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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 565: Special Tribute to Betty White is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast. The complete program runs more than three hours, including an hour of additional content that we were not able to include in the weekend broadcast due to time limitations. Please enjoy!

Betty White: A Television Presence Original Airdates: Jan. 21-23, 2022 TVC 565.1: TV Confidential celebrates the life and career of Betty White with a special program-length tribute to the legendary actress who was not only The First Lady of Television, … Continue reading

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Celebrating Betty White: Next on TVC

Please join us this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL for a special program-length celebration of the life and career of Betty White, airing Jan. 21-23 at the following times and venues: WBRT AM 1320 and FM 97.1 Bardstown, KY Friday 1/21 … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 560.4 with guest Ray Richmond is available for listening on demand

100 Remarkable Moments in the Life and Career of Betty White Original Airdates: Nov. 19-21, 2021 TVC 560.4: Television critic, columnist, and entertainment journalist Ray Richmond joins Ed for an early 100th birthday salute to entertainment legend Betty White. Ray’s … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 530.5: Behind the Scenes of Betty White’s The Pet Set with guest Darren Wadyko is available for listening on demand

Why The Pet Set Was a Perfect Vehicle for Betty White Original Airdates: Mar. 12-14, 2021 TVC 530.6: Ed welcomes Darren Wadyko, the distributor of Betty White’s The Pet Set: The Complete Series, an excellent new DVD set featuring all … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 508 with guest Gigi Garner is available for listening on demand

The Humanity of James Garner Original Airdates: Sept. 18-20, 2020 TVC 508.4: Ed welcomes back Gigi Garner, daughter of beloved film and TV actor James Garner, and the founder the James Garner Animal Rescue Fund (JGARF), the nonprofit organization that … Continue reading

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Gigi Garner, Mr. TV Classics, and A Rogue TV Comedy Writer: Next on TVC

Animal rescue advocate Gigi Garner, Emmy nominated writer/producer Ted Bergman, and television historian Steve Beverly will join us this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Sept. 18-20 at the following times and venues: WBRT AM 1320 and FM 97.1 Bardstown, KY … Continue reading

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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: GIGI GARNER, founder of the JAMES GARNER ANIMAL RESCUE FUND (JGARF), on her dad’s love of animals (especially dogs); her reaction to the famous “swimming pool scene” in The Thrill of It All when she first saw that movie on the big screen, when she was six years old; her dad’s reaction when Gigi became a real life private investigator, early in her career; and how JGARF honors the memory of James Garner and extends his legacy. The James Garner Animal Rescue Fund is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to raising funds to help animal rescue organizations. To learn more about it, go to JGARF.org. Gigi Garner also runs the Official James Garner Facebook Page, which you can join for free at Facebook.com/OfficialJamesGarner

Gigi Garner also wrote a wonderful foreword to 45 Years of The Rockford Files that gives readers a window into who Jim was as a person. 25 percent of the sales of 45 Years of The Rockford Files will support … Continue reading

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via Black Pawn Press: 45 YEARS OF THE ROCKFORD FILES will become available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other retailers worldwide next week. But… you can pre-order the book right now by going to Rockford45.com

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Coming July 1 from Black Pawn Press: 45 YEARS OF THE ROCKFORD FILES: Revised Third Edition, featuring sixty pages of new information about both the NBC Rockford Files and the eight CBS Rockford Files movies, including more than twenty new interviews, six new appendices, additional photographs, and a foreword by Jim’s daughter Gigi Garner. 25 percent of the net sales of 45 YEARS will be donated to the James Garner Animal Rescue Fund. Pre-order the book now at Rockford45.com or OKG853.com

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 498.3: James Garner and Golf is now available for listening on demand

James Garner and Golf Original Airdates: June 19-21, 2020 TVC 498.3: A brief segment about James Garner’s passion for golf that includes a clip from a conversation with Jon Winokur, co-author of The Garner Files (Garner’s memoir), that originally aired … Continue reading

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