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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: A return visit by DAVID HOFSTEDE, publisher of Comfort TV. David’s latest book, WHEN TELEVISION BROUGHT US TOGETHER, takes a fresh look at Father Knows Best, The Brady Bunch, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, That Girl, The Bob Newhart Show and many other favorite shows from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s and whether the values reflected by those shows still apply in our world today. WHEN TELEVISION BROUGHT US TOGETHER is now available through Black Pawn Press

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 522 with guest Carolyn Hennesy is available for listening on demand

Carolyn Hennesy of General Hospital Original Airdate: Jan. 8-10, 2021 TVC 522.4: Ed welcomes Carolyn Hennesy, the Emmy Award-winning actress who has played attorney Diane Miller on General Hospital for fourteen years and more than five hundred episodes. (Carolyn’s 500th … Continue reading

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TV CONFIDENTIAL congratulates CAROLYN HENNESY for her landmark 500th episode playing Diane Miller on General Hospital. To mark the occasion, we have posted a sneak preview of our conversation with Carolyn in which she discusses playing Diane on General Hospital, and more. This special edition of the TVC podcast is now available for listening on demand by clicking on the link below. The complete conversation with Carolyn Hennesy will air on the Jan. 8-10 edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL. Carolyn’s 500th episode of General Hospital airs Tuesday 12/22 on ABC

Carolyn Hennesy’s 500th Episode of General Hospital Sneak Preview A special sneak peek edition of TV Confidential featuring a preview of our upcoming interview with Emmy Award-winning actress Carolyn Hennesy (General Hospital). Carolyn’s landmark 500th episode playing Diane Miller on … Continue reading

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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Emmy Award-winning actress CAROLYN HENNESY on her landmark 500th episode playing attorney Diane Miller on General Hospital; how her interest in trapeze helped her cope with the industry-wide shutdown in production due to COVID-19; and why it’s impossible to listen to ABBA and resist the urge to dance. Carolyn’s 500th episode on General Hospital airs Tuesday 12/22 on ABC

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via National Comedy Center: The NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER partners with the Elkhorn Valley Museum to launch a new Johnny Carson Gallery in Carson’s hometown of Elkhorn, NE (set to open in 2021), and with the Carson Entertainment Group to launch a new Johnny Carson exhibit, 30 Years of Late Night Television, set to open in 2022

Jamestown, NY – October 23, 2020– As the country remembers comedy and late-night legend Johnny Carson on his 95th birthday today, the National Comedy Center—the nation’s official cultural institution dedicated to comedy—and the Elkhorn Valley Museum in Johnny Carson’s hometown … Continue reading

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via National Comedy Center: National Comedy Center will honor advisory board member Carl Reiner at this year’s Virtual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, which takes place Friday 8/14 thru Sunday 8/30. Virtual festival will also feature conversations with Jimmy Fallon, Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Weird” Al Yankovic, Tiffany Haddish, Jay Leno, Howie Mandel, Margaret Cho, and more. All programs will be streamed, for free, at ComedyCenter.org/Festival, as well via Facebook Live

Jamestown,  NY—August 12, 2020—The National Comedy Center, the nation’s official cultural institution dedicated to comedy—recently named the “Best New Museum” in the country by USA Today—will present its acclaimed Lucille Ball Comedy Festival virtually this year, featuring conversations with a diverse … Continue reading

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via National Comedy Center: The National Comedy Center will pay tribute to Desi Arnaz, Richard Pryor, Jerry Stiller, and John Cleese during Father’s Day weekend with live streaming events featuring Lucie Arnaz, Rain Pryor, Amy Stiller and Ben Stiller, and Camilla Cleese, respectively, that will air Friday 6/19 thru Sunday 6/21 at various times at ComedyCenter.org/FathersDay, with simulcasts via Facebook Live on the National Comedy Center Facebook page. All four streaming events are free and will support the Center’s educational and preservation initiatives during the museum’s temporary closure

Jamestown,  NY – June 18, 2020 — The National Comedy Center, the nation’s official cultural institution and non-profit museum dedicated to comedy, announced today that it will present a tribute to fathers of comedy this Father’s Day weekend, June 19-21, … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 467.2: Inside the National Comedy Center and Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum is now available online for listening on demand

Inside the National Comedy Center and Desilu Museum Original Airdates: Oct. 11-13, 2019 TVC 467.2: Ed welcomes Gary Hahn, director of marketing for both The National Comedy Center and the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum, both of which are based … Continue reading

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Next week on TV CONFIDENTIAL: We’ll take you to Jamestown, New York… the birthplace of Lucille Ball and the home of both The National Comedy Center and The Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum

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via Time-Life: Come back to your favorite TV hometown with The Mayberry Collection, a three-volume, fourteen-episode configuration of the best of The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. and Mayberry, R.F.D. that includes sixty-four classic episodes, some of which have never been released on DVD before

Our friends at Time-Life invite you to celebrate happier times, good old-fashioned values, and small-town America with the release of The Mayberry Collection, a three-volume, fourteen-DVD configuration featuring sixty-four episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, twenty-four episodes of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., and sixteen episodes of … Continue reading

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