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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 537.5 with guest Jay Moriarty is available for listening on demand

The Cast of The Jeffersons Original Airdates: Apr. 30-May 2, 2021 TVC 537.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with award-winning television writer/producer Jay Moriarty. Jay’s memoir, Honky in the House: Writing & Producing The Jeffersons, not … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 536.4 with guest Jay Moriarty is available for listening on demand

Behind The Scenes of The Jeffersons Original Airdates: Apr. 23-25, 2021 TVC 536.4: Ed welcomes award-winning television writer/producer Jay Moriarty. Jay spent about thirty years writing and producing sitcoms for network television, including eight years for Norman Lear and Tandem … Continue reading

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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: We’ll drop in on George, Weezy, Florence, The Willises and everyone else in the Deluxe Apartment in the Sky along with JAY MORIARTY, longtime staff writer, producer, and, later, show runner of THE JEFFERSONS. Jay’s memoir, HONKY IN THE HOUSE: Writing and Producing The Jeffersons, not only takes us inside the writing room of the long-running CBS comedy, but provides the back story of “The Draft Dodger” (the famous but controversial Christmas 1976 episode of ALL IN THE FAMILY, which Jay wrote along with his longtime writing partner, Mike Milligan) and shows us why Norman Lear is one of the smartest, shrewdest, and most courageous producers TV will ever know. HONKY IN THE HOUSE is available right now through Amazon.com

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via National Comedy Center: Rob Reiner, Annie Reiner, and Lucas Reiner will donate the archives of comedy legend CARL REINER to the NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER, including rare creative papers, scripts and artifacts that span Reiner’s seven-decade career as a writer, director, producer, author and performer. The National Comedy Center will also name its Archival and Preservation Department in memory of Carl Reiner

Jamestown, NY – March 19, 2021 – The National Comedy Center, the United States’ official cultural institution dedicated to the art form of comedy, announced today that it will become the home of comedy legend Carl Reiner’s archives. The Reiner … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 509.1 with guest Ted Bergman is now available for listening on demand

Writing for Redd Foxx Original Airdates: Sept. 25-27, 2020 TVC 509.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Emmy nominated writer, producer, and author Ted Bergman, Emmy nominated writer/producer and author of , Confessions of a Rogue … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 508 with guest Ted Bergman is now available for listening on demand

Confessions of A Rogue TV Comedy Writer Original Airdates: Sept. 18-20, 2020 TVC 508.1: Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Emmy nominated writer, producer, and author Ted Bergman. Ted spent four decades writing and producing such TV comedy and … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 502: Tribute to Carl Reiner is available for listening on demand

Carl Reiner: He Was Good at Everything Original Airdates: July 24-26, 2020 TVC 502.1: Tony and Donna join Ed as TV Confidential dedicates its entire two-hour program this week to the life and career of Carl Reiner, the Grammy Award-winning … 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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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 460: Happy Birthday, Carroll O’Connor is now available online for listening on demand

Happy Birthday, Carroll O’Connor Original Airdates: Aug. 16-18, 2019 TVC 460.6: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen join Ed via Skype as This Week in TV History commemorates the 95th birthday of actor Carroll O’Connor (All in the Family, In the … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 439, Segment 2 is now available online for listening on demand

Show No. 439, Segment 2: How Good Times Changed the Cast of The Jeffersons Original Airdates: Feb. 22-24, 2019 Segment 2, Part 1: Ed and Greg Ehrbar look back at The Jeffersons, the long-running spinoff of All in the Family starring Isabel Sanford and … Continue reading

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