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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PBS NATURE: BIG CATS 24/7: Producer and director Rowan Crawford on new docuseries – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/17/2024
BIG CATS 24/7 Key Art | ©2024 PBS

The six-part docuseries BIG CATS 24/7 launches on PBS NATURE on Wednesday, September 18. The series takes advantage of new technology to show three species of African big cats – lions, leopards and cheetahs – in their activities by night as well as by day. During PBS’s portion of the summer Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour in Pasadena, BIG CATS 24/7 producer/director Rowan Crawford sits down to discuss this deep dive into mega felines. Some of Crawford’s other credits include THE ZOO, COAST, NATURAL WORLD, and DOGS IN THE WILD. Crawford is a staff series producer with BBC Studios […]Read On »


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PBS NATURE: Executive producer Fred Kaufman on the Season 41 premiere – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/19/2022
PBS: NATURE RUNNING WITH THE BEEST | ©2022 PBS

PBS NATURE celebrates its forty-first season this year, beginning Wednesday, October 19. The Season 41 premier e episode, RUNNING WITH THE BEEST, documents the annual migration of more than a million wildebeest from one East African nation to another and back, as well as the issues surrounding this mass movement. PBS NATURE executive producer Fred Kaufman, who has won eight Emmy Awards in that capacity, started on the series as a producer when it began back in 1982, and has been with it ever since. He explains how he became the executive producer, what’s going on with the wildebeest, and […]Read On »


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BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA: Co-creator Chuck Lorre on new CBS comedy – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/18/2019
Folake Olowofoyeku as Abishola and Billy Gardell as Bob in BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA Season 1 - "Ralph Lauren and Fish" | ©2019 CBS/Michael Yarish

Following a Q&A panel for his new CBS Monday-night comedy BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA, co-creator/executive producer Chuck Lorre is handing out yellow baseball caps that say “IMAG” on them. “IMAG” stands for Immigrants Make America Great, which is one of the principal themes of BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA. Billy Gardell, who previously starred in Lorre’s romantic comedy series MIKE & MOLLY, plays compression socks company owner Bob. When a health crisis puts Bob in the hospital, he falls for his Nigerian immigrant nurse Abishola (Folake Olowofoyeku). BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA, created by Lorre, Eddie Gorodetsky, Alan J. Higgins & Gina Yashere, charts the […]Read On »


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OCTOPUS: MAKING CONTACT – The scoop on the new PBS documentary – Part 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/02/2019
Octopus touches its reflection in glass tank. Anchorage, Alaska from NATURE - OCTOPUS: MAKING CONTACT| ©2019 Passion Planet/Quinton Smith

In Part 2 of our exclusive interview with documentary filmmaker Anna Fitch, Dr. David Scheel, his daughter Laurel Scheel, they talk more the PBS: NATURE film “Octopus: Making Contact,” airing Wednesday, October 2. The discussion includes both the octopus Heidi, who spent a year in a huge tank in the Scheels’ living room, and octopuses in general. AX: Regarding the life span of an octopus, there was another documentary where the implication was that octopus mortality in the wild is that something happens to physically exhaust them – in the case of females, it’s often giving birth – and that […]Read On »


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OCTOPUS: MAKING CONTACT – The scoop on the new PBS documentary – Part 1 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/30/2019
Octopus hanging at water surface reaching towards the camera. Anchorage, Alaska in NATURE - OCTOPUS: MAKING CONTACT ©2019 Passion Planet/Quinton Smith

PBS NATURE’s film “Octopus: Making Contact” airs on Wednesday, October 2. The documentary, from director Anna Fitch, examines a number of aspects of the octopus, including its singular evolution: unlike vertebrates, the sea creature has evolved with its esophagus in its brain. “Octopus: Making Contact” also visits Octopolis, in a bay off of Australia’s Sydney Harbor, where normally solitary octopuses live in a colony. (Octopi, it’s explained during a PBS Q&A session for the program, is a Latin affectation adopted by some scientists in the early twentieth century; it’s not necessarily the right word for more than one octopus.) Mostly, […]Read On »


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