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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 655: Special program-length tribute to Bob Newhart is now available for listening on demand as a free podcast

Tribute to Bob Newhart Original Airdates: July 26-29, 2024 TVC 655.1: A special program-length tribute to Bob Newhart, the Emmy Award-winning star of two long-running, iconic sitcoms, The Bob Newhart Show (CBS, 1972-1978) and Newhart (CBS, 1982-1990), but made a … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 568.5: Tribute to Howard Hesseman is now available online for listening on demand

Tribute to Howard Hesseman Original Airdates: Feb. 11-13, 2022 TVC 568.5: From February 2020: Tony, Donna, and Ed commemorate the birthday of actor/comedian Howard Hesseman, born Feb. 27, 1940, as part of This Week in TV History. Topics include Hesseman’s … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 553.3 with guest Susan Silver is now available for listening on demand

Susan Silver and The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped Original Airdates: Sept. 11-13, 2021 TVC 553.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began on our last program with Susan Silver, one of the original writers for The Mary Tyler Moore Show … Continue reading

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 552.3 with guest Susan Silver is available for listening on demand

Susan Silver: The Original Mary Richards Original Airdates: Aug. 27-29, 2021 TVC 552.3: Ed welcomes Susan Silver, one of the original writers for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and one of the very first female writers to break the glass … Continue reading

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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: SUSAN SILVER, one of the original writers of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, on the integral role that Garry Marshall played in helping her break the glass ceiling of network TV comedy; why some comedians and comedy writers enjoy watching true crime shows on TV; how producer George Eckstein helped her make the transition from writing sitcoms to writing such full-length Movies of the Week as The Couple Takes a Wife and The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped; and how we all must channel our Inner Chutzpah from time to time to overcome challenges in life. Susan’s memoir, HOT PANTS IN HOLLYWOOD, is now available as an audiobook through Audible.com, while the print edition is also available through Amazon.com. Susan’s radio commentaries, SUSAN SAYS with Susan Silver, are available for listening on demand at RobinHoodRadio.com and Apple Podcasts

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 537.1 with guest David Hofstede is available for listening on demand

When Television Brought Us Together Original Airdates: Apr. 30-May 2, 2021 TVC 537.1: Ed welcomes back David Hofstede, founder and publisher of the popular blog Comfort TV. David’s latest book, When Television Brought Us Together, is an often whimsical, but … Continue reading

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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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via Harlan Boll: Actor, producer, director and composer Roger Perry dies at age 85

Celebrated actor, producer, director and composer Roger Perry passed away Thursday, July 12 of prostrate cancer at home with his loving wife, Joyce Bulifant, holding his hand. He was 85. Born in Davenport, Iowa, Perry was discovered by Lucille Ball, … Continue reading

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via THR: Don Bustany, co-creator of America’s Top 40, dies at age 89. He also worked behind the scenes of many MTM sitcoms before hosting his own L.A.-based radio program for nearly two decades

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