TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television brings you lively conversations every week with the stars, writers, directors and other creative people behind the scenes of some of America's most popular shows. An engaging blend of talk and entertainment, TV Confidential often compares today's programs with those of the '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s.

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson is a tv podcast hosted by ed robertson, with 1,000 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

ed robertson hosts TV Confidential with Ed Robertson, a tv show with 1,000 episodes published.

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  Episode #747

  The Chicago roots of Tom Dreesen

  Sep 3, 202619 minS19

  TVC 747.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed remember the life and career of Tom Dreesen , the pioneering comedian, actor, and motivational speaker who was also the opening act for Frank Sinatra for many years. Tom Dreesen passed away on June 17, 2026 at the age of eighty-six. Topics this segment include the night when Dreesen visited Story Salon in 2009 (shortly after the publication of his first book, Tim & Tom: An American Comedy in Black and White ), and how he incorporated the stories of every performer who preceded him that night before taking the stage himself at the end of the show; how Dreesen's formative years in Harvey, Illinois left an imprint on him; his partnership with Tim Reid as the first interracial stand-up comedy duo; and how Frank Sinatra once affectionately referred to Dreesen as "a saloon comic."

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  Episode #747

  Catherine O'Hara: She Could Do Anything

  Sep 2, 202614 minS19

  TVC 746.2: Tony, Donna, and Ed discuss the career of actress and comedienne Catherine O'Hara, from her early work at Second City Toronto to SCTV, Home Alone, Schitt's Creek, The Studio , her appearances in the mockumentaries of Christopher Guest, and more. Catherine O'Hara passed away on Jan. 30, 2026 at age seventy-one.

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  Episode #747

  Charlotte Stewart and Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young

  Sep 1, 202622 minS19

  TVC 747.3: Ed welcomes back Charlotte Stewart , the actress known around the world as Miss Beadle on Little House on the Prairie and as Betty Briggs on Twin Peaks . Charlotte will join Alison Arngrim, Dean Butler, and many other members of the Little House cast at the huge Little House on the Prairie 50th anniversary cast reunion that will take place Sept. 11-12-13 at the historic Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. The weekend will include a special Friday night cast appearance plus, if you sign up for a VIP package, you'll have access to a special backstage tour of Studio A at the Grand Ole Opry (where Hee Haw and other TV series were filmed), plus other exclusive perks. For tickets and more information, go to LittleHouseonthePrairieCastReunions.com . Topics this segment include Charlotte learned her craft as an actress while studying at the Pasadena Playhouse; how her memoir, Little House in the Hollywood Hills , was the first book written by an adult cast member of Little House ; why she retired from acting a few years ago; plus a few memories of hanging out with musicians Neil Young and David Crosby, both in the 1960s and beyond.

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  Episode #747

  Charlotte Stewart on why composition was important to David Lynch

  Sep 1, 20267 minS19

  TVC 747.4: Actress and author Charlotte Stewart ( Little House on the Prairie , Twin Peaks , Little House in the Hollywood Hills ) talks to Ed about why the composition of a film was always important to director David Lynch, and how her long association with Lynch began when he was a student filmmaker and continued with Eraserhead and Twin Peaks . You can meet Charlotte Stewart, along with many other cast members of Little House on the Prairie , at the Little House on the Prairie 50th anniversary cast reunion that will take place Sept. 11-12-13 at the historic Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. For tickets and more information, go to LittleHouseonthePrairieCastReunions.com .

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  Episode #746

  Richard Lefkowitz, author of Welcome to Fabulous Angeles

  Aug 26, 202621 minS19

  TVC 746.1: Ed welcomes Richard Lefkowitz, author of Welcome to Fabulous Angeles: The Rock 'n' Roll Adventures of a Wayward Westside Teen , a coming of age memoir about Richard's years growing up as a teenager in 1970s Los Angeles along with his best friend—a character known in the book as "Moxie"—while also searching for validation and fulfillment. Throughout the pages of Fabulous Angeles , Richard and Moxie bluster and bluff their way into exclusive parties, once-in-a-lifetime concerts, and many tapings at CBS Television City, while also crossing paths with such celebrities as The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, The Doobie Brothers, and Stevie Wonder. Welcome to Fabulous Angeles is available wherever books are sold online, as well as at FabulousAngeles.com . Topics this segment include why L.A. is a lot more like a small town than most people would realize; how Richard's adolescence coincided with a number of seismic cultural changes that occurred in L.A.; and why FM radio was an integral part of the soundtrack of his life.

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