Monthly Archives: July 2020

Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Singer/actress ILENE GRAFF shares a few memories of Carl Reiner, plus a recap of her recent Zoom reunion with the cast of MR. BELVEDERE

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For our listeners who are members of the Television Academy: Actress PERI GILPIN and actor ROGER BURTON are both under consideration for Emmy nominations for Outstanding Actress and Actor for a Short Form Comedy, respectively, and while their series, OLD GUY, is a contender for a nomination for Outstanding Short Form Comedy. If you have not already done so, watch OLD GUY at OldGuyComedy.com and then consider nominating Peri, Roger, and the show

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This weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL: Award-winning actress PERI GILPIN answers listener email questions about her stage career, her voiceover work, and, of course, playing Roz Doyle on FRASIER. Peri’s latest series, OLD GUY, is a critically acclaimed six-episode comedy that provides a satiric look at how the film and TV industry often portrays older people, especially those in their seventies and eighties. All six episodes of OLD GUY are available for streaming on demand, for free, at OldGuyComedy.com

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Ed Gross profiles Barbara Feldon in this excellent piece for CLOSER WEEKLY that includes archived comments from the actress herself about her life and career before, during and after GET SMART, plus observations from Jim Colucci, Geoffrey Mark, and TV CONFIDENTIAL’s Ed Robertson

Here’s What Happened to Actress Barbara Feldon Before, During and After Playing Agent 99 on ‘Get Smart’ The podcast of our 2013 interview with Barbara Feldon on TV Confidential is available for listening on demand:

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via BHBPR: Marvin Roy, the legendary illusionist known around the world as Mr. Electric, dies at age 95. Over the course of his fifty-five year career, he and his wife, Carol Williams, performed in venues spanning five continents, as well as on such popular TV shows as The Ed Sullivan Show, The Hollywood Palace, The Tonight Show, and The Merv Griffin Show

Marvin Roy, the internationally renowned magician who set a standard for variety artists in a career that spanned five continents and more than five decades, died Wednesday, July 1 at age 95. Born Marvin Levy in April 1925, Roy began … Continue reading

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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Emmy nominee TED BERGMAN, youngest staff writer of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and one of the most sought-after writer/producers in TV comedy and TV variety for more than four decades. Ted’s memoir, CONFESSIONS OF A ROGUE TV COMEDY WRITER: Forty Years of Fame, Fear and Combat Inside the Writers Room, not only includes behind the scenes stories of working with the likes of Garry Shandling, Steve Martin, Redd Foxx, Flip Wilson, and Jonathan Winters, but captures the highs, lows and various in-betweens that just about every professional writer experiences, no matter which genre or industry. Confessions of a Rogue TV Comedy Writer is available in paperback and as an eBook through Amazon and other online retailers

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