Entries from December 2008

December 21, 2008

Interview with Andrew Lee Fielding, author of “The Lucky Strike Papers”

In case you missed it, the Dec. 16 edition of TV Confidential is now available online on our archives page. Our guest that night was Andrew Lee Fielding, author of The Lucky Strike Papers: Journeys Through My Mother’s Television Past. Andrew’s mother, singer Sue Bennett, was a featured performer on Your Hit Parade, Kay Kyser’s [...]

December 21, 2008

Majel Barrett Roddenberry dies at 76; widow of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry kept the legacy of the series alive

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-roddenberry19-2008dec19,0,1017655.story
I never met Majel Barrett (nor Gene Roddenberry, for that matter), but I did get a chance to chat with their son, Eugene Roddenberry Jr., at one of the Star Trek Grand Slam conventions in Pasadena.
Ed Robertson
Pop Culture Critic and Television Historian
Co-Author, The Ethics of Star Trek
Co-Host, TV CONFIDENTIAL
Every other Tuesday at 10:30pm ET, 7:30pm [...]

December 20, 2008

ALGO DE DIPLOMACIA

El percutor volvió a girar y un chasquido sordo le dijo que no era aquel su momento. El japonés cogió el arma y, después de hacerlo rodar, lo entregó a su oponente, un birmano que sudaba copiosamente. Sin embargo él estaba frío, no podía sudar. Se preguntaba por qué tardaban tanto… Creyó que con encontrar [...]

December 14, 2008

A New Kind of Christmas

Christmas, making Christmas special, Christmas on a budget, holidays

December 7, 2008

Interview with author Paul Green on Share-a-Vision Radio

In case you missed it, our Dec. 2 program is now available on the archives page at www.tvconfidential.net. Our guest that night was Paul Green, author of A History of Television’s The Virginian; our topic was The Virginian (NBC, 1962-1971), the long-running Western series based on the classic novel by Owen Wister.
Ed Robertson
Co-Host, TV CONFIDENTIAL
Every [...]