TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 565.7a: From November 2019: Actor David Starzyk talks to Ed about what a joy it was to work with Betty White on TV Land's Hot in Cleveland. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine.

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TVC 565.8: Jennifer Armstrong, author of Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted and All The Brilliant Minds That Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Television Classic and When Women Invented Television, talks to Ed about what a firebrand Betty White was, particularly in the early stages of her career in television. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine.

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TVC 565.9: Jim Colucci, author of Golden Girls Forever, talks to Ed about the trans-generational appeal of The Golden Girls; Betty White's remarkable timing as a performer; and why Rose Nyland was the hardest of the four Golden Girls to play. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine.

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TVC 565.10: Ed, Tony, and Donna share some final thoughts on the life and legacy of Betty White, as well as information on how you can still participate in The Betty White Challenge. Betty White passed away on Friday, Dec. 31, at age ninety-nine.

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TVC 564.1: Part 1 of our final conversation with Ron Bacon, the Emmy Award-winning associate director who was also one of the true pioneers of network television. Ron Bacon passed away Tuesday, Dec. 21 at age ninety-one. Besides wearing many hats throughout his thirty-five years in network TV production, Ron was an accomplished musician and songwriter whose accomplishments after television include The Chicken Man, a full-length musical stage comedy that he wrote and produced for the Sedona Arts Center in Sedona, Arizona in September 2000. The origins for The Chicken Man, however, date back to the early 1960s, when Ron encountered a local character in New Orleans known as "the Chicken Man" while waiting out a hurricane in the French Quarter.

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TVC 564.2: Emmy Award winner Ron Bacon talks to Ed about the back story of The Chicken Man, the musical stage comedy that he wrote and produced in September 2000; his remarkable encounter with legendary trumpeter Louis Armstrong; and the joy that comes from the creative process. Ron Bacon passed away Tuesday, Dec. 21 at age ninety-one. Part 2 of this conversation will air on our Jan. 28-30 program. You can enjoy The Chicken Man for free at RonBacon.net.

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TVC 564.3: Part 2 of our conversation with Jordan Young about the television career of bandleader Spike Jones, including the near-collaboration between Jones and Ernie Kovacs in the early 1950s, when Kovacs hosted The Tonight Show. Jordan's many books on entertainment history include Spike Jones, Off the Record: The Man Who Murdered Music, a comprehensive history and discography of Spike Jones that has been completely updated and reissued with a host of new material, including more than 260 never before published photographs, scripts, arrangements, memorabilia and more.

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TVC 564.4: Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (aka the Daytime Emmys), discusses the recent collaboration between the Daytime Emmy Awards and the Prime Time Emmys regarding two major changes that will go into effect in 2022, including the creation of the Children's and Family Emmy Awards as a standalone franchise, and the realignment of the Daytime Emmys and Prime Time Emmys so that both competitions will be organized entirely by content genre. The latter announcement not only marks a major shift away from the long-established traditional method (which is based on what time of day or which day/night of the week that Emmy-nominated programs air), but is the most significant change to the Emmy Awards platform in nearly fifty years.

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TVC 564.5: Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (aka the Daytime Emmys), shares a few thoughts on the recent passing of Betty White and John Madden.

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TVC 564.6: From the floor of the Hollywood Museum's recent Celebrity Authors Forum: Ed welcomes Geoffrey Mark, host of Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella, a new radio show that celebrates the music of the First Lady of Song, and the author of the forthcoming The New Lucy Book, a comprehensive look at the career of Lucille Ball on television, radio, stage, and film.

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