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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
Actors Michael Learned and Titus Welliver and authors Douglas Howard and David Bianculli will join us this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Friday at 7pm ET and PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org.
Known around the world as Olivia Walton, the matriarch of The Waltons, four-time Emmy Award-winning actress Michael Learned also has enjoyed an extensive stage career, on and off Broadway, including productions of Steel Magnolias, The Best Man, The Sisters Rosenweig, and the national tour of On Golden Pond. She is currently starring, along with Lance Nichols, in the Laguna Playhouse production of Driving Miss Daisy through Sunday, January 27.
Michael can also be seen, opposite John Wesley, in Second Acts, a short film directed by Anya Adams and produced by Gerry Pass, plus she will be one of the three recipients of this year’s Icon Award at the annual Oscars party on Sunday, February 24. Michael Learned will join us in our first hour.
Also joining us this weekend will be Titus Welliver, the actor who stars as LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch on Bosch, the Amazon Prime series based on the bestselling novels by Michael Connelly. Once described as “the real reason that you need to get Amazon Prime,” Titus has also appeared in such shows as Deadwood, NYPD Blue, Third Watch, The Twilight Zone, The Closer, Star Trek: Voyager, The Last Ship, The Good Wife, NCIS, Sons of Anarchy, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Lost, while his motion picture credits include Navy SEALs, The Doors, Mobsters, Zero Tolerance, Mulholland Falls, Air Force One, Gone Baby Gone, Argo, and Transformers: Age of Extinction.
Season Five of Bosch will premiere later in 2019 on Amazon Prime, while the series has already been renewed for a sixth season. Titus Welliver will join us in our second hour.
Plus: We will play Part 2 of our conversation with Douglas Howard and David Bianculli, co-editors of Television Finales: From Howdy Doody to Girls, a new book that explores seventy-one of the most notable series finales over the past five decades. Among other topics this week, we’ll look at the controversial endings of St. Elsewhere, Seinfeld, and The Sopranos and the landmark final episode of M*A*S*H. Douglas Howard and David Bianculli will join us in our first hour.
TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television
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Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Join us as we look back on two iconic TV shows (one from the ’70s, the other from the ’80s) on the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 11pm ET, 8pm PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org.
Actress Susan Olsen (Cindy on The Brady Bunch) and author Ted Nichelson are scheduled to join us in our first hour. They’ll be talking about their new book, Love to Love You Bradys, an inside look at the making of the short-lived but long remembered Brady Bunch Variety Hour, which aired on ABC as an occasional series during the spring of 1977. Featuring interviews with nearly all of the original Brady cast members, as well as such behind-the-scenes personnel as Bruce Vilanch and Paul Shafer, the book is an insightful look at the television industry that also happens to chronicle the strangest chapter in Brady Bunch history.
Then in our second hour, we’ll welcome back Joseph Dougherty, the Emmy-winning writer, producer and director behind thirtysomething, Judging Amy, Saved, Saving Grace and other quality television series. We’ll talk about these shows and more… we certainly hope you’ll join us.
TV CONFIDENTIAL with Ed Robertson and Frankie Montiforte
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Tags:1970s film and television, 1980s television, brady bunch variety hour, carol brady, cindy brady, classic television, classic tv characters, Comedy Series, film and tv actors, florence henderson, joseph dougherty, judging amy, love to love you bradys, mike brady, musical performers, now and again, once and again, robert reed, saved, saving grace, susan olsen, ted nichelson, television history, the brady bunch, thirtysomething, timothy busfield, Variety shows
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
“I think it helped that I had four young children of my own at the time,” the singer/actress said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. “I understood what it was to be a parent. I also knew what it was to have longings as a child. Plus we all worked very hard and had a special feeling for each other. I still see all my ‘children.’ Eve Plumb [Jan Brady] came to my show in L.A.”
Henderson is bringing her one-woman show, “All The Lives of Me: A Musical Journey,” to the Rrazz Room at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco for a one-week engagement (Jan. 5 thru Jan. 10). For more information, or to read the complete interview with the star of The Brady Bunch, click on the link below:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/01/DD3B1B8Q1J.DTL#ixzz0bZKLliN7
And speaking of The Brady Bunch, Susan Olsen (“Cindy Brady”) is scheduled to join us on the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 11pm ET, 8pm PT on Share-a-Vision Radio. She’ll be talking about her new book, Love to Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, along with her co-author Ted Nichelson.
Ed Robertson
Co-Host, TV CONFIDENTIAL
Every other Tues 11pm ET, 8pm PT
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Tags:1970s film and television, all the lives of me a musical journey, brady bunch variety hour, carol brady, cindy brady, classic television, classic tv characters, Comedy Series, film and tv actors, florence henderson, love to love you bradys, mike brady, musical performers, robert reed, rrazz room san francisco, susan olsen, ted nichelson, television history, the brady bunch, Variety shows
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
If George Eckstein were just remembered for co-writing “The Judgment,” the record-setting two-part concluding episode of The Fugitive, that would’ve been enough to leave his mark in television. But Eckstein’s accomplishments beyond “The Judgment” were impressive in their own right. In addition to penning some of the best episodes of the Fugitive series (including “Ill Wind,” featuring Jeanette Nolan and John McIntire), Eckstein wrote for several other popular TV shows in the ’50s and ’60s, including Gunsmoke, Dr. Kildare, The Invaders and The Untouchables. He also went on to become a successful producer for Universal Television in the late 60s and 1970s, with credits including such series and TV-movies as The Name of the Game, Banacek and a taut little thriller called Duel that, besides being a really good movie, put a then-unknown director named Steven Spielberg on the map.
I had the pleasure of speaking to George Eckstein on several occasions throughout the 1990s, first for my book The Fugitive Recaptured, then for a history of The Untouchables that I wrote for Television Chronicles. He was also very generous with his time, not to mention very gracious.
The final episode of The Fugitive, of course, was seen by a whopping 72 percent of the television viewing audience when it originally aired on Aug. 29, 1967. That figure has has been topped just twice in the 42 years since, first by the “Who Done It?” episode of Dallas (aka the episode that finally answered the question “Who Shot J.R.?”) on Nov. 21, 1980, then by “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen,” the series finale of M*A*S*H, which originally aired on Feb. 28, 1983.
Read the obituary on George Eckstein from The Los Angeles Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-george-eckstein13-2009sep13,0,305987.story
Ed Robertson
Co-Host, TV CONFIDENTIAL
Author, THE FUGITIVE RECAPTURED and other books on television
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Film and TV actor Bernie Casey and veteran CNN entertainment correspondent Bill Tush will be our special guests this week on a star-studded edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 10pm-midnight ET, 7pm-9pm PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org.
Known for his roles in such diverse films, TV-movies and series as Sharky’s Machine, Revenge of the Nerds, Never Say Never Again, The Streets of San Francisco, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Roots: The Next Generation, Harris and Company and the original Brian’s Song, Bernie Casey is also an esteemed painter and poet with many interesting stories to share. Among his recent credits is When I Find The Ocean, in which he stars as a tugboat captain who befriends a young white girl amidst of civil unrest in the United States in the early 1960s. Bernie Casey will be joining us during our first hour, beginning at 10:10pm ET, 7:10pm PT.
Then in our second hour, we’ll welcome Bill Tush, who first joined forces with Ted Turner in the mid 1970s at Turner’s then-struggling Atlanta-based television station, WTCG Channel 17. A jack of all trades, Tush anchored the late night news, did commercials, hosted movies and eventually became the original face and voice of Superstation WTBS. Tush then hosted a groundbreaking weekly sketch comedy series, Tush, which introduced Jan Hooks (Designing Women) and Bonnie and Terry Turner (Third Rock from the Sun, That ’70s Show), before joining CNN, where he was the anchor and entertainment correspondent for CNN Showbiz Today for more than 20 years. Bill Tush will be joining us at approximately 11:05pm ET, 8:05pm PT.
If you have questions for either of our guests, and would like to participate in our program, we invite you to join Frankie Montiforte and me this Tuesday, Feb. 10 beginning at 10pm ET, 7pm on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org. The phone number, as always, is (800) 407-KSAV (5728); email address is talk@tvconfidential.net.
Ed Robertson
Co-Host, TV CONFIDENTIAL
Every other Tuesday at 10pm ET, 7pm PT
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www.tvconfidential.net
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Also available as a podcast via iTunes and FeedBurner
Tags:2008 presidential campaign, 2008 television season, african american actors, barack obama, bay city blues, bernie casey, bill tush, blaxplotation films, bonnie turner, brian's song, classic television, classic tv characters, cnn, designing women, gonna git you sucka, groundbreaking comedy series, jan hooks, revenge of the nerds, Roots, saturday night live, sharkys machine, showbiz today, superstaion wtbs, ted turner, Television, television history, terry turner, that 70s show, third rock from the sun, tush, tv commentary, u n jefferson, when i find the ocean, wtcg channel 17
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Singer/actress Stepfanie Kramer will be our special guest this as TV CONFIDENTIAL expans to two hours, beginning Tuesday, Jan. 13 at 10pm ET, 7pm PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org.
Though best known for playing Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, the “Brass Cupcake” on the long-running NBC crime drama Hunter, Stepfanie Kramer is a versatile performer who has appeared in many top-rated made-for-TV movies, miniseries and critically acclaimed independent feature films. She is also an accomplished singer, composer and lyricist whose musical talents have been praised by the likes of Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr., Brandon Tartikoff, Harry Belafonte and Stephen J. Cannell.
If you’re a fan of Stepfanie Kramer, if you’ve enjoyed her work on Hunter or have questions about her other work in television and music, we invite you to join us this Tuesday, Jan. 13 beginning at our new time, 10pm-midnight ET, 7pm-9pm PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org. Phone number is (800) 407-KSAV (5728). If you have a question or comment that you’d like to email in advance, the address, as always, is talk@tvconfidential.net.
Ed Robertson
Co-Host, TV CONFIDENTIAL
Every other Tuesday at 10pm ET, 7pm PT
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www.tvconfidential.net
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Tags:bob hope, brandon tartikoff, brass cupcake, classic television, classic tv characters, classic tv crime dramas, fred dryer, harry belafonte, hunter, must see tv, nbc, nbc shows, nbc shows 1980s, roy huggins, stepfanie kramer, stephen j. cannell, Television, television historian, television history, tv commentary, we got it made
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Bernie Casey and Bill Tush: This Week on TV CONFIDENTIAL
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009Film and TV actor Bernie Casey and veteran CNN entertainment correspondent Bill Tush will be our special guests this week on a star-studded edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 10pm-midnight ET, 7pm-9pm PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org.
Known for his roles in such diverse films, TV-movies and series as Sharky’s Machine, Revenge of the Nerds, Never Say Never Again, The Streets of San Francisco, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Roots: The Next Generation, Harris and Company and the original Brian’s Song, Bernie Casey is also an esteemed painter and poet with many interesting stories to share. Among his recent credits is When I Find The Ocean, in which he stars as a tugboat captain who befriends a young white girl amidst of civil unrest in the United States in the early 1960s. Bernie Casey will be joining us during our first hour, beginning at 10:10pm ET, 7:10pm PT.
Then in our second hour, we’ll welcome Bill Tush, who first joined forces with Ted Turner in the mid 1970s at Turner’s then-struggling Atlanta-based television station, WTCG Channel 17. A jack of all trades, Tush anchored the late night news, did commercials, hosted movies and eventually became the original face and voice of Superstation WTBS. Tush then hosted a groundbreaking weekly sketch comedy series, Tush, which introduced Jan Hooks (Designing Women) and Bonnie and Terry Turner (Third Rock from the Sun, That ’70s Show), before joining CNN, where he was the anchor and entertainment correspondent for CNN Showbiz Today for more than 20 years. Bill Tush will be joining us at approximately 11:05pm ET, 8:05pm PT.
If you have questions for either of our guests, and would like to participate in our program, we invite you to join Frankie Montiforte and me this Tuesday, Feb. 10 beginning at 10pm ET, 7pm on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org. The phone number, as always, is (800) 407-KSAV (5728); email address is talk@tvconfidential.net.
Ed Robertson
Co-Host, TV CONFIDENTIAL
Every other Tuesday at 10pm ET, 7pm PT
Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org
www.tvconfidential.net
blog.tvconfidential.net
Also available as a podcast via iTunes and FeedBurner
Tags:2008 presidential campaign, 2008 television season, african american actors, barack obama, bay city blues, bernie casey, bill tush, blaxplotation films, bonnie turner, brian's song, classic television, classic tv characters, cnn, designing women, gonna git you sucka, groundbreaking comedy series, jan hooks, revenge of the nerds, Roots, saturday night live, sharkys machine, showbiz today, superstaion wtbs, ted turner, Television, television history, terry turner, that 70s show, third rock from the sun, tush, tv commentary, u n jefferson, when i find the ocean, wtcg channel 17
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