TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

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TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television brings you lively conversations every week with the stars, writers, directors and other creative people behind the scenes of some of America's most popular shows. An engaging blend of talk and entertainment, TV Confidential often compares today’s programs with those of the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    A Backstage Look at SNL

    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 an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that began its fiftieth season on NBC in October 2024. Featuring more than 250 interviews, including many of the show’s original writers and SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels, Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live was hailed by the Associated Press as “maybe the best book ever written about television.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    27 min

  2. 1 DAY AGO

    The Chaos Behind the Scenes of SNL

    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 how it took about four episodes for the series to find its footing. Recently updated to commemorate the show’s fiftieth season on NBC, Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live was hailed by the Associated Press as “maybe the best book ever written about television.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    22 min
  3. Corinne Britti of Saturday Night

    1 DAY AGO

    Corinne Britti of Saturday Night

    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 Reitman, that portrays the chaos behind the scenes at NBC in the ninety minutes leading up to the premiere episode of Saturday Night Live on Oct. 11, 1975. Saturday Night is now playing theaters everywhere. A rabid sewer in real life, Corinne also hand-crafted the puppets featured in Ice-T’s award-winning music video for “The Hate Is Real.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    24 min

  4. 1 DAY AGO

    Robert Crane, author of My UnHollywood Family

    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 his famous dad—mostly told from the perspective of his mother’s side of the family—and the lifelong impact that his dad continues to have on him, his mom, and his siblings. It is also a story that will resonate with anyone who has survived a broken marriage, grown up in a dysfunctional household, navigated relationships with step parents, or dealt with narcissistic personalities at home or at work. Topics this segment include how the death of Bob’s stepfather, Charles Sloan, spurred him to write this book, and the pivotal conversation that Chuck had with Bob’s dad in June 1978, less than two weeks before Bob Crane was murdered. My UnHollywood Family is available now through Oregon Greystone Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    26 min

  5. 1 DAY AGO

    The Drive of Bob Crane

    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 learned the craft of editing by watching his dad edit segments for his KNX radio show every week in the “back room” of the Crane family home. Bob’s latest book, My UnHollywood Family, is available now through Oregon Greystone Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    26 min

  6. 1 DAY AGO

    James Sutorius, James Garner, and Angela Lansbury

    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 which James shares stories from his fifty-year career in stage, movies, and television, and why he always returns to the works of Shakespeare for sustenance. In this segment, James shares a few memories of working in television alongside James Garner, Peter Falk, Angela Lansbury, and Stephen Caffrey. He also talks about the responsibility he felt to the entire cast and crew when he was the lead in his own series, The Andros Targets (CBS, 1977). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    19 min

  7. 3 NOV

    William Keck on overcoming his infamous past as a tabloid news reporter

    TVC 665.1: Ed welcomes William Keck, longtime entertainment reporter for such publications as the National Enquirer, People, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times, Emmy-nominated producer for the Hallmark Channel, Discovery Channel, and NBC, and the author of When You Step Upon A Star: Cringeworthy Confessions of a Tabloid Bad Boy, a collection of some of Will’s most memorable celebrity encounters that, for one reason or another, all went horribly wrong. Will’s book chronicles his evolution from a lonely only child obsessed with Hollywood stars, to an eager tabloid snoop who hid personal secrets of his own, to a well-respected journalist who ultimately learns from his mistakes, changes his ways, and ultimately befriends most of the celebrities that he had once wronged. When You Step Upon A Star is available wherever books are sold through Jacobs Brown Media Group. Topics this segment include Will’s longtime love for TV families and the stars of nostalgia TV, and some of his early mishaps with celebrities, including how he came to be the only reporter who managed to tick off both Dick Van Dyke and Andy Griffith.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    26 min

  8. 3 NOV

    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 June 1994 (a few days after Nicole’s funeral), when he was a reporter with the National Enquirer; how he managed to win the trust of Mrs. Brown almost immediately, despite invading her privacy, simply by asking the right question; and how Will’s exclusive access to the Brown family helped changed the public perception of the Enquirer from tabloid rag to the most reliable source of information about the murder of Nicole and the subsequent trial of O.J. Simpson. When You Step Upon A Star is available wherever books are sold through Jacobs Brown Media Group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    22 min
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TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television brings you lively conversations every week with the stars, writers, directors and other creative people behind the scenes of some of America's most popular shows. An engaging blend of talk and entertainment, TV Confidential often compares today’s programs with those of the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.

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