Monthly Archives: September 2021

Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 553: The Jeopardy! Host Debacle: Update with guest Steve Beverly is now available for listening on demand

Posted on September 13, 2021 by admin

The Jeopardy! Host Debacle: Update Original Airdates: Sept. 11-13, 2021 TVC 553.1: Game show historian Steve Beverly helps Ed sort through the latest developments in the ongoing search for a new permanent host of Jeopardy! When Steve visited us in … Continue reading →

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 507: How Network and Cable TV News Covered 9/11 is now available for listening on demand

Posted on September 11, 2021 by admin

How TV News Covered 9/11 Original Airdates: Sept. 11-13, 2020 TVC 507.2: From September 2011: Tony, Donna, and Ed look back at how network and cable TV news covered the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. 9/11’s Impact on … Continue reading →

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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Actress, teacher, and monologist VERONICA REDD with the back story of her very first Hollywood acting appearance—as George Jefferson’s transgender friend, Eddie Stokes/Edie Stokes, in “Once a Friend,” the groundbreaking episode of THE JEFFERSONS that marked one of the first portrayals of a transgender person on network TV—and the moving story of when Veronica realized just how much her performance meant to real-life transgender and transitioning people. Our conversation with Veronica will air in October

Posted on September 10, 2021 by admin
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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Emmy Award-winning set and production designer RAY KLAUSEN with an inside look at some of the amazing visuals he created for the Oscars, the American Music Awards, the Kennedy Center Honors, the Broadway stage, the Las Vegas musical Jubilee, and many of the great variety shows and variety specials from the Golden Era of Television. Ray’s memoir, BEHIND THE SCENES: FROM HOLLYWOOD TO BROADWAY, is available now, both as a print edition and as an eBook, through Amazon.com

Posted on September 9, 2021 by admin
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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Nine-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and humorist ED. WEINBERGER (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Dear John) talks about the three projects on which he collaborated with Ed Asner over the past decade, including the one-man show A Man and His Prostate and the excellent book The Grouchy Historian. Our special two-hour tribute to Ed Asner will air during the weekend of Sept. 24-26. Ed. Weinberger’s new satirical novel, GOTCHA, is available at Amazon.com

Posted on September 8, 2021 by admin
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THE BEST OF ED ASNER on TV Confidential is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast

Posted on September 5, 2021 by admin

The Best of Ed Asner on TVC TV Confidential honors the memory of Ed Asner, the eight-time Emmy Award-winning actor known around the world as Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and his own show, Lou Grant. … Continue reading →

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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: JAMES ROSIN, actor, author, and the publisher of Classic TV Series Books, on the tremendous responsibility that actor NEHEMIAH PERSOFF always took to both his craft (whether performing for film, TV, or the stage) and to the Jewish people, all throughout his life and career, and how Persoff created a new career for himself as a painter and sketch artist over the past three decades. Jim has just published Nick’s memoirs, THE MANY FACES OF NEHEMIAH, a few weeks after Persoff celebrated his 102nd birthday. THE MANY FACES OF NEHEMIAH is available through ClassicTVSeriesBooks.com and Amazon.com. Jim Rosin will be appearing at the Williamsburg Nostalgia Fest in Williamsburg, VA on Thursday 11/11 thru Saturday 11/13

Posted on September 3, 2021 by admin
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