TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 645.1: Ed welcomes Tony Award-winning actress, director, and novelist Dinah Manoff (I Ought to Be in Pictures, Grease, Soap, Ordinary People, Empty Nest). Dinah’s new novel, The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold, gives readers a fast-paced, authentic look at life behind the red carpet while also asking the eternal question, “Does fame really matter?” Topics this segment include how Dinah based Jackie Gold on some of her own experiences dealing with paparazzi (as well as how the novel echoes the experiences of Britney Spear and Lindsay Lohan); why it was imperative that actors in a Neil Simon production perform his words verbatim; and why Dinah felt at home performing in Empty Nest because the series was filmed before a live audience. The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold is available through Star Alley Press, Amazon.com, Bookshop.com, and DinahManoff.org. The audiobook edition of Jackie Gold is available through Audible.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 on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 645.3: From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at how television covered the riots that broke out in Los Angeles on Apr. 29, 1992. Because Tony and Donna did not live far from the flashpoint of the riots (the intersection of Florence and Normandy in Los Angeles), they had a first-hand view of the chaos that broke out, as it happened. 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/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 645.3: From April 2012: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss how TV news in Los Angeles has never been the same since coverage of the riots that broke out in Los Angeles on Apr. 29, 1992. Topics this segment include Rodney King’s famous “Can we all get along?” speech, calling for peace; why then-L.A. mayor Tom Bradley insisted that KNBC Channel 4, the NBC-TV affiliate in Los Angeles, pause its coverage at 8pm PT on the night of Apr. 30, 1992 to air the final episode of The Cosby Show; and how Bill Cosby himself made an appeal for peace at the end of the broadcast. 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/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 645.4: Tony Award-winning actress, director, and novelist Dinah Manoff chats with Ed about being directed by Robert Redford in the Oscar-winning movie Ordinary People (and how she dramatized some of that experience in her novel, The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold); how Dinah herself became a director while starring in Empty Nest; and why Dinah’s mother, Oscar-winning actress and pioneering director Lee Grant, often faced an uphill battle as a film director until she found the world of documentary filmmaking. The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold is available through Star Alley Press, Amazon.com, Bookshop.com, and DinahManoff.org. 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/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 645.5: Ed welcomes back 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 conversation between John and Carol about how movies continue to shape and influence our culture. Topics this segment include John’s unlikely path to becoming a movie critic; why American movies are part of the culture that shaped the world at large; and the many instances in which the people whose films John criticized the most (including Burt Reynolds, Bob Hope, and Neil Simon) often became his greatest allies. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered withnAdvertiseCast 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/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 654.6: Five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and cultural critic John Barbour (Real People) and Carol Hoenig, the collaborator on John’s memoir, Your Mother’s Not a Virgin talk to Ed about how John was the first critic to review movies on TV news, paving the way for Siskel and Ebert and many, many film critics on television; why John believes that movies are the writer’s medium, not the director’s; and why, when we learn something that impacts us emotionally, we will never forget what we learned. 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 conversation between John and Carol about how movies continue to shape and influence our culture. 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/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 644.2: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of A Fish in the Bathtub (1998), an offbeat comedy starring Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Phyllis Newman, Bob Dishy, and Judy Graubart that also marks one of the few times that Stiller and Meara performed together on film (other than their series of commercials for Blue Nun wines). 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/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 644.2a: Greg Ehrbar discusses the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release of Alice in Wonderland (1933), the first sound-movie adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, featuring an all-star cast that includes Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, W.C. Fields, Edward Everett Horton, Charles Ruggles, Charlotte Henry, Sterling Holloway, and Jack Oakie. 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/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 644.3: Greg Ehrbar reviews the Shirley Temple Storybook Collection, a six-DVD set featuring some of the best episodes of her popular Sunday night series, Shirley Temple’s Storybook (NBC, 1958-1959, 1960-1961). The DVD collection includes adaptations of such beloved children’s classics as The Little Mermaid, Winnie the Pooh, Babes in Toyland, Pippi Longstocking, Kim, The Reluctant Dragon, The Land of Oz, and Madeline, and features such stars as Jonathan Winters, Ray Walston, Martin Landau, Agnes Moorehad, Robert Culp, Sterling Holloway, Margaret Hamilton, John Raitt, David Frankham, and Jonathan Harris. 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/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 644.4: Ed welcomes game show legend, radio host, actor, and novelist Jim MacKrell (Celebrity Sweepstakes, The Game Game, Run Maggie Run, Falen: Semper Fi, Down from the Mountain, Last Call with Jim MacKrell). Topics this segment includes Jim’s early career in radio (including being an on-air personality at KXOL/Fort Worth, Texas at the birth of “Top 40” radio); how our ability to communicate with each other is what makes us innately human; and why Jim describes his career path as “I did what came next.” 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/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 human beings; and what he learned from being in the company of Peter Marshall and Tom Kennedy. Jim’s novels Down from the Mountain, Falen: Semper Fi, and Run Maggie Run are all available at Amazon.com and JMacKrell.com. Jim’s podcast, Last Call with Jim MacKrell, is available wherever you find podcasts. 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/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 at the box office at the time it was originally released, The Daydreamer, in many respects, served as a precursor to the many television specials that Rankin-Bass produced throughout the 1970s. 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/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 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/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 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/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Topics this segment include some of the many ways in Roy and Dale were both ahead of their time, including Roy’s business savvy (and, particularly, his understanding of “branding” into marketing and advertising, long before branding as we know it today came to be), his love of gemstones, and the value he put on loyalty. Your Heroes, My Grandparents: A Granddaughter’s Love is available through Briton Publishing and Amazon.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 on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Love is available through Briton Publishing and Amazon.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 on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices