Tribute to Larry Hagman: Next on TVC

Actor Bill Daily, television director Michael Preece, and author Bob Leszczak will join us on a special holiday edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing July 3-9 at the following times and venues:

WROM Radio
Detroit, MI
Wednesday 7/3
8pm ET, 5pm PT
2am ET, 11pm PT
Sunday 7/7
8pm ET, 5pm PT
2am ET, 11pm PT
Click on the Listen Live button at WROMRadio.net

Indiana Talks
Marion, IN
Wednesday 7/3
11pm ET, 8pm PT
with replays at various times throughout the week
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WYYR: Yesteryear Radio
Vero Beach, FL
Thursday 7/4
9pm ET, 6pm PT
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Share-a-Vision Radio
San Francisco Bay Area
Friday 7/5
7pm ET, 4pm PT
10pm ET, 7pm PT
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Talktainment Radio
Columbus, OH
Thursday 7/4
2am ET, 11pm PT
Friday 7/5
3am ET, Midnight PT
Noon ET, 9am PT
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KKYT 93.7 FM The Coyote
Ridgecrest, CA
Sunday 7/7
9pm PT
Monday 7/8
Midnight ET
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KHMB Radio 1710 AM
Half Moon Bay, CA
Sunday 7/7
9pm PT
Monday 7/8
Midnight ET
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The Radio Slot Network
San Francisco, CA
Monday 7/8
9pm ET, 6pm PT
with replays at various times throughout the week
Click on the Talk Slot button at RadioSlot.com

Passionate World Radio
Ann Arbor, MI
Tuesday 7/9
9:30pm ET, 6:30pm PT
with replays at various times throughout the week at PWRTalkonDemand.com
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We will replay our special two-hour tribute to TV legend Larry Hagman, one of the few actors fortunate enough to catch lightning in a bottle twice, so to speak, with two iconic roles: Major Anthony Nelson on I Dream of Jeannie, then as the charming scoundrel J.R. Ewing on Dallas.

Bill Daily will join us on in our first hour. Bill, of course, played Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie, and he’ll share some memories of working alongside Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman and series creator Sidney Sheldon. Then Michael Preece will join us in our second hour. Michael not only directed more episodes of the original Dallas than any director, he had a hand in just about every major cliffhanger of Dalllas, going back to Who Shot J.R.?

Also joining us this week will be Bob Leszczak. Bob’s book Single Season Sitcoms is a look at memorable shows from the first three decades of television that, for one reason or another, lasted one season or less. Among the shows Bob profiles are the two comedy series that Larry Hagman headlined in the early 1970s, The Good Life and Here We Go Again. We’ll also remember some of Hagman’s more notable guest roles in television, as well as play audio highlights from his stage and film career.
TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television
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Wed 11pm ET, 8pm PT on IndianaTalks.com
Thu 9pm ET, 6pm PT on WYYR: Yesteryear Radio
Fri 7pm ET and PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org
Fri Noon ET, 9am PT on Talktainment Radio
Sun 9pm PT, Mon Midnight ET on KKYT 93.7 FM The Coyote (Ridgecrest, Calif.)
Sun 9pm PT, Mon Midnight ET on KHMB Radio 1710 AM (Half Moon Bay, Calif.)
Mon 9pm ET, 6pm PT on The Radio Slot Network
Tue 9:30pm ET, 6:30pm PT on Passionate World Radio
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This Week in Television History: July 2013 PART I

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As always, the further we go back in Hollywood history, the more that fact and legend become intertwined. It's hard to say where the truth really lies.

July 5, 1963

Edie Falco is born in Brooklyn, New York. The Sopranos, proclaimed by some critics to be the greatest TV series of all time, debuted on HBO in January 1999. 

The show centered around the personal and professional problems of the New Jersey mobster Tony Soprano, played by James Gandolfini. Complicating Tony’s life were a large cast of characters--among them, his materialistic wife Carmela, his therapist Dr. Jennifer Melfi (Lorraine Bracco), his uncle Junior (Dominic Chianese), his children Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) and A.J. (Rober Iler) and his crime-world crew, including Paulie “Walnuts” Gaultieri (Tony Sirico), Silvio Dante (Steven Van Zandt) and Carmela’s cousin Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli). The brainchild of writer and producer David Chase, the show became known for its dark, edgy style, its graphic violence and profanity and its frequent pop-culture references.

As the well-coiffed, conflicted Mrs. Soprano, Falco was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in each year of the The Sopranos’ six-season run and won the award three times. In 2003, during the show’s fourth season, she scored a rare trifecta, winning a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) award, and an Emmy in the same year. Falco’s Carmela enjoyed the lavish lifestyle her husband’s profession provided, but struggled with his infidelities and the fact that his illegal career was at odds with her religious faith. The final episode of The Sopranos aired June 10, 2007; almost 12 million people tuned in for the finale, which provoked fierce debate among the show’s die-hard fans over its open-ended final scene.
Prior to her breakout role on The Sopranos, Falco acted on Broadway and appeared on such TV shows as Oz, Law & Order and Homicide. Her first big film break came with a small speaking role in Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway (1994). She went on to appear in A Price Above Rubies (1998), Judy Berlin (1999), Sunshine State (2002) and Freedomland (2006). More recently, Falco guest-starred in several episodes of the acclaimed NBC sitcom 30 Rock.

To quote the Bicentennial Minute, "And that's the way it was".

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Tony Figueroa