THE OLD MAN: Executive producers Warren Littlefield and Dan Shotz on Season 2 – Exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/12/2024
Jeff Bridges as Dan Chase in THE OLD MAN - Season 2 | ©2024 FX / Kurt Iswarienko

In THE OLD MAN, which has its second-season premiere on FX Thursday, September 12 (with episodes available the following day on Hulu), Jeff Bridges stars as Dan Chase. In Season 1, Dan was a retired CIA agent suddenly being pursued by both his own former colleagues and unknown attackers. In Season 2, Dan must team up with CIA Assistant Director Harold Harper, played by John Lithgow, to find the missing agent Angela Adams, aka Emily Chase (Alia Shawkat), Dan’s daughter and Harold’s protégé, Emily has been kidnapped and taken to Afghanistan. THE OLD MAN was adapted for television by Jonathan […]Read On »


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THE SHERWOOD ORACLE: Co-creator Mark Ryan on new card, deck and book box set – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/10/2024
THE SHERWOOD ORACLE | ©2024 Sterling Ethos

THE SHERWOOD ORACLE is a boxed set of book, cards and map. Co-created by Mark Ryan and John Matthews, with artwork by Anne Yvonne Gilbert, this is an oracle deck rather than a tarot deck, although there are similarities. Ryan has already co-created two highly popular tarot decks, THE WILDWOOD TAROT, also in collaboration with Matthews, with artwork by Will Worthington, and THE GREENWOOD TAROT, in collaboration with artist Chesca Potter. Additionally, Doncaster, England native Ryan is the writer and composer of a musical version of WUTHERING HEIGHTS and a former member of the British Special Forces. He was the […]Read On »


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ALEX RIDER: Actors Marli Siu and Toby Stephens on Season 2 of the spy series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/12/2022
ALEX RIDER - Season 2 key art | ©2021 IMDb TV

ALEX RIDER Season 2 is now streaming in its entirety (as is Season 1) on IMDb TV, the free service of Prime Video. ALEX RIDER is based Anthony Horowitz’s globally-popular best-selling novels about Alex (played in the series by Otto Farrant), a British teen, who becomes a spy for the government. In Season 1, Alex crossed paths and became allies with Kyra, played by Marli Siu. Kyra is Alex’s age, and already an expert computer hacker. Although she is not a recurring character in the books, Kyra reappears in Season 2 to help Alex. The reason Alex needs help in […]Read On »


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OUTLANDER: Showrunner Ronald D. Moore on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/12/2017
Caitriona Balfe is Claire Randall Fraser and Sam Heughan is Jamie Fraser in OUTLANDER - Season 3 | ©2017 Starz

OUTLANDER is now in its third season Sunday nights on Starz. Twentieth-century nurse-turned-surgeon Claire Randall, played by Caitriona Balfe, was forced to leave eighteenth-century Scotland by her great love, Highlander Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), before the Battle of Culloden. After a sojourn raising their daughter in England and America through the 1960s, Claire has found her way back to Jamie. Even though twenty years have passed for both of them, their passion remains true. Ronald D. Moore is the executive producer/show runner who adapted OUTLANDER from Diana Gabaldon’s series of best-selling novels. He talks about what the show has in […]Read On »


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STAR WARS REBELS – The Fourth Season highlights new Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Releases this week

By PETER BROWN 09/01/2017
STAR WARS REBELS | © 2017 Disney Home Video

Your guide to some of the new releases that are out this week. STAR WARS: REBELS – THE COMPLETE FOURTH SEASON I’ve said this many times on both the POP SHOW podcast and the Dorking Out Show podcast that STAR WARS: REBELS is the best STAR WARS show that not enough people are actually watching. For starters, it is not a George Lucas type of adding kids’ stuff into a science fiction movie but instead it is geared toward children but with enough cool STAR WARS elements that any fan can enjoy. Season 3 really cranks up the action and […]Read On »


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BLACK SAILS: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON Highlights this week in Blu-ray, DVD and VOD Releases

By PETER BROWN 01/10/2015
BLACK SAILS THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON | © 2015 Image Entertainment

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: THE HOUSES OCTOBER BUILT – If you have ever been to a haunted house during the Halloween time frame, you know that the people that run those joints seem to have a screw loose in some way. Or at least they play it as such when trying […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Luke Arnold on BLACK SAILS seven seas

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/01/2014
Luke Ryan in BLACK SAILS | ©2014 Starz

Starz’s pirate series, BLACK SAILS, Saturdays at 9 PM, was created by Robert Levine & Jonathan E. Steinberg. The storyline, set on Nassau Island and its surrounding waters in the early eighteenth century, combines historical figures like Charles Vane (Zach McGowan) and Anne Bonny (Clara Paget) with fictional people (Mark Ryan as Mr. Gates, quartermaster of the pirate ship The Walrus) with characters first introduced in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel Treasure Island. Chief among the Treasure Island crew is veteran pirate Long John Silver. John Silver – not “Long” yet – is played in BLACK SAILS by Australian […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: BLACK SAILS star Mark Ryan chats about stunts and violence – Part 3

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/11/2014
Mark Ryan (Gates) in BLACK SAILS - Season 1 | ©2014 Starz

In Part 3 of our exclusive interview with Mark Ryan, who plays the quartermaster Mr.Gates on Starz’s new pirate drama BLACK SAILS, he discusses the show’s blend of invention and history, his upcoming autobiography and the new golden age of television. AX: In terms of the violence in BLACK SAILS, did you guys have a sword master? As someone who has been a sword master – on KING ARTHUR and Bob Anderson’s assistant on FIRST KNIGHT – did you get to do any swordfighting? MARK RYAN: There was a stunt team that did most of the swordfights. I would have […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: A Pirate’s life for BLACK SAILS star Mark Ryan – Pt. 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/05/2014
Mark Ryan (Gates) in BLACK SAILS - Season 1 | ©2014 Starz

In Starz’s eighteenth-century pirate drama BLACK SAILS, Saturdays at 9 PM, Mark Ryan plays Mr. Gates, quartermaster of The Walrus and right-hand man to Captain Flint (Toby Stephens). In Part 2 of our interview with Ryan, whose credits include the Merry Man Nasir in ROBIN OF SHERWOOD, he talks about laughing between takes, nudity and the All-Seeing Eye. ASSIGNMENT X: Had you worked with any of the other BLACK SAILS actors before? MARK RYAN: No, I hadn’t worked with anybody before. It’s kind of interesting, because many years ago, I was visiting Bob Anderson on the set of a James […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: BLACK SAILS star Mark Ryan gets his sea legs – Pt. 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/02/2014
BLACK SAILS - Season 1 poster | ©2014 Starz

Mark Ryan is – and has been – quite a few things. He’s an author, a creator of two Tarot decks (THE GREENWOOD TAROT and THE WILDWOOD TAROT), writer and composer of a musical version of WUTHERING HEIGHTS and a former member of the British Special Forces. He was Bob Anderson’s assistant sword master on FIRST KNIGHT and sword master on KING ARTHUR. As an actor, Ryan originated the role of Magaldi in the premiere West End production of EVITA, then moved up to playing Che, was the first known Saracen Merry Man in ROBIN OF SHERWOOD and voiced Bumblebee […]Read On »


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