TVC 644.5: Game show legend and novelist Jim MacKrell talks to Ed about some of the people in the music industry whom he met when he worked for Henry Mancini, including Gordon Jenkins, Lou Rawls, Joe Saraceno, and Anita Kerr; why legendary Los Angeles Times sports columnist Jim Murray was the print equivalent to broadcast legend Vin Scully, in that both had an ability to connect with people in ways that transcended their respective mediums; why the word "spirit" simply speaks to who we are as hu...
Apr 22, 2024•22 min•Season 16Ep. 644
TVC 644.6: Game show legend and novelist Jim MacKrell talks to Ed about what makes the dog characters in his novels Down from the Mountain, Falen: Semper Fi , and Run Maggie Run such unusual protagonists. All three of Jim's novels are available at Amazon.com and JMacKrell.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...
Apr 22, 2024•11 min•Season 16Ep. 644
TVC 644.6a: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of The Daydreamer (1966), a feature-length live-action and Animagic-animated adaptation of some of the most famous fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen that was produced by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, and which featured the talents of Hayley Mills, Tallulah Bankhead, Jack Guilford, Margaret Hamilton, Ray Bolger, Boris Karloff, Burl Ives, Victor Borge, Terry-Thomas, Ed Wynn, Patty Duke, and Robert Goulet. Though unsuccessful...
Apr 22, 2024•7 min•Season 16Ep. 644
We continue our celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of The Rockford Files on television by bringing you an encore presentation of our August 2012 conversation with Emmy-nominated writer/producer Juanita Bartlett, one of the driving forces behind the success of The Rockford Files . 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 a...
Apr 08, 2024•21 min•Season 16Ep. 643
From August 2012: Emmy-nominated writer/producer Juanita Bartlett ( The Rockford Files, The Greatest American Hero, Spenser: For Hire ) discusses her career in television, including her collaborations with Frank Pierson, Stephen J. Cannell and James Garner. 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...
Apr 08, 2024•19 min•Season 16Ep. 643
TVC 643.4: Ed welcome actress, producer, and novelist Nicole Arlyn. Nicole currently stars as a retired killer in the Tarantinoesque action thriller Til Death Do Us Part , which is available now for viewing on demand on many streaming platforms. She has also written twenty-six novels, including the popular youth fantasy novel series The Sugarspear Chronicles . Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the p...
Apr 01, 2024•23 min•Season 16Ep. 643
TVC 643.5: Ed welcomes back singer, actress, and producer Roslyn Kind. Earlier this year, Roslyn realized one of her dreams by combining two classic hits, "The Look of Love" and "The Island," into a brand new medley that not only celebrates love in all its forms, but reinforces the belief that all of us can find love, no matter what our age. Roslyn Kind's "The Look of Love/The Island" is available now both as a digital single and as a six-minute video. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Conf...
Apr 01, 2024•20 min•Season 16Ep. 643
TVC 643.6: Singer/actress Roslyn Kind talks to Ed about how her "mission statement" as an artist is to perform songs that make people feel good and bring people's hearts together. Roslyn's new medley, "The Look of Love/The Island," is available now both as a digital single and as a six-minute video. 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 ...
Apr 01, 2024•13 min•Season 16Ep. 643
TVC 642.3: Ed welcomes Julie Rogers Pomilia, the youngest daughter of Tom Fox (the only biological son of Dale Evans by her first marriage), and the granddaughter of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, the Royal Western Couple of American pop culture, and the "Brad and Angelina" of their era. Julie's book, Your Heroes, My Grandparents: A Granddaughter's Love , is the storybook tale of a little girl who just happened to have two famous relatives and who cherished every moment that she spent with them. Top...
Mar 25, 2024•18 min•Season 16Ep. 642
TVC 642.4: Julie Rogers Pomilia, author of Your Heroes, My Grandparents: A Granddaughter's Love , the first book ever written by a Roy Rogers and Dale Evans family member, talks to Ed about the enduring legacy of "Happy Trails," Roy and Dale's theme song (which Dale wrote); the Roy Rogers restaurant chain; and how Dale's decision to raise Julie's father, Tom Fox, as a single mother, just as she was becoming a film star, was also ahead of its time. Your Heroes, My Grandparents: A Granddaughter's ...
Mar 25, 2024•22 min•Season 16Ep. 642
TVC 642.5: Ed welcomes Emmy nominated writer Shelley Herman. Shelley's memoir, My Peacock Tale : Secrets Of An NBC Page , is a funny, provocative, and often poignant look at her two-year career as a page at NBC Burbank in the mid 1970s, where she not only had VIP access every day to just about every major NBC personality at the time, but sometimes had to fight out unwanted sexual advances from predatory stars and executives. Topics this segment include the events that led Shelley to discover the...
Mar 25, 2024•21 min•Season 16Ep. 642
TVC 642.6: Emmy nominated writer Shelley Herman talks to Ed about meeting singer Harry Chapin backstage at The Tonight Show , one night after seeing him perform live at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles; the time when she was a "life line" to Adam West when he appeared in a "celebrity week" version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ; and some of the crazy antics that happened behind the scenes of NBC's coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade. Shelley's memoir, My Peacock Tale : Secrets Of An NB...
Mar 25, 2024•17 min•Season 16Ep. 642
TVC 641.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Josh Mills , son of Edie Adams and the curator of the estates of Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams , and Pat Thomas , author of Invitation to Openness: the Jazz & Soul Photography of Les McCann, Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg, and Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary . Josh and Pat are two of the co-authors, along with Ben Model, of Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings, and Photographs from T...
Mar 18, 2024•26 min•Season 16Ep. 641
TVC 641.2: Josh Mills and Pat Thomas talk to Ed about Ernie Kovacs' many collaborations and longtime friendship with Jack Lemmon; how the format for Ernie's successful morning show in Philadelphia inspired NBC to develop The Today Show ; how Kovacs was the first to understand that television was an intimate form; and how Ernie's influence can be seen in the antics of comedian Soupy Sales. Josh and Pat are two of the co-authors, along with Ben Model, of Ernie in Kovacsland , a marvelously conceiv...
Mar 18, 2024•23 min•Season 16Ep. 642
TVC 640.1: Ed welcomes Josh Mills , son of Edie Adams and the curator of the estates of Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams , and author Pat Thomas ( Invitation to Openness: the Jazz & Soul Photography of Les McCann, Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg, Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary ). Josh and Pat are two of the co-authors, along with Ben Model, of Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings, and Photographs from Television's Original Genius , a marvelously c...
Mar 11, 2024•22 min•Season 16Ep. 640
TVC 640.2: Josh Mills and Pat Thomas talk to Ed about The Silent Show , the iconic NBC special from January 1957 that is the only Ernie Kovacs television show to be broadcast in color. Other topics this segment include how Kovacs was a constant presence on television from 1950 until his death in January 1962 (even though he never had a "long-running" series, per se); his incredible knack for generating publicity; and how the Percy Dovetonsils poem "Thoughts While Falling Off the Empire State Bui...
Mar 11, 2024•24 min•Season 16Ep. 640
TVC 640.3: Ed welcomes back Michael Learned, the four-time Emmy Award-winning actress known around the world as Olivia Walton on The Waltons and, more recently, Catherine Dahmer on the popular Netflix series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story . Michael shares a few memories of working with James Arness on Gunsmoke , Robert Reed on Nurse , and Paul Sorvino in It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy . Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertisi...
Mar 11, 2024•23 min•Season 16Ep. 640
TVC 640.4: Ed welcomes Charles Agron, the writer, producer, and star of Altered Reality , a supernatural thriller that explores greed, family, and redemption, while also putting a modern take on the old adage "Be careful what you wish for." Altered Reality not only pays homage to Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone (two of Charles' influences as a storyteller), but marks one of the final screen appearances of Ed Asner. Altered Reality is now playing in select theaters across the country. Want to a...
Mar 11, 2024•23 min•Season 16Ep. 640
TVC 640.5: A special preview of our upcoming conversation with five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, talk show host, and cultural critic John Barbour ( Real People ) and Carol Hoenig , the collaborator on John's memoir, Your Mother's Not a Virgin . Carol's latest book, The Greatest Reviews I've Ever Read , is a collection of some of John's many film reviews for Los Angeles magazine and KNBC-TV Los Angeles from the 1970s that also includes an ongoing, My Dinner with Andre -like conversat...
Mar 11, 2024•18 min•Season 16Ep. 640
TVC 639.1: Ed welcomes Harvey Lisberg , the legendary music manager who not only shaped the careers of such iconic artists as Herman's Hermits, 10cc, and Tony Christie, but paved the way for Neil Sedaka's comeback as a songwriter and recording artist in the mid 1970s, and was one of the first people in the music industry to recognize the talent and potential of the songwriting duo of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Harvey's memoir, I'm Into Something Good , a captivating journey through the go...
Mar 04, 2024•22 min•Season 16Ep. 639
TVC 639.2: Music legend Harvey Lisberg talks to Ed about his gift for recognizing the hit potential of any given song; the art of matching a song to a particular artist; and the great compliment that music impresario Don Kirshner once paid him. Harvey's memoir, I'm Into Something Good , 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 program. They'r...
Mar 04, 2024•14 min•Season 16Ep. 639
TVC 639.3: Greg Ehrbar talks to Ed about the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), the British horror movie starring Brian Donlevy that is also known to U.S. audiences as The Creeping Unknown . An important title in British film history, The Quatermass Xperiment is the movie that put Hammer Studios on the map. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our pro...
Mar 04, 2024•9 min•Season 16Ep. 639
TVC 639.3a: Greg and Ed discuss the Kino Lorber special edition Blu-ray release of The Questor Tapes (1974), the made-for-TV movie starring Robert Foxworth, Mike Farrell, John Vernon, Walter Koenig, and Dana Wynter that is also known among Gene Roddenberry aficionados as one of the best pilots that Roddenberry ever made, but which never went to series. Topics this segment include how the Questor character served as a prototype for Data, the android that Brent Spiner eventually played on Star Tre...
Mar 04, 2024•10 min•Season 16Ep. 639
TVC 639.3b: Greg and Ed discuss the Kino Lorber special edition Blu-ray release of House of the Long Shadows (1983), the remake of Seven Keys to Baldpate starring Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, John Carradine, and Desi Arnaz Jr. that Greg describes as " It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World , done for horror." 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 ...
Mar 04, 2024•8 min•Season 16Ep. 639
TVC 639.4: Ed welcomes Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and music icon Melissa Manchester . Melissa's new album, RE:VIEW , not only celebrates Melissa's fifty-year career as a solo artist, but revisits several of her charted hits with such guest artists as Kenny Loggins, Gerald Albright, Dave Koz, and Dolly Parton. RE:VIEW is available wherever music is sold, while three of the tracks on the album—"Whenever I Call You Friend" (featuring Kenny Loggins and Dave Koz), "Midnight Blu...
Mar 04, 2024•21 min•Season 16Ep. 639
TVC 639.5: Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and music icon Melissa Manchester talks to Ed about why Ella Fitzgerald is one of her musical godmothers; "They Never Met," the duet that Melissa recorded with Martin Mull around the time that she and Mull toured together; and why every artist needs to learn how to listen slowly. Melissa's new album, RE:VIEW , is available wherever music is sold. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to ha...
Mar 04, 2024•17 min•Season 16Ep. 639
TVC 638.1: From February 2018: Phil Gries joins us to discuss Harlem School 1970 , an original documentary that provides an inside look at a typical day at Community School No. 30M in Harlem, New York, where Phil taught for three years before embarking on his long career as an award-winning cinematographer for film and television . Filmed, produced and directed by Phil Gries, Harlem School 1970 is an early example of "direct cinema," a form of documentary storytelling that allows viewers to watc...
Feb 26, 2024•21 min•Season 16Ep. 638
TVC 638.2: From February 2018: Phil Gries and Ed continue their discussion about Harlem School 1970 , Phil's acclaimed "direct cinema" documentary that is also the only known feature-length documentary that was filmed inside an actual inner city public elementary school in the U.S. during the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s. For our listeners on the East Coast, Harlem School 1970 will be shown at the Maysles Documentary Center in New York City on Thursday, Mar. 14 beginning at 7pm. For tickets and more i...
Feb 26, 2024•20 min•Season 16Ep. 638
TVC 638.3: Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss the recent Kino Lorber Blu-ray releases of The Edge of the World (1937) and Scarlet Street (1945). 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/TVConfidentialAradio...
Feb 26, 2024•17 min•Season 16Ep. 638
TVC 638.4: Ed welcomes Pat Boone , the trailblazing singer, entertainer, humanitarian, and philanthropist who recently marked his seventieth year in show business and who will celebrate his ninetieth birthday this coming June 1. One of the first white artists to record rhythm and blues songs to mainstream audiences, Pat discusses his longstanding activism in support of African-American singers and songwriters (including featuring and performing with many black artists on his ABC variety series, ...
Feb 26, 2024•23 min•Season 16Ep. 638
