Jonny Harris – Still Standing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRkVURD9UXQ Now being 10 seasons in, do you feel like you’ve more or less “captured” Canada . . . or could you do another 10 and not even scratch the surface? The latter. Definitely “Answer B.” We could easily do another 10. People often say: “When are you going to run out of towns?” And…

November 28, 20240Comments

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Sacha Baron Cohen – Disclaimer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so6XoqZgbVM Beneath the pulpy mystery aspect of this series, what deeper themes are being explored in Disclaimer? I think there’s the question of truth, fact, lies . . . the ease that it is to believe something because of your own biases — and the danger of that. Also, it’s sort of exploring outrage;…

November 20, 20240Comments

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David Morrissey – Sherwood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPxWT-jpM2Q When you first told people you were working on a show called Sherwood, would you inevitably have to explain that, no, it’s not a new Robin Hood? Yeah, exactly. The word “Sherwood” has massive connotations to it. But I think that’s deliberate on [creator James Graham’s] part. He’s playing on the idea of…

November 5, 20240Comments

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The Holmes Family – Holmes on Homes: Building a Legacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlvOUn7OX_8 Why dust off the original Holmes on Homes concept now? MIKE: Holmes on Homes: Building a Legacy really is about building a legacy. Because it’s been many years of changes — codes that have changed, probably in part by everything that we do. Katrina to the floods in Calgary, we’ve been everywhere and…

November 4, 20240Comments

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Alex Wolff & Thea Sofie Loch Næss – So long, marianne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP517-ogZRk&t=7s There’s always a research component when playing a public figure like Leonard Cohen, but at some point do you need to reconcile with the fact that you’re doing a take on this person, and give up trying to imitate them exactly? ALEX: I mean, honestly, I tried not to think about it intellectually…

October 29, 20240Comments

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Mark McKinney – Mark McKinney Needs a Hobby

Was it tough at all for you to get rid of that writer’s mentality of mapping out every single beat of a story, and instead just show up in a place, without a script, and see what happens? That was the challenge. I’ve never been particularly great at public speaking or anything like that.…

October 22, 20240Comments

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Austin Abrams – Wolfs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RSUcuGIiI0 So many of your scenes in Wolfs are just you and these two Hollywood legends, Clooney and Pitt. A bit surreal? I’m sure some years will pass and I’ll look back on it with a different perspective. Sometimes it’s hard to process things in the moment. But the whole thing is incredible —…

October 15, 20240Comments

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Enrico Colantoni – English Teacher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfvKrsaZrEA How does English Teacher stand out in this endless ocean of TV content? It’s really about making fun of all of the divisiveness going on in the world right now. Everybody’s right and everybody’s wrong, and we’re making fun of all of you — and everything that’s going on culturally. It becomes more…

October 11, 20240Comments

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Soo Hugh – Pachinko

The show’s past timeline enters the Second World War era this year. What’s the benefit of telling stories set amidst a big, flashbulb moment in history? We always said that this show needed to be the “epic intimate” — in the same breath. It feels like that’s how life is. I only think about…

October 1, 20240Comments

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Jabari Banks – Bel-Air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ5J2E_43wY Season three shows us summer in Bel-Air for the first time in the show’s run. And your showrunner, Carla Banks-Waddles, says the series has entered its “sexy era.” What does that mean, exactly? [Laughs] I think you know what “sexy era” means. Come on! There’s a lot of shirts off. It’s a hot…

September 27, 20240Comments

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