Jennifer Robertson: The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down

You’ve dabbled in the reality genre before, but what was the process like of transitioning from being an actor to being a host? I loved being a reality show host — especially on a show that’s super-positive. I don’t personally have a lot of interest in the reality shows that are just undercutting people.…

February 26, 20240Comments

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Katie Maloney: Vanderpump Rules

The series is in season 11 now. Looking back, do you have any sense of what makes Vanderpump really stand out on the reality TV landscape? Since the beginning, our show has resonated with people because it was really about the friendships — and I think that came across. It was very evident that…

February 6, 20240Comments

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Alexandre Daigle – Chosen One: Alexandre Daigle

After all the media interrogation during your NHL career, how was it being in front of a camera again here? I had a lot of apprehension doing it, because in my little brain of an 18- or 19-year-old man, I thought all those years were negative, and I didn’t want to relive it. That’s…

January 30, 20240Comments

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Enrico Colantoni: Allegiance

What makes Allegiance stand out from the ocean of other “cop dramas”? This show is beautiful because it’s a futuristic look at policing. Vince and Sabrina are idealistic. They care. They wear their hearts on their sleeves . . . We’re representing the heart and the soul of policing — what they come in…

January 26, 20240Comments

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Amanda Parris: For the Culture With Amanda Parris

Did you have a mission statement or guiding principle for this project? I did create a bit of a mission statement, which was that I wanted us to end each episode not trying to answer any questions, but providing better questions than what we started with to help push the conversation forward. The…

January 19, 20240Comments

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Serinda Swan: Reacher

You’re a newbie to the Reacher-verse. Did you watch season one at all? Definitely watched the first season. I watched it because one of my dear friends was in the first season: Willa [Fitzgerald, who played police officer Roscoe Conklin]. She actually took me as her guest for the premiere, randomly enough. So I’m…

January 15, 20240Comments

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Vanessa Morgan & Giacomo Gianniotti: Wild Cards

What is it exactly that makes con woman extraordinaire Max Mitchell and Detective Cole Ellis a compelling duo? VANESSA MORGAN: I think it’s their outlook on life; it’s the contrast of the light and the dark. Max is the bubbly one. Ellis is taking things more seriously. And we are dealing with some serious…

January 5, 20240Comments

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Rosamund Pike: Saltburn

This movie is, on some level, a genre-bender. Could we perhaps best describe it as a satire? I would definitely entertain the word “satire.” It’s a satirical thriller. But there’s nothing in the film that isn’t real. This is how these people exist. So, in a way, you could call it documentary [laughs]. The…

December 19, 20230Comments

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Anders Holm: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Do you think that TV is actually the best place to tell a Godzilla story, given that you’ve got 10 hours to play with? Because in the films, so often the human characters get overshadowed . . . Watching the big blockbuster movies, I do think, yes, it’s hard for the human stories to…

December 18, 20230Comments

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Dougray scott in Irvine Welsh’s Crime

Do you think Ray Lennox, on some level, subverts that old archetype of the “troubled yet brilliant” detective? DOUGRAY SCOTT: I think he does. You’ve seen “troubled” detectives before, but I don’t think many of them go into the trauma of childhood sexual abuse, and how that fuels a character like Lennox, and how…

November 23, 20230Comments

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