TVC 626.2: Chuck Harter, music historian and writer of the acclaimed documentary Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees , talks to Ed about the three phases of The Monkees in 1967: television series, recording unit, and live performing ensemble. 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@advertisec...
Nov 06, 2023•19 min•Season 16Ep. 626
TVC 626.3: Ed welcomes Michael Connelly, New York Times bestselling author; creator of the Harry Bosch, Renee Ballard, and Lincoln Lawyer novel series; and the executive producer of both Bosch and Bosch: Legacy , the two Amazon Prime series starring Titus Welliver that are based on the Harry Bosch novels, and The Lincoln Lawyer , the Netflix series starring Manual Garcia-Rulfo as Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer. Michael's latest novel, Resurrection Walk , is a Lincoln Lawyer novel that also fe...
Nov 06, 2023•13 min•Season 16Ep. 626
TVC 626.4: Michael Connelly, creator of the Harry Bosch, Renee Ballard, and Lincoln Lawyer novel series, talks to Ed about collaborating with David E. Kelley on the Netflix series adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer ; how Harry Bosch, the book character, differs from the character that Titus Welliver plays on Bosch and Bosch: Legacy ; and why the Musso and Frank Grill is one of his favorite restaurants in Hollywood. Michael's latest novel, Resurrection Walk , is available in bookstores everywhere o...
Nov 06, 2023•20 min•Season 16Ep. 626
TVC 626.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Jon Burlingame, nationally renowned music journalist and the author of Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television and Scoring that not tells the back story of every great TV theme music or TV theme song, but gives readers a portraits of the many great composers who made those themes so memorable, including John Williams, Benny Carter, Duane Tatro, Irving Szathmary, and Oliver Nelson. Topics this segment include why some of...
Nov 06, 2023•19 min•Season 16Ep. 627
TVC 626.6: Jon Burlingame, author of Music for Prime Time , talks to Ed about the three eras of music for television, and how the role of music supervisors on a television series has become particularly important today, when many shows use pre-existing songs to convey the theme and mood of a series. Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring is available in bookstores everywhere through Oxford University Press and Amazon.com. Jon Burlingame is also the producer, al...
Nov 06, 2023•14 min•Season 16Ep. 626
TVC 625.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began on our last program with actor, author, and comedian Nick Santa Maria ( The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster ). Nick's new book, The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer's Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films (a collaboration with Matthew Coniam), not only provides a film by film, scene by scene look at all thirty-eight movies starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, but makes the case for why Abbott and Costello rightfully belon...
Oct 30, 2023•21 min•Season 16Ep. 625
TVC 625.2: Nick Santa Maria, co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer's Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films , talks to Greg and Ed about the many famous character actors who co-starred with Abbott and Costello in the movies and on television, including Shemp Howard, Errol Flynn, Martha Raye, Dick Powell, Charles Lane, Joey Faye, and Gale Gordon. Available from McFarland and Company, The Annotated Abbott and Costello also features new research, surprising revelati...
Oct 30, 2023•21 min•Season 16Ep. 625
TVC 625.2b: Nick Santa Maria, co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer's Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films , talks to Greg and Ed about the "Ultimate Abbott and Costello Top Ten," one of the extra features of The Annotated Abbott and Costello , and a scientifically put-together Top Ten that includes input from such luminaries as Leonard Maltin, Joe Dante, John Landis, Chris Costello, and Michael Schlessinger. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential ...
Oct 30, 2023•10 min•Season 16Ep. 625
TVC 625.3: Ed welcomes singer and dancer Shelly Clark , one of the founding members of Honey Cone , the legendary R&B and soul girl group from the late 1960s and early 1970s that was also the premier female group for Hot Wax Records, the label operated by the famed writing team Holland-Dozier-Holland. Honey Cone was also the very first act to appear on the debut episode of Soul Train in 1971, performing two of their hits, "Want Ads" and "Stick Up." Shelly talks to Ed about the significance o...
Oct 30, 2023•13 min•Season 16Ep. 625
TVC 625.5: Ed welcomes back Jon Burlingame, longtime music journalist and our nation's leading writer on the subject of music for films and television. Jon's latest book, Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television and Scoring , not only includes more than 450 interviews with composers, orchestrators, producers, editors, and musicians who are or who were active in the field of music for television, but tells the back story of every great TV theme music or TV theme song while also exam...
Oct 30, 2023•18 min•Season 16Ep. 625
TVC 625.4: Shelly Clark , one of the founding members of the legendary R&B and soul girl group Honey Cone , talks to Ed about how the empowering lyrics of Honey Cone's songs help usher in a new mindset for female groups and solo female artists. She also shares a few memories of performing as an Ikette with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the 1960s, including how she bonded with Tina Turner immediately because of astrology, and the story of the near tragic bus accident that nearly ended Sh...
Oct 30, 2023•20 min
TVC 625.6: Jon Burlingame, author of Music for Prime Time , talks to Ed about the television work of renowned composers Jerry Goldsmith ( Barnaby Jones, Police Story, The Loner ) and Patrick Williams ( The Streets of San Francisco, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Lou Grant, The Magician ). Topics this segment include why Goldsmith was reluctant to score the pilot for Barnaby Jones (and how his theme for Barnaby , ironically, ended up being one of his best known TV compositions) ...
Oct 30, 2023•13 min•Season 16Ep. 626
TVC 625.7: Music historian Chuck Harter joins Ed for a remembrance of music legend Tina Turner, a force of nature as a live performer (both as a solo artist and when she performed with her husband Ike Turner as part of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue) who went on to become a darling of the MTV generation. Tina Turner passed away May 24, 2023 at age eighty-three. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the...
Oct 30, 2023•10 min•Season 16Ep. 625
TVC 624.1: Ed welcomes Arielle Raycene, actress, entrepreneur, social media influencer, and co-founder of Real A F, a platform that connects social media with spatial media and a 3-D walk-around application. Arielle also can be seen in the action thriller Confidential Informant (with Mel Gibson and Kate Bosworth), the Peacock series Bupkis (starring Pete Davidson), and the 1980s horror movie spoof Kill Her Goats . Bupkis is available for on demand viewing on Peacock TV, while Kill Her Goats and ...
Oct 09, 2023•24 min•Season 16Ep. 624
TVC 624.2: Ed and Greg Ehrbar welcome back actor, author, and comedian Nick Santa Maria ( The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster ). Nick's new book, The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer's Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films (a collaboration with Matthew Coniam), not only provides a film by film, scene by scene look at all thirty-eight movies starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, but makes the case for why Abbott and Costello rightfully belong among the top tier of comed...
Oct 09, 2023•20 min•Season 16Ep. 624
TVC 624.3: Nick Santa Maria, co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello , talks to Ed and Greg about how Abbott and Costello honed their style from their days in burlesque, and how such classical routines as "Who's on First," "365 Days," and "7 x 13 = 28" always seem fresh and new, no matter how many times they performed it. The Annotated Abbott and Costello is available at McFarlandPub.com and Amazon.com. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast t...
Oct 09, 2023•14 min•Season 16Ep. 624
TVC 624.4: Ed welcomes back George Schlatter, creator and producer of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and Real People , and a fixture in the world of variety television for more than fifty years. George's memoir, Still Laughing: A Life in Comedy , is the story of how a kid from Missouri forged his way out of the rough and tumble world of Las Vegas nightclubs and wound up working with some of the most fascinating people in the history of show biz, including Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Eddie Murphy...
Oct 09, 2023•23 min•Season 16Ep. 624
TVC 623.1: Game show historian Steve Beverly, retired professor of broadcast journalism at Union University and host of Steve Beverly's TV Classics , joins Ed for a remembrance of game show legend Bob Barker, longtime host of The Price is Right and, before that, Truth or Consequences . Bob Barker passed away on Saturday, Aug. 26 at age ninety-nine. In this segment, Steve talks to Ed about how Barker came to host The Price is Right in 1972; the role that the revival of Password in 1971 played bri...
Sep 25, 2023•23 min•Season 16Ep. 623
TVC 623.2: Game show historian Steve Beverly talks to Ed about how it took a few shows for the Bob Barker Price is Right to find its footing; why it was a risky move for CBS to expand The Price is Right to an hour from its original thirty-minute length; and why Drew Carey was "a compromise choice" to replace Barker as host of Price in 2007. Bob Barker passed away on Saturday, Aug. 26 at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handl...
Sep 25, 2023•21 min•Season 16Ep. 623
TVC 623.2a: Game show historian Steve Beverly talks to Ed about Bob Barker's vast skills as a communicator—and, particularly, his ability to connect with both the studio audience and the viewers at home—enabled him to withstand the various scandals and controversies that plagued The Price is Right in the years after Bob Barker became executive producer of the show. Bob Barker passed away on Saturday, Aug. 26 at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered wi...
Sep 25, 2023•11 min
TVC 623.3: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen reminisce about the "Barker's Box" segment on Truth or Consequences , and how that feature was a mini version of the type of audience participation show that Barker hosted on radio early in his career. Bob Barker passed away on Saturday, Aug. 26 at age ninety-nine. 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...
Sep 25, 2023•25 min•Season 16Ep. 623
TVC 623.4: Longtime television announcer Randy West joins Ed as TV Confidential continues its tribute to game show legend Bob Barker. Among the many game shows on which Randy worked as an announcer was the Bob Barker Price is Right . In this segment, Randy talks to Ed about the circumstances that led him to succeed Rod Roddy as the announcer on Price in 2003; why he considers the year he spent on Price to be the high point of his announcing career; and the proper inflections the announcer must h...
Sep 25, 2023•26 min•Season 16Ep. 623
TVC 623.5: Longtime television announcer Randy West shares some memories of working alongside Bob Barker during the 2003-2004 season, when Randy was the announcer on The Price is Right. He also provides some insight into hosting the live version of The Price is Right, which Randy has done in many different venues over the years. Bob Barker passed away on Saturday, Aug. 26 at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertisin...
Sep 25, 2023•20 min•Season 16Ep. 623
TVC 623.6: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen share a few memories about being neighbors with Bob Barker during the years he hosted The Price is Right . the time when they were neighbors 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...
Sep 25, 2023•19 min•Season 16Ep. 623
TVC 622.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Georgiana "Noopy" Rodrigues, daughter of legendary singer, actress, and comedienne Rose Marie . This past Tuesday, Aug. 15 marked the 100th birthday of Rose Marie; to mark the occasion, Sepia Records, along with the Rose Marie estate, have just released Rose Marie Sings: The Complete Mercury Recordings and More , a collection of twenty-nine classic recordings and rarities that include some of Rose Marie's favorite show tunes, standard...
Sep 18, 2023•21 min•Season 16Ep. 622
TVC 622.2: Georgiana "Noopy" Rodrigues, daughter of the one and only Rose Marie , talks to Ed about how her mom and Doris Day bonded immediately once they started working together on The Doris Day Show , and how their friendship lasted until Rose Marie's death. Also in this segment: Noopy and Ed talk about the 100 days of "Rose Marie Facts," a collection of Rose Marie facts and trivia that will be shared each day through approximately Nov. 23 on Rose Marie's social media accounts, including Face...
Sep 18, 2023•18 min•Season 16Ep. 622
TVC 622.3: Greg Ehrbar interviews Mark Cantor, jazz and film historian, author of The Soundies: A History and Catalog of Jukebox Film Shorts of the 1940s , and one of the contributors to the Blu-ray release Soundies: The Ultimate Collection . 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@ad...
Sep 18, 2023•16 min•Season 16Ep. 622
TVC 622.4: Ed welcomes Simon Napier-Bell, former manager of Wham!, longtime record producer and songwriter, and the director of The Real George Michael: Portrait of an Artist, an excellent documentary that not only explores the many ups and downs of the illustrious Grammy Award winner, but takes a deep dive into who George really was: a kind and generous person who ultimately fought many demons while being front and center as one of the most famous musicians of his time. The Real George Michael ...
Sep 18, 2023•25 min•Season 16Ep. 622
TVC 623.5: Simon Napier-Bell, former manager of Wham! and the director of The Real George Michael , talks to Ed about how George Michael, like many artists, had an up-and-down relationship with fame throughout his life and career. Also in this segment: Ed asks Simon what he looked for, and what George looked for, when determining whether a new song might become a hit record. The Real George Michael is available now for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime, Tubi, Roku, Peacock, and many other plat...
Sep 18, 2023•21 min•Season 16Ep. 622
TVC 622.6: Jazz and film historian Mark Cantor talks to Greg Ehrbar about how his book, The Soundies: A History and Catalog of Jukebox Film Shorts of the 1940s , was more than four decades in the making. The Soundies: A History and Catalog of Jukebox Film Shorts of the 1940s is available through McFarland Books and Amazon.com, while Soundies: The Ultimate Collection is available on Blu-ray through Kino Lorber. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast t...
Sep 18, 2023•12 min
