TODAY Show: My 6 Top Spring Must-See TV Shows

I had a chance to be invited on NBC’s TODAY Show with Kathie Lee Gifford and Craig Ferguson (Hoda is out on maternity leave) to recommend my 6 top spring must-see TV shows.

6 Top Spring Must-See TV Shows

I love being on this show! There were a few surreal moments in this segment.

First, I loved the set design. It’s a lot more casual and real. I didn’t touch the popcorn because I knew I wouldn’t get a word out. Two, Craig Ferguson dedicating time to flatter me over my name is absolutely nuts.

I guess Detective Rico doesn’t sound so bad, lol. That makes Christian Slater and Billy Bush have done that. Really nuts. Three, hearing my podcast said out loud on national TV is a point of pride for me since it’s so difficult to market your show to a wide audience.

As an added bonus, I also recommend 5 spring shows below you might enjoy as well.

5 Facts You Didn’t Know About Netflix’s ‘Five Came Back’

1) Meryl Streep recorded her narration one day after receiving her 20th Academy Award nomination. She cheerfully accepted everyone’s congratulations and then got right down to work. 

2) The five directors the documentary is about were among the highest-paid filmmakers in Hollywood when war broke out; Capra was a millionaire. During their years in the Army, they made about $250 a month.

3) After D-Day, George Stevens traveled with the U.S. Army deep into France and was assigned to film the surrender of the occupying forces the day Paris was liberated. The surrender took place inside a dark train station, and Stevens worried it wouldn’t show up on film, told the two generals involved to come out into the sunlight and do it again. That “second take” was the surrender seen around the world.

4) The Academy Award for Best Documentary was invented the year after the United States entered World War II, largely because of all of the extraordinary work directors were doing for the Armed Forces. The first year, there were twenty nominees and four winners–including John Ford and Frank Capra.

5) William Wyler wasn’t at the Oscars when he won his first Best Director Academy Award for Mrs. Miniver because he was flying in a bomber over occupied France and Germany. After he won, the Army ordered him to stop flying, knowing that his growing worldwide fame would make him a tempting target for Hitler’s army.