Monthly Archives: September 2021

Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Author PHIL ROSENZWEIG on how Reginald Rose’s 12 ANGRY MEN not only evolved from a one-hour play for television into becoming a motion picture classic, but played an integral role in movie studios turning to television works as legitimate sources for major motion pictures. Phil’s latest book, REGINALD ROSE AND THE JOURNEY OF 12 ANGRY MEN, is available wherever books are sold through Fordham University Press and Amazon.com

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Ernie Kovacs, Knuckles & Nash, and The Radio Career of Bob Crane: Next on TVC

Please join us this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL for encore presentations of our conversations with Emmy Award-winning talk show host and producer John Barbour (Real People, Ernie Kovacs: Television’s Original Genius) and authors Carol Ford and Linda Groundwater (Bob Crane: … Continue reading

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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 524: Special Tribute to Ed Asner is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast. The complete program runs about three hours and includes an hour of additional content that we were not able to include in the weekend broadcast due to time limitations. Please enjoy!

Ed Asner: An Actor We’ll Always Treasure Original Airdates: Sept. 24-26, 2021 TVC 524.1: A program-length celebration of the life and career of Ed Asner, the eight-time Emmy Award-winning actor who passed away this past Sunday, Aug. 29 at age … Continue reading

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via TIME LIFE: Experience the greatness of Richard Pryor with THE ULTIMATE RICHARD PRYOR COLLECTION: UNCENSORED, a remarkable, never before released DVD collection featuring twenty-six hours of the very best of Pryor, capturing the full scope of his career. Available exclusively at TimeLife.com/RichardPryor

“The Picasso of our profession” ~  Jerry Seinfeld “Complete genius” ~ Jamie Foxx “Transcendent” ~ Jon Stewart “There’ll never be anybody as important as Richard Pryor.” ~ Howie Mandel Fairfax, VA (Sept. 25, 2021)—Richard Pryor was born to tell it like it is. From Peoria, … Continue reading

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via B. Harlan Boll Public Relations: WOLF BLITZER, NORAH O’DONNELL, and CARLOS WATSON are among those tapped to host the 42nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, which will be streamed live on consecutive nights as two individual ceremonies. Categories for News Programming will be presented Tuesday 9/28 at Watch.TheEmmys.TV, beginning at 8pm ET 5pm PT. Categories from Documentaries will be presented Wednesday 9/29, also at Watch.TheEmmys.TV beginning at 8pm ET 5pm PT

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES — Sept. 22, 2021 — The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced the hosts and presenters for the 42nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards, which will take place next week on consecutive nights … Continue reading

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Special Two-Hour Tribute to Ed Asner: Next on TVC

We will pay tribute to eight-time Emmy Award-winning actor Ed Asner this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Sept. 24-26 at the following times and venues: WBRT AM 1320 and FM 97.1 Bardstown, KY Friday 9/24 9am ET 6am PT Listen … Continue reading

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Michele Lee, plus Sex and the City and Us: Next on TVC

Singer/actress Michele Lee and television historian and author Jennifer Armstrong will join us this weekend on a special encore presentation of TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Sept. 17-19 at the following times and venues: WBRT AM 1320 and FM 97.1 Bardstown, KY … Continue reading

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via New Masses Media: ALEXIS HUNTER, author of JOI LANSING: A Body to Die For, will sign copies of the revised edition of her book on Monday 10/18 at the historic Stonewall Inn in New York City, the birthplace of contemporary LGBTQ movement, from 6pm to 8pm. The event will also celebrate the forthcoming miniseries adaptation of JOI LANSING: A Body to Die For. Alexis will read a passage from her book that night, followed by a panel discussion featuring Alexis, Vincent DeSalvo (producer of the miniseries) and Joseph Dougherty (the project’s screenwriter). Cabaret performers will also be on hand to present music appropriate to the subject and era. ALEXIS HUNTER will join us in October on TV CONFIDENTIAL. In the meantime, our heartfelt congratulations to her

New York, NY, Sept. 12, 2021: Joi Lansing may have been the last of Hollywood’s blonde bombshells, but she was also one lost to its autocratic, sexist, indeed deadly system of control. With Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For, … Continue reading

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via TIME LIFE: THE SOUL OF THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, a 10-disc collectors edition DVD set featuring more than 130 live, uncut performances from 1972-1980, is now available at retail for the very first time wherever DVDs are sold. Many of these performances have not been available for home viewing since their original NBC broadcast

Fairfax, VA (July 27, 2021) – The ’70s was a special time for soul music, a decade filled with legendary artists like Al Green, Teddy Pendergrass, The O’Jays, Marvin Gaye, The Stylistics and so many more. And for home viewers, it was also a boon, … Continue reading

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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Award-winning journalist and best-selling author RAY RICHMOND on the timeless appeal and amazing versatility of Betty White. Ray’s latest book, BETTY WHITE: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life, is a visual salute to the eighty-year career of the First Lady of Television that includes stunning photographs (many of which have not been published before), loving tributes by such friends and colleagues as Ed Asner, Gavin MacLeod, Carol Burnett, and Candice Bergen, plus a host of great stories and surprising new facts. BETTY WHITE: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life will become available in bookstores everywhere on Tuesday 11/30 from our friends at The Quarto Group

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