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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
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Doc: We are descending towards Hill Valley, California, at 4.29pm, on Wednesday, October 21st, 2015.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Forty Years of Saturday Night Live: Next on TVC
We’ll commemorate the 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Live on the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Oct. 21-26 at the following times and venues:
Detroit, MI
Wednesday 10/21
8pm ET, 5pm PT
2am ET, 11pm PT
Sunday 10/25
8pm ET, 5pm PT
2am ET, 11pm PT
Click on the Listen Live button at WROMRadio.net
KHDN AM-1230
KBSR AM-1490
KYLW AM-1450
Billings, MT
part of GLN Radio Network
Friday 10/23
3pm ET, Noon PT
Saturday 10/24
6pm ET, 3pm PT
Monday 10/26
3pm ET, Noon PT
San Francisco Bay Area
Friday 10/23
7pm ET, 4pm PT
10pm ET, 7pm PT
Click on the Listen Live button at KSAV.org
Use the TuneIn app on your smartphone and type in KSAV
Marion, IN
Saturday 10/24
8pm ET, 5pm PT
Sunday 10/25
6pm ET, 3pm PT
Click on the player at IndianaTalks.com
or use the TuneIn app on your smartphone and type in Indiana Talks
San Jose, Santa Cruz and Salinas, CA
La Selva Beach and Watsonville, CA
Sunday 10/25
9am ET, 6am PT
Also streaming at KSCO.com
Half Moon Bay, CA
Sunday 10/25
9pm PT
Monday 10/26
Midnight ET
Click on the Listen Live button at KHMBRadio.com
San Francisco, CA
Monday 10/26
10pm ET, 7pm PT
with replays Tuesday thru Friday at 10pm ET, 7pm PT
Click on the Talk Slot button at RadioSlot.com
Ann Arbor, MI
Various times throughout the week
We’ll continue our look at milestone television premieres with a look at the history of Saturday Night Live, which originally premiered on NBC this month in 1975.
This week’s show will include an encore presentation of our February 2014 conversation with Emmy Award winner Alan Zweibel. Alan was not only one of the original writers of Saturday Night Live, where he wrote for Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Dan Akyroyd and the rest of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players, but he has written for such comedy legends as Steve Martin, Billy Crystal, Garry Shandling, Jon Lovitz, Larry David and Martin Short. Alan is also an accomplished author and novelist; his books include Bunny Bunny, the story of his 14-year friendship with Gilda Radner, which began in July 1975 on the first day of production meetings for Saturday Night Live. We will talk about Gilda Radner, plus we’ll ask Alan about his work on It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm and other aspects of writing during our first hour.
Our second hour will include a replay of our October 2014 conversation with Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad, co-authors of Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, a behind the scenes look at the first ten years of the groundbreaking NBC late night series. Recently re-released as an eBook, Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live was hailed by the Associated Press as “the best book ever written about television.”
TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television
Wed and Sun 8pm ET, 5pm PT on WROM Radio
Fri and Mon 3pm ET, Noon PT and Sat 6pm ET, 3pm PT on GLN Radio Network
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Mon 10pm ET, 7pm PT on The Radio Slot Network
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Monday, October 19, 2015
TV CONFIDENTIAL Archives: Show No. 291, 292, 293 and 294
Show No. 291 with guest James Sutorius
Original Airdate: Week of Sept. 16-21, 2015
First hour: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen remember Green Acres, Xena: Warrior Princess and The Dean Martin Show, all of which originally premiered during This Week in TV History. Also in this hour: An excerpt from our December 2011 conversation with the Alberici Sisters (Maria Lauren and Linda Eichberg), co-authors of Beyond Our Wildest Dreams, a memoir of their two decades performing with Dean Martin as members of the Dean Martin Golddiggers that particularly focuses on the years 1973 through 1978, one of the last great eras of entertainment. Second hour: Ed welcomes James Sutorius, the accomplished actor whose many television credits include Matlock, Columbo, Murder, She Wrote, Family Ties, The X Files, Southland, Perry Mason and CSI, as well as his own series, The Andros Targets.
Show No. 292 with guests Dean Hargrove, James Sutorius and Laura Pursell
Original Airdate: Week of Sept. 23-28, 2015
First hour: Ed welcomes singer/actress Laura Pursell. Laura’s latest album, The Very Last Dance Hall Left in L.A., is a collaboration with her father, legendary Nashville pianist Bill Pursell. Also in this hour: Part 2 of our conversation with stage and television actor James Sutorius (The Andros Targets, The Bob Crane Show). Plus: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen remember the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Hogan’s Heroes. Second hour: Ed welcomes Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and director Dean Hargrove (Columbo, The Name of the Game, Matlock, Diagnosis Murder, Perry Mason). Dean is also the director and executive producer of Tap World, a critically acclaimed documentary that provides a window into the world of tap dancing. Tap World will be screened at the Regent Theatre in Arlington, MA on Sunday, Oct. 18, while the film will become available on demand via Netflix beginning Tuesday, Nov. 3.
Show No. 293 with guests Susan Kesler, Bob Herron and Stacey Adams
Original Airdate: Week of Sept. 30-Oct. 5, 2015
First hour: A look back at the history of The Wild, Wild West, which originally premiered on CBS in September 1965, followed by a replay of our October 2013 conversation with Susan Kesler (author of The Wild, Wild West: The Series) and longtime movie and TV stuntman Bob Herron, Ross Martin’s double on The Wild, Wild West. Bob Herron was honored in September 2015 by the Stuntmen’s Association of Motion Pictures. Second hour: This Week in TV History remembers the legacy of Get Smart, which also premiered in September 1965. Also in this hour: An encore presentation of our March 2014 conversation with actress and network TV executive Stacey Adams, the daughter of Don Adams.
Show No. 294 with guests Kathy Garver and Rita Lakin
Original Airdate: Week of Oct. 7-12, 2015
First hour: Ed welcomes back Rita Lakin, author of The Only Woman in the Room, a memoir of her twenty-five-year career as one of the first solo female writer/producers in network television—at a time (mid 1960s through the late 1980s) when the industry was still very much an old boys network. Rita will be appearing at Book Passages in Corte Madera, CA on Saturday, Oct. 24. She will also be honored by the Writers Guild Women’s Committee and The Committee for Career Longevity in Los Angeles, CA on Tuesday, Nov. 3. For more information on these and other upcoming events, go to RitaLakin.com. Also in this hour: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen remember the premiere of The Flintstones in October 1960. Second hour: Ed welcomes back Kathy Garver, “Cissy Davis” from Family Affair, and the author of Surviving Cissy: My Family Affair of Life in Hollywood, the story of Kathy’s life and career, which not only discusses her early roles in such films as The Ten Commandments and Night of the Hunter, but includes heartfelt tributes to all of her cast members of Family Affair, including Brian Keith. Kathy has several appearances across the country over the next few weeks; for more information on her schedule, go to KathyGarver.com.
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