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Show No. 109
Oct. 19, 2011 |
First hour: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen help Ed recap the first
month of the new fall TV season, including a look at such early hits as Pan
Am, New Girl, 2 Broke Girls and Up All Night, NBC's programming
strategy with Prime Suspect, and the reasons behind the failures of
The Playboy Club, Free Agents and Charlie's Angels.
Second hour: Ed welcomes actor Dennis Farina (Crime Story, Get Shorty, Midnight Run, Buddy Faro). Dennis' latest film, The Last Rites of Joe May, will be available to more than 40 million homes nationwide via Movies on Demand for eight weeks beginning Oct. 27. The film will also be available for instant viewing via iTunes, Amazon Instant Video and VUDU, as well as have a limited theatrical release in New York in November. Dennis is also one of the stars of Luck, a provocative look at the world of horse racing that will premiere on HBO in January 2012. Also in this hour: Phil Gries presents rare audio of some of the early television appearances of Woody Allen. Allen's life and career will be the subject of Seriously Funny, a two-part documentary that will air Nov. 20-21 on PBS. |
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. Read the full "Pre-ramble"
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