Happy Holidays from TV CONFIDENTIAL

Join us as we play highlights from our favorite programs of 2009 on the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, premiering Monday, Dec. 28 at 10pm ET, 7pm PT on Shokus Internet Radio, with a rebroadcast Tuesday, Dec. 29 at 11pm ET, 8pm PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org. Tony Figueroa will also lead us through a special year-end edition of This Week in TV History. All this, plus commentaries by David Krell, and more.

Best wishes to you and yours for the holidays and beyond, and thanks for listening.

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Quinn Martin, plus 2009: The Year in TV: Next on TV CONFIDENTIAL

Join us as we look back at the year in the television—the good, the bad and the ugly—on the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, premiering Monday, Dec. 14 at 10pm ET, 7pm PT on Shokus Internet Radio, with a rebroadcast Tuesday, Dec. 15 at 11pm ET, 8pm PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org.

Jay Leno and NBC may have dominated the headlines, but they were not the only stories in the world of television in 2009. The year also saw the Emmy Awards telecast rise from the dead, thanks to a spirited performance by host Neil Patrick Harris, as well as a host of controversies involving the likes of David Letterman, Sarah Palin, Carrie Prejean and Tiger Woods. It was also a year that saw the passings of such cultural icons as Walter Cronkite, Don Hewitt, Karl Malden, Army Archerd, Dominick Dunne, Larry Gelbart, Fred Travelena, Beatrice Arthur, Ed McMahon, Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. We’ll talk about these stories and more when Tony Figueroa and David Krell join us in our second hour.

In our first hour, we’ll welcome back television writer Paul Robert Coyle as we conclude our three-part series on the programs of Quinn Martin. Paul’s credits in television include episodes of such QM series as Barnaby Jones and The Streets of San Francisco, as well as other popular dramas like Simon & Simon, Jake and the Fatman, Crazy Like a Fox, Midnight Caller, Xena: Warrior Princess and The Dead Zone. Paul offers great insight into the workings of QM Productions, as well as such key QM personnel as Buddy Ebsen, Lee Meriwether, Philip Saltzman and William Conrad.

This promises to be a full program as usual, and we certainly hope you’ll join us Monday, Dec. 14 beginning at 10pm ET, 7pm PT on Shokus Internet Radio.

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Lee Meriwether: Next on TV CONFIDENTIAL

Film and TV icon Lee Meriwether is scheduled to join us on the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, premiering Monday, Nov. 30 at 10pm ET, 7pm PT on Shokus Internet Radio, with a rebroadcast Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 11pm ET, 8pm PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org.

Known to many of us for playing Betty Jones on the long-running private detective series Barnaby Jones (CBS, 1973-1980), as well as The Catwoman in the original Batman motion picture from 1966, Lee Meriwether has been a film and TV icon for more than four decades. We’ll talk about these famous characters, plus her roles on such classic series as Star Trek, The Time Tunnel, The Fugitive, Mission: Impossible, Dan August and Perry Mason, her work with such legends as John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Andy Griffith, Jonathan Winters, Irwin Allen and James Garner, and a whole lot more.

If you want to be part of our conversation, if you have a question for Ms. Meriwether about her career or any of the films and TV series in which she’s appeared, we invite you to join us for our live broadcast Monday, Nov. 30 beginning at 10pm ET, 7pm PT on Shokus Internet Radio. Phone number is (888) SHOKUS-5 / (888) 746-5875. Email address is talk@tvconfidential.net.

TV CONFIDENTIAL with Ed Robertson and Frankie Montiforte
Mon-Sun 10pm ET, 7pm PT
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Every other Tuesday at 11pm ET, 8pm PT
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www.tvconfidential.net
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TV CONFIDENTIAL Nov. 16 edition: Hour 1 with guest Richard Anderson

This hour begins with a recap of the recently concluded Game Show Congress 7 and the awards ceremonies honoring Geoff Edwards, Johnny Gilbert and the late Allen Ludden. Then midway through the hour, Ed and Frankie welcome actor Richard Anderson as they discuss his role as Oscar Goldman on The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman and the impact and appeal of both series:

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TV CONFIDENTIAL Nov. 16 edition: Hour 2 with guest Richard Anderson, plus This Week in TV History

Our interview with Richard Anderson continues into the second hour as the actor discusses his work with David Janssen on The Fugitive, Burt Reynolds on Dan August, John Frankenheimer in Seconds and Stanley Kubrick in Paths of Glory, as well as his encounters with Preston Sturges and Cary Grant early in his career. Then Tony Figueroa remembers Rock Hudson, Charles M. Schultz and Tom Hatten during This Week in Television History, while David Krell discusses Brandon Tartikoff’s memoir The Last Great Ride:

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The Man Behind The Six Million Dollar Man: Next on TV CONFIDENTIAL

TV CONFIDENTIAL promises to be better, stronger and faster when actor Richard Anderson joins Ed Robertson and Frankie Montiforte on the next edition of the program, which premieres Monday, Nov. 16 at 10pm ET, 7pm PT on Shokus Internet Radio, with a rebroadcast Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 11pm ET, 8pm PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org.

Best known for playing Oscar Goldman on The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman—a role that made him the first actor in TV history to play the same character on two series that ran at the same time on two different networks—Richard Anderson has been a fixture in movies and television for more than 60 years. He has appeared in such classic films as The Long Hot Summer, Forbidden Planet, Compulsion, Seconds, Tora! Tora! Tora! and Paths of Glory, while his television career includes regular roles on Perry Mason, Dan August and Cover Up, featured roles in such acclaimed made-for-TV movies as Along Came a Spider, Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole and The Night Strangler, and guest appearances on such classic TV series as Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The F.B.I., Hawaii Five-O, Columbo and The Fugitive.

If you want to be part of our conversation, if you have a question for Richard Anderson about his career or any of the films and television series in which he’s appeared, we invite you to join us Monday, Nov. 16 at 10pm ET, 7pm PT on Shokus Internet Radio.

TV CONFIDENTIAL with Ed Robertson and Frankie Montiforte
Mon-Sun 10pm ET, 7pm PT
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Every other Tuesday at 11pm ET, 8pm PT
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TV CONFIDENTIAL Nov. 2 edition, Hour 2: “The Wild, Wild West” with guests Sue Kesler and Jude Bradley

Ed and Frankie welcome television historian Susan Kesler, author of The Wild, Wild West: The Series, a behind-the-scenes history of the classic TV Western starring Robert Conrad and Ross Martin. Sue’s editor, Jude Bradley, also appears in this hour:

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TV CONFIDENTIAL Nov. 2 edition, Hour 1: Remembering Terry Southern with guests Gail Gerber and Tom Lisanti

Ed and Frankie welcome actress Gail Gerber (The Loved One, Village of the Giants) and film historian Tom Lisanti, co-authors of Trippin’ with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember, a poignant look at the life and career of iconic novelist and screenwriter Terry Southern

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James T. West and “The Hippest Guy on the Planet”: Next on TV CONFIDENTIAL

Join us as we remember two of the biggest icons of the 1960s, legendary screenwriter Terry Southern (Easy Rider, Dr. Strangelove, The Cincinnati Kid, Barbarella) and the classic sci-fi Western series The Wild, Wild West, on the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, premiering Monday, Nov. 2 at 10pm ET, 7pm PT on Shokus Internet Radio, with a rebroadcast Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 11pm ET, 8pm PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org.

Our scheduled guests include dancer/actress Gail Gerber, co-star of many films from the 1960s, including Beach Ball, Girl Happy, Harem Scarum, the cult classic Village of the Giants and the scathing satire on the funeral industry, The Loved One. It was on the set of The Loved One that Gail first met Terry Southern, the iconic novelist and screenwriter whose Oscar-winning 1969 screen play for Easy Rider was about to turn the film industry on its head. Gail’s new book, Trippin’ with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember, is a poignant look at her 30-year relationship with Southern, a bona fide celebrity who was equally at home in the worlds of art, literature and film, yet often struggled to make ends meet despite his enormous fame. Gail and her co-author, film and TV historian Tom Lisanti, will join us beginning at 10:05pm ET, 7:05pm PT.

Then in our second hour we’ll welcome Susan Kesler, author of The Wild, Wild West Book, a behind-the-scenes look at the iconoclastic television Western starring Robert Conrad and Ross Martin as intrepid Secret Service agents Jim West and Artemus Gordon, and Michael Dunn as their nemesis, Dr. Miguelito Loveless. Recently updated with an arsenal of new information about the 1965-1969 CBS-TV series since its original 1988 publication, The Wild, Wild West Book is not only one of the best, most comprehensive television histories ever written, it’s also a lot of fun. Sue Kessler joins us at beginning at 11pm ET, 8pm PT.

If you want to be part of our conversation, if you grew up watching The Wild, Wild West or are a fan of the films of Terry Southern, we invite you to join us for our live broadcast, premiering Monday, Nov. 2 at 10pm ET, 7pm PT on Shokus Internet Radio. Phone number is (888) 746-5875 / (888) SHOKUS-5. If you have questions or comments you’d like to send in advance, our email address is talk@tvconfidential.net.

TV CONFIDENTIAL with Ed Robertson and Frankie Montiforte
Mon-Sun 10pm ET, 7pm PT
Shokus Internet Radio
Every other Tuesday at 11pm ET, 8pm PT
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www.tvconfidential.net
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Also available as a podcast via iTunes and FeedBurner

TV CONFIDENTIAL Oct. 19 edition, Hour 2: Remembering “The Adventures of Superman” with guest Bruce Dettman

Ed and Frankie remember The Adventures of Superman and its iconic star, George Reeves, along with their guest, television historian Bruce Dettman. Reeves biographer Jan Alan Henderson joins the conversation late in the broadcast. Also: This Week in Television History with Tony Figueroa remembers Ed Sullivan, Penny Marshall and the premiere of I Love Lucy, while David Krell’s commentary discusses Be True to Your School, Bob Greene’s best-selling look back at the year 1964:

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