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- via Shout! Factory TV: Tim Conway’s short-lived variety series THE TIM CONWAY SHOW and THE TIM CONWAY COMEDY HOUR, as well as his short-lived sitcom ACE CRAWFORD: PRIVATE EYE, will all become available for streaming on demand for the first time beginning Saturday 8/1 on ShoutFactoryTV.com
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- Special Tribute to Carl Reiner: Next on TVC « KSAV on via 121comm.com: Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks’ performance of The 2,000 Year Old Man on the Feb. 12, 1961 edition of THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW will be among the many comedy and musical performances that will be streamed for free, in their entirety, on the ED SULLIVAN SHOW YouTube channel between Friday 7/17 thru Thursday 7/23. Also streamed that week will be classic appearances by Tom Jones, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, The Mamas and the Papas, Wayne Newton, a pre-Laugh-In Rowan & Martin and a pre-Get Smart Don Adams, plus a fun segment from 1962 that includes batting tips from Dodgers great Jackie Robinson. The ED SULLIVAN Show YouTube channel is part of the recent UMe agreement with SOFAEntertainment Inc. for the global digital rights to the classic Sunday night variety series
- Special Tribute to Carl Reiner: Next on TVC « KSAV on via Jonas Public Relations: Carl Reiner donates items from his career to the National Comedy Center, including the toupee he wore while playing Alan Brady on The Dick Van Dyke Show
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 469.2 with guest Geoffrey Mark is now available online for listening on demand
Geoffrey Mark on Peter Fonda and Rip Taylor Original Airdates: Oct. 25-27, 2019 TVC 469.2: Via remote from the Hollywood Museum: Emmy Award winner and Grammy Award nominee Geoffrey Mark helps Ed pay tribute to Dawn Wells and the legacy … Continue reading
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via It’s Alive Media: Omnivore Recordings to reissue The Ernie Kovacs Album, the Grammy-nominated album from 1977, this summer with six bonus tracks
On Friday, July 5, Omnivore Recordings will reissue the 1977 Grammy-nominated The Ernie Kovacs Album as The Ernie Kovacs Album: Centennial Edition with six bonus tracks! Available on CD and digitally for the first time. To learn more about on this upcoming reissue, visit … Continue reading
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via It’s Alive Media: Attention, Kovacs Fans on the East Coast: May 2019 will bring three more events to celebrate Ernie’s centennial birthday, including a program honoring Ernie and Edie at the Library of Congress on Friday 5/10 and Saturday 5/11, and an Ernie Kovacs tribute at the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission on Wednesday 5/22
Announced today, Tuesday 4/16 (Edie Adams’ birthday) — May 2019 will be a big month for the Ernie Kovacs centennial (and for Edie Adams fans, too) as the estates for Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams have confirmed the following three … Continue reading
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Tagged AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, Alec Guinness, Algernon Gerard, American Cinematheque, Baseball Film, Bell Book and Candle, Ben Model, Burl Ives, Buster Keaton of television, Charlie Clod In Brazil, Chevy Chase, Clues, Coloratura Mimi Cosnowski, David Letterman, doodles, Dutch Masters, Dutch Masters Commercials, Edie Adams, Ernie in Kovacsland, Ernie Kovacs, Ernie Kovacs Centennial, ERNIE KOVACS CENTENNIAL EDITION, Eugene, film and television commission, Fingers Under Weskit, Five Golden Hours, George Schlatter, Golden Age of TV, Golf With Edie And Ernie, Here's Edie!, Howard, Illustrated Profuselies, Irving Wong, It Happened To Ernie, J. Burlington Gearshift, John Magee, Jolene Brand, Josh Mills, Kovacsland, Kovacsland Forever, Library of Congress, Long Beach Museum of Art, Mack the Knife, Martin Krutch, Matzoh Hepplewhite, Maureen O’Hara, Miklos Molnar, Monty Python, motion picture commission, Muriel Cigars Commercials, Museum of the Moving Image, Nairobi Trio, New Jersey State Museum Auditorium, Ode To A Housefly, Ode To Electricity, Ode To Stanley's Pussycat, Olivia Scilloscope, Operation Mad Ball, Our Man In Havana, Packard Campus Theatre, Paley Center for Media, Percy Dovetonsils, Profuselies, Rock Mississippi, Sales Film, Saturday Night Live, Shout! Factory, Silents Please, sketch artist, Skodney Silsky, Solfeggio, Strangely Believe It, Superclod Test, Susan King, Take a Good Look, TCM, Television's Original Genius, Television's Orignal Genius, The Edie Adams Show, The Ernie Kovacs Show, The Kapusta Kid, the Kovacs ABC specials, The Mysterious Knockwurst, the National Gallery, The Tonight Show, The World At Your Doorstep, The World's Strongest Ant, Turner Classic Movies, visual improv, Wake Me When It's Over, Writers To Blame
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