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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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16:01

Norman Lear and "The Draft Dodger"

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/12/05

Thursday, Dec. 5 marks the one-year anniversary of the death of television icon Norman Lear. TV Confidential marks the occasion by bringing you this "Blast from the Past" clip from July 2022 in which Ed, Tony, Donna, and writer, producer, and author Jay Moriarty (The Jeffersons, All in the Family, Honky in the House) discuss how “The Draft Dodger,” the controversial episode of All in the Family that originally aired on Christmas Night 1976, was just one example of Lear’s penchant for balancing

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08:02

A Blast from the Past: Barbara Feldon

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/12/04

We're taking a few days off this week, but we'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential next week. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past, featuring an excerpt from our January 2013 conversation with Barbara Feldon (Get Smart, Getting Smarter, Living Alone and Loving It).

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05:31

TV CONFIDENTIAL trailer

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/12/04

Television is one of the few things that we have in common. Just about all of us has a favorite show that we either grew up watching or binge-watch today, or a favorite star whose career we continue to follow. That’s the premise behind TV CONFIDENTIAL, an engaging blend of talk and entertainment featuring lively conversations with the stars and other creative people behind the scenes of some of America's most popular TV shows. Originating from Los Angeles, CA, and hosted by award-winning,

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04:41

A Blast from the Past: Norma Maldonado

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/12/03

We're taking a few days off this week, but we'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential next week. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past, featuring an excerpt from our December 2022 conversation with Norma Maldonado (Jane the Virgin, Sweet Navidad).

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10:09

A Blast from the Past: Julie Newmar

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/12/02

We're taking a few days off this week, but we'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential next week. In the meantime, please enjoy this Blast from the Past, featuring an excerpt from our September 2011 conversation with Julie Newmar (Batman, Li’l Abner, Silk Stockings, The Marriage-Go-Round, My Living Doll, The Conscious Catwoman Explains Life on Earth).

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07:26

A Blast from the Past: Charles Grodin

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/12/01

We're taking a few days off this week, but we'll be back with a brand new edition of TV Confidential next week. In the meantime, please enjoy this "Blast from the Past," featuring an excerpt from our December 2012 conversation with actor, author and CBS Radio commentator Charles Grodin (Rosemary’s Baby, Catch-22, Midnight Run, The Heartbreak Kid, Seems Like Old Times, Beethoven).

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27:52

The Evergreen Christmas Tree

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/11/25

TVC 668.1: Ed welcomes actress, producer, and comedienne Kat Kramer, author Jimmy Byrge, and actress and producer Patricia Riley. Jimmy is the author of The Evergreen Christmas Tree, a new children’s book, based on a true story, about a family in the mountains of Tennessee who, despite not having a lot of money, set off to find the perfect Christmas tree that represents love and standing up for what you believe in. Patricia is the creative editor of the book, while Kat wrote the foreword and

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19:43

Tribute to Ric Ocasek

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/11/25

TVC 668.2: From November 2019: 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.

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13:49

How “You Might Think” Impacted Music Videos, Movies,...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/11/25

TVC 668.3: From November 2019: Tony and Ed talk about how the award-winning video “You Might Think” by The Cars—the first music video to use computer graphics—went on to influence the production of movies and TV shows, as well as such other music video pioneers as Michael Nesmith.

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23:11

Rod Serling at 100

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/11/25

TVC 668.4: Ed welcomes back Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and author Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriters Companion: Instruction, Opinion, Encouragement). Calendar year 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling’s Night Gallery). To mark the occasion, Joe’s latest book, Rod Serling at 100, takes a deep dive into the legacy of the Emmy Award-winning writer/producer, with a particular focus on

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20:03

Why The Twilight Zone is Literature in Every Sense of...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/11/25

TVC 668.5: Joseph Dougherty, author of Rod Serling at 100, talks to Ed about how The Twilight Zone operates on an ethical and moral universe (for the most part); why The Twilight Zone is particularly appealing to anyone who loves language; and why Joe believes that most of the hour-long Twilight Zone episodes are better than most people remember. Rod Serling at 100 is available from Fayetteville Mafia Press.

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17:33

Why Rod Serling’s The Loner is a “work in progress”

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/11/25

TVC 668.6: Joseph Dougherty, author of Rod Serling at 100, talks to Ed about “Dust,” “Mr. Denton on Doomsday,” “Mr. Garrity and the Graves,” and other Western-themed episodes of The Twilight Zone, and how Rod Serling’s disenchantment with the television can be traced with the network interference he faced during the production of The Loner (CBS, 1965-1966), the existentialist Western starring Lloyd Bridges that, though set in post-Civil War America circa 1865, really served as Serling’s

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22:09

Happy Birthday, Ed Asner

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/11/18

TVC 667.1: From November 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed wish legendary actor Ed Asner a Happy Birthday as part of This Week in TV History. Ed Asner passed away on Aug. 29, 2021 at age ninety-one. Since this segment originally aired in 2014, TV Confidential had the opportunity to talk to Ed several times on our program; you can enjoy those conversations anytime on demand on the TV Confidential podcast, which is available for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you find podcasts.

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21:11

David Koenig, author of Unshot Columbo

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/11/18

TVC 667.2: Ed welcomes back Columbo historian David Koenig (Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective). David’s latest book, Unshot Columbo: Cracking the Cases That Never Got Filmed, takes a deep dive into nineteen Columbo mysteries that were written for either the original NBC series or the ABC revival, but, for one reason or another, never went into production. Topics this segment include the various attempts to bring back Sergeant Wilson, the character played by Bob

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14:11

Why Peter Falk was Uncomfortable with Female...

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/11/18

TVC 667.3: David Koenig, author of Unshot Columbo: Cracking the Cases That Never Got Filmed, talks to Ed about how “Old-Fashioned Murder,” the sixth-season episode featuring Joyce Van Patten as the murderer, was originally conceived as a modern-day Richard III that would have featured Burgess Meredith as the lead character, and why Peter Falk always wanted female murderers on the series to be seen as sympathetic characters. Both Shooting Columbo and Unshot Columbo are available through

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28:16

The Cathartic Effect of Hogan’s Heroes

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/11/18

TVC 667.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Robert Crane, eldest son of Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane, and the author of My UnHollywood Family, a fresh look at his relationship with his famous dad (mostly told from the perspective of his mother’s side of the family); the lifelong impact that his dad continues to have on him, his mom, and his siblings; and a story that will resonate with anyone who has survived a broken marriage, grown up in a dysfunctional household,

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23:38

Why “Closure” is a Newsroom Term

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/11/18

TVC 667.5: Robert Crane, eldest son of Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane, talks to Ed about how he learned a lot about interviewing people from talking to his stepfather, Charles Sloan; how his dad created a style of free-form radio that we can see today in the work of Howard Stern; and why Bob believes that the word “closure” is a newsroom term, borne out of the era of such entertainment programs such as Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight. Bob’s latest book, My UnHollywood Family, is

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18:12

The Columbo That Peter Falk Desperately Wanted to Make

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/11/18

TVC 666.6: David Koenig, author of Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective and Unshot Columbo: Cracking the Cases That Never Got Filmed, talks to Ed about “Fear No Murder,” an innovative mystery that Peter Falk not only wanted to film, but which would’ve served as the coda to the Columbo series, were it not for an impasse between Falk and ABC over casting that ultimately killed the project. Both Shooting Columbo and Unshot Columbo are available through

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23:48

A Backstage Look at SNL

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/11/11

TVC 666.1: From October 2014: Ed welcomes Doug Hill and Jeffrey Weingrad, co-authors of Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, everything you wanted to know about the first ten years of Saturday Night Live, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that began its fiftieth season on NBC in October 2024. Featuring more than 250 interviews, including many of the show’s original writers and

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19:04

The Chaos Behind the Scenes of SNL

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson ·

2024/11/11

TVC 666.2: From October 2014: Doug Hill and Jeffrey Weingrad, co-authors of Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, talk to Ed about the chaos behind the scenes of the premiere episode of Saturday Night Live on Oct. 11, 1975, and how it took about four episodes for the series to find its footing. Recently updated to commemorate the show’s fiftieth season on NBC, Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live was hailed by the Associated Press as “maybe the

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