TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 529.5: Ed welcomes screenwriter and director Giorgio Serafini. Giorgio’s latest movie, Senior Moment, is a delightful romantic comedy starring William Shatner, Jean Smart, and Christopher Lloyd about a retired NASA pilot who must learn how to navigate life and love all over again when he finds himself stripped of his drivers license and unable to drive his beloved vintage Porsche. Senior Moment will have a limited theatrical release on Friday, March 26 then become available for viewing on demand on the major streaming 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

From February 2011: Ed welcomes Charles Tranberg, author of I Love The Illusion, a comprehensive biography of Emmy Award-winning actress Agnes Moorehead. Topics this segment include how Agnes inherited much of her theatricality from both her father, a charismatic Presbyterian minister, and her mother, a former singer whose flamboyant personality Chuck describes as "a mortal version of Endora." 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 February 2011: Ed welcomes Charles Tranberg, author of I Love The Illusion, a comprehensive biography of Emmy Award-winning actress Agnes Moorehead. Topics this segment include how Agnes came up with the name for Endora on Bewitched, how she approached playing the character, and why she was particularly close to Dick York when they worked together on the show.  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: Actor John O'Hurley (Seinfeld) talks to Ed about the appeal of appearing on Dancing with the Stars.  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 528.1: From March 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed pay tribute to George Kennedy, the Oscar-winning actor who passed away five years ago This Week in TV History. This segment originally aired on the occasion of Kennedy’s 90th 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 528.2: From September 2013: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In star Jo Anne Worley. Topics this segment include Jo Anne’s background with the renowned Chicago improv group Second City; her stage career (including playing both characters, on different occasions, in the female version of The Odd Couple); playing Mrs. Arthur, aka Nana Banana, in the Disney series Jessie; and her work as president of Actors and Others for Animals, one of the longest-standing animal welfare organizations in Los Angeles. 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 528.3: From September 2013: Jo Anne Worley shares a few memories about her years on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, including how the boa became her fashion trademark. Time-Life’s comprehensive DVD release Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In: The Complete Series is now available at retail for the very first time.  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 528.4: Greg and Ed celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Point, the first feature-length animated movie made for television, which premiered on the ABC Movie of the Week in February 1971. Written by Harry Nilsson, and featuring the voice of Mike Lookinland (The Brady Bunch) and original songs by Nilsson, The Point remains an iconic film, despite a somewhat convoluted broadcast and distribution history that includes five different narrators for its various releases. The Point is now available on Blu-ray through MVD Visual.  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 November 2010: Emmy Award-winning and Grammy Award-winning composer Charles Fox tells Ed the backstory of how the theme song for The Love Boat came together, and why a really good theme song is like an old friend who immediately puts us in the mood to watch our favorite show. Charles' memoir, Killing Me Softly: My Life in Music, not only discusses his collaborations with such artists as Roberta Flack, Paul Williams, Norman Gimbel, Barry Manilow, Jim Croce, Lena Horne and Fred Astaire, but also pays tribute to the teacher who continues to influence him, the great French composer and conductor Nadia Boulanger. 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 February 2016: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the early television career of Sandy Duncan, including her two TV series from the early 1970s (Funny Face, The Sandy Duncan Show), as well as her dramatic turn opposite Leslie Uggams in the original Roots. 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 February 2016: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the circumstances that led to Sandy Duncan replacing Valerie Harper as the star of Valerie (later renamed Valerie's Family, and then The Hogan Family). 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 527.1: Ed welcomes novelist, essayist, and TV historian Mitchell Hadley. Mitchell’s latest book, The Electronic Mirror: What Classic TV Tells US About Who We Were and Who We Are (and Everything in Between), is a series of essays that take a look at what classic television is, what it says about the culture that produced it, and why the shared experience of television that marked the lives of so many of us who came of age in a three-network TV universe is often lost on viewers today. Topics this segment include why shows Route 66 and The Fugitive provide a better window into the culture of the 1960s than modern-day shows such as Mad Men. 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 527.2: Novelist, essayist, and TV historian Mitchell Hadley talks to Ed about the eternal appeal of Perry Mason; the genius of Ernie Kovacs; and how prime time game shows such as What’s My Line? also serve as “inadvertent documentaries” about the culture of the early 1960s. Mitchell’s latest book, The Electronic Mirror: What Classic TV Tells US About Who We Were and Who We Are (and Everything in Between), traces the evolution of the various genres that populated the first three decades of television, while also showing why the shared experience of television that marked the lives of so many of us who came of age in a three-network TV universe is often lost on contemporary viewers. 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 527.3: Greg Ehrbar reviews The Flintstones: The Complete Series (Blu-ray). Topics this segment include how The Flintstones was the first prime time animated series with an air of sophistication; the origin of the “Meet the Flintstones” theme song; and a capsule history of Hanna-Barbera animation.  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 527.6: Greg and Ed discuss The Man Called Flintstone, the 1966 animated feature motion picture that is included as an extra feature in The Flintstones: The Complete Series Blu-ray release, now available from WarnerBrothers Home Entertainment. 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