TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 474.2: From 2013: Shelley Morrison (The Flying Nun, Will & Grace) and her husband, producer/director Walter Dominguez (Weaving the Past: Journey to Discovery) share memories with Ed about James Garner, David Janssen, and Joseph Campanella. 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 474.3: Ed plays Part 2 of Greg Ehrbar’s interview with singer, director, and teacher Roberta Levitow, co-founder of Theatre Without Borders. Roberta’s father, Abe Levitow, directed Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol (NBC, 1962); Roberta’s album, Lost in the Stars, features Roberta’s renditions of songs from Magoo and other animated musicals that her father directed. 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 474.4: Part 1 of a three-part conversation with Michael Bell, whose prolific career in film and TV animation has spanned more than four decades. Topics include how Michael’s career as a voice actor began somewhat accidentally, as well as his work on such shows as The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show and SuperFriends. 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 474.5: Ed welcomes Dr. Uli Chettipally, a recently retired emergency physician who is also president of the Innovator MD Global Summit, a two-day event coming up in San Francisco (Jan. 11-12, 2020) that will shed light on the work of physician innovators who are doing their part to effect change in healthcare. Topics this segment include how George Clooney’s performance as Dr. Doug Ross on ER partly inspired Dr. Chettipally to become an emergency physician. Doctors who attend IGS2020 will receive eight hours of Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit. To register for the summit, go to IGS2020.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 474.6: From 2009: Michael Davis, author of Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street, on why Oscar the Grouch is just as important a character on Sesame Street as Big Bird. Caroll Spinney, who played both Oscar and Big Bird, narrated the audiobook version of Street Gang. Spinney passed away Sunday 12/8 at age 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

The Best of TVC: Ed interviews with Tommy Hawkins, the Emmy Award-nominated broadcaster, renaissance man and former NBA star who passed away in 2017 at the age of 80. Tommy Hawkins enjoyed a 10-year career in the NBA for both the Minneapolis Lakers, the Los Angeles Lakers and the old Cincinnati Royals, playing alongside such Hall of Famers as Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor and Oscar Robertson. When his basketball career ended, he embarked on new challenges, first in radio and television (including co-hosting Mid-Morning Los Angeles with Stephanie Edwards and Meredith MacRae, as well as broadcasting for NBC Sports), then as a baseball executive for eighteen years with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Originally broadcast in February 2012. 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

The Best of TVC: Author, poet, and television pioneer Tommy Hawkins (Life’s Reflections: Poetry for the People) tells Ed the story about how Regis Philbin played a key role in one of Tommy's first breaks as a broadcaster. This segment originally aired in February 2012. 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 473.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed turn back the clock to Oct. 21, 1962, the night when Chubby Checker performed his No. 1 hit “The Twist” on The Ed Sullivan Show. 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 473.2: From 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed commemorate the birthday of singer/actress Annette Funicello, the quintessential Girl Next Door, America’s original Queen of Teen, and one of the most, if not the most, popular members of the Mickey Mouse Club. 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 473.3: Part 2 of our conversation with film and TV actor James DuMont (The Righteous Gemstones, Men of a Certain Age, Trumbo, Dallas Buyers Club, The Butler). James will soon be seen opposite Mark Wahlberg in Wonderland—the forthcoming Netflix feature, directed by Peter Berg, based on Robert B. Parker’s Wonderland—and the upcoming independent features Designed to Kill and The Banker. Topics include shooting Wonderland on location in Boston, and how Wahlberg’s Spenser compares that of Robert Urich in the Spenser: For Hire television series. Wonderland is scheduled for release in early 2020. 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 473.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Donna Mills (Knots Landing, General Hospital). Dec. 27, 2019 marks the fortieth anniversary of the premiere of Knots on CBS. Topics include the legacy of Knots (and how, in many ways, it was the original This is Us), plus a look at some of Donna’s other movie and TV roles, including Play Misty for Me. The FBI, and Dan August. Donna Mills currently stars, along with Lee Purcell, Geri Jewell, Donna Pescow, RJ Mitte, and Andrea F. Friedman, in Carol of the Bells, the award-winning holiday-themed drama produced and directed by Joey Travolta and his company, Inclusion Films. Carol of the Bells will be released soon for viewing on demand. Donna can also be seen in Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses (which airs throughout the holiday season on the Hallmark Channel), plus she is one of the cast members of Turnover, the award-winning comedy drama directed by Linda Palmer that becomes available on DVD in December. You can also see Donna in Mood Swings, a new comedy series from the streaming service Pure Flix. New episodes of Mood Swings premiere Thursdays on Pure Flix. In addition, she owns and operates—along with her partner, Larry Gilman—Mandeville Vineyards, the first, and only, producer of estate-grown and bottled Malbec in Los Angeles, including an award-winning 2016 Reserve Malbec/Cabernet Blend. 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 473.6: This Week in TV History: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the issues that led to the Writers Guild strike that commenced on Nov. 5, 2007. 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 473.5: From 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the life and career of film and TV producer Hal Roach, with a particular focus on the legacy of The Little Rascals. 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 473.7: Greg and Ed discuss the broadcast history of Steptoe and Son (BBC, 1962-1974), the British series that Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin adapted as Sanford and Son for NBC. Topics include how Steptoe was never intended to be a series, how it is much more poignant and dramatic than Sanford and Son, and how you can watch the series on DVD or streaming today. 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 472.1: Tony Figueroa remembers Ric Ocasek, the front man of The Cars, with a particular focus on the iconic video “You Might Think,” the first music video to use computer graphics. Ric Ocasek passed away on Sept. 15, 2019. 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