: Emmy Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated writer, producer, and performer Geoffrey Mark talks to Ed about why Calamity Jane was Doris Day's favorite film; how the actress always strove for excellence from everyone on the set; and why Day's range as an actress and confidence in herself were among her sexiest traits. Geoff knew Doris Day for the last thirty years of her life. Geoff's new podcasts, Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella and Hitting the Mark with Geoffrey Mark, are both available wherever podcasts are found. 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 2011: Stephen Bowie, publisher of The Classic TV History Blog, joins Ed for a conversation about East Side/West Side (CBS, 1963-1964), the short-lived but controversial series starring George C. Scott and Cicely Tyson. While East Side/West Side represented a milestone in the evolution of quality television, it also proved to be too dark, too controversial, too unglamorous, too depressing, and perhaps too good to attract a mainstream network audience at the time it originally aired. 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: Stephen Battaglio, author of David Susskind: A Televised Life, talks to Ed about how East Side/West Side (CBS, 1963-1964) was one of several network shows that were developed in direct response to then-FCC chairman Newton Minow's famous "vast wasteland" speech; why George C. Scott was amenable to doing the series, even though he was a major movie star at the time; and how the casting of Cicely Tyson as Scott's administrative assistant on East Side/West Side was both groundbreaking and controversial, given the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement. 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 532.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed celebrate the life and career of iconic actress Cicely Tyson, including her Emmy Award-winning performance in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (and how that movie itself was essentially a lesson in American history), as well as her work in Sounder, The Help, How to Get Away with Murder, East Side/West Side, Free to Be You and Me, and the night she hosted Saturday Night Live in 1979. 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 532.2: A return visit by award-winning actor, author, playwright, director, and painter Raymond J. Barry. Ray stars opposite Randy Nazarian and Shondrella Avery in Free Byrd, a new road comedy/buddy movie that not only has a lot of heart and a lot of laughs, but has a lot to say about what it means to live—and how it is never too late to reinvent yourself. Free Byrd becomes available for viewing on demand beginning Thursday, Apr. 1 on Amazon Prime and iTunes.  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 532.3: Raymond J. Barry talks to Ed about his early career as an actor, including the many acting workshops that Ray conducted for inmates in Sing-Sing Penitentiary, Attica, and Grasslands County Jail during the 1970s, as well as his moving performance as Tom Cruise’s father in Born on the Fourth of July. Ray’s new movie, Free Byrd, becomes available for viewing on demand beginning Thursday, Apr. 1 on Amazon Prime and iTunes. 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 532.4: Raymond J. Barry talks to Ed about the generosity of Oscar winner Robert Duvall (opposite whom Ray starred in Falling Down); why Ray enjoys the process of painting; and why some athletes can make the transition to acting, depending on their sport. Ray stars with Randy Nazarian and Shondrella Avery in Free Byrd, a new road comedy/buddy movie that becomes available for viewing on demand beginning Thursday, Apr. 1 on Amazon Prime and iTunes. 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 532.5: Ed welcomes George Chakiris, the Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning actor known around the world as Bernardo, the leader of The Sharks, in the iconic 1961 screen adaptation of West Side Story. George’s memoir, My West Side Story, not only is the story of his life and career on stage, screen, and television, but reveals, for the first time, the inside story of how West Side Story evolved from a conversation between Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, and Leonard Bernstein in Robbins’ Manhattan apartment in 1949 to becoming the cinematic and theatrical landmark that continues to dazzle audiences more than seventy years later. Topics this segment include some of the subtle differences between the stage version of West Side Story and the iconic motion picture, as well as George’s experience playing Riff in the London West End stage production of West Side Story before he was cast as Bernardo in the movie. 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 532.6: Academy Award winner George Chakiris talks to Ed about some of his early screen appearances as a dancer in such films as Gentleman Prefer Blondes, White Christmas, and There’s No Business Like Show Business; assisting Robert Alton with the choreography of Judy Garland’s first stage show in Las Vegas; and how George came to develop his interest in designing jewelry. George’s memoir, My West Side Story, is available in hardcover and as an eBook and includes a wonderful back cover quote from George’s co-star, dear friend, and fellow Oscar winner from West Side Story, Rita Moreno. 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