TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 571.4: Ed welcomes award-winning actress, author, and fashion model Blanca Blanco (Tale of Tails, Betrayed). Blanca's memoir, Breaking the Mold, is the inspiring story of how a young Mexican-American girl, the daughter of immigrants and one of seven children, overcame more obstacles in her life than anybody since Job—including extreme poverty, bullying, and abuse as a child, the loss of her home in Malibu as a result of the devastating Woolsey Fire in 2018, and the death of her mother in 2021—to become one of the most successful actresses in the entertainment industry today.

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TVC 571.5: Actress and author Blanca Blanco talks to Ed about losing her home to the Woolsey Fire in 2018; the important roles that comedienne Kathy Griffin and acting coach Gordon Hunt played during her early years in Hollywood; and how the approach Blanca takes to preparing for acting roles parallels her training as a track-and-field athlete. Blanca's memoir, Breaking the Mold, is available wherever books are sold online.

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TVC 571.6: Greg and Ed continue their review of The Big Valley (ABC, 1965-1969), including a look at such notable episodes as "The Disappearance" and "The Great Safe Robbery," as well as how the series really gave Lee Majors an opportunity to shine as an actor. The first two seasons of The Big Valley are available through Shout! Factory, while the last two seasons are available through Timeless Media.

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TVC 570.1: Ed welcomes Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actress Penny Fuller (Applause, The Elephant Man, All the President's Men). Penny stars as an eccentric woman who quietly rebels against a world that records our dreams, taxes our dreams, and infuses them with nonstop advertising latest in Strawberry Mansion, a charming, surrealistic fantasy that is not only futuristic, retro, and timely—all at once—but has elements that will remind you of Alice in Wonderland. Strawberry Mansion is now available for streaming on demand on all major platforms.

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TVC 570.2: Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actress Penny Fuller talks to Ed about co-starring with both Lauren Bacall and Anne Baxter in the original Broadway production of Applause; the difference between an understudy and a stand-by in the world of theatre; and how she has always sought the best roles possible, whether they were for film, stage, or television. Penny's latest film, Strawberry Mansion, is now available for streaming on demand on all major platforms.

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TVC 570.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Ketty Lester, the Grammy Award-nominated singer/actress known around the world for her international No. 1 hit record from 1962, "Love Letters (Straight from Your Heart)," and for playing schoolteacher Hester Sue Terhune on Little House on the Prairie and Juanita, the wise-cracking cab driver, in the 1972 blaxploitation horror movie Blacula. In this segment, Ketty talks to Ed about how she came to join the cast of Little House, as well as some of her other film and TV roles. She also shares a few memories of working with Moses Gunn (both before and during Little House), Bernie Mac, David Janssen, and with William Marshall and director William Crain on Blacula.

Ketty's memoir, Ketty Lester: A Memoir: From Arkansas to Grammy nominated Love Letters to Little House on the Prairie, is available at Amazon.com and wherever books are sold online. You can follow Ketty Lester on Facebook, Instagram and KettyLester.com.

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TVC 570.4: Ketty Lester talks to Ed about her love for acting, which began when she was a young girl in Arkansas; how she formally studied acting at Theatre West in Los Angeles (and befriended, among others, Carroll O'Connor); and how she successfully transitioned from nightclub singer to actress when the music industry changed in the late 1960s. Ketty's memoir, Ketty Lester: A Memoir: From Arkansas to Grammy nominated Love Letters to Little House on the Prairie, is available at Amazon.com and wherever books are sold online.

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TVC 570.5: Grammy Award-nominated singer/actress Ketty Lester talks to Ed about the many ways in which performing a song is another form of acting. Ketty's memoir, Ketty Lester: A Memoir: From Arkansas to Grammy nominated Love Letters to Little House on the Prairie, is available at Amazon.com and wherever books are sold online. You can follow Ketty Lester on Facebook, Instagram and KettyLester.com.

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TVC 569.1: Ed welcomes Ketty Lester, the Grammy nominated singer/actress known around the world for her international No. 1 record, "Love Letters (Straight from Your Heart)," and as schoolteacher Hester Sue Terhune on Little House on the Prairie. Ketty's memoir, Ketty Lester: A Memoir, is the story of how a young girl from Hope, Arkansas—the youngest of fifteen children—not only opened doors for many African American women, but overcame many obstacles throughout her life, including a recurring battle with epilepsy, with the help of her faith and the values she learned from her parents. Ketty Lester: A Memoir is available at Amazon.com and wherever books are sold online. You can follow Ketty Lester on Facebook, Instagram and KettyLester.com.

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TVC 569.2: Ketty Lester talks to Ed about working with Maya Angelou when both performed as singers at the Purple Onion in San Francisco; co-starring with Beah Richards on stage in A Raisin in the Sun; her appearance as Patience Jones in Brewster Place (ABC, 1990), the short-lived series produced by and starring Oprah Winfrey; her first national TV appearance (on You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx); and the important role that singer Dorothy Shay played early in Ketty's career.

Ketty's memoir, Ketty Lester: A Memoir: From Arkansas to Grammy nominated Love Letters to Little House on the Prairie, is available at Amazon.com and wherever books are sold online. You can follow Ketty Lester on Facebook, Instagram and KettyLester.com.

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