TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 520.6: Actor Louis Gossett Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman, Roots, Enemy Mine, Watchmen) talks to Ed about his early comedic roles in movies and television; the particular challenges an actor faces when playing an actual person, such as Anwar Sadat or Satchel Paige; working with David Janssen and James Garner; and why it was never a good idea to play poker with Jack Elam. Lou plays Pastor Jim in The Reason, a faith-based film that becomes available on DVD and as a digital release on Tuesday, Dec. 15. He also plays the title character in The Cuban, and stars opposite Matthew Modine in Foster Boy. Both Foster Boy and The Cuban are available for viewing on demand right now on all 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

TVC 520.7: Film and TV actor James DuMont (Safety, The Righteous Gemstones, Spenser: Confidential, The Underground Railroad) talks to Ed about the various safety regulations now in effect on film and TV sets because of COVID-19, and the importance of building relationships with producers and directors. James plays Mike Ferro in Safety, a new drama from Disney+ that 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

From December 2018: Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss the lengths to which Rankin/Bass studied and replicated the dance moves of Fred Astaire during production of Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town and how Keenan Wynn, in some ways, channels his father, Ed Wynn, when performing "Put One Foot in Front of the Other."  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 519.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed pay tribute to Alex Trebek, the Emmy Award-winning game show host who presided over Jeopardy! for an astonishing thirty-six years, beginning in 1984 and continuing up until the time of his death. Alex Trebek passed away on Sunday, Nov. 8 at the age of eighty. 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 519.2: Steve Beverly, game show historian and the host of Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, talks to Ed about Alex Trebek’s career in television before and during Jeopardy! He also shares some memories of his various encounters with Trebek—including the time they worked together in 1985 on a promotion for WWAY-TV, the Jeopardy! affiliate in Wilmington, North Carolina. Steve’s tribute to Trebek is available for viewing on demand at 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 519.3: Our tribute to Alex Trebek continues with some thoughts from our friend Ruta Lee. One of the grande dames of Hollywood and the world of entertainment, Ruta Lee knew Alex Trebek for more than forty-five years—dating back to 1974, when they starred together on the NBC game show High Rollers—and remained dear friends up until the very end. One of the last things Trebek did was write the foreword to Ruta’s soon-to-be-published memoir, Consider Your Ass Kissed. 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 519.4: Ruta Lee shares a few more insights into her friend Alex Trebek, including his passion for do-it-yourself projects and building things. Alex Trebek wrote the foreword to Ruta’s soon-to-be-published memoir, Consider Your Ass Kissed. 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 519.5: Steve Beverly, game show historian and the host of Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, talks to Ed about the moment when Alex Trebek first came into his own as host of Jeopardy! as a result of the then-record cash winnings run of contestant Chuck Forrest during the 1985-1986 season. Trebek’s second year as host of the show. Steve’s tribute to Trebek is available for viewing on demand at 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

From December 2010: Ed welcomes television producer and New York Times bestselling author Keith Elliot Greenberg. Keith's book December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon Died not only provides a minute-by-minute, almost documentary-like look at the last day of John Lennon’s life, but is also a moving account of Lennon’s life as a whole, his career with The Beatles, his relationship with Yoko Ono, and his impact on the world in general. In this segment Keith discusses why Lennon particularly felt at home in New York, and how his book attempts to recreate the atmosphere of the City at the time Lennon lived there. 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 December 2010: Ed welcomes Keith Elliot Greenberg, author of December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon, a minute-by-minute, almost documentary-like look at the last day of John Lennon’s life. In this segment Keith and Ed discuss the relationship between John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and how both were immediately attracted to each other because they both had the soul of an artist.  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 December 2010: Wesley Hyatt, author of Kicking Off the Week, a history of the first thirty-years of ABC's Monday Night Football, discusses the historic cut-in on Dec. 8, 1980, when Howard Cosell informed viewers of Monday Night Football of the death of John Lennon. 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 519.7: Actor and animal care and nutrition advocate Burt Ward talks to Ed about how his nonprofit organization, Gentle Giants, expanded from dog food to cat food; shares some tips on the proper care and feeding of your animal; and previews the exciting, new virtual fan experience that he will be offering fans of Batman in 2021. Gentle Giants pet products are available in more than 1,100 Target stories throughout the U.S., as well as more than 2,400 Walmart stores throughout the U.S. and more than 400 Walmart stores. Gentle Giants Rescue is a nonprofit organization; all sales of Gentle Giants products go directly to the rescue. Burt and Tracy take no salary, nor make any money, from the sales of the dog food or cat food, or from the rescue. To learn more, go to GentleGiantsDogFood.com or GentleGiantsPetProducts.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 519.6: Ed welcomes Burt Ward, the actor known around the world as Robin on Batman (ABC, 1966-1968). While Robin and Batman saved Gotham City and the world from super villains every week, Burt—along with his wife Tracy—have been real-life super heroes to more than 15,000 dogs of all sizes and breeds since 1994 through their nonprofit animal rescue organization, Gentle Giants Rescue. Besides finding forever homes for many dogs, Burt and Tracy have become advocates for the caring of our four-legged friends, including how to feed your dog, and—just as important—what to feed your dog. Toward that end, Gentle Giants has a line of all-natural dog food (and, now, cat food) that will help maximize both the life span and quality of life of your animal. Dogs who eat Gentle Giants Dog Food and who follow the special Gentle Giants feeding and care program have enjoyed healthy, active life spans of up to twenty-seven years with a wonderful quality of life. In this segment, Burt tells us how he first became involved with rescuing dogs. Gentle Giants pet products are available in more than 1,100 Target stories throughout the U.S., as well as more than 2,400 Walmart stores throughout the U.S. and more than 400 Walmart stores. Gentle Giants Rescue is a nonprofit organization; all sales of Gentle Giants products go directly to the rescue. Burt and Tracy take no salary, nor make any money, from the sales of the dog food or cat food, or from the rescue. To learn more, go to GentleGiantsDogFood.com or GentleGiantsPetProducts.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 519.8: Steve Beverly, game show historian and host of Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, talks to Ed about the particular qualities that Jeopardy! producers look for when choosing contestants for the program, including skills in gamesmanship and communications. 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 2011: Phil Gries plays audio highlights from the Nov. 23, 1961 edition of Joe Franklin's Memory Lane in which songwriter Johnny Marks ("Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Holly Jolly Christmas") tells Joe why Gene Autry was originally reluctant to record "Rudolph," and who Marks originally wanted to record the song. This segment aired as part of a special edition of The Sounds of Lost Television that saluted the career of talk show pioneer Joe Franklin. 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