LEONARDO DA VINCI: Filmmakers Sarah Burns and David McMahon on new PBS documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/18/2024
LEONARDO DA VINCI Key Art | ©2024 PBS

It is perhaps impossible to overstate the influence of the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, on subsequent civilization. Scientist, inventor, engineer, painter, sculptor and architect, da Vinci did so much that exploring his entire life seems a Herculean task. But that’s exactly what filmmakers Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon set out to do with their four-hour documentary LEONARDO DA VINCI, which airs on PBS over two nights, Monday, November 18, and Tuesday, November 19. During PBS’s portion of the summer 2024 Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, Sarah Burns (Ken Burns’s daughter) and McMahon (Sarah Burn’s husband) […]Read On »


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HOLIDAZED: Actor John C. McGinley on new Hallmark holiday series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/14/2024
John C. McGinley and Virginia Madsen in HOLIDAZED - Season 1 | ©2024 Hallmark Channel

HOLIDAZED, Hallmark’s new limited series about six different families, each preparing for Christmas on their cul-de-sac in Oak Bay, Oregon, premieres with a double episode on Thursday, November 14. John C. McGinley is part of the star-studded cast as Chuck Manetti-Hanahan. Chuck has always been competitive about his house’s holiday light display, and recent family issues have made him more determined than ever to outshine the neighbors. McGinley has been acting in television, film, and theatre for decades. Oliver Stone saw McGinley in an off-Broadway performance of DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA and cast him in PLATOON. McGinley has […]Read On »


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ST. DENIS MEDICAL: Co-creator Eric Ledgin operates on a new NBC comedy – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/12/2024
ST. DENIS MEDICAL - Season 1 Key Art | ©2024 NBCUniversal

The new comedy ST. DENIS MEDICAL, which premieres on NBC Tuesday, November 12 (with episodes streaming on Peacock following broadcast), is a mockumentary that follows the mostly dedicated staff of an underfunded Oregon hospital. Series stars include David Alan Grier as seen-it-all chief of surgery Ron, Wendy McClendon-Covey as ambitious hospital administrator Joyce, and Allison Tolman as warm-hearted nurse Alex. Eric Ledgin co-created ST. DENIS MEDICAL with Justin Spitzer; both are executive producers on the series. The two had previously worked together as exec producers on AMERICAN AUTO, which Ledgin wrote for and Spitzer created. Some of Ledgin’s other previous […]Read On »


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PBS NATURE: SAN DIEGO: AMERICA’S WILDEST CITY: Director Nate Dappen and NATURE executive producer Fred Kaufman on new documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/05/2024
SAN DIEGO: AMERICA’S WILDEST CITY Key Art for PBS NATURE | ©2024 PBS

San Diego, California, is famous for many things, but it’s generally not heralded for its free-roaming wildlife. But perhaps it should be, according to the PBS NATURE documentary SAN DIEGO: AMERICA’S WILDEST CITY, which premieres on PBS Wednesday, November 6. During PBS’s portion of the summer 2024 Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour in the somewhat less wild city of Pasadena, CA, SAN DIEGO: AMERICA’S WILDEST CITY writer/director Nate Dappen and PBS NATURE executive producer Fred Kaufman sit down to talk about their geographically contained but biologically epic film. Dappen is especially intrigued by the intersection of wild creatures and […]Read On »


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POPPA’S HOUSE: Actor, co-creator and executive producer Damon Wayans on new CBS comedy – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/04/2024
Damon Wayans as Poppa, from the CBS original pilot POPPA’S HOUSE - Season 1 | ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc./ Sonja Flemming/ All Rights Reserved

The new CBS Monday night (streaming subsequently on Paramount+) half-hour series POPPA’S HOUSE is a family comedy in multiple ways. Onscreen, POPPA’S HOUSE concerns amicably divorced podcaster Poppa, who goes from working as a radio host to doing a podcast from his home studio. His routine is disrupted when his adult son Damon, Damon’s wife Nina (Tetona Jackson), and their little daughter Maya (River Blossom) move in next door to him. Behind the scenes, the series was co-created, with Kevin Hench, by executive producer Damon Wayans, who plays Poppa. Wayans’s real-life son, Damon Wayans Jr., plays Damon. Wayans Jr. is […]Read On »


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FOUND: Creator and executive producer Nkechi Okoro Carroll on Season 2 of the NBC thriller – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/03/2024
Nkechi Okoro Carroll creator of FOUND | ©2024 J Squared Photography/NBCUniversal

Nkechi Okoro Carroll is the creator/executive producer of FOUND, now on Thursday nights on NBC in its second season, with episodes streaming subsequently on Peacock. In FOUND, crisis manager Gabi Mosely (Shanola Hampton), heads up Mosely & Associates, or M&A, a firm that specializes in finding overlooked people who are missing and/or have been abducted. Gabi’s colleagues and friends know that her dedication to her calling comes from her experience of having been abducted and held captive for over a year by her high school teacher Hugh Evans, aka “Sir” (Mark-Paul Gosselaar). What Gabi’s circle doesn’t know is that she’s […]Read On »


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SMILE 2: Actor Peter Jacobson on costarring in the Parker Finn directed new sequel – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/26/2024
Actor PETER JACOBSON | ©2024 photographer Luke Fontana

In screenwriting lore, there is a character often referred to as “Morris the Explainer.” This is the person who shows up in the story to deliver the exposition that there’s just no other way of providing to either the other characters or the audience. In SMILE 2, which opened in theatres on Friday, October 18, that character is literally named Morris. Played by Peter Jacobson, he’s the one who relates the workings of a malevolent supernatural entity to troubled pop star Skye Riley (Naomi Scott). We first encountered the viral curse demon in 2022’s SMILE which, like SMILE 2, is […]Read On »


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ENGLISH TEACHER: Executive producers Paul Simms and Dave King on Season 1 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/12/2024
Brian Jordan Alvarez as Evan Marquez in ENGLISH TEACHER - Season 1 | ©2024 FX/Pari Dukovic

ENGLISH TEACHER has its first-season finale on FX on Monday, October 14. Following this, the episode will join the rest of the comedy’s first season streaming on Hulu. Series creator Brian Jordan Alvarez stars as Evan Marquez, a gay high school teacher in Austin, Texas, where unexpected controversies continually baffle staff and students alike. When ENGLISH TEACHER has a Q&A panel during FX’s portion of the summer Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, one of the executive producers, Paul Simms, offers this observation: “A lot of what the show is about is the characters within the show talking about what […]Read On »


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MOONFLOWER MURDERS: Actress Pippa Bennett-Warner on playing a 1950s detective’s assistant – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/09/2024
Daniel Mays, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Tim McMullan in MASTERPIECE: MOONFLOWER MURDERS | ©2024 PBS/ Eleventh Hour Films

In MOONFLOWER MURDERS, Sunday nights on PBS MASTERPIECE, actual retired English book editor Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) and fictional ‘50s master detective Atticus Pünd (Tim McMullan) are both back on the case. In the previous MAGPIE MURDERS, Susan had been the editor on all of the Atticus Pünd mystery novels. When the last book led to the murder of Atticus’s creator, unpleasant novelist Alan Conway (Conleth Hill), Susan wound up solving the crime. Surprisingly, Atticus began appearing to Susan and giving her oblique advice, at the same time he was busy solving the 1950s case that Alan had written for […]Read On »


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ENGLISH TEACHER: Actor Sean Patton on new FX comedy – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/08/2024
Sean Patton as Markie Hillridge in ENGLISH TEACHER - Season 1 | ©2024 FX/Steve Swisher

In ENGLISH TEACHER, series creator Brian Jordan Alvarez plays the title role, Evan Marquez, an instructor at an Austin, Texas high school where nuance is everything. The comedy airs Monday nights on FX, with episodes available the following day on Hulu. Sean Patton plays Evan’s colleague Markie Hillridge, the school’s physical education instructor and football coach. Markie and Evan are friends, even though Markie is in many ways a traditional conservative good ol’ boy, and Evan is gay and progressive. Patton, originally from Louisiana, has appeared in a number of films and TV shows, including INSIDE AMY SCHUMER and MARON, […]Read On »


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