Fast Friends (film)

Fast Friends is a 1979 American made for television movie starring Carrie Snodgress, Michael Parks, Dick Shawn Edie Adams, Mackenzie Phillips, Vivian Blaine, Elayne Heilveil and Sumi Haru.
The writer and producer of Fast Friends, Sandra Harmon, was previously a writer for The Dick Cavett Show.

Plot

A divorced young woman lands a staff job on a television talk show as she struggles to invent a new life for herself and her son. She makes friends with the show's head writer and has to deal with the egomaniacal host of the show who values loyalty above ability.