TV Confidential Archives July 18, 2011

Show No. 97 July 18, 2011

First hour: Television historian and author Wesley Hyatt (Emmy Award Winning Nighttime Television Shows, Television’s Top 100: The Most Watched American Broadcasts from 1960 through 2010) joins Ed, Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen for a round-table discussion on the careers of writer/producers Sam Denoff (That Girl, The Dick Van Dyke Show) and Sherwood Schwartz (Gilligan’s Island, The Brady Bunch). Second hour: Ed welcomes actress, author, producer and publisher Kathryn Leigh Scott, star of the iconic ABC daytime drama Dark Shadows and other stage, film and television productions. Kathryn's books include Dark Passages, a paranormal romance novel that pays homage to Dark Shadows while also capturing the romance and innocence of the JFK Camelot era of the early 1960s, and The Bunny Years, a behind-the-scenes history of The Playboy Clubs in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Tokyo and other cities and their impact on American culture. Kathryn's upcoming appearances include the Diesel Bookstore at the Brentwood Country Mart in Santa Monica, CA on Sunday, August 7; the Barnes & Noble at 86th and Lexington in New York City on Wednesday, August 17; the Dark Shadows 45th Anniversary Cast Reunion and Fan Convention in New York City on August 19, 20 and 21; Book Soup in West Hollywood, CA on Tuesday, September 13; the West Hollywood Book Fair in West Hollywood, CA on Sunday, October 2; and the New York Comic-Con on October 14 and 15. Also in this hour: A look at this year's Emmy nominations.