TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 622.4: Ed welcomes Simon Napier-Bell, former manager of Wham!, longtime record producer and songwriter, and the director of The Real George Michael: Portrait of an Artist, an excellent documentary that not only explores the many ups and downs of the illustrious Grammy Award winner, but takes a deep dive into who George really was: a kind and generous person who ultimately fought many demons while being front and center as one of the most famous musicians of his time. The Real George Michael is available now for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime, Tubi, Roku, Peacock, and many other platforms throughout the U.S. and Canada. 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 623.5: Simon Napier-Bell, former manager of Wham! and the director of The Real George Michael, talks to Ed about how George Michael, like many artists, had an up-and-down relationship with fame throughout his life and career. Also in this segment: Ed asks Simon what he looked for, and what George looked for, when determining whether a new song might become a hit record. The Real George Michael is available now for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime, Tubi, Roku, Peacock, and many other platforms throughout the U.S. and Canada. 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 622.6: Jazz and film historian Mark Cantor talks to Greg Ehrbar about how his book, The Soundies: A History and Catalog of Jukebox Film Shorts of the 1940s, was more than four decades in the making. The Soundies: A History and Catalog of Jukebox Film Shorts of the 1940s is available through McFarland Books and Amazon.com, while Soundies: The Ultimate Collection is available on Blu-ray through Kino Lorber. 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 621.1: Part 2 of a two-part conversation that began on our program last week with Grammy Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Fox. Charles is the subject of Killing Me Softly with His Songs, a forthcoming documentary that not only chronicles Charles’ life and career in music, but is really, at its heart, a celebration of music itself—and, particularly, the power of live music to connect people and bridge cultures. If all goes well, Killing Me Softly with His Songs will be released later in 2023; for updates and more information, go to KillingMeSoftlywithHisSongs.com or CharlesFoxMusic.com In this segment, Charles talks to Ed about the back stories of “Making Our Dreams Come True,” the theme to Laverne & Shirley (performed by Cyndi Grecco), “I’ve Got a Name,” the song that Charles and Norman Gimbel wrote for The Last American Hero (and which Jim Croce performed for the film, shortly before his tragic death in September 1973), and the theme to The Love Boat. 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 621.2: Ed welcomes back Georgiana “Noopy” Rodrigues, daughter of legendary singer, actress, and comedienne Rose Marie. This past Tuesday, Aug. 15 marked the 100th birthday of Rose Marie; to mark the occasion, Sepia Records, along with the Rose Marie estate, have just released Rose Marie Sings: The Complete Mercury Recordings and More, a collection of twenty-nine classic recordings and rarities that include some of Rose Marie’s favorite show tunes, standards, and novelty songs—all available on CD for the very first time. Among the tracks included in Rose Marie Sings is a performance of “Little Girl Blue” that Rose Marie gave on The Dean Martin Show in 1966, shortly after the death of her husband, Bobby Guy. In this segment, Noopy shares the story of how Dean Martin not only personally implored Rose Marie to appear on his variety show, but went out of his way to make her feel comfortable. 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 621.3: Georgiana “Noopy” Rodrigues, daughter of the one and only Rose Marie, talks to Ed about some of the dinner parties that her parents often threw (including a memorable one with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz around the time they made The Long, Long Trailer) and why family was always important to Rose Marie. Rose Marie Sings: The Complete Mercury Recordings and More includes twenty-nine of Rose Marie’s favorite show tunes, standards, and novelty songs—all available on CD 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 621.4: From December 2017: Ed welcomes back Peter Marshall, the master of The Hollywood Squares and the narrator of Wait For Your Laugh, the excellent documentary on the life and career of Rose Marie. 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 620.1: Gregory Orr, son of William T. Orr, the original head of television production at Warner Bros. Studios, and the grandson of Warner Bros. co-founder Jack L. Warner, talks to Ed about the many ways in which Warner Bros. in which Warner Bros. set the standards for production of hour-long episodic television during the early days of the medium. Calendar year 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of Warner Bros.; to mark the occasion, Greg has just released the director’s cut of his 1993 documentary Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul, an unvarnished look at one of the founding fathers of the American film industry. Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul is available now for streaming on demand on all major platforms and on DVD through outlets such as MovieZyng.com. Use promo JACK through the end of August and receive 10 percent off your purchase of the DVD through Movie Zyng. 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 620.5: Ed welcomes back Grammy Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Fox, the man behind "Killing Me Softly with His Song," "Ready to Take a Chance Again," "I Got a Name," and many other classic songs from the 1970s, and the composer of some of the most iconic theme songs in TV history, including Happy Days, Wonder Woman, and The Love Boat. Charles is the subject of Killing Me Softly with His Songs, a forthcoming documentary that not only chronicles Charles’ life and career in music, but is really, at its heart, a celebration of music itself—and, particularly, the power of live music to connect people and bridge cultures. Killing Me Softly with His Songs is scheduled for release later in 2023; for updates and more information, go to KillingMeSoftlywithHisSongs.com or CharlesFoxMusic.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 620.3: Gregory Orr, son of William T. Orr, the original head of television production at Warner Bros. Studios, and the grandson of Warner Bros. co-founder Jack L. Warner, talks to Ed about the some of the many film stars and television stars that Warner Bros. developed during the era of the studio system, and how Jack Warner took little interest in the development of his television division beyond seeing it as a source of revenue.   The director’s cut of Greg’s 1993 documentary Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul is available now for streaming on demand on all major platforms and on DVD through outlets such as MovieZyng.com. Use promo JACK through the end of August and receive 10 percent off your purchase of the DVD through Movie Zyng. 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 619:1: Ed welcomes filmmaker Gregory Orr, son of William T. Orr, the original head of television production at Warner Bros. Studios, and the grandson of Warner Bros. co-founder Jack L. Warner. Calendar year 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of Warner Bros.; to mark the occasion, Greg has just released the director’s cut of his 1993 documentary Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul, an unvarnished look at one of the founding fathers of the American film industry, all told through Warner Bros. film clips, personal home movies, exclusive interviews with such luminaries as Shirley Jones, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Pat Buttram, Sheila MacRae, and Debbie Reynolds, and more than forty minutes of new material—all in high definition. The release of the director’s cut marks the first time that the film has been shown in the United States in its entirety, as it was intended. Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul is available now for streaming on demand on all major platforms and on DVD through outlets such as MovieZyng.com. Use promo JACK through the end of August and receive 10 percent off your purchase of the DVD through Movie Zyng. 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 619.2: Ed welcomes back Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, comedian, and writer Fritz Coleman. Fritz’s new one-man show, Unassisted Living, is an hour of stand-up, recorded at the El Portal Theatre in Los Angeles, in which Fritz sounds off on COVID, the aging process, and other slice-of-life issues that we’ve all experienced lately, but cannot always control. Unassisted Living is available right now for streaming on demand on the Tubi channel. 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 619.3: Legendary broadcaster and comedian Fritz Coleman talks to Ed about working with Bob Hope; his recent interview with Jerry Mathers on Media Path, the podcast that Fritz co-hosts with Louise Palanker; and the events that led to Fritz’s first appearance on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show. Fritz’s new one-man show, Unassisted Living, is available now for streaming on demand on the Tubi channel. 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 619.4: Fritz Coleman talks to Ed about some of the other “single topic” monologues that he has written and performed, including It’s Me, Dad, a poignant hour that was produced as a special by KCET in Los Angeles—and which resulted in Fritz speaking with Marlon Brando after the show’s first broadcast. Fritz’s latest one-man show, Unassisted Living, is available now for streaming on demand on the Tubi channel. 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 618:1: Part 2 of our roundtable discussion with Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and novelist Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriter’s Companion) about obscure science fiction television series from the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. Joe’s new sci-fi novel, The First Cylinder, draws inspiration from Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, and War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, only it tells the story of the invasion of Mars from the perspective of the Martians. Tony Figueroa and Dan Farren are also with us. Topics this segment include why the concept of time travel is a popular theme in all forms of science fiction. 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