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TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

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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15:54

The Back Story of A Black and White Night

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/05/04

TVC 491.8: From December 2013: Part 2 of our conversation with John Kruth, author of Rhapsody in Black: The Life and Music of Roy Orbison. Topics this segment include some of Orbison’s notable appearances on television, including Roy Orbison: A Black and White Night, the award-winning special produced by Cinemax that is still considered one of the best concert films ever made. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship

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7:18

How the TelePrompTer Changed the Face of News,...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/05/02

From May 2011: Donna, Tony, and Ed remember the passing of Hubert Schafly, the engineer who invented the TelePrompTer in 1950. Schafly's device not only enabled actors and politicians to read scripts on TV without looking down, but shaped the content and presentation of TV newscasts on local, network, cable, satellite, and digital television all over the world. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the

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21:13

Happy Birthday to Ann-Margret

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/29

From April 2011: Phil Gries says Happy Birthday to Ann-Margret by playing highlights from "Today," an NBC special hosted by Andy Williams that also marked one of the singer/actress' very first network TV appearances. Originally broadcast in May 1962, "Today" was also one of several Williams specials for the Peacock Network that eventually led to his popular NBC variety hour. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship

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17:59

Why CBS was nervous about airing My Name is Barbra

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/28

From April 2015: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of My Name is Barbra, an hour of music starring Barbra Streisand, and the first in a series of specials that the Broadway star and future Oscar winner filmed for CBS in the late 1960s. Though it went on to win two Emmys and a Peabody Award, CBS was nervous about My Name is Barbra before it aired. Rather than rely on variety show conventions (such as having guest stars), Streisand chose to perform every musical

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22:25

Alison Arngrim Brings Little House to You

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/28

TVC 490.4: Ed welcomes back Alison Arngrim, the actress known around the world as Nellie Oleson on Little House on the Prairie. With everyone sheltered at home these days, Alison began reading the original Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder aloud to her fans and followers around the world and posting them every day, for free, on her Facebook page. Alison’s daily readings have not only exploded in popularity, but have inspired fellow Little House cast members Dean Butler and Charlotte Stewart

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8:59

Live from New York: It's the Empire State Building

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/28

From April 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed go back to Apr. 19, 1938, when NBC launched experimental television broadcasts from the Empire State Building. 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

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16:57

Confessions of a Prairie Terror

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/28

TVC 490.5: Alison Arngrim (Little House on the Prairie) tells Ed about the upcoming live digital version of her acclaimed one-woman show, Confessions of a Prairie Terror, on Saturday, May 9 and again on May 16. For more details, go to SpinCycleNYC.com. Alison’s memoir, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, is available wherever books are sold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our

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31:23

John Barbour Channels Mark Russell and Tom Lehrer

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/28

TVC 490.6: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with John Barbour, the five-time Emmy Award-winning talk show host, comedian, critic at large, and documentary film maker who is also the creator, producer, principal writer, and one of the original co-hosts of Real People (NBC, 1979-1984). In this segment, John shares a few thoughts about isolation during this extraordinary time, including a whimsical, Tom Lehrer-like song set to the tune of “Mack the Knife.” John’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not

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23:23

John Barbour, Pat Morita, and the Hungry i

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/28

TVC 490.7: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, comedian and talk show host John Barbour (Real People) shares a few more stories about his days at a nightclub comedian in the 1960s, including finding his own piece of ground as a comic and helping a young Pat Morita do the same. John’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout Who Changed the Face of American TV, is available wherever books are sold online, while select videos of John reading

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21:16

John Barbour and Harlan Ellison

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/28

TVC 490.8: Emmy Award-winning talk show host, comedian, critic at large, and documentary film maker John Barbour (Real People) tells Ed the story of his unlikely friendship with screenwriter Harlan Ellison. John’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout Who Changed the Face of American TV, is available wherever books are sold online. John Barbour’s film The American Media and the Second Assassination of John F. Kennedy is available at Amazon.com for $1.99

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9:37

Daffy Duck's Screen Debut

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/25

From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the screen debut of Warner Bros. character Daffy Duck in Porky's Duck Hunt (1937), which was originally released on Apr. 17, 1937. 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

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15:42

The Birth of The Blues Brothers

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/24

From April 2018: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the world premiere of The Blues Brothers on the Apr. 22, 1978 edition of Saturday Night Live. Topics include the sheer level of talent that Dan Ackroyd put together in creating the band. 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

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17:05

Green Acres: The American Equivalent of Monty Python

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/22

In light of the passing earlier this week of Tom Lester, the actor known around the world as Eb on Green Acres, we you bring this minisode edition in which Greg and Ed discuss the broadcast history of Green Acres (CBS, 1965-1971). In many respects, Green Acres was the closest thing American television came to capturing the genius and absurdity of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship

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14:05

When Barbara Walters Joined ABC News

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/20

TVC 489.1: From April 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember Apr. 22, 1976, when Barbara Walters signed a $5 million contract to join Harry Reasoner as co-anchor of The ABC Evening News. The deal made Walters not only the highest paid TV journalist at the time, but the first female to headline a network news broadcast. Barbara Walters passed away Friday, Dec. 30 at age ninety-three. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship

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11:11

The Dawn of Breaking News

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/20

TVC 489.2: From April 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed go back to Apr. 24, 1936, when television cameras in Camden, New Jersey filmed a group of firemen responding to an alarm. This not only marked the first time an unplanned event was broadcast on television, but paved the way for what we now know as "breaking news" or live TV news coverage. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our

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24:27

Anson Williams on directing himself for the first...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/20

TVC 489.3: Ed, Tony, and Donna welcome back actor, director, and entrepreneur Anson Williams. Anson directed and co-stars, along with fellow longtime Happy Days cast member Don Most, in Harvest Time, a dramatic short with dark humor that is also the pilot episode for a possible anthology series that would feature actors from movies and TV in roles that are completely different than the characters for which they are best known. You can watch Harvest Time for free at PopGoestheCulture.tv. Anson and

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15:54

How Don Most Helped Anson Williams in Harvest Time

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/20

TVC 489.4: Actor/director Anson Williams tells Ed, Tony, and Donna how fellow Happy Days alumnus Don Most made it easy for Anson for appear in front of the camera for the first time in years during production of Harvest Time. The pilot for a possible anthology series, Harvest Time can be seen for free at PopGoestheCulture.tv. Anson Williams, along with his business partner Joanna Connell, also recently partnered with entrepreneur Meggie Jones in her effort to provide needed items to our frontline

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26:11

John Barbour, Superman, and Real People

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/20

TVC 489.5: Five time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, comedian and talk show host John Barbour talks to Ed about his affinity for Superman and the role that played in ultimately getting Real People (NBC, 1979-1984) on NBC after John had originally developed the concept for ABC. John’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout Who Changed the Face of American TV, is available in softcover and as an eBook wherever books are sold online. Want to

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14:58

Why Real People Represents Reality TV at Its Best

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/20

TVC 489.6: John Barbour, creator, producer, principal writer and one of the original hosts of Real People (NBC, 1979-1984), talks to Ed about why Real People is the best form of realty television because it celebrates the “entertainment of reality.” John’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout Who Changed the Face of American TV, is available wherever books are sold online, while select videos of John reading chapters from Your Mother’s Not a Virgin are

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13:00

How Redd Foxx Mentored John Barbour

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2020/04/20

TVC 489.7: Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, comedian and talk show host John Barbour talks to Ed about the many ways in which Redd Foxx helped him during the years when John performed as a nightclub comedian. John’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin: The Bumpy Life and Times of the Canadian Dropout Who Changed the Face of American TV, is available wherever books are sold online. John Barbour’s film The American Media and the Second Assassination of John F. Kennedy is available at

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