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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THE COMPLETELY MADE-UP ADVENTURES OF DICK TURPIN: Star Noel Fielding and executive producer Kenton Allen on Season 1 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/15/2024
THE COMPLETELY MADE-UP ADVENTURES OF DICK TURPIN - Season 1 Key Art | ©2024 Apple TV+

THE COMPLETELY MADE-UP ADVENTURES OF DICK TURPIN, currently in its first season in the U.S. on Apple TV+, is a British comedy/fantasy take on the legendary (but real-world) eighteenth-century English highwayman. Noel Fielding is co-creator and star of the cult favorite THE MIGHTY BOOSH (2003-2007) and, from 2017 through the present, one of the hosts of THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW and THE GREAT CELEBRITY BAKE OFF. Fielding plays Turpin as a kind-hearted pacifist vegan who accidentally becomes head of an outlaw gang. Dick would actually rather make clothes for people than rob them, but the gang has a reputation […]Read On »


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ALEX RIDER: Creator and executive producer Anthony Horowitz on Season 1 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/15/2021
Otto Farrant in ALEX RIDER - Season 2 | ©2020 IMDBbTV

Alex Rider is the name of the hero of writer Anthony Horowitz’s phenomenally successful YA book series, which has sold a combined total of over twenty million copies all over the world. ALEX RIDER is also the title of the new series about the character, currently streaming its first season, and renewed for a second, on Amazon and IMDBtv. Otto Farrant plays Alex, a normal London adolescent being raised by his Uncle Ian (Andrew Buchan). When Ian is murdered, Alex discovers to his shock that his relative wasn’t a banker, but rather a secret agent. The clandestine British government group […]Read On »


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ROBIN OF SHERWOOD Retrospective: Actors Michael Praed and Jason Connery on the classic 1980s series – Exclusive Interview – Part 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/09/2020
Michael Praed in ROBIN OF SHERWOOD | photo courtesy of Spirit of Sherwood

In Part 2 of our exclusive ROBIN OF SHERWOOD interview with actors Michael Praed and Jason Connery (originally published some years ago in EON MAGAZINE), they talk more about their time playing Robin Hood on the British series. Praed was the peasant Robin of Loxley; Connery played Loxley’s successor, the nobleman Robert of Huntingdon. The series is currently streaming on Amazon Prime and Tubi, and available on DVD and Blu-ray. ROBIN OF SHERWOOD provided an education in much more than on-camera combat for both men. “Just doing a lot of film over the eight-month period, I think I learned a […]Read On »


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ROBIN OF SHERWOOD Retrospective: Actors Michael Praed and Jason Connery on the classic U.K. series – Exclusive Interview – Part 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/08/2020
Jason Connery in ROBIN OF SHERWOOD | photo courtesy of Spirit of Sherwood

ROBIN OF SHERWOOD is a singular version of the Robin Hood legend, made for British television, that ran originally ran in the U.K. on ITV and in the U.S. on Showtime from 1984 through 1986. The legend of Robin Hood, the outlaw leader who robs from the rich and gives to the poor, possibly dates back to thirteenth-century mummers plays. Fandom for ROBIN OF SHERWOOD isn’t quite that old, but it’s still alive and well, with multiple online groups for the series itself, the actors and the characters. The longest-lasting club, Spirit of Sherwood, authorized by series creator Richard Carpenter, […]Read On »


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TOMMY’S HONOUR: Director Jason Connery – Exclusive Interview – Part 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/14/2017
TOMMY'S HONOUR movie poster | © 2017 Roadshow Attractions

A father who is a master craftsman is eager to pass his wisdom on to his eldest son. However, the son, rather than follow in his father’s footsteps, longs to use what the father makes to blaze his own path. In TOMMY’S HONOUR, this classic tale of family tension in Scotland is fact-based. The film won the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Feature Film. Thomas “Old Tom” Morris, played in the film by Peter Mullan, designed fifty classic golf courses during his lifetime (1821-1908), as well as being a master maker of golf clubs. His son Tommy Morris, played by […]Read On »


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BEOWULF: Kieran Bew plays the legendary hero – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/08/2016
Kieran Bew in BEOWULF | ©2016 ITV Studios

There are actors who have to learn how to use a sword once they get a role in a heroic fantasy. Then there’s Kieran Bew, who was a British sword cadet champion in his teens before he ever became an actor. Not all of Bew’s film and television work has called for work with bladed weaponry. His resume includes the features GREEN STREET HOOLIGANS and AVP: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR and the British TV series THE BILL, SILENT WITNESS, WPC 56 and THE BLETCHLEY CIRCLE. Then again, the English actor has also appeared in the 2008 TV CRUSOE and in the […]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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