TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 623.1: Game show historian Steve Beverly, retired professor of broadcast journalism at Union University and host of Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, joins Ed for a remembrance of game show legend Bob Barker, longtime host of The Price is Right and, before that, Truth or Consequences. Bob Barker passed away on Saturday, Aug. 26 at age ninety-nine. In this segment, Steve talks to Ed about how Barker came to host The Price is Right in 1972; the role that the revival of Password in 1971 played bringing Price back to television; and how the Barker Price is Right differed from the version hosted by Bill Cullen from 1956-1965. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 623.2: Game show historian Steve Beverly talks to Ed about how it took a few shows for the Bob Barker Price is Right to find its footing; why it was a risky move for CBS to expand The Price is Right to an hour from its original thirty-minute length; and why Drew Carey was “a compromise choice” to replace Barker as host of Price in 2007. Bob Barker passed away on Saturday, Aug. 26 at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 623.2a: Game show historian Steve Beverly talks to Ed about Bob Barker’s vast skills as a communicator—and, particularly, his ability to connect with both the studio audience and the viewers at home—enabled him to withstand the various scandals and controversies that plagued The Price is Right in the years after Bob Barker became executive producer of the show. Bob Barker passed away on Saturday, Aug. 26 at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 623.3: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen reminisce about the “Barker’s Box” segment on Truth or Consequences, and how that feature was a mini version of the type of audience participation show that Barker hosted on radio early in his career. Bob Barker passed away on Saturday, Aug. 26 at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 623.4: Longtime television announcer Randy West joins Ed as TV Confidential continues its tribute to game show legend Bob Barker. Among the many game shows on which Randy worked as an announcer was the Bob Barker Price is Right. In this segment, Randy talks to Ed about the circumstances that led him to succeed Rod Roddy as the announcer on Price in 2003; why he considers the year he spent on Price to be the high point of his announcing career; and the proper inflections the announcer must have when saying such phrases as “Come on Down” and “A new car!” Bob Barker passed away on Saturday, Aug. 26 at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 623.5: Longtime television announcer Randy West shares some memories of working alongside Bob Barker during the 2003-2004 season, when Randy was the announcer on The Price is Right. He also provides some insight into hosting the live version of The Price is Right, which Randy has done in many different venues over the years. Bob Barker passed away on Saturday, Aug. 26 at age ninety-nine. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 623.6: Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen share a few memories about being neighbors with Bob Barker during the years he hosted The Price is Right. the time when they were neighbors Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 622.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Georgiana “Noopy” Rodrigues, daughter of legendary singer, actress, and comedienne Rose Marie. This past Tuesday, Aug. 15 marked the 100th birthday of Rose Marie; to mark the occasion, Sepia Records, along with the Rose Marie estate, have just released Rose Marie Sings: The Complete Mercury Recordings and More, a collection of twenty-nine classic recordings and rarities that include some of Rose Marie’s favorite show tunes, standards, and novelty songs—all available on CD for the very first time. Topics this segment include how Frank Sinatra learned that Rose Marie was pregnant with Noopy even before her father, trumpeter Bobby Guy, knew, and the crucial role that Jerry Lewis played in overseeing the medical care of Bobby Guy after Guy had been diagnosed with a blood infection. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 622.2: Georgiana “Noopy” Rodrigues, daughter of the one and only Rose Marie, talks to Ed about how her mom and Doris Day bonded immediately once they started working together on The Doris Day Show, and how their friendship lasted until Rose Marie’s death. Also in this segment: Noopy and Ed talk about the 100 days of “Rose Marie Facts,” a collection of Rose Marie facts and trivia that will be shared each day through approximately Nov. 23 on Rose Marie’s social media accounts, including Facebook: @missrosemarie; Instagram: @missrosemarie; Twitter: @RoseMarie4Real; and MissRoseMarie.com. Rose Marie Sings: The Complete Mercury Recordings and More includes twenty-nine of Rose Marie’s favorite show tunes, standards, and novelty songs—all available on CD for the very first time. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 622.3: Greg Ehrbar interviews Mark Cantor, jazz and film historian, author of The Soundies: A History and Catalog of Jukebox Film Shorts of the 1940s, and one of the contributors to the Blu-ray release Soundies: The Ultimate Collection. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 622.4: Ed welcomes Simon Napier-Bell, former manager of Wham!, longtime record producer and songwriter, and the director of The Real George Michael: Portrait of an Artist, an excellent documentary that not only explores the many ups and downs of the illustrious Grammy Award winner, but takes a deep dive into who George really was: a kind and generous person who ultimately fought many demons while being front and center as one of the most famous musicians of his time. The Real George Michael is available now for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime, Tubi, Roku, Peacock, and many other platforms throughout the U.S. and Canada. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 623.5: Simon Napier-Bell, former manager of Wham! and the director of The Real George Michael, talks to Ed about how George Michael, like many artists, had an up-and-down relationship with fame throughout his life and career. Also in this segment: Ed asks Simon what he looked for, and what George looked for, when determining whether a new song might become a hit record. The Real George Michael is available now for streaming on demand on Amazon Prime, Tubi, Roku, Peacock, and many other platforms throughout the U.S. and Canada. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 622.6: Jazz and film historian Mark Cantor talks to Greg Ehrbar about how his book, The Soundies: A History and Catalog of Jukebox Film Shorts of the 1940s, was more than four decades in the making. The Soundies: A History and Catalog of Jukebox Film Shorts of the 1940s is available through McFarland Books and Amazon.com, while Soundies: The Ultimate Collection is available on Blu-ray through Kino Lorber. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 621.1: Part 2 of a two-part conversation that began on our program last week with Grammy Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Fox. Charles is the subject of Killing Me Softly with His Songs, a forthcoming documentary that not only chronicles Charles’ life and career in music, but is really, at its heart, a celebration of music itself—and, particularly, the power of live music to connect people and bridge cultures. If all goes well, Killing Me Softly with His Songs will be released later in 2023; for updates and more information, go to KillingMeSoftlywithHisSongs.com or CharlesFoxMusic.com In this segment, Charles talks to Ed about the back stories of “Making Our Dreams Come True,” the theme to Laverne & Shirley (performed by Cyndi Grecco), “I’ve Got a Name,” the song that Charles and Norman Gimbel wrote for The Last American Hero (and which Jim Croce performed for the film, shortly before his tragic death in September 1973), and the theme to The Love Boat. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 621.2: Ed welcomes back Georgiana “Noopy” Rodrigues, daughter of legendary singer, actress, and comedienne Rose Marie. This past Tuesday, Aug. 15 marked the 100th birthday of Rose Marie; to mark the occasion, Sepia Records, along with the Rose Marie estate, have just released Rose Marie Sings: The Complete Mercury Recordings and More, a collection of twenty-nine classic recordings and rarities that include some of Rose Marie’s favorite show tunes, standards, and novelty songs—all available on CD for the very first time. Among the tracks included in Rose Marie Sings is a performance of “Little Girl Blue” that Rose Marie gave on The Dean Martin Show in 1966, shortly after the death of her husband, Bobby Guy. In this segment, Noopy shares the story of how Dean Martin not only personally implored Rose Marie to appear on his variety show, but went out of his way to make her feel comfortable. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 621.3: Georgiana “Noopy” Rodrigues, daughter of the one and only Rose Marie, talks to Ed about some of the dinner parties that her parents often threw (including a memorable one with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz around the time they made The Long, Long Trailer) and why family was always important to Rose Marie. Rose Marie Sings: The Complete Mercury Recordings and More includes twenty-nine of Rose Marie’s favorite show tunes, standards, and novelty songs—all available on CD for the very first time. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 621.4: From December 2017: Ed welcomes back Peter Marshall, the master of The Hollywood Squares and the narrator of Wait For Your Laugh, the excellent documentary on the life and career of Rose Marie. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 620.1: Gregory Orr, son of William T. Orr, the original head of television production at Warner Bros. Studios, and the grandson of Warner Bros. co-founder Jack L. Warner, talks to Ed about the many ways in which Warner Bros. in which Warner Bros. set the standards for production of hour-long episodic television during the early days of the medium. Calendar year 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of Warner Bros.; to mark the occasion, Greg has just released the director’s cut of his 1993 documentary Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul, an unvarnished look at one of the founding fathers of the American film industry. Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul is available now for streaming on demand on all major platforms and on DVD through outlets such as MovieZyng.com. Use promo JACK through the end of August and receive 10 percent off your purchase of the DVD through Movie Zyng. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 620.5: Ed welcomes back Grammy Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Fox, the man behind "Killing Me Softly with His Song," "Ready to Take a Chance Again," "I Got a Name," and many other classic songs from the 1970s, and the composer of some of the most iconic theme songs in TV history, including Happy Days, Wonder Woman, and The Love Boat. Charles is the subject of Killing Me Softly with His Songs, a forthcoming documentary that not only chronicles Charles’ life and career in music, but is really, at its heart, a celebration of music itself—and, particularly, the power of live music to connect people and bridge cultures. Killing Me Softly with His Songs is scheduled for release later in 2023; for updates and more information, go to KillingMeSoftlywithHisSongs.com or CharlesFoxMusic.com Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TVC 620.3: Gregory Orr, son of William T. Orr, the original head of television production at Warner Bros. Studios, and the grandson of Warner Bros. co-founder Jack L. Warner, talks to Ed about the some of the many film stars and television stars that Warner Bros. developed during the era of the studio system, and how Jack Warner took little interest in the development of his television division beyond seeing it as a source of revenue. The director’s cut of Greg’s 1993 documentary Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul is available now for streaming on demand on all major platforms and on DVD through outlets such as MovieZyng.com. Use promo JACK through the end of August and receive 10 percent off your purchase of the DVD through Movie Zyng. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices