RICHARD III: Director Robert O’Hara on new PBS Shakespeare adaptation – Exclusive Interview

Danai Gurira in GREAT PERFORMANCES: RICHARD III | ©2023 PBS

The Shakespeare in the Park production of RICHARD III, starring Danai Gurira (who has played warriors in THE WALKING DEAD and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as being an award-winning playwright) in the title role, ran from June 21, 2022 through July 17, 2022 at the open-air Delacorte Theater in New York’s Central Park. In July, 2022, the production was recorded for PBS’s GREAT PERFORMANCES series, to air Friday, May 19, 2023. Robert O’Hara, who directed the production of RICHARD III, was born in Cincinatti, Ohio. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his direction of SLAVE PLAY. […]Read On »


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SAM NOW: Filmmaker Reed Harness discusses his family documentary mystery – Exclusive Interview

SAM NOW Key Art | | ©2023 PBS

SAM NOW is a multi-award-winning documentary that has its television premiere Monday, May 8, on INDEPENDENT LENS on PBS. Filmmaker Reed Harkness began making short films featuring his younger half-brother Sam Harkness when Sam was eleven. These shorts often featured Sam as the character the Blue Panther. Sam’s mother mother Jois (pronounced Joyce) had divorced Reed and Sam’s father Randy Harkness and remarried. When Sam was fourteen, Jois disappeared. But SAM NOW is not a true crime story. Reed and Sam Harkness set out on a road trip to find Jois when Sam was seventeen. What they found shows family, […]Read On »


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FROM: Actor Harold Perrineau on Season 2 of the horror series – Exclusive Interview

Harold Perrineau in FROM - Season 2 | ©2023 MGM

FROM, already in its second season on MGM+ (formerly Epix) is created by John Griffin and set in a rundown small town that mysteriously traps people who drive through it. Food can be found, and some electricity works, but there are monsters in the woods that come out at night. Harold Perrineau plays Boyd Stevens, one of the trapped people, is a former military man who has become the town sheriff. In Season 1, Boyd reconciled with his estranged son Ellis, played by Corteon Moore, while coming to terms with his grief about the loss of his wife, Ellis’s mother. […]Read On »


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ICONIC AMERICA: OUR SYMBOLS AND STORIES WITH DAVID RUBENSTEIN – Exclusive Interview

ICONIC AMERICA: OUR SYMBOLS AND STORIES WITH DAVID RUBENSTEIN | ©2023 PBS

David M. Rubenstein is the co-founder and co-chairman of the extremely successful international private equity firm The Carlyle Group. He is also an original signer of the Giving Pledge, and involved in chairing nonprofit organizations, including the Kennedy Center, the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, and the Council on Foreign Relations, to name a few. As if that’s not enough to do, Rubenstein is also the host of PBS’s new eight-part ICONIC AMERICA: OUR SYMBOLS AND STORIES WITH DAVID RUBENSTEIN, which premieres Wednesday, April 26. Rubenstein’s other PBS series, HISTORY WITH DAVID RUBENSTEIN, recently concluded its fourth […]Read On »


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FREE CHOL SOO LEE: Filmmakers and activists Julie Ha, Eugene Yi, Gail Whang and Ranko Yamada on new PBS doc – Exclusive Interview

FREE CHOL SOO LEE | ©2023 PBS

Chol Soo Lee was a young Korean immigrant living in San Francisco’s Chinatown when he was arrested on June 7, 1973, and subsequently convicted, for the murder of Yip Yee Tak. While in prison, Lee was given the death penalty for the killing of a fellow inmate, although Lee claimed self-defense. In June of 1977, reporter K.W. Lee (no relation to Chol Soo), after hearing from young Asian-American activists, began investigating the case for a series of articles in the SACRAMENTO UNION. K.W. Lee found facts that strongly suggested that Chol Soo Lee had been wrongly targeted for the murder […]Read On »


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THE BIG DOOR PRIZE: Actors Djouliet Amara and Sammy Fourlas talk Season 1 of new Apple TV+ series – Exclusive Interview

Djouliet Amara and Sammy Fourlas in THE BIG DOOR PRIZE - Season 1 | ©2023 Apple TV+

In the new Apple TV+ series THE BIG DOOR PRIZE, life in a reasonably contented small American town is disrupted by the arrival of the mysterious Morpho machine. For two dollars, and the input of your fingerprints and your social security number, the Morpho prints out a card that reveals your true potential. Based on the book by M.O. Walsh, THE BIG DOOR PRIZE was adapted for television by David West Read, who was previously an executive producer and writer on SCHITT’S CREEK (a comedy to which THE BIG DOOR PRIZE has already drawn favorable comparisons). The series has already […]Read On »


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LUCKY HANK: Executive producers Paul Lieberstein and Aaron Zelman on new dramedy series – Exclusive Interview

LUCKY HANK Season 1 Key Art | ©2023 AMC

Less than a year after wrapping up six seasons on AMC’s much-awarded BETTER CALL SAUL, Bob Odenkirk is back on the network in LUCKY HANK, which premieres Sunday, March 19, on AMC, AMC+, BBC America, IFC, and SundanceTV. Show runners/executive producers Paul Lieberstein & Aaron Zelman adapted LUCKY HANK from Richard Russo’s 1997 novel STRAIGHT MAN. Both the TV series and the explore the life of Odenkirk’s character, William Henry “Hank” Devereaux Jr., the perpetually annoyed chair of the English department at a small university in a small town. Hank decries both school ad community as the epitome of mediocrity […]Read On »


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A SPY AMONG FRIENDS: Actress Anna Maxwell Martin on fact-based espionage series – Exclusive Interview

Anna Maxwell Martin in A SPY AMONG FRIENDS | ©2023 MGM+

A SPY AMONG FRIENDS, the six-part British miniseries premiering Sunday, March 12, on MGM+ (formerly Epix), is based Ben Macintyre’s nonfiction book A SPY AMONG FRIENDS: KIM PHILBY AND THE GREAT BETRAYAL. Harold Adrian Russell “Kim” Philby, as real-life espionage buffs know, was a high-ranking officer in British Intelligence’s MI-6 division (their equivalent of the CIA) during and after World War II. In 1963, it was revealed that Philby was spying for the Russians, causing him to flee to Moscow. Philby’s friend and fellow MI-6 agent Nicholas Elliott was sent to get a full confession while they were both in […]Read On »


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WORK IT OUT WOMBATS! Creators on new PBS Kids animated series – Exclusive Interview

WORK IT OUT WOMBATS! | ©2022 WGBH Educational Foundation

PBS Kids’ new series WORK IT OUT WOMBATS! premieres Monday, February 6, on the PBS Kids Prime Video Channel. For those unfamiliar with the animal, a wombat is an Australian marsupial mammal that looks a little like a woodchuck. Except, in the case of WORK IT OUT WOMBATS!, the wombats are animated siblings who live with their grandmother in the Treeborhood (that’s a neighborhood in a tree). The program is designed to help children ages three through six begin to understand computer coding. If this ambition sounds like a tall order (especially if you’re an adult who still doesn’t understand […]Read On »


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MURF THE SURF: Filmmaker R.J. Cutler on his docuseries – Exclusive Interview

MURF THE SURF Key Art | ©2023 MGM+

MURF THE SURF is a documentary series focusing on Jack Roland Murphy (1937-2020), a man filmmaker R.J. Cutler describes as “television’s first true-crime celebrity.” Premiering on Sunday, February 5, on MGM+ and running Sundays thereafter, MURF THE SURF chronicles Murphy’s astounding history, from quintessential ‘50s/’60s surfer to museum jewel heist mastermind- he and his crew stole the fabled Star of India sapphire from New York’s American Museum of Natural History – to convicted murderer to traveling preacher. Cutler directed MURF THE SURF, co-writing it with Ryan Gallagher, and serving as one of the executive producers, a group that also includes […]Read On »


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