Monthly Archives: April 2018

via @nytimes: Emmy Award-winning producer Paul Junger Witt dies at age 75

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/04/27/arts/ap-us-obit-paul-junger-witt.html

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Coming up next week on TV CONFIDENTIAL: Get to know Neil Sandilands, the man who plays archvillain Clifford Devoe, The Thinker, on The Flash

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via TimeLife: Just in time for Father’s Day: Twelve, never-before-released episodes of The Jackie Gleason Show available on DVD beginning Tuesday 5/15, including seven Honeymooners sketches that have not been seen since they originally aired

“How swee-eet it is!” Unseen for more than 50 years, at long last, The Jackie Gleason Show is back! From 1966-1970, Gleason, everyone’s favorite working-class hero, entertained enthralled audiences across the country with his eponymous TV Variety Show featuring hilarious sketches, celebrity … Continue reading

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Coming Tuesday 5/8 from Time-Life: Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In: The Complete Fourth Season on DVD

The ’60s gave us “in-crowds,” “be-ins” and “love-ins,” and starting in 1968, the happening place for free-form comedy was Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, broadcast from beautiful downtown Burbank. Straight man Dan Rowan and wisecracking co-host Dick Martin led a gaggle of … Continue reading

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via @latimes: The cost of an annual Amazon Prime membership in the U.S. will rise to $119 from $99 starting Friday 5/11. The increased price will apply to renewals starting Saturday 6/16

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-prime-membership-20180427-story.html

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Next weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL: Joseph Lyle Taylor on how Frank Hooper, his character on the Amazon Prime drama Sneaky Pete, is basically a freelancer trying to get by in the gig economy, except that he happens to kill people

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Coming next weekend to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Film historian Leonard Maltin on his friend Chuck McCann, why the term “instant classic” is an oxymoron, and how he nearly hyperventilated after interviewing Mel Brooks for his podcast

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Attention, subscribers to the TV CONFIDENTIAL podcast: The URL for our RSS feed has changed

For those who subscribe to the TV CONFIDENTIAL podcast: The URL for our RSS feed has been changed to http://www.spreaker.com/show/2906334/episodes/feed Please update your devices, if you have not already done so. If you do not subscribe to our podcasts, but would … Continue reading

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Attention, all members of the TV CONFIDENTIAL social network page hosted by Ning: We will be shutting down that Ning page as of Tuesday 5/8

As some of you may know, we have been revamping our website over the past few weeks. Our new URL is http://www.televisionconfidential.com. There, you can still listen to the last ten episodes of our program on demand, for free, or … Continue reading

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via @latimes: Tom Brokaw pushes back hard at allegations of sexual harassment in the 1990s

http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-brokaw-harassment-20180427-story.html

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