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David Boreanaz “Bones” Interview – EXCLUSIVE!

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Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

David Boreanaz “Bones” Interview – EXCLUSIVE!
By Abbie Bernstein

David Boreanaz Interview

BONES has its eighth-season finale Monday night, April 29, at 8 PM on Fox. The series stars David Boreanaz as dedicated FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, who is patriotic, Catholic, a survivor of a violent father and a mother who left the family when Booth was still a boy. Booth solves cases with brilliant, literal-minded, atheist forensic anthropologist Temperance “Bones” Brennan, played by Emily Deschanel. As BONES fans know, despite (or perhaps because of) their very different personalities, Booth and Brennan are deeply in love with one another. They got together romantically at the end of Season Six and now have a toddler daughter, Christine, though the couple are not yet married (Booth has decided to wait until the less conventional Brennan is comfortable enough with the idea to propose to him).

When Boreanaz gets a television role, he sticks with it. He spent three years on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER as Angel, the vampire with a soul, then played the character for another five years as the lead in ANGEL, making a total of eight years in the part. Now Boreanaz is poised to surpass that record as Booth, since BONES has officially been picked up by Fox for a ninth season.
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Toks Olagundoye on “The Neighbors” – EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

Toks Olagundoye on “The Neighbors” – EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
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Toks Olagundoye Interview

In ABC’s THE NEIGHBORS, created by Dan Fogelman, the fairly average Weaver family, headed up by mom Debbie (Jami Gertz) and dad Marty (Lenny Venito), move to a nice new house in a suburban cul-de-sac – that turns out to be entirely inhabited by aliens from the planet Zabvron. The Weavers’ next-door neighbors are Larry Bird, played by Simon Templeman, his wife Jackie Joyner-Kersee, plays by Toks Olagundoye, and their offspring Reggie Jackson (Tim Jo) and Dick Butkus (Ian Patrick) – the Zabvronians are big on naming themselves after Earth sports stars. Jackie is eager to learn all about Earth life from their new friends, while Larry goes back and forth between enthusiastic curiosity and Zabvronian conservatism.

Olagundoye – her first name rhymes with “coax” and her last name rhymes with “roll-a-moon-toy” – is at an afternoon party hosted by ABC for the NEIGHBORS cast and creative staff and the press.
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David Tennant “The Spies of Warsaw & Doctor Who” – Exclusive Interview

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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

David Tennant “The Spies of Warsaw & Doctor Who” Exclusive Interview
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Since ending his tenure as DOCTOR WHO – albeit he’ll be reprising the role in the series’ upcoming fiftieth anniversary – Scotland-born actor David Tennant has kept very busy. He’s won acclaim for Shakespeare on stage in the title role in HAMLET and in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING opposite erstwhile WHO colleague Catherine Tate. He’s played a wary Las Vegas magician/vampire hunter in the remake of FRIGHT NIGHT. Starting Wednesday, April 3, Tennant stars as Jean-Francois Mercier in the miniseries SPIES OF WARSAW on BBC America (the production previously aired in the U.K.), which was adapted for television by the famed writing team of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais from the novel by Alan Furst. SPIES is set in Poland, Paris and London in the years 1937-1939, as World War II first looms, then rages.

BBC America is throwing a party at La Boheme restaurant in West Hollywood, which has been dressed up to look like a Civil War-era New York City brothel in honor of another BBC America series, COPPER. Tennant is in attendance, enjoying the live music, and making himself available to discuss his current project.
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Jamie Bamber “Monday Mornings” Exclusive Interview

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Friday, March 8th, 2013

EXCLUSIVE JAMIE BAMBER “MONDAY MORNINGS” INTERVIEW

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Jamie Bamber

To many people, Jamie Bamber is best known for his BATTLESTAR GALACTICA character, space fighter pilot Lee “Apollo” Adama. British and BBC America audiences saw him playing U.K. police detective Matt Devlin in LAW & ORDER: UK. Now the London-born actor is playing brilliant surgeon Dr. Tyler Wilson on TNT’s new series MONDAY MORNINGS, airing Monday evenings at 10 PM, which deals with the real but little-known hospital Morbidity and Mortality meetings, usually held in the title timeframe. This is where doctors talk about patient deaths, what might have been done to prevent them and other related topics.

There has just been a big Q and A panel for MONDAY MORNINGS, featuring all of the series leads, including Bamber, Alfred Molina and Ving Rhames, plus Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who wrote the novel that is the source for the series, and his fellow executive producer, series creator David E. Kelley (THE PRACTICE, BOSTON LEGAL, CHICAGO HOPE). Bamber very kindly takes time in the foyer outside to answer more questions.
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“Shakespeare Uncovered” – Exclusive Interview With Producer Richard Denton & WNET Head Of Programming Stephen Segaller

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Friday, February 8th, 2013

“Shakespeare Uncovered” – Exclusive Interview With Producer Richard Denton & WNET Head Of Programming Stephen Segaller
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Some people love Shakespeare. Some people – especially high school students being introduced to the Bard for the first time – find Shakespeare daunting, or even incomprehensible.

The six-part documentary SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED, which airs its final two hour-long episodes this Friday night, Feb. 8 on PBS, is aimed at both groups, plus everyone in the middle. David Tennant hosts the segment on HAMLET and famed Shakespearean director Sir Trevor Nunn guides the final hour.

At the Television Critics Association press tour, WNET vice-president of programming Stephen Segaller and SHAKESPEARE UNCOVEREDproducer Richard Denton are joined by actor and fellow Briton Jeremy Irons for a panel about the program. The panel also encompasses THE HOLLOW CROWN, a series of four feature films that encompass Shakespeare’s RICHARD II, HENRY IV PARTS 1 and 2, and HENRY V, with Irons appearing as the older King Henry IV.
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Louis Gossett, JR. – EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

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Monday, February 4th, 2013

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: LOUIS GOSSETT, JR.
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Louis Gossett, pbs pioneers of television

PBS explores different genres and honors different luminaries in each episode of its PIONEERS OF TELEVISION series. The last episode of the current season, “Miniseries,” airs Tuesday, February 5. Actor Louis Gossett, Jr. is a part of the “Miniseries” segment, not only because of his role as Fiddler in the groundbreaking ROOTS miniseries, but also because of his long, storied career.

Born in Brooklyn in 1936, Gossett did his first Broadway play, TAKE A GIANT STEP, in 1953. His first onscreen work in the 1957-58 TV series THE BIG STORY. He then played George Murchison in the 1961 film version of A RAISIN IN THE SUN, reprising the role he’d created on Broadway.
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John Cho Interview – STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS, GO ON, FLASHFORWARD & more

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Tuesday, January 29th, 2013

EXCLUSIVE JOHN CHO INTERVIEW
GO ON, STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS, FLASHFORWARD and more
By Abbie Bernstein

John Cho is sitting poolside at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where NBC is showcasing its new series and throwing a party for the press. Cho is here because he’s part of the cast of NBC’s half-hour comedy GO ON, which launched in fall of 2012. The series, created by Scott Silveri, stars Matthew Perry as radio sportscaster Ryan King, who joins a quirky therapy group after the death of his wife.

Cho plays Ryan’s radio station boss and friend Steven. Does Cho’s status as a series regular on GO ON mean that something bad may happen to Mr. Sulu in the upcoming film STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS, freeing the actor up to do television?

“No, no,” Cho says reassuringly. It turns out that the shooting schedules don’t conflict. “We finished the second [STAR TREK movie]. I think it just might be magnificent.”
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Lily Tomlin On “Malibu Country” – EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

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Thursday, January 10th, 2013

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: LILY TOMLIN ON “MALIBU COUNTRY”
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LILY TOMLIN

In ABC’s new half-hour comedy MALIBU COUNTRY, real-life country singing star – and actress – Reba McEntire plays Reba MacKenzie, a one-time country star who gave up her career for her still-star husband. When she discovers the louse has been cheating on her, Reba ditches his sorry behind and moves from Nashville to one of his homes in Malibu. She is accompanied by her two kids and her mother Lillie Mae, who takes the new environment more in stride that Reba does.

Lillie Mae is played by the legendary Lily Tomlin, who first became a pop culture sensation in the Sixties on LAUGH-IN. Since then, she’s won awards for her one-woman stage shows (co-written with partner Jane Wagner) and played farce, comedy and drama on both the large and small screens. Tomlin wrapped up a season of the legal thriller DAMAGES as a malevolent matriarch and seems happy to lighten up as a much more upbeat and open mom in MALIBU COUNTRY.

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