TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
1,550 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsTV 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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Episodes
Naomi Matsuda, Ginger Che, and Goddess Sisterhood
June 28, 2022 00:00 - 21 minutesTVC 582.5: Emmy nominated actress Naomi Matsuda (The Bold and the Beautiful) talks to Ed about how she joined the cast of Bold; the importance of creating a back story for whatever character she plays (including Li Finnegan on Bold); and the many ways in which she and her best friend and fellow “Goddess Sister,” fashion designer Ginger Che, try to empower other women by example. The Bold and the Beautiful airs weekdays on CBS. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered ...
Da'Jour Jones of Players
June 27, 2022 07:00 - 20 minutesTVC 582.6: Ed welcomes Da’Jour Jones, one of the stars of Players, the new comedic documentary-style series from Paramount+ about a team of eSports players who must put their egos aside and work together as they pursue their first league championship. Players is now available for streaming on demand. 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 wit...
Columbo and the City of Los Angeles
June 20, 2022 07:15 - 22 minutesTVC 581.1: Part 2 of our special roundtable discussion devoted to Columbo featuring Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, playwright, and author Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, Saving Grace, Chester Bailey), David Koenig, author of Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective, writer/producer Dan Farren (Story Salon), and Tony Figueroa of This Week in TV History. Topics this segment include how Southern California was very much a character ...
Oliver Nelson, Billy Goldenberg, and the Music of Columbo
June 20, 2022 07:05 - 22 minutesTVC 581.2: Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Joseph Dougherty, author David Koenig (Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective), Dan Farren, and Tony Figueroa discuss the important role that music played in the original Columbo (particularly the score that Oliver Nelson wrote for “The Greenhouse Jungle”); favorite moments of Columbo episodes; and the New York company that briefly produced a line of Columbo yogurt. Shooting Columbo is available in hardcover, as an eBook,...
Why Columbo is More Popular Than Ever
June 20, 2022 07:00 - 17 minutesTVC 581.3: Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Joseph Dougherty, author David Koenig (Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective), Dan Farren, and Tony Figueroa discuss the important role that the first clue plays in a given Columbo episode, and why Columbo has discovered new viewers of late, for reasons that go beyond the pandemic. Shooting Columbo is available in hardcover, as an eBook, and as an audiobook through Amazon.com. Joseph Dougherty’s new book, A Screenwriter’...
America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio
June 14, 2022 07:15 - 22 minutesTVC 580.1: Ed welcomes film historian Andrew Erish, author of Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio, a comprehensive history of The Vitagraph Company, the first major motion picture studio in the United States, yet a company that is virtually forgotten, despite establishing many of the norms of movie making as we know it today. Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio is available wherever books are sold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has...
Vitagraph Studios, "Pop" Rock, and Thomas Edison
June 14, 2022 07:05 - 20 minutesTVC 580.2: Film historian Andrew Erish, author of Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio, discusses the vital role that businessman William T. “Pop” Rock played in stabilizing the fortunes of The Vitagraph Company, as well as the studio’s often contentious relationship with inventor Thomas Edison. Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio is available wherever books are sold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to ...
Vitagraph Studios, Sonny Jim, and Moe Howard
June 14, 2022 07:00 - 14 minutesTVC 580.3: Film historian Andrew Erish, author of Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio, talks to Ed about how The Vitagraph Company not only made movies that appealed to every aspect of society, but was one of the first to make “socially responsible” films (such as An Easter Lily, an entry in the popular Sonny Jim comedy series that addressed racial prejudice). Other topics include how Moe Howard got his start by appearing in several Vitagraph movies before becoming a star w...
The Texture of Columbo
June 13, 2022 07:15 - 24 minutesTVC 580.4: A special roundtable discussion devoted to Columbo, including the original NBC series (1971-1978); Prescription: Murder, the play by Richard Levinson and William Link that begat Columbo (and which eventually led to the two Columbo pilots, Prescription: Murder and Ransom for a Dead Man); and how the ABC revival (1989-2003) holds up, compared to the original series. Joining us on the panel are Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, playwright, and author Joseph Dougherty (thi...
Jackson Gillis and the Mount Rushmore of Columbo Writers
June 13, 2022 07:05 - 22 minutesTVC 580.5: Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars), author David Koenig (Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective), writer/producer Dan Farren (Story Salon), and Tony Figueroa of This Week in TV History discuss the often unheralded contributions of mystery writer Jackson Gillis to Columbo; why the episodes shepherded by Richard Alan Simmons and Patrick McGoohan were more character-driven than mystery-driven; and why sh...
Columbo: The Inverted Barney Miller
June 13, 2022 07:00 - 21 minutesTVC 580.6: Our special roundtable discussion devoted to Columbo, featuring Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, Saving Grace, Chester Bailey), David Koenig, author of Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective, writer/producer Dan Farren (Story Salon), and Tony Figueroa of This Week in TV History continues. Joseph Dougherty’s latest book, A Screenwriter’s Companion, is available for pre-order through Fayetteville Mafia Press. Want to advertise/sponsor...
John Cerney, Michael Nesmith, and Giant Marfa
June 01, 2022 07:15 - 23 minutesTVC 579.1: A conversation recorded in February 2020 with John Cerney, a commercial artist who specializes in creating 16-foot-high, billboard-size cut-out art murals that dot the landscape of some twenty-eight states across the U.S. (and, particularly, the highways of California and the Midwest). John’s pieces include a portrait of James Dean that welcomes visitors to the SPCA in Monterey County, California; a mural of George Harrison in Benton, Illinois; a mural of Amelia Earhart in her home...
The Billboard-size Murals of John Cerney
June 01, 2022 07:05 - 11 minutesTVC 579.2: Commercial artist John Cerney talks to Ed about some of the logistics involved in putting together Giant Marfa and the various other 16-foot-high, billboard-size cut-out art murals that dot the landscape of some twenty-eight states across the U.S. The Giant Marfa mural includes a giant 1951 Ford Deluxe (the car that Rock Hudson drove in Giant), plus music by Michael Nesmith and the First National Band. To learn more about John’s work, visit JohnCerneyMurals.com. Want to advertise/s...
Broadside, Bewitched, and Dick Sargent
May 31, 2022 07:00 - 12 minutesTVC 579.2a: Greg Ehrbar discusses Broadside (ABC, 1964-1965), the short-lived spin-off of McHale’s Navy starring Kathleen Nolan, Dick Sargent, and Edward Andrews that is best remembered today as the show that prevented William Asher and Elizabeth Montgomery from casting Sargent as Darrin on Bewitched when that series began production in 1964. (Sargent, of course, later joined the cast of Bewitched in 1969 as the replacement for Dick York.) Select episodes of Broadside are available for screen...
George Stevens Jr., Sidney Poitier, and Tommy Lasorda
May 30, 2022 07:05 - 18 minutesTVC 579.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began with last week with George Stevens Jr., founder of the American Film Institute and the Kennedy Center Honors, and the son of Academy Award-winning filmmaker George Stevens (A Place in the Sun, Shane, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Giant). Topics this segment include a recap of the events that led to the creation of AFI, including the back story of the Life Achievement Award (the annual event that has honored such celebrate...
The Living Cartoons of Sid & Marty Krofft
May 26, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutesTVC 578.1: From November 2018: Iconic television producer Marty Krofft talks to Ed about how both The Banana Splits and the musical puppet show Les Poupées de Paris helped launch Sid & Marty Krofft Productions; the Krofft brothers’ many collaborations with Charles Fox, including H.R. Pufnstuf and Lidsville; and the appeal of Sigmund and the Sea Monsters. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podc...
Stuart Pankin of Deep in the Forest
May 25, 2022 07:05 - 20 minutesTVC 578.2: Ed welcomes Cable Ace Award-winning actor and voice artist Stuart Pankin (Dinosaurs, Not Necessarily the News, The San Pedro Beach Bums). Though we often think of Stu for his many comedic roles, he has a host of dramatic parts among his credits, including Michael Douglas’ best friend in Fatal Attraction and his latest film, Deep in the Forest, a political thriller written, produced, and directed by Jeremy Lanni that becomes available for streaming on demand on Tuesday, May 31. Want...
Stuart Pankin, the voice of Earl Sinclair on Dinosaurs
May 25, 2022 07:00 - 15 minutesTVC 578.3: Actor and voice artist Stuart Pankin talks to Ed about how Dinosaurs posed a challenge for the voice actors who worked on the show because they had to match their voices with the movements of the Jim Henson puppets first (instead of the other way around), and how Stu’s experience on The San Pedro Beach Bums fomented an important professional relationship that eventually led to his roles on Not Necessarily the News, No Soap Radio, and Dinosaurs. Stu’s latest film, the political thri...
George Stevens Jr. and The Test of Time
May 24, 2022 07:05 - 23 minutesTVC 578.4: Ed welcomes George Stevens Jr., son of Academy Award-winning director George Stevens, the founder of the American Film Institute, and the creator of the Kennedy Center Honors. After working with his father on the sets of A Place in the Sun, Shane, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Giant, George was well on his way to establishing his own career as a director when a unique opportunity to work with legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow brought him to Washington, D.C. at the outset of the...
George Stevens Jr., Edward R. Murrow, and Jack Webb
May 24, 2022 07:00 - 20 minutesTVC 578.5: Emmy Award winner, Academy Award recipient, and American Film Institute founder George Stevens Jr. talks about his working with Edward R. Murrow at the United States information Agency (including the production of USIA’s first feature-length film, John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums), and his experience working with Jack Webb, Blake Edwards, and Alfred Hitchcock during his early years as a director. George’s memoir, My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Holly...
Marty Krofft, Lidsville, and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
May 23, 2022 07:00 - 19 minutesFrom November 2018: Iconic television producer Marty Krofft talks to Ed about the origins of Sigmund and the Sea Monsters and working with Charles Nelson Reilly on Lidsville. Marty was among the special guests that appeared at the first ever Krofft Kon, which took place Saturday, May 21 at the Orinda Theatre in Orinda, California. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our progr...
Mothers Day with Marion Ross
May 12, 2022 00:05 - 24 minutesTVC 577.1: An encore presentation of our June 2014 conversation with Marion Ross (Happy Days, Brooklyn Bridge). Marion Ross, June Lockhart, and Michael Learned are among the many stars who have contributed photographs to the Hollywood Museum as part of a special Mothers Day exhibit that will be on display for a limited time only through Sunday, May 15. Two years in the making, and originally scheduled for Mothers Day in 2020, this remarkable collection features photos dedicated to some of the...
Marion Ross and The Happy Days Softball Team
May 12, 2022 00:00 - 12 minutesFrom May 2014: Marion Ross, the actress known around the world as Mrs. C on Happy Days, talks to Ed, Tony, and Donna about how the cast of Happy Days bonded together by playing softball, and how the Happy Days softball team toured to such places as Okinawa and East Germany. 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...
McHale's Navy: A Broad Farce
May 11, 2022 00:05 - 12 minutesTVC 577.2a: Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss the recent DVD release of McHale’s Navy (ABC, 1962-1966), the long-running sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway and Joe Flynn that was more or less styled after The Phil Silvers Show, only with a Navy setting. Topics this segment include the two McHale’s Navy feature motion pictures from the 1960s, both of which are available through Shout! Factory. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle ad...
McHale's Navy on DVD
May 11, 2022 00:00 - 15 minutesTVC 577.3: Greg and Ed continue discussing the recent Shout! Factory DVD release of McHale’s Navy (ABC, 1962-1966). Though remembered by Baby Boomers as a broad send-up of Navy etiquette, McHale’s was originally conceived as an hour-long dramatic series. 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. Plea...
Mother's Day with June Lockhart
May 10, 2022 00:00 - 22 minutesTVC 577.4: An encore presentation of our March 2015 conversation with June Lockhart (Lost in Space, Lassie, Petticoat Junction). June Lockhart, Marion Ross, and Michael Learned are among the many stars who have contributed photographs to the Hollywood Museum as part of a special Mothers Day exhibit that will be on display for a limited time only through Sunday, May 15. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship reques...
Michael Learned of Second Acts and Monster
May 09, 2022 07:05 - 20 minutesTVC 577.5: A brand new conversation with Michael Learned, the four-time Emmy Award-winning actress known around the world as Olivia Walton, the matriarch of the Walton family. Michael’s latest film, Second Acts, is now available for streaming on demand. She is also about to star, along with Evan Peters, Richard Jenkins, and Penelope Ann Miller, in the forthcoming new Netflix series about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer (the working title of which is Monster). Want to advertise/sponsor our show...
How Michael Learned Became Olivia Walton
May 09, 2022 07:00 - 16 minutesTVC 577.6: Michael Learned shares a few memories about The Waltons (CBS, 1972-1981), including the story of she originally won the role of Olivia Walton. Michael’s latest film, Second Acts, is now available for streaming on demand. 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@adverti...
Joe Coyle and Beyond Where the Buses Run
May 06, 2022 00:00 - 23 minutesTVC 577.1: Ed welcomes actor, author, screenwriter, producer, and acting teacher Joe Coyle (Promised Land, Jack Reacher, Ocean’s 11, Out of Sight, Three Kings, Zoolander, Fail Safe). Joe is one of the contributors to Beyond Where the Buses Run, an anthology of short stories edited by Theresa Griffin Kennedy that also features Robert Crane. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of...
The Brothers Grimm on Blu-ray
May 05, 2022 00:00 - 21 minutesTVC 577.2: Greg Ehrbar talks to Ed about the Blu-ray release of The Wonderful World of The Brothers Grimm, a restoration of the 1962 fantasy musical starring Barbara Eden, Laurence Harvey, Russ Tamblyn, and Buddy Hackett that was not a huge hit when it was originally released, even though it was among the highest grossing movies of 1962. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of o...
Captain Midnight Hijacks HBO's Signal
May 04, 2022 00:05 - 11 minutesFrom April 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the Captain Midnight incident of Apr. 27, 1986, when a video pirate known only as Captain Midnight managed to override the satellite transmission of the HBO broadcast of The Falcon and the Snowman. The culprit hijacked the feed to protest HBO's subscription fees. 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 w...
1st TV Satellite Transmission
May 04, 2022 00:00 - 10 minutesFrom April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the first coast-to-coast telecast by satellite communications, which took place on Apr. 24, 1962, a technological advance that changed the face of broadcast television. 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 [email protected] or click...
Stefanie Powers and The William Holden Wildlife Foundation
May 03, 2022 00:05 - 23 minutesTVC 577.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began on our last program with Stefanie Powers, the actress known around the world as Jennifer Hart on Hart to Hart, and the founder and president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, a nonprofit organization that Stefanie established in 1982 in memory of William Holden, the love of her life, that continues and furthers Holden’s conservation work in East Africa. Among other topics this segment, Ed asks Stefanie what first fueled her interest in a...
Stefanie Powers and William Holden's Favorite Movie
May 03, 2022 00:00 - 22 minutesTVC 577.5: Stefanie Powers answers listener email questions about her film and TV career, plus she tells Ed which motion picture was William Holden’s favorite, and why. The Gold Coast International Film Festival will honor William Holden as the next recipient of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, an award that honors legendary actors and actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Stefanie Powers will accept the award that night on Holden’s behalf in a ceremony that will take place i...
Joe Coyle on George Clooney and Ben Affleck
May 02, 2022 00:00 - 19 minutesTVC 577.6: Actor, author, screenwriter, producer, and acting teacher Joe Coyle talks to Ed about his experience working as a stand-in for George Clooney and Ben Affleck. Joe is one of the contributors to Beyond Where the Buses Run, an anthology of short stories edited by Theresa Griffin Kennedy that also features Robert Crane. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program....
Budd Moss, Sidney Poitier, Melvin Belli, and The Godfather
April 20, 2022 00:05 - 23 minutesTVC 575.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Budd Burton Moss, legendary Hollywood talent manager and agent, and the namesake of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, an award that honors legendary actors and actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Topics this segment include a tribute to Budd’s dear friend Sidney Poitier and the role that Budd played in getting legendary attorney Melvin Belli to audition for the role of Don Corleone in The Godfather. Our friends at...
Budd Moss, Elizabeth Montgomery, Joe Theismann, and Jim Plunkett
April 20, 2022 00:00 - 23 minutesTVC 575.2: Budd Burton Moss, legendary Hollywood talent manager and agent, tells Ed the story of how he helped convince Elizabeth Montgomery to accept the role of Samantha Stephens on Bewitched (after she had initially resisted), and how he eventually came to represent some legendary NFL stars as Jim Plunkett, Gene Washington, and Joe Theismann. Budd’s latest book, Act III, is schedule for release later in 2022. For more information on the Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, the Gold Coa...
Jim Meskimen, The Voice of Colonel Sanders
April 19, 2022 07:05 - 14 minutesTVC 575.3: Ed welcomes actor, impressionist, voice artist, and improv comic Jim Meskimen. The current voice of Colonel Sanders for KFC, Jim has also produced a popular series of parody videos in which Colonel Sanders approaches celebrities like Bing Crosby, John Lennon, and Humphrey Bogart about endorsing Kentucky Fried Chicken. Topics this segment include the degree of physicality that is often involved when creating voice characters, as well as how long it takes for Jim to practice a voice ...
Jim Meskimen of Gaslit, Hunters, and The Big Door Prize
April 19, 2022 07:00 - 22 minutesTVC 575.4: Actor and voice artist Jim Meskimen talks to Ed about the collaborative approach that Oscar-winning director Ron Howard take to working with actors on his films; his mother, Marion Ross, and the role that Jim, his wife, and his sister all played in the success of Marion’s memoir, My Days: Happy and Otherwise; and Jim’s upcoming roles in the Starz network limited series Gaslit, the new season of the Amazon Prime limited series Hunter, and the forthcoming Apple TV series The Big Door...
Stefanie Powers on the Life of William Holden
April 18, 2022 07:05 - 20 minutesTVC 575.5: Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Stefanie Powers, the actress known around the world as The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and Jennifer Hart on Hart to Hart, and the founder and president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, a nonprofit organization that Stefanie established in 1982 in memory of her long-time life partner that continues and furthers Holden’s conservation work in East Africa. Stefanie gives us a glimpse into the William Holden she knew during the nine years they s...
Stefanie Powers on the Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award
April 18, 2022 07:00 - 13 minutesTVC 575.6: Stefanie Powers (Hart to Hart, One from the Hart) talks to Ed about the significance of William Holden being named the next recipient of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award, and the tireless efforts of the award’s namesake, Budd Burton Moss, to preserve the legacy of the stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Stefanie Powers will accept the award on Holden’s behalf in a ceremony that will take place in early May as part of the Gold Coast International Film Festival in Great N...
The Responsibility of Nehemiah Persoff
April 18, 2022 06:00 - 10 minutesTVC 575.7: Ed commemorates the passing of character actor Nehemiah Persoff by playing a clip from our October 2021 conversation with James Rosin, the publisher of The Many Faces of Nehemiah, the memoirs of Persoff’s career in stage, film, and television. Topics this segment include why Persoff always felt a tremendous responsibility as an actor, especially to his native Jewish people. Nehemiah Persoff passed away Apr. 5, 2022 at age 102. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential h...
Budd Moss, William Holden, and the Golden Age of Hollywood
April 14, 2022 00:00 - 26 minutesTVC 574.1: Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Budd Burton Moss, the legendary Hollywood agent, talent manager, and showbiz raconteur who has not only represented many of the brightest stars in film, television and sports over the past six decades, but had a hand in casting in some of the most iconic comedy and dramatic series in TV history (including Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, and Happy Days, just to name a few). Budd Moss is also the namesake of The Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era A...
Nikki Johnson-Huston, Jeffrey Sitcov, and Doors of Change
April 13, 2022 00:05 - 21 minutesTVC 574.2: Ed welcomes attorney, speaker, homeless youth advocate, and Ms. Universe 2021 Nikki Johnson-Huston and Jeffrey Sitcov, founder and president of Doors of Change, a nonprofit organization that has not only helped more than 2,300 homeless youth find safe forever homes since 2001, but has transformed the lives of more than 8,300 homeless youths in fourteen states through a program, Taking Music and Art to the Streets, that offers music and art instruction in small group settings. If ...
How Perry Mason Inspired Ms. Universe Nikki Johnson-Huston
April 13, 2022 00:00 - 14 minutesTVC 574.3: Ms. Universe 2021 Nikki Johnson-Huston shares some of her personal story, including how she overcame poverty and homelessness as a teenager, and how she first found inspiration for becoming a lawyer through such classic TV characters as Perry Mason. Three Dog Night will perform a special Concert of Hope for Homeless Youth that will benefit Doors of Change on Thursday, June 30 at the Moonlight Amphitheater in Vista, CA. The concert begins at 7:30pm, while a VIP reception takes pla...
Cocktails with the Carringtons: The Men of Dynasty
April 12, 2022 00:05 - 24 minutesTVC 574.4: Ed welcomes John James, Jack Coleman, and Gordon Thomson, three of the stars of the original Dynasty (ABC, 1981-1989), the iconic prime time soap opera that gave its viewers around the world a taste of glitz and glamour every week, amidst often outrageous plot lines and even bigger catfights. John, Jack, and Gordon are getting ready to tour the country with their three-man reunion show, Cocktails with the Carringtons: The Men of Dynasty, an evening of laughter and conversation in w...
The Global Impact of Dynasty
April 12, 2022 00:00 - 20 minutesTVC 574.5: John James, Jack Coleman, and Gordon Thomson each tell Ed when they first realized the impact of Dynasty on audiences all over the world. John, Jack and Gordon will bring their three-man reunion show, Cocktails with the Carringtons: The Men of Dynasty, to the Burbank Marriott Hotel in Burbank, CA on Saturday, Apr. 16. They will also perform it at the Hollywood Roosevelt Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, Apr. 17 and Monday, Apr. 18. Check out CocktailswiththeCarringtons.com for ti...
The Origins of Dynasty
April 11, 2022 00:00 - 23 minutesTVC 574.6: From July 2011: Ed welcomes Richard and Esther Shapiro, the co-creators, co-writers and co-executive producers of Dynasty. Richard and Esther’s many other credits in television include such acclaimed made-for-TV movies and miniseries as Friendly Fire, East of Eden, Intimate Strangers and Sarah T: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic. For a time Esther Shapiro was vice president in charge of miniseries for ABC, where she oversaw the production of such top-rated minis as Masada, Pearl, Ik...
The Resourcefulness of Tim Conway
March 31, 2022 00:00 - 27 minutesTVC 573.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Kelly Conway, the eldest child—and only daughter—of comedy star Tim Conway. Topics this week include Kelly’s career as a costume designer and wardrobe stylist in the motion picture industry; the resourcefulness she learned from her dad; and the many indelible life lessons that Tim Conway dispensed to his children, even in such unlikely places as the Santa Anita race track. Kelly’s memoir, My Dad’s Funnier Than Your Dad: Growing Up ...
Ernest Harden Jr. of The Jeffersons
March 30, 2022 00:05 - 22 minutesTVC 573.2: Ed plays Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with actor Ernest Harden Jr. (The Jeffersons, White Men Can’t Jump, Velvet Jesus) and Jay Moriarty, longtime writer/producer of The Jeffersons and other Norman Lear shows, and the author of Honky in the House: Writing and Producing The Jeffersons. Marla Gibbs, Ernest Harden Jr., and Jay Moriarty will appear at the next Hollywood Show, Friday, Apr. 15 and Saturday, Apr. 16 at the Burbank Marriott Hotel, 2500 North Hollywood Way ...