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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 511.2 with guest Ron Bacon is available for listening on demand as a free podcast

Posted on August 23, 2021 by admin

Ron Bacon and The Kite Song Original Airdates: Aug. 20-22, 2020 TVC 551.2: A return appearance by Emmy Award winner Ron Bacon, a true pioneer of network TV production who wore many hats throughout his thirty-five-year career, which spanned more … Continue reading →

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Brush Up Your Shakespeare with Ellen Geer: Next on TVC

Posted on August 18, 2021 by admin

Actress and director Ellen Geer will join us this week, plus we’ll welcome back Emmy Award winter Ron Bacon and game show historian Steve Beverly, on the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Aug. 20-22 at the following times and … Continue reading →

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 547.1 with guest Ron Bacon is available for listening on demand

Posted on July 25, 2021 by admin

The Lawrence Welk Show Family Original Airdates: July 23-25, 2021 TVC 547.1: Part 2 of the conversation that began last week with Emmy Award winner Ron Bacon. One of the true pioneers of network television, Ron spent thirty-five years in … Continue reading →

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via National Comedy Center: Rob Reiner, Annie Reiner, and Lucas Reiner will donate the archives of comedy legend CARL REINER to the NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER, including rare creative papers, scripts and artifacts that span Reiner’s seven-decade career as a writer, director, producer, author and performer. The National Comedy Center will also name its Archival and Preservation Department in memory of Carl Reiner

Posted on March 19, 2021 by admin

Jamestown, NY – March 19, 2021 – The National Comedy Center, the United States’ official cultural institution dedicated to the art form of comedy, announced today that it will become the home of comedy legend Carl Reiner’s archives. The Reiner … Continue reading →

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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 527.1 with guest Mitchell Hadley is available for listening on demand

Posted on February 22, 2021 by admin

How Television Evolved During the Era of Classic TV Original Airdates: Feb. 19-21, 2021 TVC 527.1: Ed welcomes novelist, essayist, and TV historian Mitchell Hadley. Mitchell’s latest book, The Electronic Mirror: What Classic TV Tells US About Who We Were … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Classic Shows, Podcasts | Tagged Classic TV defined, coca-cola commercials, Doronty Kilgallen, Electronic Mirror Classic TV, Ernie Kovacs, Fred Rogers, Golden Age of Television, I've Got a Secret, ItsAboutTV.com, Jack Paar, Misterogers Neighborbood, Mitchell Hadley adventures in television, Mitchell Hadley essayist, Mitchell Hadley glorious Hadleyvision, Mitchell Hadley It's About TV, Mitchell Hadley novelist, Mitchell Hadley The Car, Mitchell Hadley The Collaborator, Mitchell Hadley The Electronic Mirror, Mitchell Hadley This Week in TV Guide, Mr. Rogers, Perry Mason, Perry Mason opening title sequence, Route 66, Route 66 inadvertent documentary, Take a Good Look, Television 1968, television as Electronic Mirror, The Electronic Mirror, The Electronic Mirror book, The Electronic Mirror: What Classic TV Tells US About Who We Were (and Everything in Between), The Fugitive, This Week in TV Guide, TV Guide, What's My Line | Leave a comment

Donzaleigh Abernathy and The Electronic Mirror: Next on TVC

Posted on February 16, 2021 by admin

Actress, author, vocalist, and speaker Donzaleigh Abernathy and novelist, essayist, and TV historian Mitchell Hadley will join us this weekend on TV CONFIDENTIAL, airing Feb. 19-21 at the following times and venues: WBRT AM 1320 and FM 97.1 Bardstown, KY … Continue reading →

Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Novelist, essayist and TV historian MITCHELL HADLEY on what Classic TV is, what it says about ourselves, and why the best way to understand the culture of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s is to watch TV shows that were actually made in those respective decades. Mitchell’s book THE ELECTRONIC MIRROR: What Classic TV Tells Us About Who We Were and Who We Are (and Everything in Between) is available in paperback and as an eBook wherever books are sold online

Posted on November 5, 2020 by admin

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Posted in Classic Shows, Next Show, Television Star | Tagged Classic TV defined, coca-cola commercials, Doronty Kilgallen, Electronic Mirror Classic TV, Ernie Kovacs, Fred Rogers, Golden Age of Television, I've Got a Secret, ItsAboutTV.com, Jack Paar, Misterogers Neighborbood, Mitchell Hadley adventures in television, Mitchell Hadley essayist, Mitchell Hadley glorious Hadleyvision, Mitchell Hadley It's About TV, Mitchell Hadley novelist, Mitchell Hadley The Car, Mitchell Hadley The Collaborator, Mitchell Hadley The Electronic Mirror, Mr. Rogers, Perry Mason, Perry Mason opening title sequence, Route 66, Route 66 inadvertent documentary, Take a Good Look, Television 1968, television as Electronic Mirror, The Electronic Mirror, The Electronic Mirror book, The Electronic Mirror: What Classic TV Tells US About Who We Were (and Everything in Between), The Fugitive, What's My Line | Leave a comment

via National Comedy Center: The NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER partners with the Elkhorn Valley Museum to launch a new Johnny Carson Gallery in Carson’s hometown of Elkhorn, NE (set to open in 2021), and with the Carson Entertainment Group to launch a new Johnny Carson exhibit, 30 Years of Late Night Television, set to open in 2022

Posted on October 23, 2020 by admin

Jamestown, NY – October 23, 2020– As the country remembers comedy and late-night legend Johnny Carson on his 95th birthday today, the National Comedy Center—the nation’s official cultural institution dedicated to comedy—and the Elkhorn Valley Museum in Johnny Carson’s hometown … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Classic Shows, Film Stars, Next Show, Radio Stations, Television Star | Tagged 30 Years of Late Night Television, African-Americans, Alan and Robin Zweibel, Alan Zweibel, Allan Sherman, American history, Amy & Ben Stiller, Amy Schumer, Andy Kaufman, Animal Antics with Joan Embery and Jim Fowler, Archival Television Audio, Art Fern, Bill Cosby, Bill Marx, birthplace Johnny Carson, black Americans, Bob Newhart, Bobby Kennedy, Burt Reynolds, Camilla Cleese, Carl Reiner, Carson as Carnac, Carson with wild animals, charles schumer, chuck schumer, Dan Aykroyd, David Letterman, Desi Arnaz, Desilu Productions, Desilu Too, Dick Van Dyke Show, Dionne Warwick, Drew Carey, Ed McMahon, Elkhorn Nebraska, Elkhorn Valley Museum, Ellen DeGeneres, Ernie Kovacs, First Couple of Comedy, first female television executive, Floyd R. Turbo, Fran Drescher, Garry Shandling, George Carlin, George Carline, George Schlatter, George Shapiro, George Shapiro and Jerry Seinfeld, Goldie Hawn, Harold Ramis, Harpo Marx Family, Harry Belafonte, Harry Belafonte Bobby Kennedy, Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show, Harry Belafonte Tonight Show, Heeere’s Johnny, Hollywood Icons of the 70s, I Love Lucy, Jamestown, Jamestown Lucille Ball, Jamestown New York, Jay Leno, Jeff Sotzing, Jeff Sotzing Carson Entertainment Group, Jeff Sotzing Johhny Carson, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Stiller, Jim Gaffigan, Joan Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, John Cleese, John Dingell Jr., Johnny Carson Art Fern, Johnny Carson artifacts, Johnny Carson Floyd R. Turbo, Johnny Carson hometown, Johnny Goes Home, Jolene Brand, Jonathan Winters, Journey Gunderson, Joy Reid, Kamau Bell, Kelly Carlin, Kelly Carlin and the George Carlin estate, king of late-night television, kirsten gillibrand, Laraine Newman, largest independent television production company in the United States, Laugh-In, Lena Horne, Lenny Bruce, Lewis Black, Lily Tomlin, Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, Louie Anderson, Lucie Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz, Martin Luther King Jr., Mel Brooks, Michael Caine, Mission: Impossible, National Comedy Center, National Comedy Center World's Greatest Places, National Comedy Center’s Father’s Day Tributes, NBC Universal, New York, Nipsey Russell, Oscar Nunez & Judy Gold, paramount pictures, Paul Newman, Paula Poundstone, Phil Gries, Phil Gries Sounds of Lost Television, Phil Gries TV Confidential, pioneering monologist, Rain Pryor, Ray Romano, Richard Pryor, Rose Marie, Rusty Warren, Shelley Berman, Sidney Poitier, Star Trek, The Andy Griffith Show, The Best of Carnac the Magnificent, The Best of George Carlin, The Danny Thomas Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, the Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams estate, the first female head of a major Hollywood production studio, The Garry Shandling Estate, The Harold Ramis Family, The Jack Benny Program, The Johnny Carson Show, The Lenny Bruce Memorial Foundation, The Lucy Show, The Sit-In, The Smothers Brothers, The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, The Untouchables, Time magazine, Time Magazine National Comedy Center, Time magazine Worlds Greatest Places, Tom Benson, tom reed, Tonight Show artifacts, Tonight Show Martin Luther King Jr., Tonight Show monologues, Tonight Show platform stand-up comedy, Trevor Noah, TV Confidential, W. Kamau Bell, Warner Bros. Corporate Archive | Leave a comment

via National Comedy Center: National Comedy Center will honor advisory board member Carl Reiner at this year’s Virtual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, which takes place Friday 8/14 thru Sunday 8/30. Virtual festival will also feature conversations with Jimmy Fallon, Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Weird” Al Yankovic, Tiffany Haddish, Jay Leno, Howie Mandel, Margaret Cho, and more. All programs will be streamed, for free, at ComedyCenter.org/Festival, as well via Facebook Live

Posted on August 13, 2020 by admin

Jamestown, NY—August 12, 2020—The National Comedy Center, the nation’s official cultural institution dedicated to comedy—recently named the “Best New Museum” in the country by USA Today—will present its acclaimed Lucille Ball Comedy Festival virtually this year, featuring conversations with a diverse … Continue reading →

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via National Comedy Center: The National Comedy Center will pay tribute to Desi Arnaz, Richard Pryor, Jerry Stiller, and John Cleese during Father’s Day weekend with live streaming events featuring Lucie Arnaz, Rain Pryor, Amy Stiller and Ben Stiller, and Camilla Cleese, respectively, that will air Friday 6/19 thru Sunday 6/21 at various times at ComedyCenter.org/FathersDay, with simulcasts via Facebook Live on the National Comedy Center Facebook page. All four streaming events are free and will support the Center’s educational and preservation initiatives during the museum’s temporary closure

Posted on June 19, 2020 by admin

Jamestown, NY – June 18, 2020 — The National Comedy Center, the nation’s official cultural institution and non-profit museum dedicated to comedy, announced today that it will present a tribute to fathers of comedy this Father’s Day weekend, June 19-21, … Continue reading →

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