Ed Robertson ~ TVConfidential,
Syndicated Host
Tuesday Evening 9:30 p.m. to 11:30 a.m.
ARCHIVES:
June 4
Emmy Award-winning producer and director Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Saving Grace, Pretty Little Liars)
Stephen Battaglio, business editor for TV Guide magazine and author of Election Night: A Television History, David Susskind: A Televised Life and From Yesterday to Today: Six Decades of America's Favorite Morning Show
Writer, producer and comedian Dan Farren (Story Salon, SchmoesKnow.com)
June 11
Game show producer, creator and host Monty Hall (Let's Make a Deal, Split Second)
Actress and playwright Jane Press (My Mother's Keeper)
June 18
Emmy Award-winning writer David Pollock (M*A*S*H, Cheers, Frasier, The Carol Burnett Show), author of Bob and Ray: Keener Than Most Persons: The Backstayge Story of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding
June 25
Singer/actress Peggy King (The George Gobel Show, Off the Cuff)
July 2
Television writer and author Bob Mills (The Laugh Makers: A Behind-the-Scenes Tribute to Bob Hope's Incredible Gag Makers)
Television historian and author David Hofstede (Comfort TV, Obsessed with TV, What Were They Thinking?)
Author, journalist and music historian Jon Burlingame (The Music of James Bond)
Syndicated columnist Jane Boursaw (Reel Life with Jane, TV Worth Watching)
May 7
Actress Shelley Morrison (Will and Grace, The Flying Nun)
Producer, writer and director Walter Dominguez (Weaving the Past: Journey of Discovery)
David Michaels, Emmy Award-winning producer/director, and senior executive director of the Daytime Emmy Awards broadcast
May 14
Television historian and author David Hofstede (Comfort TV, Obsessed with TV, What Were They Thinking?)
May 21
Author Anne Serling (As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling)
Author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong (Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted, and All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic)
Apr. 2
Actress, author and comedienne Geri Jewell (The Facts of Life, Deadwood, I'm Walking as Straight as I Can)
Apr. 9
Talk show host and game show emcee Jim Peck (The Big ShowDown, Second Chance, I Remember)
Actor and author Peter Ford (Glenn Ford: A Life)
Apr. 16
Actress and author Karen Kondazian (The Whip, Shannon, James Dean, Shootout at the OK Corral)
Apr. 23
Author, journalist and music historian Jon Burlingame (The Music of James Bond)
Apr. 30
Actor, director, composer and author Michael St. John (Hollywood Through the Back Door)
Mar. 5
Producers Christopher Lewis and Linda Lewis, co-founders of The Entertainment Group and curators of the Loretta Young Estate
Screenwriter and author James Rosin (Naked City: The Television Series)
Mar. 12
Award-winning journalist and author Kathleen Sharp (Blood Medicine, In Good Faith, Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire)
Actor Chris Robinson (Twelve O'Clock High, General Hospital, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Forsaken)
Mar. 19
Actress and author Gloria Loring (Days of Our Lives, Coincidence is God's Way of Remaining Anonymous)
Mar. 26
Josh Mills, owner of Ediad Productions and the curator of both the Edie Adams estate and the estate of Ernie Kovacs
Today's Show: Joseph Dougherty, Ernie Kovacs, plus a Super Bowl Preview of Sorts: Next on TVC
Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Joseph Dougherty, producer/comedian Dan Farren and pop culture author Wesley Hyatt will join us on the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, Tuesday at 10:30pm ET, 7:30pm PT on Passionate World Radio.
This week's program will include a tribute to the life and career of Ernie Kovacs, the legendary comedian whose influence on television is still evident today, particularly on late night shows such as Saturday Night Live and The Late Show with David Letterman. At a time when most network executives still considered television to be nothing more than "radio with pictures," Ernie Kovacs was among the first - if not the first - to really understand the visual possibilities of the medium. Joining us for our panel discussion will be Emmy Award-winning writer/producer (and noted Kovacs fan) Joseph Dougherty (Pretty Little Liars, thirtysomething), comedian, producer, and comedy scholar Dan Farren (Story Salon), and Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen.
Also joining us this week will be author and television historian Wesley Hyatt (Television's Top 100: The Most Watched American Broadcasts, 1960-2010, Kicking Off the Week: A History of Monday Night Football on ABC Television) with a look at Super Bowl ratings, past, present and future. Super Bowl Sunday is usually the biggest day of the year in television; last year's Super Bowl drew a record 111.3 million viewers, making it the most-watched TV show in U.S. history. Wes believes that this year's contest between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers could draw an even bigger television audience than ever before. We'll ask him why when he joins us in our first hour.
