TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
Summary: TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television brings you lively conversations every week with the stars, writers, directors and other creative people behind the scenes of some of America's most popular shows. An engaging blend of talk and entertainment, TV Confidential often compares today’s programs with those of the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.
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TVC 507.2: From September 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at how network and cable TV news covered the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. 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 507.3: From September 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember how the events of 9/11 put a hold on the world of late night comedy. 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 507.4: A return visit by Emmy Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated writer, producer, singer, and author Geoffrey Mark (Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald, Ethel Merman: The Biggest Star on Broadway, The Lucy Book). In this segment Geoff shares a few memories of his friendship with actor and voice artist Jack Riley (The Bob Newhart Show, Rugrats). 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 507.5: Author and showbiz raconteur Geoffrey Mark (Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald, Ethel Merman: The Biggest Star on Broadway, The Lucy Book) shares a few memories of his friendships with TV icons Pat Harrington, Rip Taylor, Tom Poston, and Suzanne Pleshette. 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 507.6: Film and TV biographer Paul Green (A History of Television’s The Virginian: 1962-1971) talks to Ed about some of the other notable film and TV roles of actor James Drury, including Love Me Tender, Ride the High Country, and the Perry Mason episode “The Case of the Missing Melody.” James Drury passed away on April 6, 2020 at the age of 85. 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: Jon Winokur, co-author of The Garner Files, the memoirs of James Garner, talks to Ed about how Garner approached his craft as an actor and particularly how Garner never accepted a part unless he had a complete understanding of the character he played. 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: Jon Winokur, co-author of The Garner Files, the memoirs of James Garner, talks to Ed about how Garner's breach-of-contract lawsuit against Warner Bros. in 1960 helped lead to the end of the studio system in Hollywood. 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 2013: Ed welcomes Mark Pendergrast, author of For God, Country & Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It, an epic-length history of how the refreshment beverage that began as a medicinal product in 1886 not only evolved into the dominant consumer product in the United States, but, in many respects, came to be identified with America itself. 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 2013: Ed welcomes Mark Pendergrast, author of For God, Country & Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It. Topics this segment include the origins of such famous TV campaigns as “The Hilltop Ad” and “Thanks, Mean Joe” (as well as the differences in how Coke and Pepsi advertise their products), plus business lessons from Coca-Cola that any company can use. 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 2011: Phil Gries plays audio highlights from the last two seasons of the CBS News interview series Person to Person, including clips from a July 1960 interview with Gene Autry, a December 1960 interview with Spike Jones, and a June 1961 interview with Carol Burnett 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 2013: Ed welcomes Tim Hollis, author of Part of a Complete Breakfast: Cereal Characters of the Baby Boom Era, a fun book that reveals the origins and appeal of the popular TV commercials from the’50s, ’60s and early 1970s featuring Cap’n Crunch, Sugar Crisp, Lucky Charms, Froot Loops, Fruity Pebbles, Quisp and Quake, the Trix Rabbit, the Cheerios Kid, Count Chocula, Franken Berry and numerous other mascots from popular breakfast cereals made by Kellogg’s, Post, Quaker, Ralston-Purina and other manufacturers. 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 2013: Ed welcomes Tim Hollis, author of Part of a Complete Breakfast: Cereal Characters of the Baby Boom Era. Topics this segment include the national competition between Quisp and Quake cereals; the 1976 ad campaign in which viewers finally let the Trix Rabbit eat some Trix; and how the efforts of the activist group ACT led to the demise of many cereal TV characters. 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 2013: Tim Hollis, author of Part of a Complete Breakfast: Cereal Characters of the Baby Boom Era, talks about Baron Von Redberry, Sir Grapefellow and other cartoon cereal characters that never quite caught on with the public. 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 August 2017: Ed, Tony and Donna welcome Nichelle Nichols, the actress known around the world as Lieutenant Uhura on the original Star Trek and the first six Star Trek movies. Topics this segment include Nichelle's roots in her hometown of Chicago, Illinois. 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 2011: Actor, author, screenwriter and director Walter Koenig (Star Trek, Babylon 5) talks to Ed about writing his comic books Raven and Things to Come, and particularly how he collaborates with Raven artist Henry Martinez and Things to Come artist Juan Carlos Baez in those respective projects. 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
