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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Tribute to Alex Trebek with guests Ruta Lee and Steve Beverly is available for listening on demand
Alex Trebek: The Steward of Jeopardy! Original Airdates: Dec. 4-6, 2020 TVC 519.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed pay tribute to Alex Trebek, the Emmy Award-winning game show host who presided over Jeopardy! for an astonishing thirty-six years, beginning in 1984 … Continue reading →
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 517.3 with guest Steve Beverly is available for listening on demand
The New Host of Jeopardy! Original Airdates: Nov. 20-22, 2020 TVC 517.3: Game show historian and TV host Steve Beverly (Steve Beverly’s TV Classics) shares some thoughts on who might be named the next host of Jeopardy! and the particular … Continue reading →
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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Broadcast journalism professor and game show historian STEVE BEVERLY, host of Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, on his upcoming tribute to the early game show career of Alex Trebek (premiering Saturday 11/21 on EPlusTV6.com); the episode of Jeopardy! for which Trebek won the first of his six Emmy Awards; and how he first got to know Alex in 1984, at the start of Trebek’s thirty-six-year run as the host of Jeopardy!
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 513: Tribute to Tom Kennedy with guests Steve Beverly and Geoffrey Mark is available for listening on demand
How Jim Narz Became Tom Kennedy Original Airdates: Oct. 23-25, 2020 TVC 513.1: Game show historian Steve Beverly joins Ed as we pay tribute to Tom Kennedy, the legendary game show host who passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at … Continue reading →
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 508 with guest Steve Beverly is now available for listening on demand
The Return of Mr. TV Classics Original Airdates: Sept. 18-20, 2020 TVC 508.6: Part 3 of a conversation that began last month with Union University journalism professor and television historian Steve Beverly. When he isn’t teaching, Steve hosts Steve Beverly’s … Continue reading →
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 504 with guest Steve Beverly is available for listening on demand
Teaching TV News Students in a Time of Distance Learning Original Airdates: Aug. 14-16, 2020 TVC 504.3: Ed welcomes back Steve Beverly, television historian and professor of communications arts at Union University (Jackson, TN), where he coordinates the Broadcast Journalism … Continue reading →
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via ABC Media Relations and Beachwood Entertainment Collective: ABC celebrates the life and career of Garry Marshall with a brand new two-hour special that will feature tributes from family, friends and colleagues of the beloved TV producer. THE HAPPY DAYS OF GARRY MARSHALL premieres on Tuesday 5/12 at 8pm ET and PT
The stars of some of TV and film’s most iconic titles, including “Happy Days,” “Laverne & Shirley,” “Mork & Mindy,” “Pretty Woman” and “The Princess Diaries,” come together to celebrate “The Happy Days of Garry Marshall,” a one-of-a-kind two-hour tribute … Continue reading →
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via CLOSER WEEKLY: Ed Robertson of TV CONFIDENTIAL was among those interviewed by Ed Gross for this look at the life and career of JACK KLUGMAN
Here’s What Happened to Jack Klugman Before, During and After ‘The Odd Couple’: The Highs and the Lows
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Tagged Al Molinaro, Al Molinaro The Odd Couple, Allen Ludden, Art Carney, Betty White, Bob Leszczak, Bob Leszczak The Odd Couple, Demond Wilson, Ed Gross, Ed Gross Closer Weekly, Garry Marshall, Garry Marshall The Odd Couple, Garry Walberg, Garry Walberg The Odd Couple, Geoffrey Mark, Jack Klugman, Jack Klugman A Game of Pool, Jack Klugman A Passage for Trumpet, Jack Klugman Anita Gillette, Jack Klugman In Praise of Pip, Jack Klugman James Rosin, Jack Klugman Jim Rosin, Jack Klugman Jonathan Winters, Jack Klugman Match Game, Jack Klugman Quincy, Jack Klugman Quinn Martin, Jack Klugman Rod Serling, Jack Klugman The Odd Couple, Jack Klugman The Twilight Zone, Jack Klugman throat cancer, Jack Klugman Tony and Me, James Rosin, Jim Rosin, Mark Dawidziak, Mark Dawidziak Everything I Needed to Know I Learned From The Twilight Zone, Mark Dawidziak The Twilight Zone, Monty Hall, Neil Simon, Neil Simon The Odd Couple, Odd Couple 50th anniversary, Odd Couple Let's Made a a Deal, Odd Couple Monty Hall, Odd Couple Password, Odd Couple Password episode, Odd Couple TV series, Rod Serling, Speed, The Odd Couple, The Twilight Zone, Tony Randall, Tony Randall Jack Klugman, Walter Matthau
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via CLOSER WEEKLY: Ed Gross takes a look at the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of THE ODD COUPLE on ABC, featuring comments from series producer Garry Marshall and such talking heads as TV CONFIDENTIAL’s Ed Robertson
‘The Odd Couple’ Turns 50: Here’s What Happened to Oscar and Felix Before, During and After the Show
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 436, Hour 2 with guest Loretta Swit is now available online for listening on demand
Show No. 436, Hour 2 with guest Loretta Swit Original Airdates: Feb. 1-3, 2019 Ed, Tony, and Donna accompany Emmy Award-winning actress, artist and animal rights activist Loretta Swit (M*A*S*H, SwitHeart: The Watercolour Artistry & Animal Activism of Loretta Swit) … Continue reading →
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Tagged Academy Awards, actors and others for animals, Agnes Gooch, Alan Alda, animal companions, animal kingdom, animal rights, animal rights advocate, animal rights champion, animal safari, animals, Any Wednesday, battle doges, bears, benefits of walking, Betty White Award, big mouth alligator, Bird of Paradise, Bob Barker, Cagney & Lacey, cats, Central Park, dogs, Dr. Sugar, Eleanor Roosevelt, EPlusTV6, Gene Reynolds, GES Conservation Fund, global wildlife conservation, Greenwich Village, Ground Zero, guide doges, guide dogs for blind, Harry Morgan, Hollywood, Hot Lips Houlihan, Icon Award, Jamie Farr, Ken Levine, Larry Gelbart, Loretta Swit, M*A*S*H TV series, Mame, Margaret Houlihan, MASH, McLean Stevenson, Mies Hora, Mike Farrell, Mike Henry, Monty Hall, My Secret Journey, Oscars Party, Paladium, rescue animals, search rescue dogs, service dogs for veterans, Shirley Valentine, Steve Beverly, SwitHeart, SwitHeart.org, The Nurses, The Odd Couple, The Watercolour Artistry & Animal Activism of Loretta Swit, tigers, TV Classics, vegan lifestyle, walking, Wayne Rogers, wildlife, William Christopher
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