TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

From July 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the historic Live Aid concert on July 13, 1985 and how that event helped cement the MTV brand.  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 July 2015: Remembering Hugh Grant’s appearance on The Tonight Show on July 10, 1995 ("What the hell were you thinking?!?"), and how that impacted the network late night talk show wars between Jay Leno and David Letterman. 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

An encore presentation of our July 2014 conversation with Dwayne Epstein, author of Lee Marvin: Point Blank, an excellent biography of the Academy Award-winning actor. Topics this segment include how Marvin became a household name partly because of television (and, particularly, the nourish crime drama M Squad). 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 July 2014: Dwayne Epstein, author of Lee Marvin: Point Blank, talks to Ed about how watching a Lee Marvin performance on screen “was like throwing a glass at a wall,” and the many ways in which Marvin created the modern American cinema of violence. 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 July 2014: Dwayne Epstein, author of Lee Marvin: Point Blank, talks to Ed about the outcome of the controversial palimony lawsuit of 1979 involving Lee Marvin and Michelle Triola, as well as Marvin’s love/hate relationship with the medium of 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

An encore presentation of our December 2014 conversation with actor, producer, and director Stanley Livingston. Known around the world as Chip Douglas on My Three Sons (ABC/CBS, 1960-1972), Stan is also the founder and CEO of The Actors Journey Project, a teaching program for both aspiring actors and working actors that helps fill a crucial gap in an actor’s education. While many colleges, universities and acting academies teach the craft of acting, very few programs teach students about the business of acting—specifically, how to navigate the inner workings of the entertainment industry so that you can launch, advance and, most important, sustain a career in acting in the film and television industries. 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 2014: Actor, director, and producer Stanley Livingston talks to Ed about working with Ozzie Nelson and Jackie Cooper in the years before he was cast as Chip Douglas on My Three Sons, and how Nelson was particularly instrumental in the launch of Stan’s acting career. Stan is also the founder and CEO of The Actors Journey Project, a teaching program for both aspiring actors and working actors that helps fill a crucial gap in an actor’s education. The Actors Journey Project has two programs: The Actors Journey (for adult actors) and The Actors Journey for Kids (for parents of aspiring child actors). Both programs cover more than sixty topics and pool the wisdom of more than 100 entertainment industry professionals. 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 2104: Actor, director, and producer Stanley Livingston talks to Ed about the many parallels between working actors and working writers, as well as some of his other upcoming projects. Stan is also the founder and CEO of The Actors Journey Project, a teaching program that connects the dots of the business side of the acting industry for working actors, aspiring actors, and parents of aspiring child actors.  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: Broadcast legend Hugh Downs talks to Ed and Phil Gries about the events that first brought him to NBC; his appearances on The Jack Benny Program (including one that also featured Rock Hudson); working with Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, and Carl Reiner on the short-lived variety series Sid Caesar Invites You (ABC, 1958); and which interview, among the many that Hugh conducted throughout his career, that he is most proud of. This segment includes audio highlights of the Feb. 18, 1962 edition of The Jack Benny Program (featuring Hugh and Don Wilson) and the premiere broadcast of Sid Caesar Invites You. Hugh Downs passed away on July 1, 2020 at age 99. 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: Hugh Downs talks to Ed and Phil Gries about the day he conducted the NBC orchestra when it played his original composition "Sandwriting" on The Merv Griffin Show; why composers aren't always the best conductors of their own work; and the brief time when Hugh wore three different hats on NBC-TV at the same time: host of The Today Show, host of Concentration, and sidekick to Jack Paar on The Tonight Show. Also during this segment: Phil plays a clip from the Jan. 14, 1963 edition of the Griffin show on which Hugh conducted the performance of "Sandwriting." Hugh Downs passed away on July 1, 2020 at age 99. 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 and Phil Gries welcome broadcast legend Hugh Downs. In a career that spanned seven decades, Hugh left his mark on three of the most iconic shows in television history (The Tonight Show, The Today Show, and ABC’s 20/20). plus he hosted Over Easy and Live from Lincoln Center for PBS, the syndicated talk show Not for Women Only (with Barbara Walters), and the long-running NBC game show Concentration. Certified by The Guinness Books of World Records for logging more hours on network commercial television than anyone else, Hugh also hosted numerous other television broadcasts from both poles and just about every continent. In this segment, Phil and Ed talk to Hugh about his lifelong interest in music composition, including the thrill he felt when Yo Yo Ma performed Hugh's original composition for cello with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Hugh Downs passed away on July 1, 2020 at age 99. 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 2016: Award-winning writer Vince Waldron, author of The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book, joins Tony, Donna, and Ed for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Dick Van Dyke Show, the most acclaimed comedy series of TV's golden age. Vince’s book tells you everything you wanted to know about the iconic sitcom, as seen through the eyes of the cast and crew, including Carl Reiner, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews, and, of course, Dick Van Dyke himself. In this segment Vince talks about why Reiner and Sheldon Leonard cast Van Dyke because he embodied all three aspects of the Rob Petrie character: the introverted writer, the devoted husband and caring father, and the ability to break out and perform sketches when needed. Carl Reiner passed away June 29, 2020 at age 98. 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 2016: Television historian and Emmy Award-winning writer Vince Waldron joins Tony, Donna, and Ed for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Dick Van Dyke Show, the most acclaimed comedy series of TV's golden age. Vince’s book The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book, Deluxe Expanded Archive Edition tells you everything you wanted to know about the iconic sitcom, as seen through the eyes of the cast and crew, including Carl Reiner, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews, and, of course, Dick Van Dyke himself. Topics this segment include how Reiner originally developed the series, why the show’s ensemble cast is among the best ever assembled, and why the Van Dyke show particularly resonates with longtime residents of Chicago. Carl Reiner passed away June 29, 2020 at age 98. 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 2018: Ed, Greg Ehrbar and Greg's son, Colin, discuss the "Uncle Goopy" sketch featuring Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, and Howard Morris, the famous parody of This is Your Life from Your Show of Shows that continues to find new audiences today because it is timeless and funny. Carl Reiner passed away on Monday, June 29 at age 98. 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 2018: Greg Ehrbar talks to Ed about how the "Uncle Goopy" sketch from Your Show of Shows, featuring Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, and Howard Morris, continues to resonate with all kinds of audiences, including comedian Billy Crystal and even Greg's dog. Carl Reiner passed away on Monday, June 29 at age 98. 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