TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 610.3: From August 2016: Emmy Award winning director Steve Binder ( Elvis: The 1968 Comeback Special, The T.A.M.I. Show) with the back story of "The Touch," the seminal moment of the April 1968 special Petula , starring Petula Clark and Harry Belafonte, in which Clark reached out and touched Belafonte on the arm while they performed the song "On the Path of Glory." Coming on the heels of the C...

TVC 609.1: From January 2019: Ed welcomes Titus Welliver, the actor who plays Harry Bosch on both Amazon Prime's Bosch and the Amazon Freevee follow-up series Bosch: Legacy. 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...

TVC 609.2: From January 2019: Titus Welliver, the actor who plays Harry Bosch on Amazon Prime's Bosch and the Amazon Freevee follow-up series Bosch: Legacy, talks about his background as an artist; his remedies for fighting colds brought on at the end of each season; what he learned from Mark Harmon when they worked together on NCIS; and how he sometimes unwinds by reading Marvel comics and binge-...

TVC 609.3: Ed welcomes back James Moses Black, one of the busiest and most versatile actors in film and television today. James can be currently seen as Captain Browning in Renfield , the horror comedy starring Nicolas Cage, Nicholas Hoult, and Awkwafina that sends up the legend of Dracula. Renfield is now playing in theaters everywhere. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has part...

TVC 609.4: James Moses Black talks to Ed about some of the performers who inspired him to become an actor, which include Robin Williams, James Brown, and Sammy Davis Jr.; his formative years as an actor with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco; and the invaluable advice that Robert Guillaume gave early in James' career. James can currently be seen in Renfield , the horror comedy tha...

TVC 609.5: Greg Ehrbar and Ed discuss The Smith Family (ABC, 1971-1972), the offbeat comedy-drama starring Henry Fonda, Ron Howard, and Darleen Carr that also serves as a fascinating study into the changing of family comedies in the early 1970s. The Smith Family is available on DVD through Visual Entertainment. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to...

TVC 609.6: Ed welcomes actor, screenwriter, and producer Paul Sidhu ( Repeater, Uppercut, Aakhari Decision ). After beginning his career as a dermatologist, Paul successfully transitioned into acting and screenwriting and is now a major force in the world of independent cinema. Repeater is now available for viewing on demand. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with A...

TVC 608.1: From April 2018: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at the 40th anniversary of The Blues Brothers, and how Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi kept the rights to the characters separate and apart from Saturday Night Live . 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 gr...

TVC 608.2: From April 2018: Judy Norton , the actress known around the world as Mary Ellen Walton on The Waltons , talks to Ed about Inclusion Criteria , a psychological thriller that Judy wrote, produced, and stars in that may make you think twice about calling the police in a crisis. Inclusion Criteria is available for streaming on demand . Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has...

TVC 608.3: Judy Norton (Mary Ellen Walton on The Waltons ) talks to Ed about her offbeat web series Disorganized Zone ; the decade she spent as a writer, director and performer in Canada; and working with Broadway star Tammy Grimes on The Tammy Grimes Show. Inclusion Criteria , a psychological thriller that Judy wrote, produced, and stars in, is available for streaming on demand . Want to advertis...

TVC 608.4: A return appearance by Donelle Dadigan, founder and president of The Hollywood Museum, and the goddaughter of Jose Iturbi, the first classical artist to have a Gold Record, and a man who dedicated his life to making classical music accessible worldwide to as many people as possible. Donelle recently collaborated with Grammy Award winner Michael Feinstein on From Hollywood to the World:...

TVC 608.5: Donelle Dadigan, founder and president of The Hollywood Museum, gives us a glimpse of who her godfather, classical pianist and conductor Jose Iturbi, was as a person, plus she mentions some of the new exhibits that are on tap this spring and summer at the Hollywood Museum. From Hollywood to the World: The Rediscovered Recordings of Pianist and Conductor Jose Iturbi is available now wher...

TVC 608.6: Greg Ehrbar discusses the recent Kino Lorber DVD release of The Good Boss (2021), a satire of the corporate world, starring Javier Bardem, that is set in a Spanish workplace. 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...

TVC 607.1: An encore presentation of our October 2015 conversation with Rita Lakin , the Edgar nominated screenwriter and television pioneer who not only created The Rookies , one of Aaron Spelling's first hit series on ABC, but was one of the very first female script writers and producers in network television, opening doors for women in television at a time when the industry was run almost entir...

TVC 607.2: From October 2015: Rita Lakin , Edgar nominated screenwriter and author of The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes from My Life and Career as a Television Writer , talks to Ed about working with Arthur Bernard Lewis and her son Howard Lakin at Lorimar Productions; how she came to develop the Gladdy Gold mystery novel series; and what she learned the most from working alongside Aaron Spelli...

TVC 607.3: Greg Ehrbar discusses The Automat , a charming documentary featuring Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Elliott Gould, Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and General Colin Powell. The Automat is available now on DVD through Kino Lorber. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of...

TVC 607.3a: Greg Ehrbar discusses Billy Flanigan: The Happiest Man on the Earth , a documentary about the life and career of the longest continually contracted Disney entertainment theme park performer in Disney history. Billy Flanigan is now available on DVD through Kino Lorber. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship...

TVC 607.4: Rita Lakin , Edgar nominated screenwriter and author of The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes from My Life and Career as a Television Writer , talks to Ed some of the parallels between her career and that of Peggy Olson, the copywriter played by Elisabeth Moss on AMC's Mad Men . One of the first female writer/producers in network television, Rita opened doors for many other women at a ti...

TVC 607.5: Ed welcomes Emmy Award-winning and Oscar nominated actor Thomas Haden Church ( Wings, Sideways, Ned and Stacey, Divorce, Broken Trail , and the Sandman in the Spider-Man movie franchise). Thomas' latest film, Acidman , is a character piece about a woman (played by Glee star Dianna Agron) who tracks down her estranged father (played by Thomas) in the Oregon wilderness, where he lives alo...

TVC 607.6: Emmy Award-winning and Oscar nominated actor Thomas Haden Church talks to Ed about working with director Alex Lehmann on the development of his character, Lloyd, in Acidman . Acidman is now showing in select theaters across the country. You can also see it on demand on Amazon Prime, Apple+, and other streaming platforms. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered...

TVC 527.4: Ed welcomes actress and author Donzaleigh Abernathy , star of Any Day Now and the youngest daughter of the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy—the man who co-founded the Civil Rights Movement along with his best friend (and Donzaleigh's godfather), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Donzaleigh's book Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and The Civil Right Movement is a pi...

TVC 527.5: Donzaleigh Abernathy tells Ed the backstory of how she came to write Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and The Civil Right Movement , plus she shares stories of her encounters with the likes of Dina Merrill, Dennis Haysbert, Gregory Peck, and Alicia Keys. Donzaleigh is also the lead soloist on "The Listening," a unique social justice choral project insp...

TVC 528.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Donzaleigh Abernathy , star of Lifetime Television's Any Day Now , and the youngest daughter of the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy—the man who co-founded the Civil Rights Movement along with his best friend, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Donzaleigh is the lead soloist on "The Listening," a unique social justice choral project inspired by "Beyo...

TVC 528.6: Actress, author, and vocalist Donzaleigh Abernathy talks to Ed about the direct line between her and national youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman , and how Donzaleigh's father, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy , encouraged Donzaleigh to pursue her career as an artist just before he died. Donzaleigh's book Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and The Civil Righ...

TVC 606.1: From March 2012: Tony, Donna and Ed remember " A House Divided ," the famous episode of  Dallas  that launched the "Who Shot J.R.?" phenomenon of 1980. "A House Divided" originally aired Mar. 21, 1980. 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 wo...