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- This Date in THE FBI History: Suzanne Pleshette, Fritz Weaver, Richard Anderson, and Norman Fell star in “The Mercenary,” airing Apr. 28, 1968. THE FBI DOSSIER is now available from Black Pawn Press
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 466 with guest Jeff Abraham is now available online for listening on demand
99 Performers Who Died Onstage Original Airdates: Oct. 4-6, 2019 TVC 466.2: Ed and Tony welcome Jeff Abraham, comedy historian and co-author, along with Burt Kearns, of The Show Won’t Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of … Continue reading →
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Tagged acclaimed pop culture historian, Albert Brooks, award-winning documentary producer and journalist, Bob Einstein, Burt Kearns, comedian Harry Epstein, Dick Shawn, Dimebag Darrell Abbott, Flying Wallendas, high-wire walker Karl Wallenda, is there a doctor in the house, J.I. Rodale, Jax the Axehandler, Jeff Abraham, Joe Burruss, magic, opera, Parkyakarkus, Penn Jillette, Radio, rock ‘n’ roll, rock star, show stopping deaths of performers, social media, Television, The Dick Cavett Show, The Show Won't Go On book, The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking Bizarre and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage, The Show Won’t Go On, theater, Tiny Tim, Tommy Cooper, ukulele crooner, vaudeville
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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Jeff Abraham, comedy historian and co-author of THE SHOW WON’T GO ON: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage, on the most dangerous profession ever among entertainers (and, no, it’s not what you think). THE SHOW WON’T GO ON is available wherever books are sold through Chicago Review Press
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Tagged acclaimed pop culture historian, Albert Brooks, award-winning documentary producer and journalist, Bob Einstein, Burt Kearns, comedian Harry Epstein, Dick Shawn, Dimebag Darrell Abbott, Flying Wallendas, high-wire walker Karl Wallenda, is there a doctor in the house, J.I. Rodale, Jax the Axehandler, Jeff Abraham, Joe Burruss, magic, opera, Parkyakarkus, Penn Jillette, Radio, rock ‘n’ roll, rock star, show stopping deaths of performers, social media, Television, The Dick Cavett Show, The Show Won't Go On book, The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking Bizarre and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage, The Show Won’t Go On, theater, Tiny Tim, Tommy Cooper, ukulele crooner, vaudeville
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 460 with guest Adam Sharp is now available online for listening on demand
NATAS President Adam Sharp on the News and Documentary Emmys Original Airdates: Aug. 16-18, 2019 TVC 460.1: Ed welcomes back Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, aka the Daytime Emmy Awards. The News and … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adam Sharp, Adam Sharp NATAS, Adam Sharp Sharp Things, Adam Sharp Twitter, Andrea Mitchell, Andrea Mitchell Reports, award shows, Daytime Emmy Awards, Daytime Television Academy, domestic and international affairs, Emmy Awards, fake news, false news, future broadcasting of award shows, global audience, human embodiment of Twitter, intersection of media politics and technology, KNEKT TV, Mary Landrieu, misinformation, NATAS, NATAS Adam Sharp, NATAS Lifetime Achievement Award, NATAS president, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, News & Documentary Emmy Awards, news and documentaries, news and documentary Emmy Awards, news government and elections, Sharp Things, social media, streaming, Switchboard, television news, television news reporters, trending, Twitter, Twitter use
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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (aka The Daytime Emmys), on why television news remains as viable as ever. The 40th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards will be presented Tuesday 9/24 in New York City
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Tagged Adam Sharp, Adam Sharp NATAS, Adam Sharp Sharp Things, Adam Sharp Twitter, Andrea Mitchell, Andrea Mitchell Reports, award shows, Daytime Emmy Awards, Daytime Television Academy, domestic and international affairs, Emmy Awards, fake news, false news, future broadcasting of award shows, global audience, human embodiment of Twitter, intersection of media politics and technology, KNEKT TV, Mary Landrieu, misinformation, NATAS, NATAS Adam Sharp, NATAS Lifetime Achievement Award, NATAS president, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, News & Documentary Emmy Awards, news and documentaries, news and documentary Emmy Awards, news government and elections, Sharp Things, social media, streaming, Switchboard, television news, television news reporters, trending, Twitter, Twitter use
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 426 with guests Thom Bierdz and Marvin J. Wolf is now available online for listening on demand
Show No. 426 with guests Thom Bierdz and Marvin J. Wolf Original Airdates: Nov. 9-12, 2018 First hour: A return appearance by author, journalist, screenwriter, raconteur and novelist Marvin J. Wolf (For Whom the Shofar Blows, A Scribe Dies in … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Scribe Dies in Brooklyn, A Tale of Two Rabbis, Young Gay and Restless, Lake Arrowhead, amusing, Andy Warhol, assault, Bohemian Rhapsody, Buz Murdock, CBS radio drama, CBS television, crime-solving, crime-solving rabbi, Dr. Richard Kimble, embarrassing, Facebook, For Whom the Shofar Blows, Forgiving Troy, Freddie Mercury, gay actor, gay icons, Genoa City, Harry Kemelman, Have Gun Will Travel, Henri Matisse, Herb Leonard, intimate biography of Freddie Mercury, Jeanne Cooper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Jewish 007, Jim Rockford, John Dehner, knight without a master, Lanigan's Rabbi, Lesley-Ann Jones, Live Aid, Maria Arena Bell, Mark Twain, Marv Wolf, Marvin J. Wolf, Matisse, Matlock, Melrose Place, Mercury, MeToo, MTV, Murder She Wrote, music journalist, My Scandalous On-Screen & Off-Screen Sexual Liberations, mystery novels, mystery series, Pablo Picasso, Paladin, Phillip Chancellor III, Picasso, Queen, Queen front man, Rabbi Ben, Richard Boone, Route 66, Roy Huggins, scandalous, sex, sex adventure, social media, Tae Kwon Do, Talmud, talmudic logic, tell-all memoir, the first openly gay actor on daytime television, The Fugitive, The Rabbi Who Slept in Late, The Rockford Files, The Young and the Restless, Thom Bierdz, Tod Stiles, Torah, traveling angel, Under Pressure, Van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh, We Are the Champions, Wisconsin
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Thom Bierdz and Marvin J. Wolf: Next on TVC
Actor, artist and author Thom Bierdz and screenwriter and novelist Marvin J. Wolf will join us this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Nov. 9-12 at the following times and venues: Share-a-Vision Radio San Francisco Bay Area Friday 11/9 7pm ET, … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Scribe Dies in Brooklyn, A Tale of Two Rabbis, Young Gay and Restless, Lake Arrowhead, amusing, Andy Warhol, assault, Bohemian Rhapsody, Buz Murdock, CBS radio drama, CBS television, crime-solving, crime-solving rabbi, Dr. Richard Kimble, embarrassing, Facebook, For Whom the Shofar Blows, Forgiving Troy, Freddie Mercury, gay actor, gay icons, Genoa City, Harry Kemelman, Have Gun Will Travel, Henri Matisse, Herb Leonard, intimate biography of Freddie Mercury, Jeanne Cooper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Jewish 007, Jim Rockford, John Dehner, knight without a master, Lanigan's Rabbi, Lesley-Ann Jones, Live Aid, Maria Arena Bell, Mark Twain, Marv Wolf, Marvin J. Wolf, Matisse, Matlock, Melrose Place, Mercury, MeToo, MTV, Murder She Wrote, music journalist, My Scandalous On-Screen & Off-Screen Sexual Liberations, mystery novels, mystery series, Pablo Picasso, Paladin, Phillip Chancellor III, Picasso, Queen, Queen front man, Rabbi Ben, Richard Boone, Route 66, Roy Huggins, scandalous, sex, sex adventure, social media, Tae Kwon Do, Talmud, talmudic logic, tell-all memoir, the first openly gay actor on daytime television, The Fugitive, The Rabbi Who Slept in Late, The Rockford Files, The Young and the Restless, Thom Bierdz, Tod Stiles, Torah, traveling angel, Under Pressure, Van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh, We Are the Champions, Wisconsin
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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Television pioneer Thom Bierdz, the first openly gay actor on daytime television, on the difference between an actor and an artist; the joy that painting brings him; surviving and dealing with the murder of his mother by his paranoid schizophrenic brother; and finding solace away from Hollywood over the past few years. Thom’s latest book, Young, Gay and Restless, becomes available in both paperback and as an eBook on Thursday 11/1
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Tagged Young Gay and Restless, Lake Arrowhead, amusing, Andy Warhol, assault, embarrassing, Facebook, Forgiving Troy, gay actor, gay icons, Genoa City, Jeanne Cooper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Maria Arena Bell, Matisse, Matlock, Melrose Place, MeToo, Murder She Wrote, My Scandalous On-Screen & Off-Screen Sexual Liberations, Phillip Chancellor III, Picasso, scandalous, sex, sex adventure, social media, tell-all memoir, the first openly gay actor on daytime television, The Young and the Restless, Thom Bierdz, Van Gogh, Wisconsin
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Podcast for TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 417 with guests Trine Christensen, Adam Sharp, Ali Agirnas and Chuck Harter is now available online for listening on demand
Show No. 417 with guests Trine Christensen, Adam Sharp, Ali Agirnas and Chuck Harter Original Airdate: Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2018 First hour: Trine Christensen, the actress who plays Jacob Gustavson’s wife on Godless and The Saint of Killers’ wife on … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adam Sharp, Ali Agirnas, Amy Poehler, Aretha Franklin, award shows, Baby I Love You, Breaking Bad, Chain of Fools, Daytime Emmy Awards, Dodie Montgomery, fake news, false news, future broadcasting of award shows, Gamer, global audience, Godless, Graham McTavish, Hari Sreenivasan, human embodiment of Twitter, intersection of media politics and technology, Jacob's wife, Jeff Daniels, Killer Women, KNEKT TV, Longmire, Mary Landrieu, Messiah, misinformation, Motown, NATAS, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Natural Woman, news government and elections, Nicholas Gustavson, PBS, PBS NewsHour Weekend, Preacher, Queen of Soul, RESPECT, Saint of Killers, Saint of Killers' wife, Scott Frank, Seth Rogen, Sharp Things, social media, streaming, Switchboard, The Brave, The Hunter’s Moon, The Spy Next Door, The Terminator: Salvation, Think, trending, Trine Christensen, Twitter, UCB, Upright Citizens Brigade
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Trine Christensen, Ali Agirnas, Adam Sharp and The Queen of Soul: Next on TVC
Actors Trine Christensen and Ali Agirnas, both from Godless, will join us this weekend, along with Adam Sharp, interim president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Plus we’ll pay tribute to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adam Sharp, Ali Agirnas, Amy Poehler, Aretha Franklin, award shows, Baby I Love You, Breaking Bad, Chain of Fools, Daytime Emmy Awards, Dodie Montgomery, fake news, false news, future broadcasting of award shows, Gamer, global audience, Godless, Graham McTavish, Hari Sreenivasan, human embodiment of Twitter, intersection of media politics and technology, Jacob's wife, Jeff Daniels, Killer Women, KNEKT TV, Longmire, Mary Landrieu, Messiah, misinformation, Motown, NATAS, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Natural Woman, news government and elections, Nicholas Gustavson, PBS, PBS NewsHour Weekend, Preacher, Queen of Soul, RESPECT, Saint of Killers, Saint of Killers' wife, Scott Frank, Seth Rogen, Sharp Things, social media, streaming, Switchboard, The Brave, The Hunter’s Moon, The Spy Next Door, The Terminator: Salvation, Thin, Think, trending, Trine Christensen, Twitter, UCB, Upright Citizens Brigade
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David Frankham, plus the News and Documentary Emmy Awards: Next on TVC
Actor, author, and voice artist David Frankham and NATAS president Adam Sharp will join us this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Aug. 16-18 at the following times and venues: Share-a-Vision Radio San Francisco Bay Area Friday 8/16 7pm ET, 4pm … Continue reading →