Ken ReidJun 21, 2023

This week I welcome the amazing Australian maker of "docos", writer, journalist, and all around character John Safran to TV Guidance Counselor to talk everything from Fat Albert to The Croc Hunter. This is a really fun one.

tvguidancecounselor.com, your favorite podcast app or listen directly here:
https://tvguidancecounselor.libsyn.com/tv-guidance-counselor-episode-586-john-safran

#Australia #TVGC #TVGuide #TVGuidanceCounselor #JohnSafran #KenReid #TVGuidance #FatAlbert #HipHop #Documentary #AussieTV #CrocHunter

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast: TV Guidance Counselor Episode 586: John Safran

August 9-15, 1980 This week Ken welcomes Australian writer, TV personality, journalist and author John Safran to the show. Ken and John discuss John Safran vs God, John's range of work, talking listeners out of liking John, documentaries, Gonzo journalism, Always Wear Sunscreen, Not the Sunscreen Song, having a hit single, novelty songs, Raspberry Cordial, High School accomplishments, Music Jamboree, backmaked Ozzy Osbourne, how helpful dressing up is, Yeshiva College, Brooklyn, loving hip hop, Public Enemy, Professor Griff, Judaism, antisemitism, youthful confusion, Vanilla Ice, the pre-internet days, compartmentalization, Steve Vizard, stealing from Letterman, ABC, multi-cultural programming, offensive stuff, Jocko, Eric Bana, VFL/AFL, I'm An Individual, the mystery of the Croc Hunter,  Steve Irwan's relationship with Australia, Round the Twist, Ross Noble, Home and Away,  New South Wales, Queensland, finding pornography in the wild, Number 96, Ken's mysterious age, Prisoner in Cell Block H, The Castle, David vs Goliath stories, Mad Max, stunts, CGI, the Australian 70s remake of The Wizard of Oz simply called Oz, The Blizzard of '78, Looney Toons, loving Warner Bros, Fat Albert, racial identity, very special episodes, perverts, American Culture, hyphenated Americans, missing subtext, the post Civil Rights 1960s progress that dissolved in the 1980s, Reagan, American Identity, Pakistani American heavy metal bands, Mulan, cigarettes, Israel and it's place in American apocalyptical evangelical Christianity, menthol cigarettes, true crime, and the strangeness of prescription drugs in the US. 

Ken ReidJun 1, 2023

This week I welcome the me of movies, producer host of The Brattle Theatre podcast, Ian Brownell to discuss everything from the first Big Gay Oscars Broadcast to the evils of Big Pinball to TV Guidance Counselor

tvguidancecounselor.com, your favorite podcast app, or directly here:
https://tvguidancecounselor.libsyn.com/tv-guidance-counselor-episode-582-ian-brownell

#Oscars #AwardShows #90sTV #80sTV #BrattleTheater #IanBrownell #KenReid #TVGuide #TVGC #TVGuidance #TVGuidanceCounselor

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast: TV Guidance Counselor Episode 582: Ian Brownell

March 25-31, 1989 This week Ken welcomes old friend, new fan, writer (film blog www.film5000.com) and host/producer of The Brattle Film Podcast Ian Brownell. Ken and Ian discuss Siskel and Ebert, podcast heroes, movie freaks, the religion of cinema, growing up outside of New Bedford, Providence RI stations, growing up on a farm, not having cable, Evening Magazine, The Big Dan's Rape Trial, Big Pinball, The Accused, going to boarding school, Jim Henson, The Storyteller, The Jim Henson Hour, being obsessive, not being able to watch things out of order, how the magic is gone after the creator leaves, voice actors aging, A Muppet Family Christmas, only being moved to tears by television, having two VCRs, anthology shows, film directors moving to television, The Oscars, the first gay Oscars, the infamous Snow White opening, a hatred of LA, Drew Barrymore's substance abuse struggles, After School Specials, CBS Playhouse, 15 and Getting Straight, campaigning for yourself, Bob Hope's Easter Vacation in the Bahamas, Red Skies, Satan's Children, Easter, Star Trek Original Series,  Ken Burns, The Golden Girls, Beyond Tomorrow, being a life long Saturday Night Life nerd, The Smithereens, Quantum Leap, It's Gary Shandling's Show, The Tracy Ulman Show, LGBQT representations on television, The Wire, Fringe, Rex Reed, Barbara Eden in Your Mother Wears Army Boots, Private Benjamin, Bonnie Hunt, how crazy it is that Ken gets to talk to and befriend his heroes, Barney Miller, Kate & Allie, Larraine Newman, Who's the Boss, Soap, Matlock, Roseanne, taping comedy specials off HBO, tornados, Anything But Love, Ann Magunson, My So-Called Life, Bess Armstrong, Barbara Walters, bad drawings of Nick Nolte, Cheers, Taxi, Friends, bad comedy, Family Ties, dumb characters, Scott Valentine, Unsolved Mysteries, how good spirited pranks make bad TV, and the legend of Dana Hersey's TV38 Movie Loft. 

Ken ReidApr 26, 2023

What could possibly elicit this range of emotions and reactions? It's my fantastic chat with my new best friend, host of the YouTube show Lenora's Midnight Rental, Laura Wimbels for this week's episode of TV Guidance Counselor

listen at tvguidancecounselor.com, your favorite podcast app, or directly here:
https://tvguidancecounselor.libsyn.com/tv-guidance-counselor-episode-577-laura-Laura Wimbels

#TVGC #TVGuidanceCounselor #KenReid #LauraWimbels #LenorasMidnightRental #Horror #VideoStore #80sKids #90sKids #FoundFootageFest #TVGuide #TVGuidance

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Ken Reid and his guests explore the tough television watching decisions of our past.

Ken ReidApr 12, 2023

This week on TV Guidance Counselor we set the record straight on surname pronunciations, who's American, and who's English with the fantastic critic, writer and all around gem Emma Fraser

Listen now on your favorite podcast app, tvguidancecounselor.com or directly here: https://tvguidancecounselor.libsyn.com/tv-guidance-counselor-episode-575-emma-fraser

#HalloweenTV #TVGuide #KenReid #TVGuidanceCounselor #EmmaFraser #TVCritic #TelevisionCriticism #TVGC #TVGuidance #90sTV #90sKids

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast: TV Guidance Counselor Episode 575: Emma Fraser

October 22-28, 1994 This week Ken welcomes esteemed writer on all things TV, Emma Fraser to the show. Ken and Emma discuss Fraser vs. "Fraiser", the glory of UK insults, being English, people not believing where you are from, how London is now the UK, Norwich being Alan Partridge central, 1994 being the youth sweet spot, ER, The X-Files, My So-Called Life, ghosts at Christmas time, Supernatural episodes of otherwise non-supernatural TV series, how Ken often accidentally dresses like Nicky Driscoll, the filthy cover of this issue, the UK having more magazines for fewer channels, The Christmas Radio Times, Ken's love of Time Out London, loving Halloween, The Far Side animated series, Ken's dislike of Friends, TV Guide's bad review of Friends, Ant & Dec, Noah Wiley, Ghostwatch, Sightings, how quickly trends blew up in the 90s,  Fox Encounters The Hidden Truth, Without Warning, The Americans, Ken's 90s substitute Teacher becoming an actor and being murdered on The Americans, middle of the road talk shows, Dick Cavett, Mark Lamarr, The Word, drunken people on TV,  Ken's love of Shooting Stars, Ken being constantly called Mark Lamarr when he lived in the UK, Oliver Reed, the UK's strange subversive children's style shows that weren't for children, Car 54, Where Are You?, MTV's Rock n Jock, Red Shoe Diaries, things not being even good bad, SNL, how Witches werewolves and vampires being real, how Marilyn Monroe was killed due to her knowledge of UFOs, when Jackie Gleason saw dead aliens for real, gentle murder, Murder She Wrote, animal shelters Halloween Specials, The Hidden, The George Carlin Show, Fresh Prince, Murphy Brown, Evening Shade, Carol Burnett, Cynthia Gibb, Fact based TV movies, how marrying somebody is the worst thing you can do to them, John Stamos, the business genius of Jason Priestly, The Sandwich Police, visiting the My So-Called Life shooting locations, Ken not thinking Seinfeld holds up, crying and being shocked over and over again due to watching ER, a spoilers free world, Family Matters, the repetition of Dwayne Barry, Step by Step, women at war, Saturday Night Dead, and extending M.A.N.T.I.S noted drama. 

Ken ReidApr 5, 2023

I can't think of anyone I'd want to discuss haunted dolls and sleeping inside Michael Jordan with more than with this week's fantastic TV Guidance Counselor guest, the great writer and comedian Lisa Curry

tvguidancecounselor.com, your favorite podcast app, or listen directly here
https://tvguidancecounselor.libsyn.com/tv-guidance-counselor-episode-573-lisa-curry
#TVGC #KenReid #HauntedDolls #LisaCurry #SuperModels #TVGuide #90sTV #TVGuidance #TVGuidanceCounselor #StandUpComedy

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast: TV Guidance Counselor Episode 574: Lisa Curry

June 26 - July 2, 1993 This week Ken welcomes writer/comedian Lisa Curry. Ken and Lisa discuss canceling in person plans, afternoon gigs, being heckled by 6 year olds, Supermodels, loving Cindy Crawford, Malibu, Amy Klobechar's comb utensil, working in DC, Veep, growing up in central time, not watching TV in the Summer being and outdoor kid, Carol Burnett's love of soaps, never saying "funny lady" or "skit", loving fashion photography, MTV's House of Style, Anna Nicole Smith's film career, a very depressing Bill Bixby story, National Enquirer, "anti-coughing machines", stupid conspiracy theorists, thinking people with actual brain damage know what's "really going on", leaps in logic, Ren & Stimpy, rubber nipples, watching TV that feels like you are getting away with something, being suspicious of people who have no problem performing, loving the 90s, creepy dolls, haunted dolls, "Mommy I'm Sorry", having no toys, working in a factory at 17, making fun of family sitcoms, Married...with Children, bothering Bud Bundy, pissing off Judd Nelson, MTV Unplugged, LL Cool J's deodorant cakes, hating football, father's making viewing choices for you, Zorro, hating Westerns, shows built around women not just trying to catch a man, Mary Tyler Moore, loving basketball, Ken's clearance bin Michael Jordan sleeping bag, gifting that sleeping bag to Lisa, Tales from the Crypt, Don Rickles, Ken being a total jerk as a teen, Wonder Years, music replacements, weight loss ads, Ace Ventura, Once Bitten, In Living Color, the glory of Cheers, Ted Danson playing Sam Malone as Sam Alone, prank calling adults to tell them their baseball team sucks, Dennis Eckersley telling Ken he was a "little dick", Tonys, the saturation of ads, news crawls, breaking news, TV Bugs, Jay Leno's stand up early days, loving Reading Rainbow, loving Axl Rose, crushes on naked Eric Andre and Righteous Gemstones. 

Ken ReidMar 28, 2023

This week's TV Guidance Counselor is EXTRA fun as I welcome my FIRST Real World alum, the fantastic writer (you MUST read his "Hilo" series) and one of the best human beings on earth Judd Winick

tvguidancecounselor.com, your favorite podcast app, or listen directly here:
https://tvguidancecounselor.libsyn.com/tv-guidance-counselor-episode-573-judd-winick

#TVGuide #JuddWinick #Hilo #KenReid #StElsewhere #HillStreetBlues #RealWorldSanFrancisco #TVGC #TVGuidance #MASH #1982TV #1980sTV

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast: TV Guidance Counselor Episode 573: Judd Winick

June 19-25, 1982 This week Ken welcomes author (buy his new Hilo book!), Real Worlder, and kindred spirit Judd Winick to the show.  Ken and Judd discuss Judd's fantastically cluttered office, their children's world, St. Elsewhere, death on TV, Brendon Tartikoff, how the A-Team could spin off from Hill Street Blues, Misfits of Science, comic books, the dessert of comic book properties in TV and movies when we were growing up, growing up as a New Yorker, Long Island, getting mugged, weird red eyes, shirtless TV, kids who smoke, big Tabacco, Judd's wife Pam, mobsters, The Mile High collection, Filmmation, Isis, Space Academy, Kids Super Power Hour, Mission Magic, One of the Boys, Mickey Rooney, Bill, Fantasy Island, Red Buttons: Super Hero, living in Boston, Robert Urich, Archie Bunker's Place, Stacey Keach in Wait Until Dark, odd Cruisin' inspired acting choices, Long Dry Season, George Peppard's directing career, Trapper John MD, Hilo, Encyclopedia sets, Continental Divide, Blair Brown, Altered States, Bob Balaban, WKRP, forgetting Gordon Jump's character's name, M*A*S*H, being team BJ, loving Alan Alda, anti-war media, Twin Peaks, Quincy ME, the magic of visiting Henson Productions, Bad Robot's Typewriter store, Happy Days, Three's Company, Welcome Back Kotter, Andy Griffith, John Ritter's Balls, Real People, That's Incredible!, haunted Toys R Us, asian characters on TV, how modern procedurals are sci-fi, how MASSIVE Fame was in Israel, Gimme a Break, how amazing Lara Jill Miller is, the incredible talent of voice over actors, the failure of Giant Salmon pictures, Beverly Hills Buntz, screwing on TV, Sweeney Todd's coffee shop, haunted security systems, rock star architects, Blade Runner, Benson, Pokerface, Saturday the 14th, performing Blow Out as a one man show, old ice, Phil Lamar's Mr. T stories and Pinky in Body Double.

Ken ReidMar 14, 2023

This week on TV Guidance Counselor I welcome the man behind my favorite YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/@TheBadMovieBible), and author of The Bad Movie Bible, all the way from the UK, it's Rob Hill.

This one is very fun.

tvguidancecounselor.com, your favorite podcast app, or listen directly here:
https://tvguidancecounselor.libsyn.com/tv-guidance-counselor-episode-572-rob-hill

#TVGC #MurderSheWrote #80sTV #BadMovieBible #KenReid #RobHill #KenReid #TVGuide #TVGuidance #TVGuidanceCounselor

The Bad Movie Bible

Videos focused on the best worst genre movies of the 80s and 90s, from author and film critic Rob Hill. 'The A to Z of Superhero Movies: From Abar to Zsazsa Via the MCU’ USA - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1527244849 UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1527244849 'The Bad Movie Bible: The Ultimate Modern Guide to Movies So Bad They’re Good' USA - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993240771 UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0993240771 @BMovieBible on Twitter

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Ken ReidFeb 8, 2023

Super fun chat this week on TV Guidance Counselor with the author of the must buy new book Filmed in Brooklyn, writer, podcaster and all around ace talent Margo Donohue

tvguidancecounselor.com, your favorite podcast app, or listen directly here:
https://tvguidancecounselor.libsyn.com/tv-guidance-counselor-episode-565-margo-donohue

and run don't walk to buy Filmed in Brooklyn
https://www.amazon.com/Filmed-Brooklyn-Margo-Donohue/dp/1467146765/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2XU07IH83C882&keywords=filmed+in+brooklyn+book&qid=1675867600&sprefix=Filmed+in+Brooklyn%2Caps%2C2092&sr=8-1

#TVGC #MargoDonohue #Brooklyn #BrooklynFitChick #Simpsons #KenReid #TVGuide #TVGuidance #TVGuidancecounselor

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast: TV Guidance Counselor Episode 565: Margo Donohue

March 17-23, 1990 This week Ken welcomes co-host, co-creator, editor, and producer of the podcasts Book Vs. Movie, Dorking Out, Not Fade Away, and What a Creep, the Brooklyn Fit Chick and author of the new book "Filmed in Brooklyn" Margo Donohue. Ken and Margo discuss doing it the best you can, how 1990 is Ken's favorite year, going to college in the Bay Area, banning Captain Underpants, two Margos, parents being very upset about Bart Simpson's sass, life in a Pre-Simpsons world, being conscripted into working at the Mall in Cali, NY vs CA pizza, Margo's book on Brooklyn, moving to Park Slope, shows shot in NYC, Brooklyn Bridge, heist movies, The Hot Rock, Criterion Channel, making sure you have your favorite movies on Physical media, the Providence/Boston/NY Maffia, buying Jesus Statues, thirtysomething, replacing cigarette ads with prescription rx ads, Midnight Caller, the greatness of Greg Proops, MTV's Remote Control, The Real World, how Kevin Powell was right all along, Mere Winningham, Martin Short Goes Hollywood, Miracle Mile, Anthony Edwards, Valerie Harper vs. The Hogan Family, Frankenhooker, Who's the Boss?, Murphy Brown, doing the homework, Unsolved Mysteries, Night Court, the greatness of China Beach, Ken's love of Grand, LA Law, Craig Bierko, Valerie Bertonelli, missing John Candy, after school specials with an REM soundtrack, developing actual film, John Waters on 21 Jump St., Julia Duffy, Seein' Double, being inappropriately angry at Robert Mitchum, The Wizard of Oz, and how much people hate starring in a movie with Judy Garland as the star.

Ken ReidJan 18, 2023

I cannot think of a better person to discuss Isaac Asimov's declaration of Spock's sex appeal on TV Guidance Counselor than with the amazing writer, producer director Rockne S. O'Bannon (Evil, Twilight Zone, Farscape, Alien Nation, seaQuest DSV)

tvguidancecounselor.com, your favorite podcast app, or listen directly here: https://tvguidancecounselor.libsyn.com/tv-guidance-counselor-episode-564-rockne-s-obannon

#tvgc #rocknesobannon #1967tv #MrSpock #Farscape #twilightzone #wordplay #kenreid #TVGuide #tvguidance #tvguidancecounselor

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast: TV Guidance Counselor Episode 562: Rockne S. O'Bannon

April 29 - May 5, 1967 This week Ken welcomes director, producer and writer (Evil, Farscape, The New Twilight Zone, V, Seaquest DSV) Rockne S. O'Bannon to the show.  Ken and Rockne discuss Ken's long time love of Rockne's work and how often it comes up on the show, 1967, the amazing nature of not aging since 1967, the boom of sci-fi TV in 1966, Film reboots of classic TV shows, quantum entanglement, growing up in LA, Rockne's mother being a Busby Barkley dancer, Rockne's father being a gaffer at Warner Brothers, writing your first pilot script at age 10 for The Boy from U.N.C.L.E., realizing people make television at an early age, Isaac Asimov's essay on how sexy Mr. Spock is, Lawrence Welk swimsuit issue, innovation in animal training, Raven with a Gun, writing for streaming shows and dealing with not needing the convention ad break structure, Sci-Fi Channel movie templates, Laugh-In, Hollywood Teletype, commissioned art, the rise of hippy culture in the mainstream, TV Guide's incredibly detailed listings for everything including reruns and sports, Frankenstein Jr, Space Angel, Clutch Cargo, The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke shows status as the greatest TV sitcom ever, Pistols & Petticoats, Gunsmoke, Tom Skerrit's week, The Avengers, Johnny Carson reruns, Saturday Night Live, TV shows about television, It's About Time, Ed Sullivan, the pre-muppet Muppets, Roger Miller's variety show, FBI, Rockne's Dad taking home TV scripts for him to study, the horror of pay tv, white guys as Native Americans, westerns, Steve Allen's invention of everything, Mr. Terrific, Captain Nice, Buck Henry, Get Smart!, The New Twilight Zone, "Wordplay", "The Shadow Man", Darkroom with James Coburn, Joey Bishop, Don Herbert is Mr. Wizard, TV Close Ups, The National Science Test, The Saint, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Red Skelton, The Invaders, pinkies, playing it cool around celebrities, Albert Brooks, Night of the Meek, The Afterhours, Fame is the Name of the Game, Lost in Space, Batman '66, Fringe, Evil, time travel, Time Tunnel, being the new Irwin Allen by mistake, gadgets, I Spy, Wild Wild West, Honey West, Green Hornet, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, F Troop, Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker's chemistry, not wanting to talk to Milton Berle, short lived shows that had an outsized impact on pop culture, the power of villains, vigilantes, Bob & Ray, Tim Conway, "you're very pleased to meet me", Patrick McNee's secrets to life, nudists, Mod Tampons, TV Teletype, and Chuck Connors, as a Cowboy in Africa. 

Ken ReidJan 6, 2023

Starting 2023 with TWO episodes of TV Guidance Counselor this week! Today I chat with the fantastic writer, director, producer John D. Hancock (Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Prancer, Bang the Drum Slowly)!

tvguidancecounselor.com, your favorite podcast app or directly at https://tvguidancecounselor.libsyn.com/tv-guidance-counselor-episode-559-john-d-hancock

#TVGC #JohnDHancock #LetsScareJessicaToDeath #BangTheDrumSlowly #Prancer #Wolfen #TVGuide #KenReid #TVGuidance #TVGuidanceCounselor

TV Guidance Counselor Podcast: TV Guidance Counselor Episode 560: John D. Hancock

This week Ken welcomes writer, director John D. Hancock to the show. Ken and John discuss the end of the world, extreme weather, John's Dad being in the NBC Radio Orchestra in Chicago, the transition from radio to TV and how it effected musicians, going to Harvard in the 1950s, Dr. Timothy Leary, Gus Van Zandt, pretending to know what actors are talking about, The Berliner Ensemble, running the Actor's Theater in San Francisco in the 1960s, directing Off Broadway plays, being in East Berlin, Bertolt Brecht, getting a grant from the AFI to do a short, businessmen who play touch football in central park, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Bang the Drum Slowly, Robert DeNiro, William Wyler, Michael Moriarty, how only names sell tickets these days, platforming movies, optioning Regiment of Women, Warren Beatty, California Dreaming, having an awful experience on Jaws 2, Jan Michael Vincent, never having directed multi cam television, learning new skillsets directing on television, Hillstreet Blues, Cover Up, theater vs film, being sold a bill of goods by AIP, editing, running previews, why it's not always best to go with your gut, Weeds, trying to get Weeds re-released, Dino DeLaurentis losing the negative, Wolfen, Prancer, what films you show students, teaching at Second City, Wild Tales, and how young people will not do love scenes these days.