Monthly Archives: May 2020

Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Four-time Emmy Award-winning talk show host, producer, and author Bill Boggs (Midday Live, Comedy Tonight, The Morton Downey Jr. Show, Bill Boggs Corner Table, Talk Show Confidential) on how listening to the radio as a kid sparked his interest in interviewing people, and how his career in television began with an accident involving a piece of blueberry pie. Bill’s latest book, THE ADVENTURES OF SPIKE THE WONDER DOG, is a comic novel, loosely based on his own career, that also pokes fun at today’s media and our political culture

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 494 with guest Eric Roberts is now available for listening on demand

Eric Roberts and The Rocket Original Airdates: May 22-24, 2020 TVC 495.6: Ed welcomes Oscar nominee and three-time Golden Globe Award nominee Eric Roberts (King of the Gypsies, Star 80, Runaway Train, Less Than Perfect, Heroes). One of the most … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 494 with guest Steven Taibbi is available for listening on demand

Steven Tiabbi on The Importance of Being Grateful Original Airdates: May 22-24, 2020 TVC 495.1: A return appearance by author Steven Taibbi (Grateful Guilt: Living in the Shadow of My Heart). Born with a cyanotic heart and three birth defects, … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 494: The New Adventures of Superman on DVD is available for listening on demand

Superman: The First Cartoon Series Produced by Filmation Original Airdates: May 22-24, 2020 TVC 495.4: Greg and Ed discuss the DVD release of The New Adventures of Superman (CBS, 1966-1967), the first animated series produced by Filmation Associates. Topics include … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 494: Monster Squad and Drak Pack on DVD is available for listening on demand

Monster Squad and Drak Pack on DVD Original Airdates: May 22-24, 2020 TVC 495.5: Greg and Ed discuss the DVD releases of Monster Squad (NBC, 1976-1977) and Drak Pack (CBS, 1980), two Saturday morning series about that reimagined Dracula, the … Continue reading

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via BHBPR: Meet the cast of Mr. Belvedere via Zoom on Friday 5/29 beginning 8pm ET 5pm PT. Information on how to register for this webinar appears below

Fans and friends of Mr. Belvedere (ABC, 1985-1990) can join series stars Bob Uecker, Ilene Graff, Rob Stone, Tracy Tofte Wells, and Brice Beckham for a special Zoom Reunion webinar on Friday, May 29 beginning at 8pm ET 5pm PT. … Continue reading

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TV CONFIDENTIAL welcomes its newest affiliate, WKXO AM 1500/FM 103.5 (Lexington-Fayette/Richmond/Berea, Kentucky). They will carry our show Saturdays 9am ET beginning June 6

TV CONFIDENTIAL welcomes our newest affiliate, WKXO AM 1500/FM 103.5 (Lexington-Fayette/Richmond/Berea, Kentucky). They will carry our show Saturdays 9am ET 6am PT beginning Saturday, June 6. Welcome aboard!

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via BHBPR: General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, and The Young and the Restless each net more than twenty nominations for this year’s Daytime Emmy® Awards, which will air on network television for the first time since 2012. Both CBS and Amazon Prime Video received more than fifty-five nominations, leading all networks. CBS will air the 47th Annual Daytime Emmy® Awards as a two-hour special on Friday 6/26 beginning at 8pm ET and PT

May 21, 2020 —  The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) today announced the nominees for the 47th Annual Daytime Emmy® Awards, which will be presented Friday, June 26 on CBS beginning at 8pm ET and PT. The … Continue reading

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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Screenwriter and novelist Marvin J. Wolf on why Vietnam War veterans are every bit as worthy of respect and admiration as the generations of soldiers that preceded them. Marv is the co-author, along with Joseph L. Galloway, of THEY WERE SOLDIERS: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans, an inspiring book that profiles fifty men and women who not only served in Vietnam, but went on to make further sacrifices and important contributions to their community and our country at large. Among the veterans profiled in THEY WERE SOLDIERS are former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone

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Ken Osmond, the actor known around the world as Eddie Haskell on Leave It to Beaver, died earlier today at age 76. We had an opportunity to speak to Ken in October 2014. It was a well rounded conversation that covered not only his showbiz life before and after Leave It to Beaver, but his distinguished career as a peace officer with the LAPD. If you have not hear that conversation, it’s available for listening on demand. Our condolences to Ken’s family, friends, loved ones and fans

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