If contemporary pop culture has a superhero, it may well be Stan Lee. Granted, he doesn’t look much like a superhero: Lee is 93, he doesn’t hear too well these days and his eyes disappear almost completely when he smiles. But Lee is possessed of a superpower that has made him a very rich man: […]
Category archives: Interviews
Downton Abbey Final Season Preview
From the set, for Yahoo TV. Drink it all in here
Sofia Helin Interview
Is Scandi Noir all played out? Sofia Helin, Saga Noren from The Bridge, doesn’t think so…
‘I Was Completely Wrong’ – John Lanchester on Capital
In a London church hall, one of those coffee-stained church halls with sticky lino floors and badly-stacked plastic chairs, a policeman addresses a group of local residents. Someone has been putting threatening postcards through all of their letterboxes saying ‘We Want What You Have?’ and the residents – a banker, his wife, the owner of […]
Are Wildlife films too good to be true?
This week we learned that the unforgettable sound of a magisterial polar bear clomping on snow is actually custard powder and salt crystals inside a stocking. The crunch of bones as a leopard devours an impala is snapping sticks of celery; peeling an orange is the best way to replicate the sound of flesh being ripped from a carcass. This […]
Rob Lowe – The Outsider
You’re supposed to look just below the ears for the telltale signs of a nip and tuck, which is why I am deep in conversation with Rob Lowe, talking about his first role for British TV, while actually focusing on his earlobes. As far as I can see, no marks. At 51, his lack of […]
Edd the Duck – The Truth At Last
When Children’s BBC first began on weekday afternoons, 30 years ago this week, it was Childrens BBC. Although its mission was to inform, entertain, and educate impressionable minds, nobody had thought that a good grounding in grammar might help. “I was there for the adding of the apostrophe,” says Andi Peters, proudly. He is as […]
The Blagger
MEET SIMON BRODKIN BUT BE CAREFUL After several hours in a Swiss police cell, Simon Brodkin, the comedian and prankster, was released by Swiss police to catch his flight home. That morning, in a televised stunt, he had showered Fifa President Sepp Blatter with bank notes, and been arrested for his trouble. Now, he went […]