Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of old men who claim not to watch TV shows about high school kids… in the new new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! I won’t lie to you – when I was approached to interview singer Charlene Kaye, the light didn’t... Continue Reading →
Merlin’s Bradley James: Off with Mr. Media’s bloody head! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Bradley James, star, "Merlin" Merlin exists to protect Prince Arthur, the young Pendragon, until he becomes king and magic is returned to the realm. Life in the days before Camelot were complicated that way. BRADLEY JAMES podcast excerpt: "Anthony Head and I play father and son. And it seems to be that... Continue Reading →
439 YA author Lisa McMann: Wake, Fade, Gone. And make it snappy! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Lisa McMann, YA novelist, Wake, Fade, Gone, The Unwanteds This is gonna take a minute. It was the last day of our first family vacation in two years and the three of us were unwinding in the enormous Barnes & Noble bookstore in Burlington, Vermont. My 13-year-old son Charlie found two young adult novels... Continue Reading →
412 YA novelist James Dashner plots course with The Maze Runner! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: James Dashner, novelist, The Maze Runner Recommendations are worth what you pay for them, so I don’t always accept them at face value. But the same literary agent who turned me on to young adult novelist Sara Zarr two years ago thought I’d also enjoy James Dashner’s new YA book, The Maze Runner,... Continue Reading →
Lightning Thief screenwriter Craig Titley taps for Mr. Media! PODCAST INTERVIEW
How do the movie studios follow the humongous, year-after-year success of the Harry Potter movies? That is, where do you find a character and situation that will grab the imagination of everyone from elementary school students on through your grandmother? And craft tales that will make audiences come back for more? Again. And again. And... Continue Reading →
Lovely Katie McGrath brings the pain to Merlin on TV! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Katie McGrath, actress, "Merlin," "Supergirl" Katie McGrath plays Lady Morgana in the new NBC dramatic import, “Merlin.” The shows airs every Sunday at 8 p.m. Katie is a relative newcomer to acting, as I understand it, although American audiences may have seen her in an episode of Showtime’s popular drama, “The Tudors,”... Continue Reading →
Merlin’s King, Anthony Head, refuses to bow before Mr. Media! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Anthony Head can’t escape his past. I know that, because when I posted a note on Facebook a few days ago that I’d be interviewing Anthony, it took less than a minute for Gina Vivinetto to respond with two words: “Ack! GILES!” I wasn’t entirely sure if that was good or bad, but when... Continue Reading →
Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files draw a graphic crowd! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Novelist Jim Butcher, author of The Dresden Files. I am NOT the world’s biggest Harry Potter fan. The only book in the series that I’ve read is the first, which my wife and I took turns reading aloud to my daughter when she was just learning to read herself. Since then, they’ve... Continue Reading →
Getting to know NBC ‘President’ Bob Balaban! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Bob Balaban, actor Close Encounters of the Third Kind, "Seinfeld," director, Bernard and Doris No matter what role he’s in, Bob Balaban always makes an impression, from Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind to playing the President of NBC on “Seinfeld.” And the same is now true of his work as... Continue Reading →
74 Sex, magic, wizardry… novelist Jim Melvin’s Death Wizard Chronicles! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Jim Melvin has been a friend of mine for more than twenty years and, for as long as I’ve known him, his driving interest has been writing an epic fantasy series, something that might find shelf space alongside J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. But life kept getting in the way. He was... Continue Reading →