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TV Confidential is a two-hour radio talk show about all aspects of television that directs itself to the Baby Boomer, Generation X and senior markets. Each edition features lively interviews with special guests on topics related to popular network TV shows and the state of the medium in general. Listeners can participate by emailing talk@tvconfidential.net. Our audience encompasses listeners from all parts of the world, including many who work in the film, radio and television industries. The common bond is their unbridled passion for the past, present and future of television programming.Regular features of TV Confidential include an interactive look back at “This Week in Television History,” The Sounds of Lost Television and commentary on items related to television. But the hallmark of the show is the in-depth interviews with the many well-known actors, writers, producers, directors, journalists, authors and other entertainment industry professionals who appear as guests. We strive to take listeners behind the scenes of a wide range of television programs past and present. We often compare contemporary programs with those of the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. This allows a very broad audience to not only relate to our show, but participate with their imagination and memories.Previous guests include such film and TV icons as Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man), Barbara Feldon (Get Smart), Charles Grodin (Midnight Run), Lee Meriwether (Barnaby Jones), Julie Newmar (Batman), Sandra Bernhard (Roseanne, The L Word), Rose Marie (The Dick Van Dyke Show), Tony Denison (Crime Story, The Closer), John O’Hurley (Seinfeld, Dancing with the Stars), Michael Learned (The Waltons), Shirley Jones (Partridge Family), Barbara Hale (Perry Mason), Mayim Bialik (Big Bang Theory), Monty Hall (Let’s Make a Deal), George Maharis (Route 66), Rose Marie (The Dick Van Dyke Show), Kevin Sorbo (Hercules, Andromeda), Pat Harrington (One Day at a Time), Walter Koenig (Star Trek), Stacy Keach (Mike Hammer), William Schallert (Get Smart, Dobie Gillis, The Patty Duke Show), James Best (The Dukes of Hazzard), Richard Anderson (The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man), Sally Kellerman (M*A*S*H), Larry Manetti (Magnum, p.i.), Dee Wallace (E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, Cujo), Hank Garrett (Three Days of the Condor, Car 54: Where Are You?), Mary McDonough (The Waltons), Kathryn Leigh Scott (Dark Shadows) and Susan Olsen (The Brady Bunch), as well as NPR television critic David Bianculli, HBO programming executive Andrew Goldman, Emmy-winning writer/producer Joseph Dougherty (Saving Grace, thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars), former CBS programming executive Mike Dann and broadcast pioneer Loreen Arbus.
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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 a... |
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2024-11-11 | TVC 666.2: From October 2024: 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 ho... |
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2024-11-11 | TVC 666.3: Ed welcomes actress, comedienne, and “puppet fabricator” Corinne Britti (Condor’s Nest, For Sale). Corinne plays real-life 1970s comedienne Valri Bromfield in Saturday Night, the Sony biographical comedy, written and directed by Jason Reitma... |
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2024-11-11 | TVC 666.4: Ed welcomes back Robert Crane, eldest son of Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane, and an accomplished screenwriter, journalist, and author in his own right. Bob’s latest book, My UnHollywood Family, provides a fresh look at his relationship with h... |
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2024-11-11 | TVC 666.5: Robert Crane, eldest son of Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane, talks to Ed about how his dad was the “Willy Loman of his own career,” why the failure of his parents’ marriage was the byproduct of his dad’s desire for advancement, and how he lear... |
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2024-11-11 | TVC 665.6: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with James Sutorius, the award-winning stage actor who recently starred in My Life with Will: An Evening with Will Shakespeare and James Sutorius, a one-man show (written by Dennis Brown) in whic... |
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2024-11-03 |
William Keck on overcoming his infamous past as a tabloid news reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices |
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How William Keck earned the trust of Nicole Brown Simpson’s family TVC 665.2: William Keck, author of When You Step Upon A Star: Cringeworthy Confessions of a Tabloid Bad Boy, tells Ed the back story of the outlandish lengths he took to land the first interview with Juditha Brown, mother of Nicole Brown Simpson, in Ju... |
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2024-11-03 | TVC 665.5: Ed welcomes back James Sutorius, one of the most accomplished stage actors of our time, having starred on Broadway many times throughout his career (as well as many major theatre groups and repertory companies across the country), and an act... |
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2024-11-03 | TVC 665.6:Actor James Sutorius talks to Ed about seeing Richard Burton star as Hamlet on Broadway in 1964; how practicing the famous “To be or not to be” soliloquy from Hamlet helped James overcome a stutter when he was in high school; and his appearan... |
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