I represent the first generation who, when we were born, the television was now a permanent fixture in our homes. When I was born people had breakfast with Barbara Walters, dinner with Walter Cronkite, and slept with Johnny Carson.
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Sunday, August 07, 2011
Life with Lucy, Wonder Woman and More: This Week on TV CONFIDENTIAL
Actor, author, producer and television historian Herbie J Pilato will join us on the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, premiering Monday, August 8 at 9pm ET, 6pm PT on Shokus Internet Radio, with additional airings throughout the week at the following times and venues:
Herbie’s recent posts include thoughtful essays on Lucille Ball’s final weekly television series, Life with Lucy, which premiered 25 years ago this fall, the demise of the much ballyhooed Wonder Woman pilot produced by David E. Kelley, and the upcoming reimaging of Charlie's Angels. We'll talk about these topics, and more, when Herbie J joins us in our first hour.
Also scheduled this week: a brand new edition of This Week in TV History, plus an encore presentation of our interview with Ray Starman, author of TV Noir: The Twentieth Century, an excellent book that discusses the portrayal of film noir in such classic shows as Dragnet, The Fugitive, The Untouchables, M Squad, and other popular television series over the past 60 years. Though often considered a genre that strictly applies to crime and detective dramas, film noir lends itself to other TV genres, including war dramas such as Twelve O’Clock High, as well as explorations of paranoia and the paranormal, as seen in The Invaders and The X Files. We’ll talk about these shows, as well as the various kinds of film noir depicted on television, during our second hour.
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