TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 601.4: A return appearance by Emmy-nominated actress and producer Lee Purcell (Big Wednesday, Valley Girl, Long Road Home, Carol of the Bells). Lee is also one of the driving forces behind the Hollywood Radio Players, a troupe of actors who perform re-enactments of classic radio plays, via Zoom, to help raise funds for the Motion Picture and Television Fund. The most recent production of The Hollywood Radio Players is "The Magic Christmas Tree," a holiday-themed episode of the Our Miss Brooks radio series that originally aired on Dec. 24, 1950 (featuring Lee Purcell as Connie Brooks, the role that Eve Arden originally made famous), while the Motion Picture and Television Fund offers a variety of services that provide emotional and financial relief to film and TV industry members and their families who have fallen on hard times.

Each production of The Hollywood Radio Players is available for viewing on demand, for free, on the Hollywood Radio Players YouTube channel; however, donations of any amount to the Motion Picture and Television Fund are encouraged. For more information, go to MPTF.com/donate

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TVC 601.5: Ed welcomes Lee E. Cox, the actor that most of you know best for his recurring role as rookie police officer Aaron Castor on the Emmy Award-winning HBO series The Wire. Lee can be seen this month in Snap, a new anthology series that will remind you of both The Twilight Zone and the British sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror. Snap is available right now for streaming on demand on ALLBLK, the popular streaming channel from AMC Networks that showcases black entertainment. "Black Lives Matter," the episode of Snap featuring Lee E. Cox and Tisha Campbell, was just released earlier this week.

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TVC 601.6: Greg Ehrbar with more ideas on how to spend the various gift cards that you may have received last month, including such books as Drawn to Greatness: Disney's Animation Renaissance, Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, The Merv Griffin Show: The Inside Story, TV Inside Out: Flukes, Flakes, Feuds, and Felonies, and Annette Funicello: Tributes from Fans and Friends.

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TV Confidential is taking some time off for the holidays; we'll be back with brand new programs beginning January 13. In the meantime, please enjoy this special preview of our upcoming interview with actor Paul Dooley (Breaking Away, Sixteen Candles, co-creator of The Electric Company) about his new memoir, Movie Dad, and how he came to write the book as a result of the pandemic.

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TV Confidential is taking some time off for the holidays; we'll be back with brand new programs beginning January 13. In the meantime, please enjoy this special preview of our upcoming new interview with actress, producer, and director Lee Purcell (Big Wednesday, Valley Girl, Carol of the Bells). Lee is also one of the driving forces behind the Hollywood Radio Players, a troupe of actors who perform re-enactments of classic radio plays, via Zoom, to help raise funds for the Motion Picture and Television Fund. The most recent production of The Hollywood Radio Players is "The Magic Christmas Tree," a holiday-themed episode of the Our Miss Brooks radio series that originally aired on Dec. 24, 1950, while the Motion Picture and Television Fund offers a variety of services that provide emotional and financial relief to industry members and their families who have fallen on hard times.

Each production of The Hollywood Radio Players is free to watch on the Hollywood Radio Players YouTube channel; however, donations of any amount to the Motion Picture and Television Fund are encouraged. To find out more, go to HollywoodRadioPlayers.com or the Hollywood Radio Players YouTube channel. To make a donation in any amount, go to MPTF.com/donate

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TV Confidential is taking some time off for the holidays; we'll be back with brand new programs beginning January 13. In the meantime, please enjoy this special preview of our upcoming interview with actor Lee E. Cox (The Wire, Head of State). Lee will soon be seen in Snap, a new anthology series that will remind you of both The Twilight Zone and the British anthology series Black Mirror. Snap premieres December 22 on ALLBLK, the popular streaming channel from AMC Networks that showcases black entertainment. Lee's episode of Snap, "Black Lives Matter," will air in mid-January.

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TVC 600.1: Greg Ehrbar and Ed pay tribute to Bob McGrath, the beloved singer/actor on Sesame Street who first came into prominence as a cast member of Sing Along with Mitch and who also left his mark on Walt Disney Records. Bob McGrath passed away on Sunday, Dec. 4 at age ninety.

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TVC 600.2: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with actress Norma Maldonado (Jane the Virgin, Sweet Navidad). Norma gives listeners a brief window into the auditioning process in movies and television, plus she'll share a few memories of working opposite Jonathan Banks in one of the final episodes of Breaking Bad.

Sweet Navidad is available now for viewing on demand on Peacock.

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TVC 600.3: TV Confidential brings you coverage of a special screening of Ron Howard's Emmy-nominated documentary Rebuilding Paradise that took place in Ojai, California this past Sunday, Oct. 16, an event that Howard himself arranged on behalf of his longtime friend Anson Williams. Williams recently ran for mayor of his hometown of Ojai; one of the most pressing issues of Anson's mayoral campaign was and is the need for fire awareness and prevention. A question-and-answer session between Howard and New York Times bestselling author Michael Arkush followed the Oct. 16 screening; in this brief clip from the Q and A, Howard discusses his longtime personal connection to the town of Ojai, and what led him to make Rebuilding Paradise.

Our thanks to Wonder Mouse Productions, the Ojai Valley Fire Safe Council, the Anson for Mayor 2022 campaign, Let's Green CA! and B. Harlan Boll Public Relations for making this audio footage available.

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TVC 600.4: Ed welcomes back Louise Sorel, the actress known around the world as Vivian Alamain on Days of Our Lives and Augusta Lockridge on Santa Barbara. If all goes well, Louise will return to Days in early 2023 as part of a special storyline that will honor the late John Aniston. Ed asks Louise about that, plus she shares a few memories of working with Jonathan Winters, Telly Savalas, William Shatner, and David Janssen.

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