TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 479.2: Ian Nathan, author of Quentin Tarantino: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work, talks to Ed about the lengths that Tarantino took to recreate footage of the episode of The FBI that appears in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; how the film, in many respects, pays homage to the many working actors who appeared in the TV shows that Tarantino devoured as a youth; the role that Tarantino played in reviving the film careers of John Travolta, Pam Grier, and Robert Forster; and why Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Jackie Brown can be considered companion movies. Quentin Tarantino: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work not only explores the whole of Tarantino’s career, but has a visually arresting design that mimics the director’s singular approach to filmmaking. 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 479.4: An encore presentation of our February 2015 conversation with Ida Lupino biographer Mary Anderson that includes audio highlights from a 1991 interview between Lupino and author A.M. Sperber that was among the last formal interviews that Lupino gave before her death in 1995. Mary’s books include Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera and The Making of The Hitch-Hiker: Illustrated. 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 479.3: TV Confidential brings you special remote coverage of the recent unveiling ceremony for the new lobby exhibit at the Hollywood Museum honoring the 40th anniversary of Knots Landing. The event included remarks by each of the three leading ladies of Knots Landing—Michele Lee, Joan Van Ark, and Donna Mills—plus Museum president Donelle Dadigan. Now open to the public through Wednesday, Apr. 1, the Knots Landing exhibit includes costumes worn by Lee, Van Ark, and Mills on the beloved CBS prime time soap. 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 479.5: Ida Lupino biographer Mary Anderson plays more highlights from a 1991 interview between Lupino and author A.M. Sperber. Topics this segment include The Hitch-Hiker, the iconic film noir thriller directed by Lupino that starred Edmund O’Brien and William Tallman, and Lupino’s experiences working with Humphrey Bogart and director Raoul Walsh on High Sierra. Mary’s books include Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera and The Making of The Hitch-Hiker: Illustrated. 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 479.6: Ida Lupino biographer Mary Anderson discusses “I Will Be Remembered,” the 1977 episode of Charlie’s Angels that marked Lupino’s final onscreen acting appearance. Mary’s books include Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera and The Making of The Hitch-Hiker: Illustrated. 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 2013:Ed talks to Chris Robinson, the actor/director also known as Dr. Rick Webber on General Hospital, Jack Hamilton on The Bold and the Beautiful, and Sgt. Sandy Komansky on Twelve O’Clock High. The complete interview with Chris is available online for listening on demand at Shop.TVConfidential.net. 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 478.1: Ed welcomes film and TV actor Massi Furlan, the “go-to” guy for European crime roles over the past decade. Currently seen as Switchblade in Jumanji: The Next Level and the villainous Lee Taglin in Bad Boys for Life, Massi is a renaissance man off-camera, with a background that includes stand-up comedy. Both Bad Boys for Life and Jumanji: The Next Level are playing in theaters everywhere. 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 478.2: Ed welcomes Golden Globe Award-winning and three-time Oscar nominee Dyan Cannon (Heaven Can Wait, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Honeysuckle Rose, The Last of Sheila). Topics include playing Judge “Whipper” Cone on Ally McBeal, working with Crystal Hunt on the Pure Flix comedy series Mood Swings, and Dyan’s background in music, which includes adapting her best-selling memoir, Dear Cary, as a musical. Dyan Cannon and Richard Benjamin appeared at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday, January 26 following a special screening of The Last of Sheila (1973), the clever murder mystery also starring James Mason, James Coburn, and Raquel Welch that has also been cited as the inspiration for the contemporary whodunit Knives Out.  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 478.3: Movie and TV actor Massi Furlan (Jumanji: The Next Level, Bad Boys for Life) discusses some of his notable non-villain roles, including playing a priest on Supernatural. Other topics include the upcoming production Experiment 77. Both Bad Boys for Life and Jumanji: The Next Level are both playing in theaters everywhere.  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 478.4: Ed welcomes Golden Globe Award-winning actor and director Richard Benjamin (The Sunshine Boys, The Last of Sheila, He and She, Quark, Catch-22, Goodbye, Columbus, Diary of a Mad Housewife, Westworld, Portnoy’s Complaint). Topics include Richard’s many collaborations with the likes of Buck Henry, Neil Simon, and Carl Reiner, and how Anthony Perkins and Steven Sondheim infused the screenplay of The Last of Sheila with their personal love of games. Richard Benjamin and Dyan Cannon appeared at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday, January 26 following a special screening of The Last of Sheila (1973), the clever murder mystery also starring James Mason, James Coburn, and Raquel Welch that has also been cited as the inspiration for the contemporary whodunit Knives Out.  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 478.5: Golden Globe Award-winning actor/director Richard Benjamin discusses some of the films that he has helmed (including My Favorite Year, The Money Pit, and Mermaids); why he takes his “director’s hat” off whenever he acts in a film; and the word of advice that Carl Reiner gave him when it came to casting My Favorite Year.  Richard Benjamin and Dyan Cannon appeared at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday, January 26 following a special screening of The Last of Sheila (1973), the clever murder mystery also starring James Mason, James Coburn, and Raquel Welch that has also been cited as the inspiration for the contemporary whodunit Knives Out. 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 478.6: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember Khan! (CBS, 1975), the short-lived yet controversial series starring Khigh Dheigh as a contemporary private eye who is reminiscent of Charlie Chan. Khan! premiered Feb. 7, 1975 as part of This Week in TV History. Though it only aired for four weeks, Khan! sparked many protests among the Asian-American community, to the point where some CBS affiliates refused to air the show in their cities.  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 477.1: This Week in TV History: Tony, Donna, and Ed look at the legacy of The Simpsons on television and on pop culture in general. The first regular episode of The Simpsons originally aired on Jan. 14, 1990.  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 477.2: Greg Ehrbar on the Blu-ray release of Space: 1999 (ITC, 1975-1977), the sci-fi series starring Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Barry Morse, and produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, that, in many respects, served as the gateway between the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1969 and the release of the original Star Wars in 1977. 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 477.3: Greg and Ed discuss the many differences in style and tone between the second season of Space: 1999 and the first season, including a new producer, Fred Freiberger, and the reason why Barry Morse did not return to the show. Both seasons of Space: 1999 are now available on Blu-ray through Shout! Factory. Destination: Moonbase Alpha by Robert Wood is available through Amazon.  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