It's the end of the road for an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning comedy series. “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is back for its fifth and final season, with episodes dropping weekly starting April 14 on Amazon Prime Video.  For this episode of Streamed & Screened, hosts Bruce Miller and Terry Lipshetz, provide a (mostly) spoiler-free analysis of the the program, which is a favorite of both. Also hear from the stars, including clips from Rachel Brosnahan (Miriam "Midge" Maisel), Alex Borstein (Susie Myerson), Tony Shalhoub (Abraham "Abe" Weissman) and Kevin Pollak (Moishe Maisel) who reflect on the characters, the series and whether we might see them all reprise their roles in the future as part of a feature-length movie. Bruce also has an interview with Michael Zegen, who plays Midge's ex-husband Joel Maisel, who offers thoughts of his own on the program. Whether you're a longtime fan of the show or looking for an introduction before you binge the whole thing over a long weekend, you'll want to give this episode a listen. About the show Read more: REVIEW: 'Mrs. Maisel' ends with marvelous update Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video Cast: Rachel Brosnahan as Miriam "Midge" Maisel Alex Borstein as Susie Myerson Michael Zegen as Joel Maisel Marin Hinkle as Rose Weissman Tony Shalhoub as Abraham "Abe" Weissman Kevin Pollak as Moishe Maisel Caroline Aaron as Shirley Maisel Luke Kirby as Lenny Bruce Jane Lynch as Sophie Lennon Created by: Amy Sherman-Palladino Executive producers: Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino Producers: Dhana Gilbert, Matthew Shapiro, Salvatore Carino, Sheila Lawrence About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Adobe Premiere and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: A lot of young women trying standup comedy for the first time, which is so awesome and long overdue. It's been incredible to hear how his legacy has already affected people, and I'm really excited to see how she lives on. That voice you just heard was Rachel Brosnahan, who stars as Miriam ‘Midge’ Maisel in ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ I'm Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer at Lee Enterprises and a co-host of Streamed and Screened, an entertainment podcast about movies and TV. Joining me, as always, is the incomparable Bruce Miller, editor of the Sioux City Journal and a longtime entertainment reporter. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is back for its fifth and final season with episodes dropping weekly starting April 14th on Amazon Prime Video. Bruce It will be an end of an era for one of the most popular shows on that platform. Certainly big shoes to fill. First of all, why was it not the marvelous Bruce Miller? This is now this is how this should be. This is how he introduced me. Right. It's interesting because this is a show that I think people lost track of because of the big gaps between seasons. Was it over? Is it over? And when they see this fifth season and I've seen the whole thing, they will go, Oh my God, there's so much in that fifth season because they do a lot of time jumps. So you're not going to just see one season, one year play out. It goes into the future and you find out things about her children. You find out things about her husband, her ex-husband, her friends, Susie. All of those people come into play at some point. And so it flashes back and forth and it's I think it pays. It rewards the people who have been loyal. And you get to see a lot of fun. So there is and I you know, I'm really I should say nothing. But there is one kind of cute thing where they're showing, you know, did she have a lot of dresses? And they show the racks of her clothes all. My God, what is this? She did have it because I don't think she ever wore anything twice. No, I don't remember it. And you also, I think, see growth in Mrs. Maysles comedy career, how she's able to tell, you know, I always thought, is she making this crap up on the fly? And every night, is she not writing this down so that she can, you know, retell it at another place? It seemed like every every routine she did was just of the moment. And you see how she does all that. And there is a scene in the last episode that is on Be Livable, and that's as much as I can tell you on the spoiler end of things. But okay, no spoilers. You know, when you first watched it, what surprised you most about it? For me personally, I was sucked in because I'm a native of New York City, okay? And for me, my wife is from just outside of Green Bay, Wisconsin. And it's been an interesting ride because she's she's Catholic. I was raised Catholic, but my dad was Jewish. But for me, it's kind of seeing that cultural the cultural phenomenon of New York, the Jewish culture, even though I'm I didn't grow up in the fifties or sixties, I was born in the mid seventies, but for me I could relate to it. And I thought that they kept this show like it's fiction, but it's also really easy. And I think it was that reality that kind of kept bringing me back. So a couple of things, if you don't mind me throwing these out, because we're going to be talking a lot about I mean, we're basically going to just talk about the show with Mrs. Basil. Yes, this is the Mrs. Maisel episode. So first off, the beauty of streaming is if you have not watched this show yet, just go back and watch it. You know, go get Amazon Prime if you don't have it already and start cranking through them. My wife and I didn't start this until the 2020 lockdown. There was already in between season three and seven season for that really long gap they were talking about. But we had nothing to watch during it. So we're kind of crushing through Netflix and Hulu and anything we could find. And we hopped into Mrs. Maisel and for some reason I didn't know much about it at the time. I was saying, What is this like some superhero thing? Because it kind of played with some of those Marvel titles that you hear. But it's a it's a comedy. It takes place, I guess, you know, like late 1950s, early 1960s. Rachael Brosnahan plays Miriam Midge Maisel. She's a housewife with very strong Jewish personalities in her life. Between her her husband and her parents and her in-laws. Alex Borstein plays Susie Myerson. She manages The Gaslight Cafe. Becomes a manager. She wants to be a manager. She's there. Michael Zegen is Joel Maseil while her husband and there's a Tony Shalhoub is in it as her father. There's a lot of actors you will know. Kevin Pollak is her father in law. It was a Jane. Lynch turned up as. Jane Lynch. Yeah. So it's it's an awesome ensemble cast. So and it's also a lot of reality. So Luke Kirby plays Lenny. Bruce. Right? So he's a real person, very controversial comic of the time, but becomes Midge's friend over time and helps guide her career. Midge Maisel, a fictional character, but she's based on Joan Rivers, who had a relationship with Lenny Bruce and started at the Gaslight Cafe, which was a real location. It's where, if you've ever heard of a musician named Bob Dylan, you've heard of Bob Dylan before.Bruce Never heard of him. Never heard of him. So he was a young man. Robert Zimmerman out of Hibbing, Minnesota. Probably did. Well, is he did. He did well. So he came to New York City and was kind of brought under the wing of a folk singer named Dave Van Ronk, who is who is the mayor of MacDougal Street down in the village of New York City. They performed at the Gaslight. This is a real location. So it's the beauty of this show is, you know, you're getting a little bit of a history lesson of the time and it but it's still a fictional comedy. It's hilarious. I love it. It's very you know, some of it is kind of on the surface kind of comedy and you pick it up really quick. But some of it's very deep, too, and it kind of gets into, you know, the place of women at the time in the 1950s and, you know, kind of being you're the housewife. Take care of the kids. Joel wants to be the comic. He's the one that's going to be the comedian. And of course, the tables get turned. But yeah, you're right. I mean, with the dresses, even as the show progresses and, you know, she's short on cash, sometimes it's like, how can you afford this apartment? Where are all these dresses coming from? It's ridiculous. The clothing budget does not suffer. She will always have a great outfit. What I find fascinating was each year it got bigger. You know, you start out and it's kind of like, Oh, this is doing a period show is expensive. And they didn't. They just threw it out there. They went to a summer camp, you know, and that can't be easy to recreate, particularly of that era. Then they go to a USO show, which is huge in an airplane hangar. They go to Paris, for God's sakes. This season, you're going to see them in New York and you're going to see a lot of landmarks in New York, particularly Rockefeller Center, which they use like a drum. They are around that building all the time. So that's that's fascinating to see. And the cast, there are so many people over those four seasons that get a return visit in the fifth. So it's it's kind of like a reunion. And you go, Oh my God, That was from remember when they did that? And she was in that. And then there's also a bit of, Oh, how can I how can I say this without saying this? It reminds you of if you saw my favorite year, if you saw laughter on the 23rd floor, if you saw any of those kind of looks at what Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris did during the early days of television. With your show of shows, there are references to those kinds of things, so you get a real sense of the time. I think you really get to see what the fifties and sixties were like. There's a sort of Johnny Carson character. They mentioned Jack Paar in the course of the the series. What I love are these time jumps where you find out exactly what happened to Mrs. Maisel. What did she fizzle out and become? Nothing. Did she come a big star? Was she like Joan Rivers? You know, that is an easy comparison. But there were other female comics of the time, Tony Fields, if you remember that name. I don't know if it moms Mabley, these were all ones who were working that Phyllis Diller. And they kind of had to be aggressive in their approach to comedy because otherwise they were going to just be bulldozed over. And I think that's what you get out of out of Midge, is that she is not going to take no, but she is going to get knocked down. I can't wait to dive into this. It's exciting. I always love those just the characters. They even if they're playing such a really small role, it feels like they're playing a much larger role than it actually turns out to be. There are little in this one, you know. I don't know if you ever remember those kind of industrial shows that used to be big in New York, where it would be like, Oh, soap or whatever. And they do a huge thing for all of their their corporate people around the country. They'd come in for a day or whatever a weekend, and they do an industrial show, which we are. A lot of Broadway people would get on stage and sing the praises of, you know, Lox or whatever it might have been, or a new car. And they did these elaborate stage shows and fact there's a documentary out about them that is just fascinating because it's a world we don't know. We weren't in that industry. We weren't in that that thing. But people made a lot of money off that writing those shows. And you get a sense of that as well. There's a big convention of sorts that that Midge happens to be involved in. So you get another you know, it's this history lesson that you're getting a lot of stuff, even though it's not a real person. You know, if she were real, I think you'd look at it differently. You would say, Oh, well, you've got to have this moment. You've got to have that, and you really don't know what could happen. And Joel does not get shortchanged either. You know, I thought that maybe he would kind of just disappear as the years go by. And he has a very, very strong presence in the final season. That's great. I always loved his character. I always was afraid that as the ex-husband, estranged husband, he might just kind of slowly walk out of the show. And in the fact that not only has he remained at the forefront and kind of done his own thing, too, he's found his place and kind of escaped the shadow of his very overbearing parents. But the fact that he's still in it and that his parents are still in it just really makes the whole program him. And they do interweave those things, too, you know, that he was building a club. He was trying to get a club off the ground. And you'll see more of that in the next season. And his parents are big players with Mrs. Maysles parents. Interestingly, I don't think you see enough of Tony Shalhoub. I think he has a very secondary presence in in this year's show, and that's surprising because he won an Emmy for it, and I would have thought they would have leaned in a little more, maybe he just wasn't available to do a lot more. That's interesting. I also wonder, too, if it's is it part of character development, too, where they they want to highlight certain characters each season kind of give them because he did seem to have a very prominent role last year. When he was doing The Village Voice and he's a critic. And now he's getting the reaction to what life is like as a critic, which is I think, just fascinating. That's your favorite part, isn't it? Yeah, that's the cool part. Yeah. I lean into the critic aspect. I don't do I care about the comic? I don't know if I do, but I do care about the critic. You know, you talk a little bit about the characters and the reality and whatnot. One of my favorite things from the series and this is because, you know, and we've talked about this my my fan of of I'm such a huge fan of music. I have a very large record collection and just I feel like I have a pretty solid knowledge and I'm watching I think it was season it was season three when Midge was out on tour, was Shy Baldwin. Right. So she was doing comedy to open up for his big band performance. So he was performing. He had that ensemble band behind him. There was the one character who kind of became her friend of sorts. Carol Keane, who is a fictional musician. However, she was based on a real person. She played. Carol Kaye, if you at all familiar with her, is a legendary bassist, and she's part of what's known as The Wrecking Crew. The Wrecking Crew in the 1960s was this group of musicians that would come in and they were studio musicians. So you would have performers who weren't necessarily the best bands. They would go out live. But when it came to actually recording the albums, the producers were like, Let's you guys are in quite good enough. And it was even the Beach Boys, like the Beach Boys, didn't perform their own instruments in the studio. In a lot of cases. It was a lot of times it was The Wrecking Crew. So Carol Kaye, the real person was the basis to put down the bass line. That famous bass line in In These Boots by Nancy Sinatra. The bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. So that was Carol Kaye and the fictional character in Mrs. May's All, who is also the bassist in the band and a befriended Midge and that season. So that was for me, another piece that I just really love about this. That's where rewards you for being astute in other areas, correct? If you if you know things like if you you know, if you don't if you don't know these things, that's that's totally fine. You're just going to be entertained for for an hour or however long the episode is. But if you if you're familiar with pop culture in any way, you don't need to just know the real people like Lenny Bruce. But it's knowing little things like The Gaslight Cafe. Carol Kaye, These types of people, you know, they are based on actual folks, even if it's just very loosely. Yeah, it's fun to see who they might be. You know, Sophie Lennon, Who is she referring to? Who is she trying to be that you would know as a fellow comedian? You know, is she somebody that or is she just whole cloth, a fresh character? And that's I think that's kind of picking the brain of Amy Sherman Palladino, the creator of this show. If you know her from Gilmore Girls, you know that she loves dance scripts, she loves the idea that there's there are more words there than really you need to do a half hour or 45 minutes of a show, but she packs it and I would assume it would be very difficult to to learn all those lines, particularly when she wants that kind of rapid fire way of talking. And that's how she is. She's just like that. She usually wears a hat, too. She loves wearing hats. She's short. She's not unlike Susie. I would assume that a lot of Susie's personality comes from Amy, and her husband. Daniel is also a producer on the show, and he writes as well. So they're they're kind of in sync with what this mindset is all about. And I'm sure she had a grand plan as to where she was going to take this whole thing. Now, you can easily see that they might have gone seven or eight years with this, but I think the idea of cutting it off now opens up other opportunities like a movie. And I think for them, let's let's try and make the fifth season as packed as we can and then we can go on and do those other things and not have to worry about time limitations or we've got to meet a deadline to get this on the air by a certain time because it's it's expensive. It is hugely expensive. Bruce, I don't think you know this, but you have just set up the perfect segue way into, oh, wow, some audio here. So we already heard from Rachel. Now we're going to hear from Tony Shalhoub, who plays Midge's father. He talks about how they didn't know how long this series was going to go, but felt that both Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino were able to wrap up the story perfectly the way it was supposed to be. So let's let's cut ahead to that clip. From what I understand, even though we didn't know how many seasons it may go or may not go, Amy and Dan always had, they always had the final scene in their heads. They always they didn't know exactly how we were going to get there, but they knew where we were going to land and then I think we all by osmosis, we all felt that cool. All right, so that was Tony Shalhoub. Bruce, does that sound accurate, like what he's talking about? Does it feel like the series wraps up perfectly? I think it does for me it did anyway. And I thought, like I say, the last episode is one you can't miss because it's and I, I cheated, all right? Because I was afraid I was doing an interview and I thought I better see the end just in case this character is dead. I don't want to end up asking, Well, like, you know, what about those later years are, well, I'm dead, so I won't be in those later years. But that wasn't the case. There wasn't anything. But I did watch the last episode before I finished off the other ones before it, and the last episode is a great example of standalone television. You could take that episode out, not see any of the rest of the series, and you would still get a really good sense of a story. It's like a little mini movie in itself, and it's interesting how they all are able to get friends in. There is a roast at one point that has a lot of comedians that you know, are friends of a lot of the actors that are in the shows. And there are ties. I think Rachel's husband is a character in the show. There are people that are all people who've been on Gilmore Girls, people who've been on Bunheads, people who have been, if you will, loyal over the years. And they repay that loyalty by giving them a shot in this last season. I mean, it's remarkable. If I sat and made a list of all the people that I saw, I, you know, a character that they introduced last season played by Gideon Glick, he's this magician and kind of an offbeat magician. And you go, What is this? I love that character. And he returns this season and he has a lot of really goofy things. He's afraid of flying. So that's a fear factor. And there there is a picture that you'll see out there somewhere that is JFK, the the airport. So you'll be able to see what that looks like inside. And it's just fascinating to see these characters. The last time I saw it was Catch Me if you can, and just to look at that and now there's a hotel there that you can stay at there. It's very commercial where you could go and actually do tourism things there. But it is featured in this season. Again, huge, huge landmarks that they're using in New York. I think it's fascinating to to realize that somebody didn't say no. Nobody was saying them, No, you can't do that. We can't afford to do that. It's like I'm sure she dreamed it. And very much like Susie, where she's not going to let somebody else tell her no, she's just going to keep going ahead and doing it. And I think that's in a nutshell. Amy. Amy Palladino I can't remember the timing of this. Was the JFK airport at the time, or was it still Idlewild? Yeah, it was, Yeah, it was, but as I know it is. I know I always wondered because it transitioned. It was not named. No, it was not named JFK because, you know, and interestingly, I don't remember that they've even mentioned that Kennedy has died at that point. But you'll see the eighties, you'll see the nineties, you'll see the seventies, you'll see various different time frames over the course of the of the of the episodes. Wow. So another character that was mentioned and we talked briefly about her was that of Alex Borstein. She plays Susie Myerson. You know, you had mentioned the connection with her to Amy Sherman-Palladino and whether it's the connection there. But we have a we have a clip of her also. Now, if you're familiar with her, she's also the voice of Lois on Family Guy. She's a comedian. She's been around for a really long time. But I think this is kind of like probably her biggest breakthrough screen role that I can think of on screen role. So we have a short clip of her talking about her relationship with Midge. So let's go to that. For a bit. Like Mutton, Jeff, It makes no sense. And yet there's just this chemistry. There's something that draws these women together and they've got each other's backs and it's not about finding a mate. It's about achieving something in their lives that they want. It's about filling a hole within and they complete each other. All right, Bruce So that was Alex Borstein talking about the relationship that Susie and Midge have. Is that connection? Because that was always one of my favorite things was the interactions between Midge and Susie and kind of the weird polar opposites that they are, but they have this great presence on screen together. Do we get more of that in this first season? We do. And you also get fighting. And that's as much as I can say about that. You know how they it's like on a soap opera where they love to put people together and then they like to tear them apart. And I think this falls into that. You know, there's there's a reason for them to be at each other's throats and maybe they both don't pay attention enough to what the needs are of the other person. But you see how how Susie is just giving her life for this person that maybe she might be a little too protected. You know, Mitch can Mitch has the ability to go and do this because she has her parents to fall back on if she really needs them. Her husband, her ex-husband is still there in the picture for her. She doesn't have that kind of if I don't do this, I don't know what will happen to my life. There is a safety net for her, and we've seen that over the years where she's taken jobs at other places and done other things and she gets a new job this year. And that's a safety net of sorts, too. But there's always this comedy where Susie has nothing. Susie is like she's all in and she will do whatever she needs to do to further the career of her client. Hopefully there will be more clients, but you know, you look at it and you say, Oh my God, she's just doing all this for one person. Is that friendship? Is that is that, you know, just survival? Is it? She's enamored with her. What is the what is the deal for her and why is she doing this? And you get answers to all of that stuff. It's just it's really fascinating. I remember when they went to the to the Catskills and they were staying there and I think she had a hammer or something. And she was like trying to do things with the hammer. And you go, Oh my God, this is unreal. And she's always treated like dirt by everybody. Everybody sees her as like their batboy for anything that goes wrong. Susie, we're going to go to you. Yeah, She said that season at the Catskills was just incredible. I mean, they basically took it was pretty much the entire season was more or less on location up there. And you still had to work her in somehow. And she obviously she doesn't dress like somebody that belongs there. So she just walked around with that hammer and like, I think a plunger, too, just looking like a maintenance worker and nobody would question it because that's what she did. But that relationship, you know, even though we're we're avoiding spoilers for season five, we had that adversarial give and take relationship between them throughout all the seasons. Because you're right, she didn't have anybody. Susie doesn't have anybody to fall back on, so she has to make a living, which meant at times taking on other clients. You know, she didn't want to be Sophie Lemon's manager, but she needed the money and then kind of had to deal with that abuse as well as the abuse of of Midge, who couldn't believe that she would support Sophie Lennon, who is her her nemesis. Right. Yeah. So, you know, that that to me has been just a great, you know, relationship. But it always comes back to when they meet in the diner, which is such an iconic New York thing. Like, I just love I miss diners so much. Bruce Living in Wisconsin, there's no diners out here. People who think there's diners out here, there is no diners out here that is. Have a drive thru with it, too, right? But it's such a it's just such a new York, New Jersey, East Coast cultural thing where you go to a diner and you get that triple decker club sandwich or the pastrami or whatever it is and a pile of food. You come all the other way, it's on you. Who knows everybody's order. Yeah. You know, you get that big pickle spear which probably sits on every plate, and they just move it from plate to plate so I don't touch it. The end. They do. Go back to the diner. You'll be seeing that and you'll be seeing various and sundry combinations of people talking. So it's a it's a key place. And like I say, these sets that they build the apartments, the business places they go to, it's unbelievable. I don't know how I would love to see what the budget was for this because it had to be huge because it looks good. And I there's a thing and there's this coming season where they mention something as a giveaway, okay? And I thought, oh no, that it's it's wrong. It's not the same time. And I had to look it up to make sure that that was within that time span. It was exactly in that time span. You know how you would say I like a yo I don't want to see what it is because again, this is one of those things. But if it was a yo yo and you say, well, yo, yo, what year was a Rubik's cube? That would be one a Rubik's Cube. Why are they giving away Rubik's cubes? They weren't available in 62 or 61 were they. I don't I think they didn't come until the seventies, but that's not yet. But there is another thing like that. And damn, if they didn't nail it. And I looked it up and it was exactly right, it it fit with the time frame. You'll see stuff like that that it just you want to play gotcha with them and they, they already know they're much better than we are at vetting these kinds of things. Yeah, they, they're really good. It's just nailing history. It is a history. Even though it is fiction, it is a history lesson throughout pop culture, history lesson. Were there characters that you really like that maybe aren't around or have, you know, dropped in for an episode or two? Well, you know, the Carol K one was one that I really liked. The magician that was in there in season four when Midge was working at that theater. And, you know, it's kind of the adult content. It's not quite a strip club, but it's that kind of like a doll that the manager of that club was. It's just a lot of those little characters like that. I really love the characters that I really felt a personal connection to, and we'll kind of kind of move this forward too, with some some clips that we have coming up. So we have Michael Zegen, who plays Joel Maze, all his parents. Kevin Pollack plays Moisi Maisel, his father, and then Caroline Aaron plays Shirley Mays or his mother. So I had mentioned earlier that that my mom was Catholic, my dad is Jewish. His parents, um, his mother died. My, my paternal grandmother died. I was probably about 15 years old when she passed away. She wasn't a very devout Jewish person. My grandfather was he was it could be. Yes, it was. That was probably about it. My grandfather was always a little bit more religious. And then after my grandmother died, he got remarried a year or two later is very quick. And the woman that he married, her name was Mildred. We all called her Millie and they became very devout again. He would go to temple. They kept kosher, but but Millie had a very unique personality. So when the show started and I started watching it, and when Joel's parents were finally introduced and Shirley Hazel comes on screen, I turned to my wife immediately and I'm like, Oh my goodness, that is Millie. That's Bella. Is Millie. Looks like Millie. Sounds like Millie. Acts like Millie. This is not like you can think that that there's there's acting here and we're over the top and there's no way people could be like this in real life. Surely Basil is Millie or Millie was Shirley. Mabel, whichever reality. So it to me there was just that personal connection that that strong, very strong personality with her. And in the father, I would I don't think my grandfather was any way like my she they had certain crossovers but you know Shirley and Millie were two peas in a pod. Shirley is a big fan of pop culture, and she knows all the names that Midge might throw out there. She has like she could give you an encyclopedia about the person, and she's so excited about everything. And of course, when Midge invites them to come to various and sundry things, oh, she's right there. She's ready to come. Whereas her own mother is like, well, this interrupt with what I'm doing. I don't know if I want to come and see you perform in front row is always Shirley. Shirley is there. She's all, This is wonderful. You're doing a great job. I love you, you're great. And you'll see they do a lot with them during this next year, so you'll enjoy that. I'm looking forward to that because that interaction with them and in some ways to my my maternal grandparents who were Catholic, they never interacted that often with each other. But there is always a very strange relationship between like my mom and her parents and my dad and his parents when they would interact. It was very I don't know if his adversarial is quite the way, but culturally very different. And I kind of get that with this show, like like Midge and her parents were very much one way, and Joel and his parents are very much another. And there is that that onscreen dynamic that I just love. And it kind of clicks with me a bit. Yeah, and they're together a lot. The four of them do a lot of things together. You'll be you'll be thrilled. You know, speaking of Moisi, Mazal, we do have one more clip of Kevin Pollak, and he's talking a little bit about the future of Mrs. Maisel. So let's go to that. Yeah, we're not going to ever say goodbye. And I predict now for you, in 4.3 years we'll be here talking about the amazing movie. There I said it. Kevin Pollak leaves a little bit of that door open. Could we see Mrs. May's old movie? I think it's the door has been cracked. Look, the way they need content these days and you know that it'd be an Amazon film in a minute. And, you know, so they put it in theaters. They could get a lot of attention for it. And then you just put it on streaming again. I think we've seen the model for all of this. And like I said, it would help pay the bills for all that expensive stuff that they're using because it looks like a Cinemascope film. It's shot. Well, it has great I mean, the scoring, they created original songs for this. Now, really for a half hour you're going to do that. And the sets, the costumes, the whole and, you know, the first season they won a lot of Emmys for those kind of below the line things. And I think this year they're going to be well rewarded for what they've done because it is so vast and so unbelievable. But, you know, it did not go unnoticed by the actors. I think they believe that they landed into a great situation. And I don't think it was by chance either that they were selected. I think these people, they knew who were the hard workers, they knew who the ones that would deliver for them. And it it it seems like it's a brutal show to do because it isn't just getting up and saying a line against somebody. You know, what's interesting is you'll see a little a clip of a TV show that stars Hank Azaria and Sutton Foster within the show. It looks it has a bit of Dick Van Dike to the quality of it. And Sutton Foster kind of seems like a mary Tyler Moore. And you think the idea that they would write this script for a show within a show that really isn't seen that much, you get a couple of lines out of it. And, you know, they did you know, they probably wrote the whole script or this sitcom that they were trying to reference in some way. And it's done in black and white. And you get all of that that kind of little homage. But clearly they are fans of the medium. They are ones who want to make sure that it comes across and you do get that sense of what the time was like. You know, it was not easy being a female comedian in New York, Hollywood, wherever. And I don't I think now it just seems too easy because we see comedians all over the place, you know, doing a one hour special on Netflix. But the idea that somebody would have had that or got that an unreal, unreal. And if I was able to interview Joan Rivers Times and she net, you know, as much as she was kind of oh what's the term I want to use not boisterous but she was you know, she seemed like a very like she would just tell it like it is and not worry about the consequences. That was not Joan. It was a character that she was portraying. She was the most loving, wonderful person who would would take you under her arms and just treat you like a friend. And that's the I think that's the same kind of disconnect you get here with Mrs. Maisel. She is two different people, but I can see easily that she is the the Joan Rivers is the template for Mrs. Maisel, even though their lives are much different. They don't they don't wind up the same way. They don't have the same dynamics. There aren't the same, you know, cards being played. But there is that kind of idea that I'm alone. I really am alone in this venture and I've got to do what I want to. Another series that it kind of seems similar to is Hacks, because you see Jean Smart showing what a comedian's like after the big days are over and how does she keep that going? And there's a glimpse of that with this fascinating because I think I think Joan Rivers is the mothership for all these kinds of things because of what she did do and the idea that look at Joan went to QVC and sold crap just to make money, you know, and what she had to do, she alienated Johnny Carson at one point and then she had her own show. But the one thing that she valued most was The Tonight Show. And there was no way they were going to let her back on with that because she had, you know, went as she had. She'd gone against the master and she wasn't sorry enough for Johnny to make this really work. And I think that was a big failing in Joan's life, is that she felt that somehow that relationship was not really repaired and she never got The Tonight Show. She didn't get things she wanted, but in the end, she did get a lot. And she is viewed as somebody they all look up to. You know, they say, well, I wouldn't be here if it weren't for Joan Rivers. And I think that's the path that you're looking at with Mrs. Maisel as well. So with Mrs. May's all leaving Prime Well, not really leaving. It's going to be there, but but this is a big tentpole production for them. What's left for Prime. They do have a lot of shows, but I also don't find myself going to Prime very often for original programing. It feels like a weird, weird platform to me compared some of the others in some ways, maybe a little bit like Apple Tv+, which has several big productions. But when there's nothing there, you know, when you run out of something like Ted Lasso, it feels like there's a long gap until something else comes. What what's your thinking on on Prime right now? I think, though, they're doing movies and a lot of those movies will draw the attention. And so I think that's where they'll get whatever. And they also have a lot of limited series that are ten and down or eight and done. And I think that for them is a better model then a series that who knows if you know the the the suits the executives who are in power may not like that series. And there it's just like network TV. As soon as one regime is out, there's do we have support? You know, unless you're the number one show on television they'll be looking to dump. Yeah. So we've been sprinkling clips throughout this episode, which has been fun because we don't always have audio from so many different people. But we do have one more and it's a little bit more than just a 1015 second clip. We have an interview. Do you want to talk a little bit about that? Yeah, I got to talk to it to Michael Zegen, who plays Mr. Maisel. And it's fascinating because I was always under the impression that his job could be gone at any minute. I really thought that Joel is not necessary to this show. He was important in the first year, but would you stick around? And so we got to talk about that and what this last season was like and what, you know, what what comes next. He is working on the Penguin, which is the new I think his HBO Max series with Colin Farrell, and he's a mobster in that. And so that's an excellent he'll be doing it Fascinating. And he feels very blessed, very blessed that he was a part of this because he knows it's magic in a bottle and you don't get that many times. Michael, how is it to say goodbye to this? I would think that would be very, very difficult. It is You're you're correct in you're you're sentiments. Yeah it's it's it's definitely difficult but it's some I don't know it doesn't feel like it's ended just yet especially you know we we still have all this and we're going to France together and I you know we still have this group text chain. So it's I don't think it'll ever quite feel over over. But I, I, you know, I know the reality of it. And we're not going to be filming anymore, which is devastating. Well, the last season is so stuffed with information. I mean, there's a lot there to unpack. What was it like when you were doing it? Did you say, Oh, my God, I can't believe this happened? And that happened. And, you know, there's a lot. There is, but there's always a lot. I feel like, yeah. And, you know, there's a lot of dialog. I actually think this year the scripts, they're always long, you know and I guess in our show is is supposed to be like, you know, 55 to 60 pages, our scripts are like 90 pages to 100 pages. So they're always long. I do feel like this this season, though, they were longer than most. And the locations, I mean, you're everywhere, you're doing the years, the whole all of it. That's why I thought it seemed like an awful lot. But maybe it's let's get it done and then move on to something else. Well, the show is big. It's been big from the beginning. You know, we went to Paris in the in the second season and the Catskills and Miami. So it's it's it's always been very big. And yeah, I mean, there's a lot of stuff, but somehow it just it still flows just as nicely as ever. And it's, you know, it's still. Mazal. When it started, did you feel, oh, they're going to get rid of my character at some point. I, I was just saying this in a in a previous interview. Yeah. In the first episode when I read it, I thought that was it for Joel and I thought it was going to be a guest star. I didn't even I, I looked at the you know, I was auditioning for it. They send you the cast breakdown and it said that he was a series regular. So I was like, Oh, even better. I had no idea. I really honestly thought this is it for him. And later. But but, you know, luckily that wasn't the case. And they were able to to create this this whole journey for and this evolution for this character. And there have been so many subplots of his that he just kind of owns. That must be a real cool feeling to have them kind of right for you, if you will. Yeah, we all get our subplots. But yeah, I mean, I think Joel's is is probably, I guess the most separate from from everybody else is they all kind of I mean, look, he's still in Midge's orbit, obviously, but but I think, you know, he's probably the he's like Pluto as opposed to, you know. Tony's not Venus. Right. What were you miss about this show? Because you had such a huge cast and of really great people? Well, that's what I mean. That's in that's it in a nutshell is the cast I, I, I, I'll miss everyone terribly isn't. And really, it's not just the cast, it's the crew. It's it's you know, our writers, Amy and Dan, obviously, I I'll miss everything about this show. Literally everything. This has been the greatest experience of my life so far, you know, work wise. I don't I was just talking to Tony and Kevin Pollak and they were saying, you know, by the way, no way, you're going to top this. So, like, they felt bad for me because they they were saying they're like, you have like years and years left. We only have like three and, you know, and I'm on it. It's over for me, basically. But I mean, I don't believe that, but I do I do believe that it's going to be very hard to top something like this. Do you think it's because of the writing that made it such an iconic show or was it something else? Is it spending a lot of money and doing a lot of things, making it bigger than normal? I think that the money is certainly helps. You know, luckily we had Amazon behind us and anything really Amy and Dan wanted they got because I think, you know, Amazon loved the show just as much as we did. But what was the first part of the question? Well, did did you think that it was going to be this this big, this kind of whatever, or was it the writing that really kind of sold all of this thing? It's really everything. It's the writing. It's like I said before, the crew, I mean, we had, you know, people at the top of their game in every, you know, whether it's lighting or set design or acting. I mean, it was just the whole the whole project was just lightning in a bottle. And and I think that's that's really just what made it so special. But yeah, did I have any idea I, I didn't know that it was going to be this big. I knew people were going to like it. I liked it. So, you know, I, I think I've got pretty good taste. And, you know, my if you look at my resume like I've done really good shows before and I've done shows that people watch. But but this was this took it to a new level. And, you know, right out of the gate, we we got nominated for all these awards and we won and we won the Golden Globe, you know, And that that was like, okay, yeah, we were right. Like, this is something special. And and now, you know, then we had to top that. And you got the Emmy. So there you go. Yes, We did. Talk about, though, Amy, as a as a force. I have my views of what she'd be like. I always see her in a hat and I always think she's like, she's marshaling troops. But is it like that or what is she like on on set? She's honestly just the best. You know, you talked about the writing. It doesn't get better than that. And and honestly, like, I'm a little sore about the fact that for, you know, the past couple of years at the Emmys, she's not even nominated for writing. I mean, this is the best written show on TV, you know. Yes. There's succession. There's all these other shows. But like in terms of comedy, it doesn't get better than this. And, you know, it's so rare for me to read something, especially when I'm home alone and I laugh out loud. That doesn't happen. And that's been happening on this show from day one. The minute I read the pilot, I was I was laughing. And and so, yeah, she's she's just, you know, there's there's a level of trust involved with her that that is unparalleled that I haven't I haven't experienced with anybody else. She shows up to set. I mean she's a former dancer, you know, and she thinks like a dancer. So, so even even our background actors, a lot of them are dancers. I don't know if you know that, but it's true. A lot of them are dancers and it's it's always a dance when we're rehearsing a scene because we don't have rehearsals, like prior to showing up to set and doing the scene. We, we, we get there on the day like, you know, 530 in the morning, whatever it is, and then we start blocking it out. And sometimes they're huge scenes. But I mean, you know, she's she's obviously in charge and there's this level of trust that I'll just do anything she wants because, you know, she knows what she wants. And to have a director who knows what they want is sometimes I mean, honestly, in my experience, it's rare. So what is it like watching Rachel do stand up? I mean, Rachel can do anything. You know, she's she always talks about how nervous she is. Like, I don't buy it. Like she's she's a she can do anything. She she's that type of actor where again, it's that level of trust. Like, I mean, any time I got to work with her was a joy and all of our I think you know all of our scenes that we got to do together were always my favorite. And yeah, I mean, you know, she talks about how nervous she is, how the audiences keep growing and growing for her character. And honestly, like, that stuff doesn't faze her. She was born to perform. And, you know, I don't I don't know if she would be a standup comedian, but but I'm sure she can handle that as well if she wanted to. Hey, and you can, too. So that might be even the next step. So. Hey, thank you so much, Michael. I appreciate it. And I thank you for all those years of really great television. Oh, thanks so much. I appreciate it. Thanks, Bruce, for that interview with Michael Zegen. What do we have on tap? Well, I'll tell you, I do. And tell me if you don't agree when you start watching this, this series by, because I think it's going to be in for a lot of Emmys, you know how they come and go. And they kind of had a down year. Never. They weren't getting nominated. And the things I think this year they're coming back with a vengeance. And I don't know how you could deny Rachel Brosnahan, the Emmy for best actress. Really? There are there is a moment there that you will go, Oh, my God, I'm glad I watch this series because it builds to this moment and it's unbelievable. And you'll, as you heard from Michael, you know, watching her was just unbelievable. But next week, we're going to talk about dead ringers. Here's another opportunity. And you wondered, where is Amazon going? Well, this is another series they've got, but it's a limited series. It's based off a movie. If you remember the movie by David Cronenberg, starring Jeremy Irons, he played brothers, twin brothers who were odd, to say the least, and they were involved in obstetrics and making all kinds of weird tools and instruments and whatnot. And they had freaky obsessions. They I mean, watch the movie. You'll see what I mean. It was one of those movies. Take me out for the longest time. Well, they've redone the movie and it's now a limited series, and it features two women as twins. Beverly and Elliot Mantle are now played by Rachel Weisz and Rachel really digs into it. She's and she has lots of fun. And you'll see a different Beverly and a different Elliot. And then it's at one point they play each other to try and dupe their friends. So it's a fascinating look at characters, but I do think they made a horrible land. I just kind of have that feeling knowing how the movie went. But that's next. We were talking to people who were involved in Dead Ringers, and that'll be coming as a limited series later this month. All right, Bruce, thanks again, as always. And tune in again next week for another episode of Streaming & Screened.

In this episode of Streamed and Screened, we dive deep into the latest entertainment offerings, from new movies and TV series. A trio of musicals are dropping, including "Schmigadoon!" on Apple TV+, "Up Here" on Hulua and "Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies" on Paramount+. New movies like "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" and "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" are in theaters and no gaming knowledge is required. We also chat about the return of HBO's hit show "Succession," which is back for its forth and final season, discuss the early success of "The Night Agent" on Netflix and talk with actor Jesse Metcalfe about his role in the film "On a Wing and a Prayer," which will get a limited theatrical release and is streaming now on Amazon's Prime Video platform, just in time for Easter. Where to Watch "Succession" on HBO "The Night Agent" on Netflix "On a Wing and a Prayer" on Amazon Prime Video "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" in theaters "Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies" on Paramount+ "Schmigadoon!" on Apple TV+ "Up Here" on Hulu "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" in theaters About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Podium.page and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: Transcript generated by Podium.page Help us spread the word by tweeting about us at @PodiumDotPage and including us in your shownotes! https://podium.page 0:00:03 Welcome everyone to another episode of streamed and screened and entertainment podcast about movies and TV from Lee Enterprises. Rises. I'm Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer at Lee and cohost of the program with Bruce Miller, editor of the Sioux City Journal and a longtime entertainment reporter. Bruce, Spring is here. Weather is getting better, but it it seems like we might be heading back to the movie soon. A lot of good stuff coming out. You know, we're in that period now. Where you're gonna see new stuff that maybe won't be Oscar bait, and it isn't quite holiday fair, you know, like, or it's lie is big time, Memorial Day is a big time, Labor Day is a big time. They all have tentpole, which are kind of considered the big money grabbers. Features, but there will all be also be a lot of these ones that, you know, there's a place for them and they'll make money. So we're starting to get into that era. And we're also seeing, like because of the holiday period, there will be a lock out there so that everybody has something. You will find something for grandma, something for mom, something for dad, something for the kids, and if you hold a bunch to the theater, you'd say, well, that's just all those separate ways and see what we wanna see. So there are enough enough movies out there to keep us kind of interested, but there are also TV series that are are popping now too. And I don't know why this kind of Third season is rising up, but there are a lot of things that are happening. In fact, it's odd. There are three new musical series. That are popping right now. What what is that a second season? But Schmigadoon!, did you see Schmigadoon! last year? I did not know. 0:01:42 This spoof of Broadway musicals. So last year, they did forties and fifties. This year, they're doing sixties and seventies. And it was supposed to be called Shnicago but they realized that they couldn't change the name without, you know, kind of confusing people. So it's called Schmigadoon!, but it's said in Chicago. Okay. 0:02:02 It spoofs musicals for, like, a pippin, a hair, Jesus Christ superstar, and it's about this couple that kind of wander into this goofy town where they all will act like characters from these shows. He and Michael Key and essentially strong are the are the two who enter into the world. And then it's just a herd of Broadway people. Then the people who are behind the cameras on Broadway or behind the scenes rather have made a thing called up here. And Up Here is kind of a What would it be like if musical set in New York City? And it's big names, the people who did Frozen hamilton, you name it, they are doing something, and it was their big pandemic project. And so they did this whole thing, wrote this whole thing, got it all together, and now it's finally premiering. 0:02:56 And then finally, the the last of the three big musical shows coming out is Grease Rise of the Pink Ladies. And that's a prequel to the grease that you see as a movie. So it set four years earlier and how did those pink ladies kind of come to be a a gang, if you will, and what do they represent? It's a way for them to kind of correct some of the myopic views of the movie. So you're going to see a much more diverse cast. You're not going to hear the songs from Greece except the title song. And then you'll see other characters. And there is hope that at some point you will see Sandy and Danny come into the thing in, like, your three or your four if it lasts that long. 0:03:41 So it'd be, like, freshman kinda coming into Right. So you say who is that one? Yeah. I don't think he would hire John Travolta to come in and play himself as a high school freshman. But, you know, strange or things have happened. Could they bring in John Travolta to play like a teacher, kind of. But it would also be bringing him back kind of because he started on Welcome Back, Kotter. And he could almost turn the tables on him career wise. 0:04:10 I like the way you think. Doesn't matter how that goes. Yeah. And they can get them to do a cameo or a thing. Huge. But I think it's got a built in audience as it is because kids love to sing those songs and it's filled with a lot of original content. A lot of original songs that were written just for this. So those are just three musicals that we've got coming on streaming and television networks. 0:04:36 And then you get all of the the kind of the creepy ones that are out there. There's a bunch of creepy shows HAR does really well. And for some odd reason, at last night, I watched a preview of a horror film that's how do I explain it? It's a gay bachelor party where they go to an old mansion and they are gonna have a say odds to call on a mother who killed her son in the house. The concept. I mean, how do they come up with this stuff? It was another pandemic project, but you're gonna see a lot of horror films around this time as well. So those are the big things itself. And then the big ones that we've got, duchess and dragons, honor among thieves, that's already in theaters. And it'll do really well because it's very adventurous. It's like an Indiana Jones film. So I never play dungeons and dragons. Did you ever Nor will I. 0:05:33 I think it has too many pieces, too many characters, too many things to learn. And this is very good at kind if it's like the the game at all, it pulls you through it, and it makes you understand what they're doing and where they're going. And it's kind of a dumb down version, I would assume. But it does allow you to kind of laugh with them and add them. And then there's a Hugh Grant. Remember how we talked about Hugh Grant at the Oscars and how he was kinda snarky with one of the interviewers? Well, that's That's the character. He was he was probably just coming off the set or whatever because he's very kind of Pattington too in his approach to this, but he's the villain, and he's trying to steal this daughter away from Chris Pine And they've got to try and rescue her. That's all it is. It's just to rescue, search and destroy. So it's some so it almost sounds like even though I'm not a Dungeons and Dragons person and you aren't It's entertaining. It's something that you don't have to be into it. Yeah. And Mario brothers is another game that they are are throwing out there this time. 0:06:41 And I think it's finding how you can make something that really has no plot have a plot. That's the the goal of all these things. Yeah. I could give you, you know, sorry or scrabble or something as a series or a movie. But what's the plot? You know? And at least with these are adventures of some sort where they're getting to somewhere, they're always on levels. We're always going to another level. With this. And I think that's what you'll find with these. They're realizing they've got to have a plot. 0:07:12 Imagine if they did monopoly the the TV show. It would be twenty hours long, and you would just be frustrated and hate yourself at the end of it. At some point, somebody tips the the gameboard. That's how it always I've never finished a game of monopoly ever because somebody gets mad at the person who buys up all of the properties and puts hotels on them and you have no money and so you're just bankrupt. And then they leave and they're mad. They're sitting in another room. And then you've got two people as well. Do we really wanna continue this if it's not we're not having everybody else? And then you just throw the table away. I've never finished it. I've never figured out who is the winner of a monopoly. It's such a frustrating game. 0:07:50 I'll I'll play it. My kids love to play it and then I'll get rope and Sure. Sure. That sounds like a grand idea. And I'll be the banker fourteen hours later. I'm just like, why are we doing this? This is the worst decision of by weekend. Right. You need something like Yatze, where it's done after a few roles, and then you're even gonna move by any more. That'll be a good Yatze, the movie. Yatze, the movie. 0:08:13 So I've been watching some shows too. Were you a fan or a fan at all of succession on HBO that is back? I well, you know, this is the last year. Right? I was not a hardcore succession person because it reminded me too much of reality. It is. It's like what's going on in the media world beyond us, way beyond us. But you see these it's very fox news ish, I think. It's like the the family that's running all of that. And that's all it is. It's you know, Logan Roy, who's played by Brian Cox, is the head of Waystar RoyCo. 0:08:50 And this fourth season just kinda picks up a few months after the end of the third season. So if if you watch the end of the third season, there was a lot of drama his the three younger kids who were looking to kinda up him up end him, the plot was turned, the tables were turned because Shiv's husband, Tom, kind of played the other side, Logan Roy. So it kind of picks up at that point. You know, the three kids are trying to make a deal for a company. The question is, is will they kind of hold him hostage he looks on load, but he's also gonna hold on to his Fox News channel, ATN. He's gonna hold on to that, and he's looking to make a move And then Connor, who's the older son, who's played by Allan Rock, who was Cameron Fry and Ferris Bueller's day off. He's looking to get married, but he's also running for president, and he's polling at, like, one percent. So that's not going well. 0:09:50 You know, we're back in the thick of things to session. It's one of my favorite shows that they've done in recent years. It's part of the reason it it's is is succession the best show ever to come off of HBO. No, but it feels like it's just another in a long line of very good programs. Do you see where I will end? I mean, can you see kind of hints that this is the end. Yeah. I mean, my assumption is that we'll get a resolution on the company in somebody's gotta come out on top. You know, whether he sells and the kids take over or or what. 0:10:25 But who knows? It could be just you know, like, reality is reality, and sometimes it's just, you know, something will happen at the end, and we're gonna be, like, what happened to Tony Saprano? We'll just cut to black really hard. And and like you know something will happen after it, you're just not gonna do a season five. It it could be, you know, if you may remember Rupert Murdoch just stopped a paper in London. It had so many lawsuits and everything and they just said, we're done. And maybe the ones that they do is they just you know, or somebody gets sent to prison. And then, you know, it's left open. So if they wanted to do a movie, they could do a movie, then you figure out who actually is the one that's running the place. 0:11:02 So who knows? Well, I'm glad it's good. It's it's one of those ones that I started watching and I was just too nervous by it because it reminded me too much of everything. And so I just let it go and I'm okay with that. I don't need it, but I know that those who love it are clearly devoted, hopelessly devoted. I am hopelessly devoted. I love it. And I I will I'm gonna be sad when it's off the air because it's just it's one of those programs that It had it even had large gaps in between c's and not just because of the pandemic, but because of the locations they were filming at. 0:11:35 So it always felt like season one ended, when is season two coming? Season two ended, when is season three coming? Because it wasn't on that traditional twelve months later, it's coming back. It's coming back at weird intervals. So it just feels good that it's back, and then I'll I'll be sad to see it go It's just great drama. And, you know, it it is the reality, you know, that that, I guess, you don't like. You you wanna get away from the reality. But I I kind of find it fun in just this context of of media and what's going on in the world today. And it's watching entitled people get annoyed about things that, like, what who how is this even a problem in somebody's life? I would love to have that when you're having. 0:12:17 Do you like the way they just drop an episode or do you really like when you could binge it? I go back and forth. I mean, I I like the binging concept because it just especially if it's a show that I'm watching with my wife, which is kinda going on right now with Netflix in the night age which I'll I'll mention in a moment. But for a show like this, I I just watched it by myself. She watched season one with me and kinda liked it, and then tapped out in season two. Just really didn't want to keep going with it. So from that perspective as a weekly program, I'm fine with it because we'll watch things together during the week. And then, you know, she goes to bed early and I might stay up a little bit. I'll watch it on my own. So I I don't need to have all ten episodes right there. So I like I like both concepts. 0:13:03 It just depends on the program. Do you feel like I've gotta see it right away when they drop it on Sunday night? Or Oh, yeah. Like, kids go to bed. Daddy go to bed. Everybody go to bed. It's Terry Scott. Watching his show now. Right? Everybody leave me alone to tuning into succession. Speaking of, you know, those bingible programs, Netflix dropped one. Kinda out of the blue. I wasn't really looking for it or paying attention for it, but it's called the night agent. And it's trending on Netflix right now. It seems to be pretty popular. It's got some good write ups on rotten tomatoes from from fans and reviewers. 0:13:44 So it takes place, like the concept of this, is that there is a FBI agent. He's played by Gabriel Basso. And at the very beginning of it, he prevents a bunch of deaths on a subway explosion. He finds a bomb. Right? But what happens is there's some accusations by conspiracy nutjobs and, you know, was he involved with it? So he kinda has to take a year off and and they fast forward a year to where he's working in the basement of the White House, sitting in a room with a telephone that probably will never ring, but one day it rings. And it's to to take a call from a like a devout agent in the secret agent and to kinda help them through a situation. Meanwhile, you have this other character Lucy Ann Buchanan, who's kind of a newcomer to acting, doesn't really have a whole lot of credits where whereas Gabe Gabbasa, he played J. D. Vance and Hillbelly, LG. So he's been out there before But Lucy Anne, a little bit more of a newcomer, she plays a cybersecurity person entrepreneur who loses her company, you know, so she's got this company at the start, fast forward a year, and she's staying with her relatives, her her aunt and uncle. 0:14:57 Who are all of a sudden murdered and she has to make the phone call. They're like, you gotta call this number, get help. And that number goes to Gabriel Baso in the basement. So it's it's a spy thriller. It's pretty intense. You know, it's who's playing? Who? There's the the thought that there's, you know, some some bad actors in the White House. What's gonna happen? It also stars Hung Chow. She plays Diane Far, the White House chief of staff. You would of course know her. She was nominated for best supporting actress in the whale. 0:15:30 So we've got a few names in this program. It's pretty good. I I've we've gotten roped in only a couple episodes in I'm not gonna drop any real spoilers. That's just the basic plot development to get you going through the first ten minutes of of episode one. But, yeah, it's it's a pretty good show and and we're gonna keep coming back to it. Did you ever see the Knight Manager Tom Houston. He played the manager of a very high end hotel, and he was also an agent where he was trying to dupe a lot of people that come into the hotel, basically. He had all this access to stuff fascinating series. They're gonna do another season of it. So if you happen to see that floating around, don't confuse the two, but it's very much that kind of duplicity that you wonder about. What's going on here? This is this is kind of fascinating. I'm I'm intrigued. 0:16:22 Let me rail for a minute about Netflix. Because they have the worst way of letting people know about something that's coming on. I mean, until you hear people talking about it, you have no clue that these things are popping. And they just will drop and they'll get foreign language series that were huge hits in, you know, whatever is Slavia. And they'll just drop it on there. And then you'll hear everybody talking about this. And maybe that's their their method. But I find it's really kind of undercutting because then you think, well, I'm missing out on something. How come I don't know about this? And then sometimes they'll do way too much where you'll see Adam Sandler on every talk show there is talking about the movie he did and it's okay. So I really wish they would be either a little more discriminating about what they push or help us through it a bit. 0:17:18 I don't remember ever getting any messaging because I'll get those emails maybe on a weekly basis saying, you know, based on the shows you've watched, hear something coming to Netflix that you might be interested in. I don't remember ever seeing anything for the night agent. You know, I've seen plenty of other things out there, but that one just we're we're literally out of things to watch because we kind of finished up one show looking for something new and we're just skimming through the Netflix and what's out there and we we kinda got sucked in by a trailer and thought, okay, well, let's let's give it a whirl. The categories that they have and that, you know, when you go to that kind of the directory page, you might like. And then you're thinking, what have I watched that they think I would like this crap? And there's a whole bunch of, like, goofy films that you think, I this is not me. Are you profiling me somehow? I don't know what you're doing. I don't know where you came up that I wanted to see elf part three, but, you know, it's on there. So I that's another thing that just throws me. And then you keep scrolling down because they have different different categories for things. 0:18:24 Shows people are talking about. Shows nobody's talking about. Shows you could talk about comedies that you haven't seen in a long time. You want to watch this. Now maybe you want to watch it again. You know what? It just keeps going. You think, oh, please. Please. Please. Please. So be careful what you watch because it might come back to haunt you. Yeah. There's my rant. Was that my rant for the day? That's your that's your rant for the day. But yeah. And, you know, it's funny how Prime Video, which used to be called Amazon Prime, but it's now called Prime Video, have been putting out an awful lot of product. In fact, I've been inundated with a lot of interviews. You'll see as we go along, but they have air coming out this this weekend, which will be huge in theaters. And that's the story of Nike when they pitched Michael Jordan to be their standard bearer for basketball shoes. And fascinating look at a true story with Ben and Matt. That'll be big. But they've got a lot of these other series too where they're remaking things, re kind of molding things. 0:19:31 And one of the things that I actually saw was a what they they consider a faith based film. Faith based film. Now, I don't know what that means to most people. I always think, oh, it's a religious film. You're trying to show me a religious film. Is that what it is? But it's not necessarily that. It's it just says that people believe in some kind of higher power. And this one is called on a wing and a prayer. 0:19:59 And it's a true story about a a businessman who takes a couple of lessons of flying lessons, but doesn't really, you know, think much of it, and then ends up in a plane with his family and the pilot dies. And he's gotta figure out how do I land this plane. Because I really wasn't paying attention that much when I was, you know, in classes. Because I figured I wouldn't need this. Right? So they get the dead body in the back of the plane, and then he gets behind the in the cockpit and starts trying to figure out how do we land this. And they bring in help from the outside. One of the people they find is somebody who actually flew one of those planes and he's played by Jesse Metcalf. 0:20:47 Jesse Metcalfe, you may remember was the gardener, the hunky gardener that Eva Longoria fell for in desperate housewives. And this is his way of trying to move into a different layer of filmmaking. So for him, it was a good move to let people see him as something other than the hunky garter. And then he was on a long time on hallmark channel. He he's been in every Christmas iteration you could find, and he was also in Chesapeake Shores, which was a series that they had on the Hallmark Channel. So I was able to talk to him and we have us his interview, I believe. 0:21:25 And you'll find out about what actually happened with on a wing and a prayer. I guess faith based, there's there's that element of Is there divine intervention to perhaps intercede? I think they're pitch on this is there are angels among us who help us through these kinds of situations. And the angels could be even the person on the ground that tells you what button to press at the right time. Gotcha. And the film also, it stars Dennis Quade. Correct? Dennis Quade, Heather Graham. So there are some some big names in this. Yeah. 0:21:55 Dennis Quinn plays the the guy who has to pilot the plane. Okay. Heather, the name is his wife. I replaced his wife. And, yeah, and you'll find other you know, they do a little bit before we get into the plane, they do a bit of back story. So you get to see what he's kind of a, I think, a very swaggerish businessman. You know, they're kind of or if you will would say they're kind of full of themselves. So I think it's a humbling experience for him when he gets up in the plane and realizes, hey, I don't know how to do this. He thinks he's a big barbecue guy and He wins barbecue contests and but not they have a huge in the film. They have a huge house that looks impressive, very impressive. And if he's going flying private, come on. He's gonna have a buck or two. Right? Right. End of the film, you get to see the real guy and the real people who helped him out. Okay. 0:22:48 So Dennis Quinn, he's it's interesting because he it feels like he's in these types of feel good movies he's done it before. He was in that movie, the rookie, that Disney movie, where he he was a a baseball pitcher. It it was a true story where, you know, he came back at ages like forty, whatever, and made it to the big leagues despite, you know, our injury. So it feels like he likes to do these feel good movies now. He likes to make money too. So I could be behind it. But I'm I'm tired of seeing him in these kinds of roles, to be honest. I'd like to see him as a good old villain because I think he's really good at playing a villain. And you know, maybe he doesn't have to be the star. Maybe he's like the third build, who always is a villain, by the way. If you ever look at a movie, Which one is the villain? Look who's third in the villain? They're always the one who's the villain. So maybe now with your when you're looking at the night agent -- Mhmm. We can see his third build. That's your problem at all right there. But yeah. And he gonna it's it's a feel good one for the holiday weekend and the holiday week. 0:23:56 It will be in some theaters and it will also be on Prime Video. So you'll see it on your Amazon Prime channel if you have that. If you bought enough crap on Amazon and you have the free shipping, you'll get this show. So you'll be able to see it. But it's it's nothing complex. It's something that you could watch while you're doing something else. And then you go, okay, that's good. I I understand what was going on there. It's a happy movie for this time of the season. So We have an interview with Jesse Metcalfe, so let's go ahead and listen to that. 0:24:34 Have you ever been in an emergency like this in any kind of transportation thing or not? I was on a private plane once where there were some concerns. I wouldn't say it had really gotten to this level. I certainly didn't have to crawl into the cockpit and lay on the plane. But I I understand people's fear of flying. I mean, I started flying at a very early age. My mom would ship me off to my grandparents at, like, six or seven. So I I don't have a fear of flying, like, at all. And actually, you know, after the experience I had, the wonderful experience I had on this home. I'm considering getting my pilot's license. I think it'd be really, really amazing. 0:25:18 Yeah. Look how good you are. You can help somebody. Yeah. What is that like when you're going through things and what is this? I don't know what these words are, what they mean. How do you you know, get a grasp on that so that you can convey it in the right way. That's that's a great point. You know, I had to look basically everything up. There's a lot of aviation jargon specifically for my character. And I definitely had to at least have a cursory understanding of what I was talking about. Certainly walked away from this movie with a greater appreciation for aviation and for pilots. 0:25:53 When you're sitting there and you're like giving them instructions, who are you talking to? Is somebody else reading the lines of things to you? Or I mean, because you're very into you're good at being intense in those situations. I'm like, Who is he talking to? I'm sure they're not there. Thank you. That's a that's a high compliment. I appreciate that. 0:26:11 Generally talking to, you know, either the assistant director or sometimes like you're standing. Really, anyone who's available to read the dialogue off camera and You know, I'll be honest with you. Not a lot of care is is taken when, you know, someone's reading this dialogue off camera. It's usually pretty flat and monotone. You know, you can you can ask them to pump it up a little bit. But it's really, you know, it's our job to bring all that emotion and energy to to our performance, you know. I mean, that's that's what we do as active guy. 0:26:46 I didn't get to meet I didn't get to meet Carrie, unfortunately. Hopefully, I'll get to meet him in the future, but I just basically looked up everything I could find on him, print interviews, what little video there was of him out there, I mean, the picture that was painted of him within our script was more than enough for me to grab hold of as an actor. Sure. You know, this coming at this time in your career, what is that telling you? Is it are you going in another direction? Is there something new that we're seeing with this film? Well, it's funny that you asked that. I mean, that's the plan. I mean, you know, I definitely want want to move away from the matinee Idol and move into more serious roles and, you know, work with you know, more producers and directors that I that I really respect. I mean, such a great team on this project with Roman Downey, Autumn Bailey Ford, Sean McNamara, who I I had previously worked with, and I was really excited to get the opportunity to work with again. I think it was just it was the right team on this one with the right script and I'm really proud of what they produced. 0:27:54 I mean, it's a very watchable movie that really keeps you on the edge of your seat. You know, they talk about this being a faith film or a faith based film. And I don't think that it's you know, I wouldn't use those terms for it. I think the faith is is underlying. Absolutely. But it isn't something that hits you over the head. You know what I mean? We're a lot of those things, they're like, oh, I'm not going to that. No. No. I I agree with you completely. I mean, honestly, I don't I don't consider this faith based movie at all. And I I think this this movie is of the caliber that, you know, could have gotten a theatrical release. I mean, it's just it's It's a different landscape these days. Very happy to have been picked up by Amazon Prime Video. They're really behind the movie. Yeah. I mean, you know, when people believe in a project and they know that the the the the content is good, I mean, it's just it's a it's a good feeling, you know, to have to have that kind of momentum. 0:28:51 Take me back to those days of desperate housewives. How how really unreal was that? I was it was incredibly unreal. I didn't anticipate the success of that show at all. Coming off of daytime television, moving into a nighttime show, but that felt very daytime. It was a easy transition. I mean, look, it wasn't the most challenging role in the world, but I tried to bring, you know, your vulnerability and and depth to the role. But, I mean, it was a it was a whirlwind, you know, that just, like, kinda swept me right off my feet. I didn't anticipate the success. 0:29:30 And to still be talking about the show twenty years later, I mean, I guess it's achieved some level of, you know, iconic television status which is something I'm, you know, I'm I'm proud to have been part of. Did it did it just kind of throw you coming so early in your career? Or was it You know, I I I had been in the business for for five years on daytime television, but, I mean, you know, daytime television and primetime are just, you know, their their night and day. Right. They they really are. You can we can work on daytime your entire career and he, you know, the average person might might not know your name. You know, so to to become a household name pretty much overnight was was definitely interesting. 0:30:17 Was it good to learn those lessons early on? Or do you say, oh, I'd be much more prepared now if I had that, like, real heat? Well, hindsight is twenty twenty, you know. So I I'd be much more prepared now, definitely. And I'd like to think you know, I'll I'll have some of those big opportunities again. I I mean, I'd like to believe that that the best of my career is is still ahead of me here. You know? Yeah. I I know I know I know I'm ready for it now. That's for sure. All we need to look at is this year's best picture winner and you look at those people and you say, all of them were at some point told you're out of the game and look at them now. They're on top of the game. So it's just It's very it's very only one project away, you know? Right. This could be yours. You never know. 0:31:06 Then you you have your kind of I I I love to see these different periods that you've had. You have your hallmark period. What is that world like? Well, I mean, the hallmark channel was very very good to me. They allowed me to executive produce some projects with them and kinda, you know, be involved in the creative and the casting of those projects. I really learned a lot during my hallmark period. And, you know, I'm I'm proud of a a lot of the work that I created during that period as well with this show that I did for them called Chesapeake shores where I played, performed, and wrote some of the music for the show. Right. I mean, you know, I I give a hundred and ten percent to everything that I do. I mean, I I'm one of those actors that really cares. Maybe I care a little too much, but, you know, I like to look back at different periods, as you say, and and be proud of those periods. So, you know, that that was a great time in my career. 0:32:06 In the learning process, do you go, oh, that's something I'll never do again? Or is it, okay, this is how I would change those things up if I did this again? Well, there's always lessons. You have to find the lessons in everything you do in life. But specifically in this business, You know? I mean, you wanna continue to become a better actor. You know, I I am very interested in doing more producing and executive producing. So you know, you have to learn those lessons, but it's really about it's it's it's it's about relationships and it's a it's a it's a very people oriented business. It's a collaborative art form and you have to work well with others. And, you know, I mean, those are the best lessons, I think. 0:32:50 What is it like when you wanna create something? Is it hard to actually get others on board with you? Or what do you to me, it'd be a big sales job. I'd have to sell others on my vision and I don't know that I could do it. While producing is a big sales job, isn't it? You know, I mean, generally, you're trying to find financing for ideas that you have. And that that can be a little soul sucking at times because as artists, you know, we don't wanna be, you know, making phone calls and sending emails begging people for money. You know, but there's also some great facets to executive producing or producing as well, you know, kind of like being in charge of the entire picture. 0:33:33 Which sometimes, you know, when you're just an actor on a project, you know, hire to do one specific thing, it can be a little limiting. Specifically when you see things that could be better or, you know, maybe, you know, holes in a story that could be patched up and you have ideas for that, you're not always you're not always in the position to share those ideas. Would would you ever not act? Would that ever be in the cards? Would I ever not act? Yeah. Yeah. I think I think that could be in the cards. I I think I would like to move behind the camera, you know, specifically in producing roles. And and and I have I have an interest in directing. I mean, I went to New York University for writing and directing teach school of the arts But over the over the years, I've seen how much work directing is. I mean, you're literally, you know, the first person on the set, the last person to leave and up all night preparing. So, you know, I I think producing might be my lane. Better. Yeah. Is another thing. 0:34:36 You know, and how they I forgive me for not knowing what this is like, but when they're judging you to to cast you in a role, based on a look, how how do you deal with that? I I would find that very difficult. Well, a lot of people say that there's a lot of rejection in our business, but I think you can't look at not getting a role as rejection. Because getting a role is like finding a needle in a haystack. You know, there's so many variables as to what our producers and directors and casting directors are looking or for a specific role. So I think, you know, you have to just put yourself out there, give the best audition possible, and if it doesn't go your way, just let it go. I mean, easier said than done, but dealing with the rejection would be the very difficult thing. Well, why wasn't I right for this. Exactly. I mean, hey, nobody likes dealing with with rejection, but that's life. It's life. Right? 0:35:32 What's next then after this? Are you already working on something? Well, I have two other films coming out this year. I mean, three, actually. One's called the comic shop. Which is kind of like a Kevin Smith esque story about a disgruntled comic book store owner who had some trials and tribulations in his life. It's kind of a interesting story. Then I have another one that's on the festival circuit right now called the Latin from Manhattan. And then I have a a a a a VC Andrew series of movies coming out on a lifetime where I I play dad in the early sixties. So it's it's my first dad role, so I'm kind of excited about that. 0:36:13 See, I've seen -- Oh. -- I've seen -- Oh. -- I've seen -- Oh. -- I've seen -- Oh. -- I've seen -- I've seen -- I've seen -- -- I've seen -- -- I've seen -- I've seen -- I've seen -- wonk long. I've I've seen some of the footage actually doing a ADR for the for the movies and I I play opposite this adorable you know, effervescent actor of Breck Bassinger, who's from from the series star girl. I play her father And it's very, very charming actually. I'm I was really, really pleased with it. I'm excited for people to see it. 0:36:40 Well, you know, if we're ever on a plane together and something happens, I'm calling you into action here. You're gonna be helping land the plane Okay. I know nothing about that. You might wanna call Dennis, but hey, you know. Yeah. I would run up and down the aisles going, no, we can't do this. This is not good. This is terrible, but it was very fun to watch you in this. I enjoyed it. Thank you so much. Alright, Bruce. Thank you for that interview. What else do we have on top? Coming up. Big big big kind of surprising thing. Rachel vice, Oscar winner, Rachel vice. 0:37:16 Is in a new adaptation of dead rangers. It's about twins who are in the birthing business, if you will, and if you may remember Jeremy Irons started in this film in the nineties. It was a David Cronenburg film Well, now, Rachel has the part where she plays two characters. And she's trying to get this clinic off the ground, a birthing center. And she has to appeal to various and sundry people and how it's a very kind of political world to be in the medical field, but it's also really, really creepy. So when you see this, you'll see the creep factor. One of the people we talk to is Poppy Lou who plays their kind of assistant, and she has a big handle on the differences between Beverly and Elliot Mantel. So we'll have that next week and we'll talk about some other kind of creepy ones that aren't coming. Alright. That sounds good. So we'll look forward to that. Thank you everyone for listening to another episode of streamed and screened.

Whether it's Sean Connery, Roger Moore or others portraying James Bond, or Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in the "Mission: Impossible" film series, we find ourselves sucked into the world of espionage thanks to the spy genre of television shows and movies. In this week's episode of Streamed & Screened, hosts Bruce Miller and Terry Lipshetz have a brief discussion of the genre to set up a conversation with Guy Pearce, the star of "Spy Among Friends," a limited series available now on MGM+. Read more: Guy Pearce, Damian Lewis ponder betrayal with 'Spy Among Friends' About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was generated by Podium.page and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: 0:00:03 Welcome everyone to another episode of streamed and screened in an entertainment podcast about movies and TV from Lee Enterprises. I'm Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer at Lee and cohost of the program with Bruce Miller, editor of the Sioux City Journal and a longtime entertainment reporter. Bruce, I I wanna pass you a note. I've got some secrets. Do you have any secrets? Can you share anything? Yeah. Send me a text. Okay? That might be the best. 0:00:28 In the old days, you know, spies were so much different because they would sit on a park bench and they pass an envelope between each other. Right? Right? Now it's like we're hacking into systems and we're going to we always you notice how they always have that clock that counts down until the file is uploaded, and it's like, oh, is it gonna happen? Is it gonna happen? Well, there, all you had to worry about was did somebody grab the envelope or are you just letting it go? So it is a different world. 0:00:57 And there's a new mini series or limited series, whatever you wanna call it, that has been airing in Great Britain already, and it got huge reviews. They loved it over there. It's called a spy among friends. And we're getting it now on MGM Plus. And it is the the sort of true story of Kim Philby. You probably have never heard of Kim Philby at all. But he was a traitor to Great Britain. He was a spy, but he was getting information from Russia. And when they found out that he was defecting to Russia, they sent his friend to try and talk to him about all of this. And, like, would you keep this information? I don't know how I could ever be a spy because I talk too much. And I think I I would tell too much. But that your your best friend could not guess that you were gonna be a traitor. And, you know, wouldn't you have dropped some kind of message about this? I find that just really hard to believe. Yeah. But but yeah. And that was a big scandal in the sixties. And people remember the name Kim Philby because he was this trader who went to Russia. And he was very well known. Today, it doesn't graze the radar. People really don't know who he is, or who his friends were. 0:02:17 But the film, which kind of looks at the class system that's very popular in Great Britain, tries to explain all of that by that because there was a group of young man who thought that they were if you will, better than other people because they went to the right schools, they had the right majors, they had the right connections, their parents were probably somebody. And as Damian Lewis says, they dabbled in communism. And so they thought that this was kind of a cool thing that we could do, and they wouldn't be caught for anything like this. Well, Kim Philby, didn't just dabble. He was doing a little bit more with all of that. And I got a chance to talk to Guy Pierce who plays Kim and he was talking about acting acting and acting as a spy. How much acting is involved with all of that? Do you really Do you feel you need to pretend all the time? And he said this class system is something that kind of it didn't matter. You didn't have to do that because they just accepted whatever you were doing was just temporary, and they were allowed to do that. And he and the the creator of the series, Alexander Carey, talk about how this is kind of important again today. Because we're seeing a class system that's being created in just all parts of the world, where some people think they're above the law, and they don't have to worry about consequences. And then others who don't don't seem to be able to catch a break no matter what. That's fascinating. 0:04:00 What's your general thought on on spy movies and TV shows in general? Do you do you enjoy them? Do you get sucked in? Oh, you know it. I I it's strange how something like James Bond has changed so drastically. Because in those early days, you know, with Sean Connery, maybe Roger Moore, who didn't they did a lot of things that was they they were just conversational. That's how they got their information. And then they started getting all those toys. And then they started having gadgets and, you know, I mean, come on. Where do you find all this stuff? And how would you be able to create all this? And then you have all these kind of inched people. How do you keep anything from somebody else that they wouldn't know? Today, it's so over the top. Look at how, you know, it takes several years for somebody like Tom Cruise to make one of his spy films. So it's a it's a different game. I think it's changed. But I think they suck you in all the time because you always wonder That was the bad guy. I'm not really sure I know who the bad guy is. 0:05:06 Did you see the spy a couple years ago. That was the one. It starred Sasha Baron Cohen, you know, who everybody knows is Borr at, but he did a really serious take He played Eli Cohen, who's a Israeli, and he was spying in the nineteen sixties. And ultimately was caught, but it was the the true life story and it was a very serious role for him. But it was a real fascinating look into into espionage. 0:05:36 Could you be a spy? I thought about it. I I think I could. Really? Yeah. I don't know how you do that in school, where you say, alright, I'd like to go on the spy track, please. Could I please take those classes that are necessary for that? I I couldn't. I know I couldn't. Because the I mean, I can keep a secret, but I don't think I could like the Americans, I don't know I could do what they did, where you just suddenly assume new identities and live among people for years, and then you're kind of trying to get a little bit of information out to the others. I don't know that I could do that. At some point, I would break. 0:06:12 And I think where they always go wrong with these kinds of films is they have families. Right. And I think a true spy has no connections. That's why you see James Bond as such a good spy. Because he always seems to be a loner. Once they get him with somebody, then it becomes, uh-oh, I've got to worry about somebody killing this person. You know, to get to me. So if you're as bi, you should be a loner. It never worked out well for for James Bond in those movies because he would he would either meet someone and they would end up dead or they would end up turning on him. 0:06:51 Well, could you imagine that this day if you were, like, googling pussy galore, I think it's a reminder. I think it's a reminder. You know, they in when that movie became out, they released trading cards for that movie. Did you say that? No. Because I I wasn't born back numbers, but but they changed the name of that character to Kitty Galore because we couldn't we couldn't go that. It's a little too dirty for the kids back in the sixties. So, yeah, that that was always kind of fun, Goldfinger. But, yeah, I I don't know if I could be a spy. 0:07:29 Like, it it always sounds cool, but then you think about, well, you got all these crazy secrets. You can't settle down with the family. Somebody's gonna keep a secret in your own house. If you get kids, come on. They don't have work. They do. Right? 0:07:43 I always wonder too when watching things like mission impossible. You know, that that that this recording will self destruct in ten seconds. But it it goes up in flames. Nobody notices that. Nobody sees this, like, flaming package that's sitting next to you on the train and and it does it not set off as smoke alarm? 0:08:02 You know, for many years, studios would send out DVDs of their films. And they would disintegrate. I mean, after you had watched it once, you couldn't watch it again. And they always said, well, that's how they should have done that stuff. Because a tape recorder that's burning yeah. That's not gonna happen. Not a problem. That might that might raise a couple of red flags. 0:08:25 Well, and you could never rerun. You know, you never could go back and look at a scene again. You saw once. It's on your computer. That's it. It's done. Now you can go back to screening lengths and go back and see things if you wanna look at the more than once. 0:08:39 But yeah. So the spy world? No. The the best best thing about me is I couldn't remember anything because I think I've learned so much in my lifetime. There's so much crap in my head. That we have to we have to empty the trash at some point to try and remember these things. So if you put me under oath and had a lie detector and everything hooked up, I'd be good because I couldn't remember a darn thing that you'd told me. 0:09:04 Does did Guy Pierce talk about at all? Like, how he how he researched for this. Yes. You're using. He did. And and that's that's in the interview. I want you to listen to the interview, you know, talk to some of the kind of research he did. And how it would kind of work for him? How he would be as a if he could be a spy? So there's a lot of interesting things there. I think you should unpack it. It's not that long. 0:09:29 We have Guy Pierce and Alexander Carey talking about a spy among friends. Can a spy really have a friend? I think I think friendship is the main currency of of spies. I think that I think I think I mean, it's a good question because on one side of the relationship, yes, that question is pertinent. On the other one, it's pertinent in a different in completely the opposite way. Yeah. It it just it struck me as if I were a spy, I would not be friendly with anybody. I would just let it go. But there also is an element of acting that's involved. And Guy, would you make a good spy? Well, look, I I may make a good spy, you know, on the surface, but I mean, of course, I can work as an actor on screen but it's never a life or death situation. I don't know how I'd I don't know how if I've got the Hutzpa to to, you know, act as well when I know that there are lives or countries or at stake. So probably not, I think, is the answer. 0:10:40 How does spies operate today when there's just so many ways that the truth could come out? Is it a a whole different world and what? Because the the sixties is kind of a a a real romantic period at at least for spies. Well, you're I think in the sixties, human intelligence, in other words, human to human getting information in sort of bars and on park benches and all the rest of it was a reality. And and was the the the the the main way of of getting and passing information these days. There's a lot more of sort of cyber espionage and all the rest of it. And I think you'll find that in various intelligence agencies. There are also still two factions. You know, there's the there's the one that goes, well, human intelligence is really the only the way that you're gonna get the definitive stuff or the stuff that's gonna be, you know, keep on giving. And then there are people who are gonna go, no. Let's just put a drone up. So so So, you know, they're very different these days. But Yeah. But that's the friendship thing. The friendship thing is important for a spy. Yeah. It doesn't seem as much fun, but maybe I'm wrong, never been a spy, can't can't weigh in. 0:11:52 Guy, how much did you read about him before you actually started doing this? Did you know much about him or not? I didn't know a lot. No. I mean, I'd seen a couple of films that had been made and I'd seen a documentary once about the Cambridge five. So I didn't know a lot. I knew of Kim Filby, of course, but knew no detail about about him really and certainly knew nothing about this relation it between he and Nicholas Elliott. 0:12:17 I read a number of books before we started and through the course of making the show. One in particular, I think, was a was a helpful piece, which was written by Eleanor, his third wife, his American wife, the wife that he was with in Beirut when he when he left. She wrote a book that that that looked at some of the letters between the two of them, you know, that published the letters between the two of them through that time. So there was something personal and human about the way she wrote. And so that was an interesting little way in for me into into Filby. But, yeah, I read I read bits and pieces of all sorts of things before we started. But of course, I always would would come back to the the script. 0:13:07 And at a certain point, I find I have to sort of let the let the research material go. Were there things you could relate to? And did you like him at all or not? I never know the answer to the liking question because whilst making I'm so in I'm so embedded in into him that I lose myself in a way. So it's not necessarily that I have then have an opinion of him. I'm I'm I'm so sort of, yeah, lost in trying to just become and understand him. I think the bigger question is is is whether I understand him and and, you know, I'm that's what I'm searching to do through the process and and, you know, you can probably only understand any character, you know, this much at the best of times when you're dealing with someone like Philby, you can probably only understand him this this much because he's a mystery to everybody. So it was a complex and challenging process. Yeah. Well, thank you. Both it's been so exciting to watch this unfold. And I'm just playing dumb through the whole thing. I'm not I'm not looking ahead to find out anything. I don't wanna know anything, but it is fascinating. It's a a different world, a different time. So thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thanks, Bruce. Nice to meet you. Alright, Bruce. Thanks for that interview. A fascinating discussion there. 0:14:37 Did you get to talk to anybody else from that Phils from that series. Who is who plays the friend that, you know, has to try and talk to this Kim Philsby. I did get to talk to him. And I do have a story Maybe you can add a link to this. And if you don't wanna read, you'll see some more stuff from him about this whole project. But it's a six part limited series on MGM plus. And, Eric, could you do anything this next week that I worry about? I'll know you're a spy. Sounds good, Bruce. So we'll have a link to that article in the show notes of this episode. And otherwise, we will see you next week with another episode of streamed and screamed. Have a great one.

Do you love the 1980s? John Hughes comedies such as "The Breakfast Club," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Sixteen Candles," "Pretty in Pink," "Weird Science" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" captured the struggles of teens during the period. Hughes later shifted toward adulthood during the later part of the decade with movies like "She's Having a Baby," "Uncle Buck," "The Great Outdoors" and "Planes, Trains and Automobiles." John Hughes films and the nostalgia of the 1980s helped serve as the inspiration for and provided some themes in the new film "Prom Pact" that debuts March 30 on Disney Channel and Disney+.  Co-host Bruce Miller spoke with stars Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Blake Draper and Margaret Cho, as well as executive producer Julie Bowen of "Modern Family" fame and director/executive producer Anya Adams. Before those interviews, Miller and co-host Terry Lipshetz discuss "Life Moves Pretty Fast: The John Hughes Mixtapes," a box set compilation of music from those 1980s movies from Hughes that was released in November. The talk about how the songs provided the backdrop in key scenes in the movies and how some of the selections came about, as well as Hughes' love for music. About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was generated by Podium.page and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: 0:00:03 Welcome everyone to another episode of streamed and screened and entertainment podcasts about movies and TV from Lee Enterprises. I'm Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer at Lee and cohost of the program with Bruce Miller, editor of the Sioux City Journal and a longtime entertainment reporter. Bruce How's everything going? You know, Terry, come on. I lived through the eighties, and now you've discovered something from the eighties that I urine all excited about. You got a a big kind of album collection, if you will, or a a what do they call box set? A set. Is that the term that you are you young people using that term box set today? Or is that just something from the old days? But it it samples John Hughes movies. That is correct. Let's hear all about it because I've the eighties are big. If you didn't know, the eighties are back. And we're gonna relive them. Babies are back in a big way. So recently, this isn't a yesterday release. 0:01:00 This came out in the late I I think it was pretty much for Christmas that that selling period. Life moves pretty fast. The John Hughes mix tapes. It's a box set. It was released in England. 0:01:14 They put out several configurations. There was, like, a two l p version of a condensed mix. Six LPs, four CD box set, and then there was like a deluxe four CD box set that also had a a seven inch single and a cassette. But what it did was it collected the key tracks? It's not like complete soundtracks from each movie, but it's a lot of the key tracks from John Hughes movies of the nineteen eighties. So we're talking sixteen candles, the breakfast club, weird science, ferris bueller, And then it kinda brings everything up to Uncle Buck, which was released in nineteen eighty nine. So that was the last movie that they really sampled from. So there's nothing new or none of the like, Christmas tracks from home alone or any of those. But it's it's that huge period. 0:02:04 And and for me, you know, when I was boy, probably ten years old or so, my aunt took me to see Ferris Bueller's day off in the theater. And it was the greatest thing. And and that movie, Weird Science, some kind of wonderful these were movies that I just loved watching and growing up too, so they they kinda hold a special place in in my heart as a movie. But as a music collector, somebody who's got a really large collection of of CDs and Vinyl, I always love a really good soundtrack. And one thing that has eluded me all these years was a soundtrack to Ferris Bueller's day off because it never came out. They never released one. So this was kind of a fun way to collect not all the tracks from Ferris, but it has pretty much every key track you can think of from that movie in this box set. 0:02:56 Is that something about a certain age when something strikes and hits you? That you go, I have got to have that. I've got to own a piece of that somehow because I remember that with my first Disney cartoon. It was stored in the stone. And I wanted something from sword and the stone in the worst way. Then it became I wanted something from midnight cowboy. Because that was my first x rated film that I'd ever seen. But I've never had it with music because I think I've gotten more than enough and a lot of times I don't listen to music more than once. I know that sounds really terrible, but it's like watching a TV show. I can watch it once, but then we're gone. 0:03:36 The thing about John Hughes own, I think we've talked about this before. I've interviewed him many times during that eighties period when he was doing all these films, and the people who were in his films thought he was the coolest man ever. Just the coolest guy. He was like that uncle that always had the right record collection and would turn you on to things and make you feel like oh, yeah. I've got to know that too. So I does that come through in the music selection? Absolutely. So a lot of the songs in the box set. And and also just from his all of his movies in general kinda come from a certain period. He's a huge he was he obviously passed away a number of years ago, but he he was a huge music collector. So he would go to the studio, do his thing, leave in the early hours, go to the record store, kinda clean them out, you would be hanging out and whether it'd be at home, or in his office. He had, like, records all over the place, cassette he would make mix tapes, and that's kind of where The name of this album came from is the John Hughes mix tape because they found boxes of his mix tapes that he put together kind of with the soundtrack in mind that he wanted to use for the movie. So they they pulled the bits and pieces out of this, but you're right, even in the liner notes of this, It talked it talked a lot about the affinity that the actors had toward John because he was really about maybe ten years older than a lot of these. 0:05:06 So the the cool uncle piece really comes through because I think he was born around nineteen fifty, but that brat pack era of actors, they were born right around like nineteen six feet. Right? So, you know, to to them as teenagers, here's this guy who's, like, twenty five, thirty years old, who has this cool record collection. He had he had a job. He was an advertising executive for a while and then, like, blew that off. And got into movies. So he was just this cool guy who when you're at that age of of, like, in your twenties, late twenties, you feel like you can still connect to younger people, but, you know, you're not necessarily a parent yet, so you don't, you know, you're you're not too restrictive and and you're kind of that that cool guy. It's funny because he looked like somebody who went to an Ivy League school and kind of, if you will, lorded it over you that he had more knowledge than you did. This is just impressions I remember from being around him. But he was always very giving and very friendly. And he would talk about these things, the inspiration. And I if I remember right, he would let the actors know about the songs that he wanted to use So they would be inspired by that music when they're when they're doing the acting. So he was very good at kind of creating an atmosphere that they could they could get into and understand and then hopefully project it on screen. 0:06:31 The liner notes of this box that really got in deep into the weeds. So a lot of times when I'll get liner notes in in an album, I'll read them. I'll glance through them, but this one really sucked me in because they gave you each and every track in the box. And it would say, you know, such and such song. It came from this movie. This is the scene it was used in. And then they talked to the people that were involved. So it was mostly tarkin Gotch. 0:06:58 He was a British music executive. He wrote the bulk of the liner notes, but along with him and a few others, they they kinda had the backstory of how these songs came into existence. So one really good example was with she's having a baby, which was a very personal story to John Hughes because it was a bit autobiographical with the birth of his son and kind of and it it was even in the movie. He was a advertising executive in Chicago, which was a lot like him. So he had planned out the scene and he filmed it and he had in it a song. It was called song to the siren. It was from an gear music band called Myrtle Coil. Okay? So he he films it. They've got the music over it. 0:07:43 And then at that point, they're just like, okay, we gotta get the rights. We gotta pay the band and and we'll include the movie. So they go to them and they're like, no, we don't we don't wanna do it. So they just thought it was they're playing around. They just want more money. It's John Hughes, he had already made a name for himself. So they're like, alright. Just go back and pay him more money. And they're like, no. We we don't want that. And then finally, it got through to John, and they're like, John, they're not gonna accept any level of money. They don't wanna do anything that's seen as, like, commercial because it's unhip. It's not cool. 0:08:15 So he was devastated because the entire scene of this movie, it it's that that and at the House spittle when, you know, will the baby survive? Will his wife survive? And so tarkin goes, says, I'm friends with Kate Bush. Let me talk to her and see if she'll do a song. So he talks to her. They bring her the end clip of the movie, probably on like a VHS tape or something. She watches a scene, composers a song, sings it, they get it back to John, and they're at this point, they're thinking we're gonna just to redo it and, you know, nice effort. And it's this beautiful song that they end up playing over it. The only thing he had to do was add in a couple your scenes because he didn't wanna trim the song. He wanted it to run its entire duration. So it ended up into this, like, wonderful piece of history, but you wouldn't know it without reading these liner notes, the back story. It was really cool. That's that's fascinating. It's It's weird how when you do see those scenes without any music behind them, how really like, this is gonna be this is gonna work. 0:09:25 Really? I'm not so sure. You know? And then you can get a song that really pulls it together, and it's incredible. It makes a whole difference. I don't know how you, you know, as a creator, how you would envision that, especially if you have your mind set on something. Like, how do you regroup after somebody says, no, you're not having our music. We're not doing it. And that ends up being a real problem for some of these films coming out in any kind of other market because they didn't make a deal with them upfront for DVDs or whatever else streaming, whatever it might be. So sometimes you get those films and they don't have the real music with them, and I think it kills it. Didn't when they put married with children when they ended up releasing that on DVD years after the show aired on TV, they had to replace the theme song because they didn't have the the DVD rights to do it. 0:10:20 But it it it was really interesting because they, you know, talking about songs, they took the final edit of planes, trains, and automobiles and started showing it to test audiences. So originally, the plan was to use nothing but, like, a country and western song. So they had, like, Steve Burrow and Emily Lou Harris, and it was gonna be nothing but, like, a country and western soundtrack. And the test came back and they're like, well, they kinda liked the movie, but they hated the music. So they had to go back to the drawing board and they still use some of them, but then they added in some more kind of popular tunes too to to bring it around. 0:10:59 Again, you could look at those movies and you think this is a bomb. I've been at a couple of test screenings for things and you go, holy man, they're not this is not releasable. And then it ends up being one of the biggest hits because they tweak the right things. And like I say, music is a huge, huge part of that. But well then, what did you find out about Ferris Bueller? So Ferris Bueller was an interesting one too because if you watched the credits. Right? And it's the that song, yellow, the the oh, yeah. Right? That that rolls over and that they're on the school bus. At the bottom of that, at at the very end, almost when they cut back to the scene where where Matthew Broderick walks back in and you're still here, it says, like, by the soundtrack to Ferris Bueller's day off on cassette and record. And and I remember asking for it as a gift Christmas, and nobody could find it because it just it never actually existed. They never produced it. So what had happened, what they mentioned in in the liner notes was right around that time. 0:12:04 The popular lore is that that John Hughes as well, the soundtrack wouldn't work well as a soundtrack. It's just a collection of songs. You know, it just doesn't make sense to release it. But that's b s because he he did that for every movie up to that point and he did it with every movie after that point. But what happened was right around that time he was trying to launch his own music label called Hughes Music. And they think what happened was it was just the timing was terrible. They couldn't release it on Hughes music because it was still, I think, on Arista, most of those and it just they couldn't get the rights worked out. There was a lot of conflict. So it just never came out. He put out a couple seven inch singles for for fan clubs, but that was it. And it was a very popular soundtrack of songs. 0:12:52 Like, because each of those songs plays so uniquely with different scenes. You know, I sadly, I probably have that that because I should look. I should dig in my archives somewhere because I do remember that when we did the junket for that, there was something kind of interesting. Now, do you remember anything about The the song that was on the in the parade. Was it twist and shout? Was it twist and shout? Yeah. Yeah. We always have twist and shout, or do they have something else? No. 0:13:23 That was that was kind of planned out. They the the funny thing was is I think there was actually, like, another song that they're gonna add in they were gonna like, they did that and they did Dunkin' Shay. Right? But they ended up deciding, like, this whole scene is getting way too long and that's that's fine. So I think they had originally talked about doing maybe another song in the parade. There were also a few other scenes that they were planning to film and they had songs in mind for them. But the movie like, the original cut off Harris Bueller was, two hours and forty five minutes. It just went on forever. Now they'd let them do that. Yeah. Probably. Yeah. Extremely. We're gonna yeah. Just take it up. We just we can get more ads for that. So, yeah, go for it. Well, that's fascinating because that was such a huge, huge part of our lives in the eighties. Those films were seminal, I think. 0:14:16 And it's funny that somebody hasn't gone back and done something about him. I mean, is there a book about him? Is there a movie about him? Is there something about him that they could easily tie these things to. Because, you know, I think he was at the time as big as Steven Spielberg. Because you you know, here's who's influencing a generation. Now when you look in the grand scheme of things, that doesn't hold up. But at the time, I remember the wait for a John Hughes film. It was like guaranteed it was gonna be something you would go to. Because he didn't he didn't repeat himself, and he was always on the cutting edge of whatever was was trendier current at that time. So if you wanted to be a hip teenager, you had to be part of that that whole world. Yeah. They made a couple interesting notes about that in in the liner notes. They talked a little bit about how popular his films were during that time, but he never got to do he probably was deserved because comedies, they don't get nominated for anything. Right? It's just dramas and -- Right. Bad. So your your ferris bueller is not gonna get nominated for best picture. So that was part of it. 0:15:34 And a lot of his films too were actually filmed on pretty small budgets. And if you look at the release of some of those films, he was cranking out like two movies a year. It was eighty five. He did the breakfast club in weird science. Eighty six. He did pretty in pink and ferrous bueller's. Eighty seven was some kind of wonderful in planes, trains, and automobiles. 0:15:53 And he said, I always have to do a movie because he was worried that one would bomb and then the studio would say, you're done. So he said if I'm always working, they can't cancel me. Yeah. Well, you get three in those days, you get three films. Right. You get one, you say hit, then you have two more that will kind of hold you. But if you're not by the third, coming back with another hit, you're out of the business. That's how brutal it was. Yeah. One he one film when you're out. Yeah. So he would have, like, one one kind of in post production are ready to go, and then he'd already be working on the next one. And then the first one would do good. So then he would it would buy him another film after through that. And he was just kinda hop scotching from one to the next. 0:16:40 One other interesting point too from the soundtrack It only included one song from vacation, which was holiday road by Lindsay Buckingham, which was actually very interesting when you read the notes because he hated kind of like mainstream rock and roll in a lot of ways. He he didn't like like Fleetwood Mac. He aided Fleetwood Mac because they were too commercial. But he had Lindsay Buckingham from Fleetwood Mac to Holiday Road, but he didn't really direct that. He just kind of wrote the green play, so that might have been part of it too. But they included that song in in the box, which is fun. You know? And that's the idea that he could write was his biggest success as a director. If he wrote a script, you knew the script is good and you know all these other directors who made hay with his work. But he whenever he was writing, he would be able to tweak it as he needed to for the film he was trying to produce. 0:17:40 I remember one of the young people, and I wish I could tell you who it was. It was Rob Lowe, Demi Demi Moore, if it was Ellie Sheedy or Jed Nelson, I can't remember who it was, said that they thought he was the coolest guy ever, and they looked to him for style. And so I asked him about that. I said, they think that you're kind of like the style setter of all these above the Brad pack of whomever. And he said, me, I wear the same clothes all the time. I don't even I have no sense of style. I am not that person. But if they think I'm cool, that's okay. I'm alright with that. And I found that very fascinating because He did seem like he was at kid who came home from college, who knew a little bit more than everybody else did, and you looked up to him because he had seen the world, but he wasn't gonna volunteer what he had seen. You had to kind of pull it up. 0:18:36 You know, you had asked if if anyone ever did anything on Hughes, you know, a movie or book, the only thing that I could think of offhand was Netflix does a program called the movies that made us, which looks back at films of like the nineteen eighties and pop culture and stuff. So they did one episode on home alone. And even though he he didn't direct that, that was a Chris Columbus film. He wrote it, he produced it. And it kinda got into a lot of the background of John Hughes and because they filmed it at that same abandoned high school that they used for, like, ferris bueller and and breakfast club and stuff. So they they set up offices in there, and they I think they used to Jim to build sets on it and things like that. So that was kinda interesting. 0:19:25 But he was buddies with John Candy, and he didn't show up really to any of the filming except for the one day they had John Kandy on set to film his, like, two scenes as you know, that that guy that meets up with Catherine O'Hara at the airport. And it was funny because they said they paid scale for him. So, you know, whatever scale is and nineteen ninety ish. They they worked them for, like, twenty hours just just to get, you know, like, five minutes of screen time. They were gonna they were gonna milk that until the end and they said John Kandy ever exhausted. Yeah. Yeah. So he was exhausted. And then as soon as John Kandy was done, John Hughes took off and Chris Columbus took back over. Yeah. Is it that is weird. That is weird. But I think they would defer. I really think that was the kind of the way it was with him even though he was not listed as director, you know. 0:20:19 They they have enough of these people who are still around who would make a great documentary. I think somebody should do that and interview the alcoholic calkins and all these other ones who have been part of that John Hughes world and give people a sense of what it is today because I don't know that kids today have anything like that. There isn't, you know, one of those kind of filmmakers that you say, it's a must. I've gotta go see it. Quentin Tarantino doesn't make enough films. To really merit the loyalty, if you will, that somebody like John Hughes engendered. You'd have to go back to the old forties and fifties to really find somebody else who had that same, yeah, will go attitude. It's interesting. 0:21:03 When a celebrity dies, I'll have that moment, like, that's sad. You know, that he was a great musician, great actor, whatever. But it doesn't really I I don't feel it in any way. I the the two deaths that I could think of from from a celebrity standpoint, because it it impacted me in some way. When John Hughes died, I just felt crushed because there was my childhood. And the other one was Michael Kriton because he was my favorite author. He'd written so many, you know, Jurassic Park was I got roped in with that, but movies or books like The Androbanist rain and Congo and the terminal man rising sun. I mean, these were all really good books and and I was devastated by I think that death also. And actually, they just discovered some some books of his that were written under a pen name and they're gonna re release So I'm I'm excited about that. I'm getting ready for, like, more Michael Creighton books that that I didn't even know existed. But it it was, like, those two desks kinda just hit me hard because from as a child or as a teenager, these were huge parts of my life and a lot of other celebrities. It doesn't hit me that way. 0:22:13 Well, can I give you something that I think you should watch? Sure. I'm not sure if you're gonna go all Bruce, please. No. But it's on the Disney Channel and Disney Plus. It's coming up this week and it's called prom packed. And it's about these two friends. It's a boy and a girl who are friends, not romantically, but they're just besties. You know? And I think that's something that we haven't seen for a while. And they decide that they're going to go to prom. Which has an eighties theme for its prom. But, you know, you hear about promposals all the time, where how somebody asks somebody to go to problem. Well, in the film, they do all of these kind of bits from eighties film. So you will see a lot of John Hughes represented in the in the course of this. And they're very funny, very cool the way they they pull off. And I was able to talk with members that cast the producers and a key guestar. But I have a I have an interview here that I think you might like because it talks all about them. 0:23:17 Ram Peck premieres March thirtieth on Disney Channel and Disney Plus, and Bruce has interviews with key people from the film. In this first clip here from stars, Payton Elizabeth Lee and Blake Draper. Alright, Blake. Fill me in. 0:23:29 What surprised you most about the United States when you came here? Oh. What surprised me most, I think Self-in-depth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When I when I ride and Los Angeles for the first time and I was driving around with Milo actually, I couldn't believe how many billboards that were. That's just Which is, I guess, must be strained. But in Australia, we just don't have that many billboards of films and and then television shows. So that was kind of jiring to be like, wow, this is really a town built on entertainment. Sorry. System Are you on one now? Are you guys on one now yet? I think we're on a couple. Sorry. It's a big idea. You have to get over there and pose with it. That's the deal. Yeah. No. I was I was at the shelving mall recently and I popped up on one of the screens there, and it was kind of a jump scare. People like you. 0:24:19 And So Satan believes a lot of Have you been teaching him everything? Are you now his his tudor in this too? He's he's tutor in fame. He never did that. Anything I'm doing right now? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I have to I see. 0:24:33 Yeah. I needed a lot of help. Yeah. She needs more. No. I mean, I don't know enough to tutor anyone in anything. But now, they're also putting you with Milo in doggy. Right? Yes. Do you ever get rid of him? 0:24:49 I try my very best and fail at every point. It's he is a a force that needs to be tamed at some point. Yes. I do my best. I do the same. I think it's Georgia. 0:25:03 But you know, Mandy and Dewey are kind of alike, aren't they? Sorry? Aren't Mandy and Dewey kind of alike? Oh, definitely. I mean, I think they're both very strong, smart, independent women. And I just feel so lucky to be able to play both of them. And I guess if I can play a strong, smart woman, authentically, then it must mean something about me. Right. If she wouldn't like that or is she just really out of it? When you see her off the screen. This is for you, Blake. This is Yeah. She is really happy. It was just another screen. She's a mess. Don't tell them. No kidding. Pain. No sick. No pain. Pain's amazing. 0:25:48 She's a he said she said, wow. She's she's a lot of similarities with the characters that she plays. We're smart. So it's all these types. It's a vague you. It's pretty smart. Yeah. She's a smart she's she is a smart lady. She's independent. She's he's very strong. She's very head strong, which I've definitely learned. The hard way? I love the hard way, but, no, I've taken a lot from Payton. And, yeah, she's she's amazing. Payton said off the set. I want him off the set now. Is that what she does? Yep. Yep. Definitely. 0:26:20 I was shocked, though, Blakely, that you didn't know how to play basketball. Yeah. This is my first time. It's my first time learning it. Luckily for me. Or yes. Sorry. Go again. Is that easy to see? Super fast. Not easy. I for Seth. Already forgotten how to play because I haven't touched a basketball since I was lost on Seth. But luckily, if I may, my older brother is an amazing basketballist. So he actually helps coach me, which was really, really fun and I And what did he think? 0:26:49 Did he think you were any good? I think he was worried at the start. But people had a lot of time that happened and somebody's really helped me out. But I had a few other coaches You need one of them? Payton and in in Vancouver as well. So Yeah. 0:27:03 And did you use the beef method? I did actually. Yeah. I I did it. It it it it cried. My gram had a point and it and it helped me as Blake. 0:27:15 Bing and Graham. Wow. It's very matters. Isn't it? This really kind of conjures a lot of John Hughes talk, I think. Yeah. Did you see it? Did you see that kind of central election for sure? Oh, definitely. I mean, I was raised on John Hughes movies. My mom loves the eighties, the music, the clothes, the the movies, and so all of it was very infused into my upbringing. So it was really exciting to get to sort of keep the spirit of the eighties romcom alive and then, you know, make some adjustments so that it makes sense in a in a twenty first century world. But yeah, it it was so much fun to get to dive into that that sort of feeling. 0:28:01 Are you surprised by the little more adult tone that this took from other Disney films? I don't know if I was surprised. I was excited about it. You know, I think kids these days are so smart. And they're not to be underestimated. And I think it is our job to create content that speaks authentically to what it is to grow up today, what it looks like, what it sounds like, what it feels like. And so I don't know if it's more grown up, but it's just more truthful. So but it was very exciting for me because I think that's very important. Yeah. Definitely. 0:28:37 Blake, if I said, get your head in the game, would you know what I was talking about? In basketball? High school. High school musical? Did you see she tutored you on that answering. I can see that. You I do love high school musical. Our high school musical is amazing. I remember I vividly remember saying a lot. You vividly No. The last one, like, the last musical three. I remember my older brother telling me about it. Right? Is that how it goes? Hey, Thank you guys so much. I appreciate it. Thank you. 0:29:11 In the second clip, here an interview with another star of the show, Margaret Cho. Margaret, what was your your high school guidance counselor like? Gosh, I don't even know if I met with my high school counselor, I think a counselor, guidance counselor, I can't remember. I mean, it didn't make an impression on me. To the point where I can say who it even was, but the one person in high school that really believed in me was I had a high school theater teacher who would sign me up for open my comedy nights when I was a really young teenager with my comedy partner at the time who was Sam Rockwell, who's a very famous actor. So we were a comedy duo and she would sign us up because we were too young to sign up So she would call the club and put in our names, and then we would go. We were like fifteen. So young. 0:30:00 But what an amazing vote of confidence and it set me off on a career in him too, I guess, for sure. I think something happened to him, didn't it? I think there's a little something. Well, today, she could get arrested for doing something like that. You know? Yeah. It's still very different. You know, it's a very different time, but she was a young woman. She was, like, in her twenties. You know, and she just saw such a energy in me and in Sam and you know, kind of gave us a lot of encouragement and really tested us to, like, okay, why don't you challenge this by going and doing something at a night club? And so, you know, when she was there to slap her own to make sure it didn't get weird. So she was like the responsible adult throughout, but at the same time was giving us this idea of opportunity, which is really important. 0:30:58 How good were the two of you as a team? Were you good? I don't really remember. I think we were just so young that people were just kind of like, what is going on with these ideas. Right? What even is it? You could see there's footage of it on YouTube of some of our stuff that we would do. And so ridiculous and funny, but it's also like just trying things out, you know, when you're a kid that's sort of what high school's about. You know, I remember when you were the queen of ABC and when all American girl came out and that that was gonna be a big game changer. And now this year, we hear about everything everywhere as a big game changer. Is it It is. It's great. It's really exciting. I wanna see more Asian American participation in film and television. In arts in general, you know, it's really exciting. I think, you know, it's a long time coming. For sure. But I'm so proud that we get to sort of see ourselves in film and this film prompt act also features and centers on an Asian American woman who's forging a pop and you know, to me, that's really exciting. 0:32:12 Did you when they approached you about this, did you say, well, I would be what? You know, I mean, did you see that the guidance counselor would be your role? Well, I I was just offered the role, but I I was really excited to do it. I wanted to work with Payton again. I'd done her show, Dewey, last year, which I I really was impressed by her acting her ability and her innovative genius when it comes to approaching these roles. And I was excited to work with her and The role was written as queer guidance counselor, which I thought was really interesting and really cool. So I really was excited to do it. Did you talk with her at all about, you know, the business? Did you give her any advice? Oh, she doesn't need advice for me. She's doing great. You know, she's, like, so I was looking for advice for me because I think I learned so much from younger people on how the industry has changed and how things are really different. You know, we're we're looking at social media differently. And there there really have so much to offer to like somebody like me who's trying to learn about what new stuff is going on. 0:33:19 Howard Bauchner: You know, when this show makes a big deal about eighties films, What did you think when those eighties films were out? Did you say, oh my god. Yeah. That's really great, or were you looking at them and saying, you know, they're really not showing the picture. Well, I loved it because they were what we had, you know. And I remember going to the first showing pretty in pink at our local theater where I was growing up and was so exciting. Because you had just a film that was about being a teenager, which I think was just so Right. And the coolest adult, which is Annie Pott's is great in the movie. And so I was really channeling Annie Pott's in prom packed because I think that's kind of the right sort of like character that absorb mind matches. Well, I hope this is the start of a lot of things for you because I miss you. I don't see you enough. Yes. We need more meat. 0:34:20 And finally, in this third clip, executive producer, Julie Bowen, known for her role on Modern Family is joined by director Anja Adams. Julie, what did you learn about producing? What did this teach you? I learned a lot. I learned that producers work much harder than actors and get paid less. That's what I learned, and I have a lot of respect for them. And will never complain again. 0:34:43 Did you find though that now I understand some of the choices they make? You know, like when you say I didn't get cast in this because Well, casting is definitely something that I I've done some directing before, so I was more familiar with that process and definitely learn to take casting less personally after being on the other side. You you realize that there's so many forces at play. It's not always the best actor, it's it you're you're figuring out a whole ecosystem on how it's gonna work. I I think I really figured out that there's a lot of you've got a partner like Disney who's great, and there's a lot of you've got to meet a lot of different needs and a lot of from the people on the set to the highest levels and sometimes there's compromises that don't make sense to somebody who's just standing on set like I used to do. It makes sense. It makes sense. 0:35:40 For both of you, this is a little more adult than most Disney films. And there there's a specific area that I could reference, but I don't wanna reference. Uh-huh. Goodbye with that. You wanna take that on yet? I mean, Disney I I feel like Disney wanted to do this movie because they also are trying to really grow their team, you know, mid kind of range viewership and and really dig into that, and this was a way to do it. 0:36:11 I mean, when you look at the other stuff that's out there for teens, it is a little bit more grown up, and they are opposed to a lot more things on the Internet and on their phones. And so it's like this movie, I think, had a real strong Disney feel But, you know, we we tried to elevate it and and just bring it into kind of the the present day as it were and, you know, blazes trail for Disney into this? Yeah. Disney wants to grow with its with its audience. They have such a solid base in the Disney channel But then when you're moving into Disney plus and you have the whole family watching, there it's not inappropriate to have references to some more mature subject matter. So we did. 0:37:01 I was saying, and I don't know if I got cut off. But I love it. Idea that there was a boy girl friendship, but it didn't have to lead to romance. I thought that was a really cool kind of aspect of the film, and I hope that that's a lot. I hope that happens a lot. Yeah. I mean, that was really important. 0:37:19 When I read the script, I was like, I don't see this. I don't see a lot of, you know, hetero kids being friends, male, female. You just don't see that. And I think it's something that is a reality in the world. And it's you can have friends with the opposite sex and and support each other and love each other and be in a friendship. And I think payton and and Milo crafted it beautifully. Yeah. I think sometimes there's too much pressure if you will. You can't just be friends that's gotta lead to something else. But Yeah. 0:37:50 Do you two remember promposals? I never had that in my day, but I'm ancient, so there you go. No. I think these are pretty recent. I I have my own theory and that is that they came along with social media and the rise of the smartphones in the late, you know, arts. Mhmm. Because before that, like, it you weren't doing big splashy things because you weren't trying to record them and show them on social media. But I could be wrong. 0:38:20 Howard Bauchner: Well, well, how are you asked to prompt? You just somebody comes up to you and says, would you like to put a prom with me and that was it? Well, I on your back and I was back in the passing note stages, I mean, I wrote my prom data letter because he lived in another city and had to fly in for it, and he did, and it was amazing. But I think if, you know, you're in a high school back in the day, you were, like, writing a letter, you had your friend go ask. It was very you know, contained. And I didn't perform I went to a boarding school. We didn't have a prom, so I got to avoid that altogether. Oh, no. This is your prom then. This is it. All the better. Right? It's my wish fulfillment. 0:39:04 There's also a very John Hughes vibe to this film. Did you plan that, or is it just because of the times? Hundred percent. It was up slowly planned in the script and in the development. We wanted to reference it. We wanted to say that those movies left us feeling really good, but then upon reflection, have some really problematic stuff, and we needed a director who could put all of that together in a visual language and and Annie did a great job. 0:39:36 Alright, Bruce. Thanks for that interview. Be sure to watch prom packed. It's on both Disney Channel and it's on Disney plus, but I must tell you the Disney channel version has been sanitized for your protection. So you're not gonna get the kind of the dirty references where they actually go John Hughes on you in the Disney plus version. So watch that one and you'll get some things where you go, oh, I didn't realize that Disney did these kind of things, but they do. And look in the background of everything because you'll see promposals that are not meant to be overt. They're just ones that you as a fan of eighties films would be able to catch the the reference. Sounds good, Bruce. 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The Oscars are behind us, so it's time to turn our attention to new programming until the big summer movies return. But this week we find ourselves going back in time as we discuss "Marie Antoinette," a new historical drama on PBS. The stars of the show, Emilia Schüle in the titular role and Louis Cunningham as Louis XVI, sat down with co-host Bruce Miller to discuss the program, the arc of the series that is planned for three seasons, and whether or not Marie Antoinette really said "let them eat cake."  Leading into that interview, miller and co-host Terry Lipshetz discussed how this show is the latest in a line of recent period dramas that have dominated streaming services.  "The Great" is among our favorites. The show starring Elle Fanning, which is very loosely based on the life of Catherine the Great, returns to Hulu on May 12 for season 3 with 10 new episodes. Another show that is a bit more realistic is "The Crown" on Netflix. The sixth and final season should wrap production in a few months and could drop by the end of the year. The program, which changes ensemble casts every two seasons as characters age, is expected to bring viewers through the death of Princess Diana, but before the recent drama surrounding Princess Andrew, Prince Harry and the death of Queen Elizabeth II. If you want some of that drama, you can watch the documentary series "Harry & Meghan" on Netflix.  Another period drama, also on Netflix, is "Bridgerton." The series is a fictional drama based on the book series by Julia Quinn that takes place during London's Regency era of the late 1700s. Perhaps "Marie Antoinette" most closely resembles another historical drama in "The Last Czars" that aired on Netflix in 2019. That show focused on the final years of Russia's Romanov dynasty. About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was generated by Podium.page and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: 0:00:03 Welcome everyone to another episode of streamed and screened and entertainment podcast about movies and TV from Lee Enterprises. I'm Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer at Lee and cohost of the program with Bruce Miller, editor of the Sioux City Journal and a longtime entertainment reporter. Bruce, welcome back. How's it going? No. We went through the Oscars We're good. We are looking forward to the spring shows. We're good. 0:00:30 I have watched all of Ted Lasso. I'm good. So, yeah, there's a there's a lot there that we've been able to peel off during the last last few weeks. But, you know, if I see a cocaine bear in the streets, I'm stopping. I'm excited. I have not seen cocaine beer and I will not until it's at least on TV for streaming purposes. But I am excited for Ted Lasso. That's the one show because I feel like Apple T. V. Plus, they've got some good programs. But I I can't pay for it year round because they don't seem to have enough at any given moment for me. Like, I like Tesla, so I like that space program. Where it was kind of the alternate history. Yeah. I really like that. So I've been waiting for Ted Lass, so so I can resubscribe for about a month or two Watch watch that. 0:01:25 Watch for all mankind. I still have to get caught up on that that Jennifer Aniston to the morning show. Morning show love that. Yeah. Look at what you're missing. You should be spending money. You're rich. You can do all that. 0:01:41 If I was rich, Bruce, I probably would be doing something differently right now, but I'm not. I'm rich in knowledge. I'm rich in movie and TV knowledge spending my time with you. You know, we don't need we don't need all that money because we have someone's experience that's where we're able to draw on that bank. And if you buy that graph, I'll tell you a little bit more. 0:02:06 I think we need a time machine, Bruce, for this episode. Like, I was looking I was looking locally for a delorean to see if I could whip something up. Because I I wanna go back in time because it feels like everything we're watching on TV now is going back in time. A lot a lot back in time. Yeah. And they're going back to the the days when maybe politics wasn't the same as it is today. Right now they're trying to kind of show us what was it like when x or y was in charge? What did they do? Right? And how did they react? And it's interesting. I don't know if we're learning anything because I think our politicians are making the same mistakes they've always made. 0:02:48 It is fun to look back at these things. I love these ones that have great sets and costumes. I really like looking at that stuff because I think what are they what kind of hell are they going through to wear this this junk. You know? And when you see something like the great, which just turns it on its head and goes for the laughs. I enjoy it. It's fun. 0:03:11 But a lot of things are coming up before the end of the spring, Tom Jones. They're doing a remake of Tom Jones that will be a little less user friendly. Let's just say that Tom isn't the the dashing rogue that he once was. And so that's an interesting take on things. And then we have Maria Antoinette, which is a kind of a spin on how that whole story played out that the people who made it said that, really, Marie Antoinette was the victim. She was not treated the way she really should have been, and she was the victim of gossip in the court. People were she was, like, the first influencer who was canceled. Is one of those kind of things where permanent They were out together, and so they did whatever they could. And in this new this new series, limited series that they have, you'll be able to see how the people are really she wasn't that bad, but she was treated badly. And then we'd have the crown. Look how long we've been looking at the British dynasty and what they're up to. And how will that shift now when Charles is in charge? 0:04:26 Howard Bauchner: Right. So you mentioned the great, which that one's actually coming back pretty soon. Season three is coming back May twelfth. They're gonna drop ten ten episodes on Hulu. And I feel like that's gonna be one where I'm gonna have to tell my wife, like, we gotta take a couple days off because we're we're just gonna crush through all ten episodes back to them. And they're quick ones too. I I feel like that one you can kinda you can crush through the great -- Yeah. -- pretty quickly. 0:04:53 But I I love that show because it's it's so irreverent. Everyone's smashing glasses on the floor and Hazan and it it it's a little bit historically accurate, like, at, you know, like, one percent. But it's so fun. And very naughty, which I like naughty. Yeah. That's a that's a good thing. The gentleman who created the great. Also did the favorite. If you remember the favorite. Okay. 0:05:23 And that starred Olivia Coleman, she won her Oscar for that. And when me and Coleman was in the crown. Right? And I just talked her she's gonna be in great expectations. Another adaptation that's coming up. And she says, I have no interest in history. I really I am not one who who wants to go back and and dig out that stuff. In fact, she remembers being assigned great expectations when she was in high school. She's, I don't think I even read it. I really don't. So I I like the honesty that she she brings to all of this because it makes, I think, the character a little more believable. But yeah. But she was in the crowd. 0:06:05 And you know, I I I mentioned this before, I'm sure, that I don't like that they switching out the cast because I think they could do with some of that stuff. I think this latest cast, you know, the last one was really good. And now these once I'm not so sure I'm buying into it, but there you are. Yeah. I liked so and it was weird too for me because I didn't watch the crown initially. When season four of the crown came out, which was the second and final season with the second cast, my wife and I decided, let's kinda check this one out. So we went back and we we crushed through season one and two. Then immediately went to season three, which is very jarring when you go and look at the cast change because we really liked and we we kinda grew to like that initial cast. And then it goes to season three, and we didn't know kind of what to think of it. And I think it finally grew on us once we got about halfway through maybe the second the the third season. 0:07:06 It was a really I really I think ended up liking the season three and forecast the most because I thought Olivia Coldman really nailed a a kind of middle aged queen Elizabeth, somebody who is no longer, you know, the young pop in who's kind of settled into herself and taking charge and knows what she has to do, but you had hell in a bottom Carter playing her her sister, which was kinda fun. And then I didn't even realize it until almost after the fact, but they brought back Dana Sculley, Julian Anderson played Margaret Thatcher. And she was fabulous. It was so good. And and the actor that was from the Game of Thrones who played he he was the the member of the family that was blown up by the the bomb, the boat bomb. Oh, the Fort Mount bat or was it Fort Mountbatman? Yeah. Yeah. Because he was Tywin Lannister in the Game of Thrones. So it was just they had a really solid ensemble cast. So I I absolutely loved it. 0:08:12 I thought they had a really good young Prince Charles in that program. Right. I thought they had a really good young Princess Diana, but it didn't translate well when they jumped to season five. I I thought, like, it It wasn't as jarring because it'd been so long since I'd watched seasons five four and five, but I I'm not in love with the current cast. Dominic West, isn't he Prince Charles now? Mhmm. Yeah. I think No. 0:08:40 That was miscasting. Right there. Right. Right there is miscasting. But you know, it I get what they're doing. What's funny is that they kind of take a Jackie Collins approach. To that whole royal world, and yet they're trying to play it as very masterpiece theater. You know, there's there's a lot of down and dirty stuff that you think, is this really what happened? Or are you going a little too far on the edge here? So I don't know how accurate it might be, but I bet any money that the people who are in the royal family had a great time watching it. I heard I don't know if you heard this, but around the time of the first season, one of the Queen's sons I can't remember if it was Prince Edward, but they they would go to her house, her castle, whatever she lives in. And they would watch it on, like, Sunday nights. Once a week. You're gonna be great? Yeah. So they threw on the Netflix and watched themselves. And then you would be, like, screaming at the TV. No. That's not the way it is. That's not true at all. Right? The one yeah. I know. 0:09:52 The one actor who I really thought has nailed the role in the newer season, though. Jonathan Price is Prince Philip. I I feel like I believe him in that role. It feels like Prince Philip to me. Well and, you know, isn't it weird that we know these characters? Or we feel we know them because we've seen them in the media. We've seen them doing things. So you have a a a different approach. Whereas the ones that are from Katherine or Grace era, she can be whatever. You know? Because we've enough about her that I don't know that that's true. But so it's I think it's easier for an actor to play one that we aren't familiar with. But something, but that really kinda grazes your radar. I think that's difficult. Yeah. 0:10:35 So that program has the final season coming up season six, which will maintain the current cast. I've read that it's scheduled to wrap photography sometime in May or June. And that Netflix, there's no release date, but Netflix has historically dropped that show in either November or December. So take that for whatever that's worth. We probably will see it by the end of the year maybe. Will they go up to the death of Elizabeth, or will they No. I I thought the plan was to kind of bring it up to, you know, we'll obviously see the death of of Princess Diana, and I think they have a young Kate Middleton cast. So we will see like William meet Kate in school. But I don't think it goes any further than that. I think that was their point was they wanted to kind of bring it up to sort of modern times, like, where we would recognize transition from that to almost the present day, but they weren't planning to bring it much further. Didn't you see though a standalone movie where they do the death of Elizabeth, where that's kinda and then the transition of power -- Yeah. -- that'd be cool. 0:11:45 And just the drama, the Harry drama. Oh, the spare, I've been reading the book. Have you? Yeah. The spare is very interesting because you can see First of all, the media is the devil. He has the media responsible for everything, which I find kind of like Boy, they really fed him the kool Aid, didn't they? Mhmm. But he does have an altered view of his importance his place and the family drama. Now, he tells a lot of things that are very fascinating, you know, about how bad the the plumbing is in the palace and and how the sheets are repaired so many times that when you're in bed, you feel like all these these holes that used to be in there are darned over and it rubs against you. 0:12:36 I think, well, that that's kind of information I would well, I'd want that. I'd like to know that kind of jump. But then he gets into his military career and single handedly, he is, like, Liam Nason here. He's doing a flying into Afghanistan and Yeah. It's and, you know, there are there are a lot of girlfriends mentioned that I never knew. I I'd be going if I were British press, I'd be going back and asking them a few questions about Is this the way that book actually happened? Can you fill me in on this? This is the truth. But he always is going about the paparazzi And early in the book, he has this philosophy that he thought his mom was not dead, that she was you know, just hiding out because she wanted to get away from all of it. 0:13:23 And it took him going to the site of where she died to really come to a different different kind of conclusion. But it it is fascinating because those people don't reveal their feelings. For the most you never we don't know what the queen was like. She could have been a big old lush. But, you know, all we have to go on is that she has a purse, she likes corgis, and she always wore a hat. Right? And worse racing. Right. This is like this is what we know about the Queen. Yeah. So Queen speculation that a TV show does It is what it is. Yeah. 0:13:59 I I haven't read the book. I'm not really interested in reading it. I I have not watched Harry and Meghan on Net flix and I I really don't feel like feeding that beast. You know, it's funny you mentioned the the the devil and the media yet they have no problem using the media to their own advantage. It's only when it it doesn't serve them right. 0:14:21 But I think my problem is he he it just comes off as very elitist and entitled on his part. I mean, he I I I don't doubt that he's probably felt disparaged in some way. You know, we we all know going back to when even he was younger they were referred to as the heir in the spare. So I totally get that. But you're living a very gilded life to begin with. I I don't care about your problems all that much. It's it's a, you know, you you can have a lot of problems. And I also think too, like, you're kinda burning bridges at this point. 0:15:02 We all have people in our families who we don't necessarily like. You see them on Thanksgiving, you got your crazy uncle or somebody that believes in weird conspiracies or that UFOs are coming down to com and you just kinda like, get denied politely and you move along. But in theory, he's really not that far removed from the monarchy. So Like, you would almost wanna be, like, let me just play it cool for the time being. Because in, you know, what happens if if Charles were to die? And then something crazy like William and his family are flying off somewhere in the plane crashes. All of a sudden, you're the king of England. So it's not you know, it's one thing with his his cousins who are like fourteenth in line and they're never gonna smell the throne room. But he's actually still not that far removed from from that position. Like, just kind of let it roll out and then maybe you know, years from now, but, you know, it is what it is. 0:16:00 There I think Meghan and Harry are playing it like a reality show. You know, they all give me all that kind of angst that we should get on their side and we feel sorry for them. Look, I'm feeling sorry for nobody who has you ring a bell and you get a meal. I have to scramble to get a meal. So and they haven't they don't have to worry about any money. They can buy whatever they want. They can get whatever they want. But I do see the the kind of velvet handcuffs on them where you gotta go cut a ribbon or open a store or something and Is that really a job? 0:16:38 Right? And he acts like he's the only one who's seen the real outside world. He hasn't seen the outside world at all. He wasn't working at seven eleven. He wasn't doing, you know, some of these things that they act like, oh, we are real commoners. We are just weird. You know? And so it's fascinating. I like I say, I enjoy reading this because it's so kind of diluted -- Right. -- about what the real world is. 0:17:06 And then as you said, Putting the blame on the media when you don't really even know how grateful you should be to the media for carrying your water. Where would his side have been in this whole thing if Oprah hadn't said, hey, let's do a little let's do a little interview. You know? And so he's naive. Naive is a better word than spare. But he brings up the spare aspect all the time in that book. Yeah. I am just this Oh, feel sorry for me. He's gonna beat the queen's pony until its death on that one. Well, and yeah. And I think they will go. They will go to the coordination. Because that more content. They're it's they're just, like, influencers that have to have more content for their site. So they're going and they're not gonna look happy, but they're gonna go and then they're gonna bring the kids and then they all say that somebody dissed him or Camilla didn't grab the kids and hug them like she should have or it'll be some crap like that because it keeps the monarchy going. As long as there's interest in that, nobody is talking about, let's get away from Let's not do that. Let's just make those some museums that we can send people through. Of course. 0:18:29 Now some royal drama that I do enjoy Bridgerton. Bridgerton. Yeah. I you probably are looking at me like, Terry, you you really Bridgerton? Yeah. I I enjoyed that. I kinda got roped into it with my wife and I've been sucked in. It's it's fun. It's just fun good old drama. 0:18:47 I tried the first season, and there were so many disconnects. That I thought, you know, I can't. I can't do this because it's one more that I'm gonna have to watch. And I did not buy the characters But this is me. This is just me now. You enjoy. Go. Do. Enjoy. But I you know, when they lost their leading man after the first season. I thought, this is gonna really kill it. But then they've got enough people there that each year they can have a new one who's looking for love even though the plot seems a little familiar. 0:19:21 I also like as a music buff they have, like, the vitamins yeah. The vitamin string quartet and there's another group too where they take contemporary music but turn it into ballroom dance songs. So when I'm watching it, I'm thinking, like, I know that song somewhere and then it's still there's still There's Nirvana. I can't believe you can dance to Nirvana. So that's kinda some good old fun. But, you know, it's It is what it is. I that one's I guess, they're still working on season three, no release date. Again, they're kind of like changing over some of the cast because they're gonna focus in on a different character or something, but it's it's not reality. So but it's kinda got that drama. 0:20:14 With the newest with Miranda Gwynet, which is coming out this month -- Mhmm. -- they go back and they looked at all of the way that she was treated. And they looked at the books that were written about her and how people reacted to her. And they realized that what we know, the things like she says, let them eat cake. She never said that. Off with their heads or any of those kinds of things that seemed very kind of fictitious. It was all made up. And instead, she was just another person throwing into this this royal world. She had no idea what she was doing, and they hated her because she was an outsider. She was not somebody that was picked from the inside. And she really kind of had to learn with her king because he was thrown into it when his family died. So they were these naive kids. 0:21:13 This is probably more like Romeo and Juliet than anything else. Yeah. And they had to figure out What do we do now? An interesting factor. We I think we have the interview, but I talked to the two stars of the of the mini series. 0:21:31 Amelia Schul and Lewis Cunningham, and get this. He was never gonna be an actor. He did a couple of shows in his college. Right? And thought, oh, that's interesting. Okay. But he was all geared I think he was a German major, and he was gonna do something else. And suddenly he gets cast in this thing and his co star was actually serving as his kind of his adviser telling him what he needed to know to be able to be in a mini series. So it is it's fascinating how all of this world kind of opens up to certain people. And it's not unlike royalty, but you could be the star of a mini series tear. I could. You know, all you need and then the actors can lead you through it. So there you go. I'll I'll start looking for parts. 0:22:25 The the closest thing that I could think of with this series, Netflix did one a couple years ago called the Last SARS. Did you see that one at all? Might have seen, like, an episode. I usually see the first episode of everything, and then after I'm done with that, I just bail. So the last star is if you haven't seen it, It's one of those shows where I'm not gonna recommend anybody you're listening to it to go see it because it wasn't that good. 0:22:48 But the problem with it is once you watch one episode, you kind of feel compelled to finish them off because it's not that bad either. It's sort of in between. It's one of those that has It's, like, fifty six percent on rotten tomatoes. So it's not terrible, but it's just not great either. We need it. We don't have completion. That's what you're looking at. Exactly. And it was short enough. It was only episode. So it's kinda I can I can kinda work my way through mediocre series? 0:23:13 It's but this that one felt a little bit like this Marie Antoinette where it's the czar, the last czar of Russia. It's it's how he gets married. The the the influence from Rasputin and kind of what happened leading up to the Bolshevic revolution and then ultimately the family getting wiped out. And and I think it might have it's been a while since I've seen it, but I think it might have even began with, you know, did Anastasia actually survive it because there's somebody in the hospital who's roughly that age who claimed to be the daughter of the czar and it was a fascinating look, and I think it provided some insight into the time period. And it was a good you know, it's somebody who's a student of history like myself and I like to think of myself, it was good to watch from that perspective. So I feel like I might actually hop into this one because it seems interesting enough to kinda cap my my attention. 0:24:07 They shot at her side, so you actually get to see the locations and they were shocked because they said there's a lot of show there. You can see the, you know, the the grand ballrooms that they have, but they were living in, like, back rooms basically. They didn't really have all that opulence around them at all times. I don't think that's true with you know all all regal people. Mhmm. I don't I think some of them do have the the good stuff. But, you know, interesting, isn't it that you can go and I don't know that you as a tourist could go into those back rooms and see what it's like. They got an opportunity because they were filming there and they said, you wanna see this room and, like, Yeah. Okay. Let's go look. 0:24:50 So that's and it this will be a three parter too where we have to so I just know that it's three years that they'll be doing this. I think that's eight episodes or so for the first season, then they'll do a second and they'll do the third. And so we don't get head cutting until the end. And then and there's no cake because we've we've already ruled that out. Cake. We are not having cake. No. Unless they decide to do it at the end. You know, let's end by the way, to celebrate this month's fundraiser on PBS. We're gonna be having cake. You don't get the tteok bag. You get a piece of cake. We're selling it. A hundred dollar donation. You we'll send you a piece of cake. We'll get the piece of cake. That's right. Alright. So let's queue that up. 0:25:34 Amelia Schul is is Marie Antoinette. And Louis Cunningham, who plays Lewis King Lewis, are are the stars of this. And they became very, very, very good friends. In fact, before I was interviewing them, they were just sitting on a couch and he had kicked off his shoes. And his shoes were like they were huge. They had a huge heel on them. They were like, it looked like something you'd walk in a in a fashion show with. And I said, can I look at those shoes? Do you mind? He says, oh, they my feet hurt so bad from wearing them, but they look cool. And he didn't have enough room in his luggage. So she brought the shoes with to do the interviews. And so he he would have a look, but it wasn't like it was gonna be suffering for his art. But that was kind of a a little insight into their friendship. They really are close friends now. Because of this. And they're they're excited about going back. 0:26:31 If they say it's really cool to know that you have another job to go to. That's the best part of being in a mini series or a limited series is that you're not just one and done. It's like, well, now we can go and see those same people next year. And keep up and then maybe look for some other work in the process. So, anyway, there's lots of fun. 0:26:50 Here they are, Amelia and Lewis. This reminds me that please don't think I'm crazy for suggesting it, but it's a very hair Meghan kind of thing, where they're kind of the victims of all the people who just gossip around them. Did you see that at all? Or am I just crazy? It's been, like, brought up a bed. In different reviews. 0:27:11 And I I'm not if I'm honest, I hadn't thought about it at all before. And I guess Yeah. Someone knew coming in to a big royal family really. I know. I guess maybe James kept saying that as well. James couldn't afford anything. Yeah. Maybe there are definitely something. But it definitely didn't it wasn't something that I could have thought of going into it. But yeah. Yeah. No. And maybe you're right. But look, I haven't really thought about it as well. I mean, courts are difficult, and there's always intrigues and, you know, like Social media is kind of the the the whispering that goes on in the a thing. And so it's like, oh, I wonder if that's I mean, if you could make that that parallel. I mean, I did make I didn't make the parallel Harry and Meghan, but I make the parallel that she was a victim of fake news and canceled culture. And, yeah, of this whole campaign that was designed to destroy her and to support the revolution. You know? 0:28:08 When you look at all the things that are written about her, do you say, well, what can I believe What can I you know, because some people thought she was good, some thought she spent too much money, some thought she was fooling around? Yeah. I mean, where do you find her? That was definitely a challenge for me because I've, you know, been diving into the prep and we seeing all these books. And and then we have our script, which is an entirely new take on her. And then I I had this conversation with the red neighbors. And I was, like, naming all the books I've read and she was, like, what, you've read the Stephan Spike book? When I read that, I wanted to throw it against the wall. I hate that book. Mhmm. And I was, like, okay. You could Stephen Spike obviously didn't think she's a great person. And, you know, it's like the description of a mediocre character. It's like the subtitles of the of the script. So yeah. 0:28:54 And this is when I kind of understood that. I have to we, you know, distance myself from all this and find my own Marie Antoinette and we have this script. We have my work and, you know, did did you like her? Oh, yeah. I totally sympathized with her. Like, I didn't know like, I had all these cons conceptions about her before I, you know, got this part. And then when prepping, I, you know, I fell in love with her because her life was tragic, you know, like, she's getting sent away from a home country. It's kind of child marriage. She's a husband who doesn't touch her So she has to bear the humiliation of, like, hold Europe. And she can't fulfill her only job that she has to do to, you know, produces air. Mhmm. So I do get why she, you know, distracted herself with the partying and the dresses and the wigs because she's been traumatizing stock up to stock up since, you know. Yeah. So yeah. I think Cover. 0:29:53 I think it was what's really interesting is reading the history books and then seeing yeah. As you said, how things are so different in different accounts? And thinking, okay, why is that? Why a perception? Changing. And then from that, you can kind of get a slight understanding of what you might want to portray within, you know, your character. Could you relate at all to him? Or is it, like, yeah, do you see it? Oh, I'm not like that I I talk. Yeah. I mean, on that level No. Not so much. But absolutely. I mean, I think I've -- Yeah. 0:30:24 -- a hundred percent been in situations where kind of anxieties or fear takes over and you it's kind of a fight fight or fight type situation. Yeah. And I just shut off. I was saying the panel that we've just done, you know. I just almost kind of on zombie mode of automatic function, kind of just rolling out. And obviously, I was speaking there, but it's that kind of because it's stressful. It's stressful. It's stressful. It's of that. But at the base of it, I was just like, okay. Put myself in his shoes. Fifteen year old fifteen years old getting married. Your parents have both died, your brothers died, you know that you're gonna become king of this country that you really don't know much about, to be honest. Never see much of it other than your massive castle. Yeah. And the pressure that has put on you is a normal and especially the pressure in the bedroom. It's like how on earth could you ever perform -- Yes. -- sexually under such political stress and kind of Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Excuse me for being stupid. 0:31:27 Did you major in acting in Not Oh. So what were what was that career that you were studying? Yeah. So the career no. I I studied German and philosophy at university. Speak to and French. We have another show, the deck of Filiens. Okay. So very great. 0:31:43 And I but I always loved loved theater. And I did a bunch of theater on the side of my degree at my university. And I I was at the mindset that, okay, maybe if I finish university and then I still really wanna do this. I'll play drama schools in the UK and then go from there and to patterns or I'll get it out of my system and then go and do I have no idea what. But I got so lucky, a casting director saw a player that I was in and then introduced me to my I'm saying? Do you tell him this doesn't happen? No. It doesn't. I told him that I waited seventeen years to get a job like this. And it's his first job, like, proper job. Is that fair? Not really fair. No. No. No. But I had her. I haven't heard a guy. Honestly, I can't I will say this to you for a quarter machine. 0:32:37 Amelia is one one of the most insanely talented people I've ever met in my life. Two, the kindness. Three, the most impressive guideer ever. You know, if I was lost, stressed nervous or just didn't really know how something worked. Always always always explaining it to me, helping me out, pushing me along right now. She didn't say scared in my share them. Yeah. Hold on. And she would make everything vibrant and exciting and fresh and energetic and, you know, we would play with everything. 0:33:05 And these like, by the end, when I know you're gonna be. I'm just like So does it make you wanna do this then? This is the career? So all that other careful just It's like a drug, you know, like, once you, you know, try it from once you're hooked, like, acting, doing the films Have you both thought about what this could do for your careers? Nope. No. I mean, because this will be a big platform. It will be a big launch. And Yeah. Yeah. But then again, you know, like, the market is so big. There's so much out there. So I'm trying to be like, shit. Build and, you know, it can go in either direction and you just have to be grateful, you know, like, take a day by day. Yeah. What did you shaved your hair? For for filming Germany. 0:33:46 Did they shoot those scenes then when she is executed? Maria Antoinette? No. No. No. Because it didn't she ever I mean, this is what I've read. I don't know if they've like, to be honest, my prep went up until the and where we finished season one because there was a lot a lot to prep for. So she still has her head at the end of season one. So we could have season two, and it would be fine. That would be fine? Well, I mean, you you gotta do the same. You should be alive. It isn't like No. I'm still alive then. Yes. Yeah. Okay. It's your free season concept. 0:34:20 Do you think about though doing that last kind of moment of these characters. It's really interesting. Deborah was very specific and she said in the history books, don't read a past a certain point? Yeah. Because these people didn't know what was coming for them. So why why should he Yeah. So we didn't think about that moment. No. 0:34:39 But it's in the in the first season, there are a couple of tiny things that I kind of foreshadowing wants to come. And that was a really interesting things to think about. And also, the first season is really just within Dasei and in the court. So it shows how blissfully unaware there were, everything going on without side and the reality of life in France for the normal people. And to Yep. It was it was kind of more interesting to play these roles with no concept. 0:35:11 Did you think you could live this life? Did you say -- No. -- I really No. No. It's horrible. I mean, you come to code, everyone, like, as a Spanishman gentleman, everyone hates you because you're Austrian, everyone's to get rid of you. And and there's are these, like, stupid one hundred your old rules, you have no privacy, you're always observed, always judged, and controlled, and you have no life on your own, of your own, you know. This is why she was so rebellious because she wanted to, you know, be human being. 0:35:43 Have you watched the great? Yes. Yes. Do you see parallels between characters? Or Yeah. I mean, it yeah. But both of them but, I mean, Katherine just That's played for humor, but it's still I mean, both wanted to change the court, and Katherine succeeded, and Melania didn't. So, I guess, Katherine was just more lucky, you know. 0:36:08 Did you think she was pretty? I mean, I I don't Maria Twonette, do you look at pictures of her because some, you say, and then some, they say she was just beautiful. So how do you find what the visual is of her. I honestly haven't thought about that, but what they do write about in the picture is that she was just very very and she had this aura and this playfulness and that was just seductive, you know. That's what I've, you know, try I've been trying to And the hunter? Are you hunter hunter? No. I'm really No. I'm I'm a gatherer. I'm a gatherer. Yeah. Great. I but also get back to the kind of, like, image of these people. They had their portraits painted. You haven't you never know. They can take a look at some eighteenth century photoshop -- Right. -- on those things. Yeah. Sure. Sure. It could be worse. Right? Who knows? 0:37:02 I mean, I think the idea of an arranged marriage where I mean, is that just so foreign to you that -- Yes. -- where do you where do you find a way in? It's views. It's not right. I mean, people in India would see, you know, see that differently. There's a lot of range. Marriages. I I think what even more than just being in a range marriage, it was that they were children. They were I mean, I think of myself at fifteen. I was the you know, and I was keen. Yeah. Yeah. I was just so unprepared for the world and that you're forced to marry someone you don't know. You've never met. 0:37:41 But I think, you know, with Louis, he's trying to weigh up. He's angry because he doesn't wanna be kidding. He's been forced to marry his brother as horrible to him. Everyone thinks he's useless. And then this woman comes in and he's kind of simultaneously reguiled in or of her, but also doesn't want to do that because it kind of, you know, he falls in line with everything that has been laid out for him then. But so he's just completely drawn in every direction. 0:38:06 How is it working in France? Is that interest thing. The rumor is true. They do have wine at lunch, but first of all, it's true. Like, it's I've seen it. And then the other If you will get around to the house of people. 0:38:26 The other rumor that they don't speak English is also true. Like, or hearty and English. So that's been a challenge, but then also beautiful for me because, you know, like, my hairdresser who has spent, like, I I counted. I must have spent like four hundred hours on the hair chair and he didn't speak any English and I didn't speak any French. But you can communicate age, not verbally. Because we do best parties. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's if that sums it up. 0:38:55 And also, we were living in Paris. We were living in Paris. But That's not too bad. It. You know? Yeah. We were all kind of five minutes away from each other. Yeah. We could. Yeah. From a You were living in Paris. Do you have, like, go betweens to help you talk to people? Or But What does it go between? Somebody who would need to translate Oh, wait. Well, actually, half of the costs were friends So -- Yeah. -- that helped a lot. Yeah. They've managed to find the most incredible number of half French half English actors. And, you know, they all live in Paris, but then have, you know, one parent is English, so they'd be perfect English, perfect English. Tractor. But so they would help a lot. Yeah. No. 0:39:37 But there were moments where they said like action and French, and I didn't realize we were filming. Yeah. Yeah. You know what we've stated in those. Yeah. We'll we'll tell them on these what they say. What? So how would they approximate? Did your French get better than? A little bit, a little bit. The petite. Let's eat it. Yeah. Yeah. It was amazing by the end. Not up by the end. I didn't have any time at night six for days, but I started to learn French after we stopped filming. You say that, but actually your friend. She knew the good words. Right? She was able to say certain things. Then when you come to the next two two years of this, when do you go back to do something thing on this. When would you feel? We don't know, but something. No. That's not. Yeah. Well, that that isn't that the best. Yeah. Alright. Thank you so much. Thank you so appreciate it ever. Shownotes created by https://podium.page

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” scored seven Oscars on Sunday night at the 95th Academy Awards, including best picture, best actress for Michelle Yeoh, best supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan and best supporting actress for Jamie Lee Curtis. The Daniels — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — won best director and best original screenplay, and the film also took film editing. The only other movie to come close was "All Quiet on the Western Front" with four wins, while some notable nominees fell short. “Top Gun: Maverick,” which was hailed as the film that got moviegoers back into their seats, won only for sound, while another early favorite, "Elvis," went home without an Oscar. Hosts Bruce Miller and Terry Lipshetz break down the night, discussing the key wins, including Brendan Fraser taking best actor for “The Whale,” some surprises in the music categories, John Travolta's emotional introduction to the in memoriam section that featured Lenny Kravitz, Jimmy Kimmel's hosting efforts, the red ... err ... champagne carpet, the questionable inclusion of "The Little Mermaid" and, of course, Cocaine Bear. About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. List of 2023 Oscar winners LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscar winners announced Sunday: Best picture: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Best actress: Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Best actor: Brendan Fraser, “The Whale” Best supporting actor: Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Best supporting actress: Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Original song: “Naatu Naatu” from “RRR” Film editing: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Best director: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Best animated feature: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” International feature film: “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Germany) Documentary feature: “Navalny” Live action short: “An Irish Goodbye” Cinematography: James Friend, “All Quiet on the Western Front” Makeup and hairstyling: “The Whale” Costume design: “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Documentary short: “The Elephant Whisperers” Animated short: “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” Production design: “All Quiet on the Western Front” Music (original score): Volker Bertelmann, “All Quiet on the Western Front” Visual Effects: “Avatar: The Way of Water” Original screenplay: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Adapted screenplay: “Women Talking” Sound: “Top Gun: Maverick”

We are just days away from the 95th Academy Awards, so there's no better time to discuss whether "Everything Everywhere All At Once" can follow its huge night at the SAG Awards and take the Oscar for Best Picture. Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan are all up for Oscars in the acting categories and the Daniels — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — are also nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. But before we dive into that, Bruce Miller gives his thoughts about the new movie "Cocaine Bear" and Terry Lipshetz discusses the new season of "The Mandalorian," getting caught up with "The Last of Us" and thoughts on Best Picture nominees "The Banshees of Inisherin" and "Everything Everywhere All At Once." REVIEW: It doesn't take a cartel to see how goofy 'Cocaine Bear' is Miller also has an interview with director Bobby Farrelly about his new movie "Champions" starring Woody Harrelson, which opens March 10. Farrelly and his brother Peter Farrelly — also known as the Farrelly Brothers — made a name for themselves with comedies like "Dumb and Dumber," "Kingpin" with Harrelson and "There's Something About Mary." Peter scored big with an Oscar win for "Green Book," which also created time for Bobby to do a solo project of his own with "Champions."  We will be recording our next episode immediately after the Oscars so look for that in the early hours of Monday, March 13. Previous episodes discussing the Oscars Previewing acting Oscars, Ke Huy Quan's career, 'The Mandalorian' is back as well as Mel Brooks Bruce Davis reveals inside scoop on Oscars, talks about new book 'The Academy and the Award' About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin.

In this episode, we explore the 76th British Academy Film Awards — better know as the BAFTAs — and the upcoming Screen Actors Guild Awards. These are the final two big indicators as to which actors and films might win big at the upcoming Academy Awards on March 12. Bruce Miller shares a story about Tom Hanks' kindness toward a friend, Ke Huy Quan's return to acting with his best supporting actor nomination for "Everything Everywhere All At Once" and whether he'll appear in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny." He also shares his thoughts about "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania." Terry Lipshetz is excited for the March 1 return of "The Mandalorian" on Disney+ and shares his thoughts on how Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau can pretty much do no wrong with the Star Wars franchise after a shaky reboot with J.J. Abrams and Rian Johnson's films. The show wraps with Miller sharing his thoughts on the upcoming Hulu series from Mel Brooks: "History of the World, Part II." The series is a sequel of sorts to Brooks' 1981 film "History of the World, Part I." Also, a program update: There will be a slight delay in our next episode as we have an exclusive interview with director Bobby Farrelly, who will be talking about his newest film "Champions" starring Woody Harrelson. Look for that on March 6. Read more about Ke Huy Quan Living a dream: 'Everything Everywhere's' Ke Huy Quan can't believe the Oscar attention he's getting About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin.

In this episode, Streamed & Screened hosts Bruce Miller and Terry Lipshetz discussed a variety of topics tied to the Super Bowl, including Rihanna's performance, the touching moment between the Kelce brothers and their mother, Patrick Mahomes' trip to Disney Land, the New York Mets' million dollar ad and Super Bowl commercials tied to summer blockbusters: "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" "AIR: Courting a Legend" "The Flash" "Ant-Man and The Wasp" "Fast X" We then discussed the new show "Hello Tomorrow" coming to Apple TV+ this week, Oscar contenders, the second half of "Alaska Daily" coming soon and "National Treasure: Edge of History."  About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. Shownotes created by https://podium.page

It's a slow season for the silver screen, but Bruce Miller shares his thoughts on two movies he's seen recently. "80 for Brady" stars Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Rita Moreno, Lily Tomlin and, of course, former New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. It's a fitting, although disappointing, film heading into Super Bowl weekend. Also out is "Knock at the Cabin," the latest horror/thriller from director M. Night Shyamalan, who made his name with "The Sixth Sense" but has not quite replicated that success since. Miller also has an interview with Lacretta, who plays bailiff Donna "Gurgs" Gurganous on the rebooted NBC series "Night Court." The show, which stars Melissa Rauch of "The Big Bang Theory," has been surprise hit and was already renewed for a second season. The reboot got us thinking of some other recent reboots that co-host Terry Lipshetz has loved or hated, such as "The X-Files," "Cobra Kai," "Murphy Brown" and "Seinfeld." Contact us! Have you watched "Night Court" or have a favorite reboot? Let us know what you think! Email: podcasts@lee.net. About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin.

It's a new season for Streamed & Screened, and with it comes a new co-host as Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises, joins longtime host Bruce Miller. After quizzing Terry on the recent films and shows he's watched, Bruce shares his thoughts on this year's Oscar nominations, the new Tom Brady-themed film "80 for Brady" and some insight into "How I Met Your Father." The focus of this show is an interview with Oscar-nominated filmmaker R. J. Cutler about his new four-part documentary on Jack Roland Murphy — otherwise known as “Murf the Surf” — “television’s first true crime celebrity.”  "Murf the Surf" begins Feb. 5 on MGM+ and you can read more about the show here:  Life of crime: 'Murf the Surf' details how television helped a con man We also plan out a discussion for the next episode on the reboot of "Night Court," including an interview Bruce had with one of the show's stars, Lacretta. About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin.

It's the day after the The Golden Globe Awards, which means we're looking ahead to the Academy Awards and making predictions on what effect the Hollywood Foreign Press Association might have on who gets an Oscar. Bruce Miller is calling in from Los Angeles where he's set to get the lowdown on a ton of new TV shows and talk with stars of the so-called small-screen, so make sure you're subscribed to the show wherever you get your podcasts to get every new episode as soon as we publish it. Where to watch the Golden Globe Award winners and nominees: '‎Avatar: The Way of Water' ‎'Babylon' ‎'The Banshees of Inisherin' ‎'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' ‎'Elvis' ‎'Everything Everywhere All at Once' ‎'The Fabelmans' 'Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio' ‎'RRR' 'She Said' ‎'Top Gun: Maverick' ‎'TÁR' 'The Whale' ‎'Women Talking' Recent articles by Bruce Miller: What a doll: 'M3gan' scares up plenty of fun Harvey Weinstein's ways get a full outing in 'She Said' Whitney Houston biopic dances around too much Making music: All screen bios aren't always right on 'Will Trent' hints at time when Steven Bochco ruled police dramas ​​'Black Adam' doesn't capitalize on what The Rock could be cooking Follow the show: Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/streamed-screened/id1497387116 Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/28W6TG5TZMsXwWARz6lEu4 Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

Streamed & Screened host Bruce Miller is jetting off to Hollywood next week for a fancy Television Critics Association get together, so we thought we'd hear some of his favorite memories from the dozens and dozens of La La Land trips he's taken going all the way back in 1980. We'll also get to hear some of his entertainment industry predictions for the coming year, as well as some sage advice on can't-miss Hollywood destinations. And, as we mention in the episode, the whole 'prediction' prompt here is lovingly lifted from The Ethical Life podcast where Streamed & Screened's own Chris Lay has joined Scott Rada and Rick Kyte two years running to prognosticate: 'Nine bold predictions for 2022' - The Ethical Life 'How well did our predictions for 2022 hold up?' - The Ethical Life 'We boldly make nine predictions for 2023' - The Ethical Life Recent articles by Bruce Miller: 'Will Trent' hints at time when Steven Bochco ruled police dramas 'Black Adam' doesn't capitalize on what The Rock could be cooking What they said: A look back at the interviews of 2022 Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt can't control the chaos of 'Babylon' Brendan Fraser shines in beached 'Whale' Sioux City Journal Editor Bruce Miller's Five Favorite Stories of 2022 'Banshees of Inisherin,' 'Tar' tell compelling tales Follow the show: Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/streamed-screened/id1497387116 Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/28W6TG5TZMsXwWARz6lEu4 Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

This past year was full of dramatic ups and downs for the world of movies. A handful of massive blockbusters that had been held back due to the pandemic finally made their debut, some surprising international breakthroughs did well in theaters and on streaming, and at least a few indie movies connected with mainstream audiences and racked up some big box office numbers. Long time entertainment reporter, and currently the editor at the Sioux City Journal, Bruce Miller, is joined by co-host Chris Lay and extra special guest Jared McNett, to wrap up their year-end collection of episodes with a conversation about the absolute very best films of the year. Catch up on their other year-end episodes here: Our favorite TV shows of 2022 Our most anticipated movies for 2023 You can also check out the latest Ethical Life podcast where Chris joins Scott Rada and Rick Kyte to revisit predictions they made last December, including one about the then-upcoming Oscars that has aged particularly poorly: 'Nine bold predictions for 2022' - The Ethical Life 'How well did our predictions for 2022 hold up?' - The Ethical Life Our list of the best films from 2022: 'RRR' (where to watch) 'Top Gun: Maverick' (where to watch) 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' (where to watch) 'TÁR' (where to watch) 'The Fabelmans' (where to watch) 'Nope' (where to watch) 'The Banshees of Inisherin' (where to watch) 'Avatar: The Way of Water' (where to watch) 'Elvis' (where to watch) 'The Northman' (where to watch) 'Decision to Leave' (where to watch) 'Triangle of Sadness' (where to watch) 'Jackass Forever' (where to watch) 'Women Talking' (where to watch) 'Pearl' (where to watch) 'Bones and All' (where to watch) 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery' (where to watch) 'Ambulance' (where to watch) 'Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul' (where to watch) Recent articles by Bruce Miller: Sioux City Journal Editor Bruce Miller's Five Favorite Stories of 2022 'Banshees of Inisherin,' 'Tar' tell compelling tales The best television shows of 2022: 'This is Going to Hurt,' 'Andor' and 'The Bear' are among them The best films of 2022: 'The Fabelmans,' of course and then? Beautiful though it may be, 'Avatar 2' is too long and repetitious 'House of the Dragon' builds a 'Throne' Follow the show: Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/streamed-screened/id1497387116 Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/28W6TG5TZMsXwWARz6lEu4 Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

We're looking ahead to 2023 with this episode and corralling the movies we're most looking forward to that are just over the horizon. Some of them are still undated, but they're all at the very least in some degree of post-production at the very least (other than the notable addition of 'Roosevelt' which will make sense when you listen to the episode). Regardless, we covered a lot of ground and didn't even mention any of the upcoming franchise installments on the way for 'John Wick,' 'Creed,' 'Mission Impossible,' 'Fast & Furious,' 'Dune,' or the Marvel or DC Cinematic Universe that maybe go without saying they deserve a spot here. And if you're looking for even more audio content to binge on by way of your ear-buds, you should check out the latest Ethical Life podcast where Streamed & Screened co-host and producer Chris Lay joins Scott Rada and Rick Kyte to revisit predictions they made last December, including one about the then-upcoming Oscars that has aged particularly poorly: 'Nine bold predictions for 2022' (Dec. 21, 2021) 'How well did our predictions for 2022 hold up?' (Dec. 22, 2022) Movies we talked about: 'Infinity Pool' (dir. Brandon Cronenberg) 'Marlowe' (dir. Neil Jordan) 'Cocaine Bear' (dir.  Elizabeth Banks) 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' (dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers) 'Asteroid City' (dir.  Wes Anderson) 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny' (dir. James Mangold) 'Barbie' (dir. Greta Gerwig) 'Oppenheimer' (dir. Christopher Nolan) 'Haunted Mansion' (dir.Justin Simien) 'The Exorcist '(dir. David Gordon Green) 'Beau Is Afraid' (dir. Ari Aster) 'Cat Person' (dir. Susanna Fogel) 'The Killer' (dir. David Fincher) 'Killers of the Flower Moon' (dir. Martin Scorsese) 'Napoleon' (dir. Ridley Scott) 'Poor Things' (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos) 'Roosevelt' (dir. Martin Scorsese) Recent articles by Bruce Miller: Beautiful though it may be, 'Avatar 2' is too long and repetitious 'House of the Dragon' builds a 'Throne' Ron Howard works to bring 2018 cave rescue to life on screen Jennifer Ehle makes small moments resonate in '1923' and 'She Said' 'Glass Onion' peels away layers of intrigue and fun Marley Shelton says “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan is “transforming television” Amina Nieves feels the weight of portraying her indigenous relatives in “1923” Follow the show: Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/streamed-screened/id1497387116 Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/28W6TG5TZMsXwWARz6lEu4 Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

This is the first of three episodes where Bruce Miller and company are looking back on the year that was. As a special treat for long-time listeners, returning to the co-host seat is our very dear friend and former co-host, Sioux CIty Journal reporter Jared McNett who was last on for our bonus episode, The end of "Atlanta"! On this first episode we're running down our favorite TV shows of the year. Our list includes just about as many tearful finales as it does fantastic new shows, and honestly given how great the year was for television you could randomize what we've got in our top spots and it'd still be hard to argue with. We even included some honorable mentions. But wait! That's not all! Right up front, we've got interviews with Jennifer Ehle, Amina Nieves, James Badge Dale and Marley Shelton, stars of the new "Yellowstone" prequel spin-off "1923," which is set to premiere on December 18 on Paramount+. "1923" (Paramount+) Where to watch: "The Bear" S1 (Hulu; FX) "Andor" S1 (Disney+) "This is Going to Hurt" miniseries (AMC; BBC One) "Better Call Saul" S6 (AMC) "The White Lotus" S2 (HBO) "Atlanta" S3+S4 (FX) "Abbott Elementary" S2 (ABC) "What We do in the Shadows" S4 (FX) "Barry" S3 (HBO) "Hacks" S2 (HBO) "For All Mankind" S3 (Apple+) "Reservation Dogs" S2 (FX on Hulu) Honorable mentions: "Old Man" S1 (FX) "Only Murders in the Building" S2 (Hulu) "The Rehearsal" S1 (HBO) "Under the Banner of Heaven" miniseries (Hulu; FX) "We Own This City" miniseries (HBO) Recent articles by Bruce Miller: Clooney, Roberts bring what star power they can to 'Ticket' What's it like to have your life on screen? 'Spoiler Alert's' Michael Ausiello found out 'Spoiler Alert' earns all of its tears 'Amsterdam' isn't the memorable mystery some thought 'George & Tammy' offers a surface look at country legends Follow the show: Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/streamed-screened/id1497387116 Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/28W6TG5TZMsXwWARz6lEu4 Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

When it comes to Hollywood careers, Ron Howard is in a class all by himself. Beloved as Opie Taylor on "The Andy Griffith Show" in the 1960s and Richie Cunningham on "Happy Days" in the 1970s, he made his directing debut as a under the watchful eye of trash-cinema luminary Roger Corman with his films going on to cumulatively rack up nine Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for "A Beautiful Mind." Our very own Bruce Miller had the chance to talk to him as he's making the "For Your Consideration" rounds for his movie "Thirteen Lives," a dramatization of the Tham Luang cave rescue, as well as promoting his new book, "The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family" which he co-authored with his brother, Clint. Also on the show we talk about new releases "Spoiler Alert" (adapted from a memoir where terminal cancer is the tragic twist) and "Violent Night" (a sort of "Home Alone" meets "John Wick"), both of which we think are very good but certainly might not make for the best double feature. Where to watch: Thirteen Lives(Prime Video) Spoiler Alert(Official Website) Violent Night (Official Website) Recent articles by Bruce Miller: 'Amsterdam' isn't the memorable mystery some thought 'George & Tammy' offers a surface look at country legends 'The Fabelmans' is one of the year's best pictures 'The Menu' serves up plenty of attitude -- and deadly surprises Gossip aside, 'Don't Worry Darling' bears watching Kal Penn says Santa Claus may just be the one to bring us together 'She Said' meticulously details the Weinstein case 'Christmas Story Christmas' recalls the original's beats Billy Eichner's 'Bros' is almost as tame as a Hallmark film Follow the show: Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/streamed-screened/id1497387116 Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/28W6TG5TZMsXwWARz6lEu4 Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

The Hollywood awards season is heating up, with every week seeing big-name Best Picture contenders going up on marquees across America. On this very special episode we have a full-length interview with Bruce Davis, executive director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for more than 20 years, who has a fascinating new book out that documents the behind-the-scenes history of the golden man himself: Oscar. Longtime listeners are well aware that host Bruce Miller has been an avid follower of all things Academy Awards since before he was covering the entertainment beat, so the conversation touches on loads of interesting anecdotes and revelations that Bruce Davis unearthed from some of the farthest flung parts of the AMPAS archives. You can order "The Academy and the Award" from Brandeis University Press. Recent articles by Bruce Miller: 'Christmas Story Christmas' recalls the original's beats Billy Eichner's 'Bros' is almost as tame as a Hallmark film 'Wakanda Forever' is long, but worth the investment of time 'Fleishman is in Trouble' makes friendship a worthy proposition That's what friends are for: 'Fleishman in Trouble' dissects the value of relationships Follow the show: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/streamed-screened/id1497387116 Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/28W6TG5TZMsXwWARz6lEu4 Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

This week we've got conversations with "Fleishman is in Trouble" stars Adam Brody and Lizzie Caplan, as well as a separate conversation with author, New York Times Magazine staff writer and now showrunner Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Before she was topping the New York Times bestseller list or being recognized by the National Book Awards, Taffy Brodesser-Akner was earning accolades as the author of profiles and magazine articles. Also, Bruce Miller gives a quick review of "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," and you can read his longer review at the link below. Next week we'll have an interview with Bruce Davis, former executive director of the "Academy" for over twenty years, author of "The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences," so make sure you're subscribed with the links below to get that episode as soon as it drops. Where to watch: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 'Fleishman Is in Trouble' (Hulu) Recent articles by Bruce Miller: 'Fleishman is in Trouble' makes friendship a worthy proposition 'Wakanda Forever' is long, but worth the investment of time 'The Santa Clauses' goes searching for Tim Allen's replacement Starting over: Sylvester Stallone finds new joy in "Tulsa King' mob world 'Good Night Oppy' director tells how he pulled audiences into space "Yellowstone" stars Luke Grimes and Kelsey Ashbille talk about the series' upcoming season Season 5 brings plenty of change for the 'Yellowstone' Duttons Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

For this bonus episode we've got Jared McNett back onboard to spend some time digesting the series finale of 'Atlanta.' Created by Donald Glover and premiering on FX in 2016, just a month before his song 'Redbone' hit the charts, 'Atlanta' started off as a show about a struggling rapper and their rise-and-grind manager. The episodes and seasons that followed stretched, distorted and occasionally even outright neglected that basic premise, with Glover and his creative partners incorporating mocumentary formats, animation, commercial spoofs and other wild techniques. 'Atlanta' could be all over the place, but despite all that stylistic restlessness the show was always deeply grounded in some combination of social, emotional, political, or cultural sentiment (occasionally all at the same time). It's a show the likes of which (rich, weird, funny and deeply rewarding) are unlikely to happen again anytime soon. You can stream all four seasons of 'Atlanta' on HULU. Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

This week we have an interview with "Yellowstone" actors Luke Grimes and Kelsey Asbille, who play Kayce and Monica Dutton respectively, and Bruce Miller gets some great insights from them about the future of their characters and the rest of the Dutton family. "Yellowstone" season 5 premieres Sunday Nov. 13 on the Paramount Network. We also dig out claws into some questions about Marvel's new "Black Panther" film, "Wakanda Forever," specifically whether or not we think it could repeat the box office success of its predecessor (which pulled in a cumulative $1.348 billion) and challenge "Top Gun: Maverick" for its top spot the list of movie money-makers for 2022. And, finally, if the phrase "elves vomiting glitter" does anything for you, then the upcoming Disney+ series, "The Santa Clauses," might be a pleasant addition under your streaming TV tree this year. Where to watch: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 'Yellowstone' season 5 (Paramount Network) '1883' (Paramount+) 'Mayor of Kingstown' (Paramount+) 'Tulsa King' (Paramount+) 'The Santa Clauses' (Disney+) Recent articles by Bruce Miller: 'Good Night Oppy' brings science to life in new ways 'Armageddon Time' suggests where trouble may have started -- sixth grade You can now own a copy of 'Power of the Dog'; hallelujah! Tracee Ellis Ross explores the importance of hair in 'Hair Tales' New series explores world before 'Dangerous Liaisons' 'Black Adam' looks a lot like something Marvel already did 'Weird' finds a great way to tell Al Yankovic's story Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

We spent a lot of time talking on the last episode about documentaries, and you should definitely go check that out if you missed it, especially to catch the interview with Good Night Oppy director Ryan White. For the bonus episode we're sticking to the theme and jumping two years back in time, back when the show had a top-five format and went by a different name, to revisit our episode that was all about mockumentaries. Where to watch: Good Night Oppy (theaters now, Prime on Nov. 23) ‎The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) ‎The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978) ‎Real Life (1979) ‎Medusa: Dare To Be Truthful (1991) ‎Man Bites Dog (1992) ‎Bob Roberts (1992) ‎CB4 (1993) ‎Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) ‎Trailer Park Boys: The Movie (2006) ‎Summer Heights High (2007) ‎District 9 (2009) ‎Troll Hunter (2010) ‎What We Do in the Shadows (2014) ‎Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) ‎Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) Recent articles by Bruce Miller: 'Weird' finds a great way to tell Al Yankovic's story 'Top Gun: Maverick' might we worth inviting home for Thanksgiving Sioux City Journal remembers Jerry Lee Lewis: When 'Great Balls of Fire' told his story 'The White Lotus' is still the place to be It's great to see George Clooney and Julia Roberts back together but 'Ticket' is no paradise Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

This week we're highlighting an interview Bruce Miller did with Ryan White, the director of Good Night Oppy. The film, which documents NASA's Mars rover Opportunity, is in theaters now and will land on Amazon Prime on November 23rd. It's an unexpectedly moving movie that Bruce has short-listed for his Oscar pool, and we thought we'd take the opportunity to hash out some of the other great documentaries this year, what it is that makes a great non-fiction film or series, and since Bruce also recently had a chat with the 'Documentary Now!' creators we give some shine to that consistently brilliant satirical deconstruction of the genre. Where to watch: Good Night Oppy (theaters now, Prime on Nov. 23) ‎Original Cast Album: Company (1970) ‎Wattstax (1973) ‎Grey Gardens (1975) ‎Hoop Dreams (1994) ‎Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) ‎Grizzly Man (2005) ‎Man on Wire (2008) ‎Icarus (2017) Wormwood (2017) ‎Free Solo (2018) ‎The Last Dance (2020) ‎My Octopus Teacher (2020) Summer of Soul (2021) Sidney (2022) ‎The Redeem Team (2022) Recent articles by Bruce Miller: 'Weird' finds a great way to tell Al Yankovic's story 'Top Gun: Maverick' might we worth inviting home for Thanksgiving Sioux City Journal remembers Jerry Lee Lewis: When 'Great Balls of Fire' told his story 'The White Lotus' is still the place to be It's great to see George Clooney and Julia Roberts back together but 'Ticket' is no paradise Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

Because it's the season for scary things, we can't get enough horror films in our lives. Thankfully, Netflix is here for us all with 'Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities.' An anthology series in the same vein as 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents,' they've been dropping two "episodes" a day since Tuesday. I say "episodes" because they're basically creepy cinematic novellas, each one helmed by a modern horror legend and featuring a cast-list loaded top to bottom with great actors. As with every collection of stuff like this, it's an eclectic grab-bag but we're here to run through the episodes in a spoiler-free fashion and pick out the best of the bunch. Disagree? Agree? Sound off with your rants and raves with a review of the show in your podcast portal preference! Cabinet of Curiosities: Lot 36 Graveyard Rats The Autopsy The Outside Dreams in the Witch House Pickman's Model The Viewing The Murmuring Where to watch: Dogtown and Z-Boys2001 Lords of Dogtown2005 Pan’s Labyrinth2006 Twilight2008 Beyond the Black Rainbow2010 The Babadook2014 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night2014 Crimson Peak2015 The Bad Batch2016 The Shape of Water2017 Mandy2018 The Nightingale2018 The Empty Man2020 Nightmare Alley2021 Firestarter2022 Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio2022 Recent articles by Bruce Miller: 'The White Lotus' is still the place to be It's great to see George Clooney and Julia Roberts back together but 'Ticket' is no paradise Remembering Leslie Jordan and his Instagram fame What do real documentary filmmakers think of 'Documentary Now!'? 'Nope' offers another close encounter with aliens Hilary Swank stars in "Alaska Daily", a drama that uplifts journalism Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

This weekend will see the premiere of the second season of "The White Lotus," the most-awarded series at the Primetime Emmys earlier this year (nabbing ten statues for HBO), and Bruce Miller can't wait to talk about it. Also we've got an interview with Tony Hale about the brand new season of "The Mysterious Benedict Society" which premieres this week on Disney+. Best known as Buster Bluth ("Arrested Development"), Gary Walsh ("Veep") and Forky ("Toy Story 4"), he gets into what it's like to play both of the twin brothers Nicholas and Nathaniel Benedict. And, finally, we unexpectedly end up arguing a little bit about how excited everyone should be for Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Pinocchio movie for Netflix. Where to watch: 'The White Lotus' (HBO Max) 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' (Disney+) Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Netflix) Recent articles by Bruce Miller: 'The White Lotus' is still the place to be It's great to see George Clooney and Julia Roberts back together but 'Ticket' is no paradise Remembering Leslie Jordan and his Instagram fame What do real documentary filmmakers think of 'Documentary Now!'? 'Nope' offers another close encounter with aliens Hilary Swank stars in "Alaska Daily", a drama that uplifts journalism Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

There's a new Halloween sequel out, Halloween Kills, that wraps up the trilogy of Michael Myers movies directed by David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express) and we figured we'd use that as the launching pad to talk about all the scary Halloween horror tropes that irk us to no end and recommend some examples of the genre, both new and old, that subvert expectations. Where to watch: Psycho Mr. Sardonicus Halloween (1978) The Funhouse The Silence of the Lambs Midsommar Barbarian Halloween (2018) Halloween Kills Halloween Ends Recent articles by Bruce Miller: 'Good Nurse' gives Eddie Redmayne chilling opportunities 'Halloween Ends' stops some things, starts others Ben Whishaw shines in the best medical drama in years 'Magpie Murders' gives Lesley Manville the stretch she seeks Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

Enjoy this bonus episode highlighting Bruce Miller's conversation with actors Zach Woods and Lenora Crichlow about their roles in season 2 of “Avenue 5” which premiered on HBO last weekend. Recent articles by Bruce Miller: 'Avenue 5' encourages improvisation -- and a chance to spar with Hugh Laurie Star-studded 'Amsterdam' muddies its own water before it settles down "Avenue 5" actors talk about the show's second season Seams show on 'Beast's' not-so-special effects Billy Eichner's 'Bros' brings laughs, not a revolution, in filmmaking Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

Despite the admittedly bad press surrounding Amsterdam, its release marks something of a beginning to the Hollywood Awards Season that will run from now until the end of the year. Studios will be dropping the bulk of their prestige films in the coming months, so we thought it was a great time to start a list of films we think are in the running to be nominated for the top Oscar category. The vast majority of these movies haven't come out yet, but between film festival buzz, trailers, and general vibes we think this is about a good a short list as we can come up with, all things considered. Did we leave anything out? Think our picks are way off? Let us know at our contact info below! Where to watch: Armageddon Time (Nov. 11) Avatar: The Way of Water (Dec. 16) Babylon (Dec. 25, limited) The Banshees of Inisherin (Oct. 21) Decision to Leave (Oct. 14) Elvis Emancipation (theaters, Dec. 2; AppleTV+ Dec. 9) Empire of Light (Dec. 9) Everything Everywhere All at Once The Fabelmans (Nov. 23) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix, Dec. 23) The Good Nurse (Netflix, Oct. 26) Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (Netflix, Dec. 9) TÁR (Oct. 7) Top Gun: Maverick White Noise (theaters, Nov. 25; Netflix, Dec. 30) Women Talking (Dec. 25) Recent articles by Bruce Miller: Movies in a Minute – “Amsterdam” "Avenue 5" actors talk about the show's second season Seams show on 'Beast's' not-so-special effects Billy Eichner's 'Bros' brings laughs, not a revolution, in filmmaking Movies in a Minute – “Bros” Recent episodes of On Iowa Politics co-hosted by Jared: Campaign Ad Wars, Senate Republican Unity, and Iowa’s AG 'Debate' Iowa’s Pipeline, Parents First, and Unopposed Candidates Student Loans, Education Funding, and State a Fair Report Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

Jared McNett is back and joining Chris Lay for this special bonus episode roundup of the best horror movies we've seen this year so far, as well as a glance over the horror horizon at a handful of movies we're looking forward to that coming out later this month. Where to watch: Barbarian Bodies Bodies Bodies Halloween Ends Hellraiser The Menu Nope Pearl Prey Smile Triangle of Sadness Watcher X Recent articles by Jared McNett: On Iowa Politics: Mike Franken and Chuck Grassley debate, Newt Gingrich visits Iowa and shares a Republican road map, and George W. Bush is in Iowa After Sioux City Musketeers win championship, Clark Cup makes multiple stops around Siouxland Sioux City Swedish American Fraternal Organization to host 'folk music tour' On Iowa Politics: A Congressional debate, a budget surplus, a controversial ad, and Iowans at the insurrection Oto home a "complete loss" after early morning blaze Congressional candidate Ryan Melton repeatedly calls out Rep. Randy Feenstra and chastises pipeline plans, in Sioux City stop Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a weekly podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

We are back as promised with a brand new full episode! Bruce Miller has spent the past couple of weeks prepping for the 2022 Sioux City International Film Fest so we talk about festivals before we hand it over to his interview with Bri Holland, a (deep breath) songwriter, music producer, audio engineer, singer, and vocal production specialist who was onboard to host the "Engineering Theatrical Vocal Music for Cinema" workshop. Bri's most recent credits include Dear Evan Hansen (2021), tick, tick... BOOM! (2021) and Vivo (2021). Bruce name-checked some of the SCIFF films in the course of the episode (Jim of Earth, Score: A Film Music Documentary, Sons of Toledo), but the full list of films screened at the festival can be found here: 2022 Films Where to watch: Vivo (Netflix) Dear Evan Hansen tick, tick...BOOM! (Netflix) Recent articles by Bruce Miller: New 'Interview with the Vampire' takes a different twist in television form A sight for 'Thor' eyes? Latest offers laughs, Chris Hemsworth and a dark villain Movies in a Minute - "Don't Worry Darling" REVIEW: 'Don't Worry Darling' is steeped in atmosphere -- and questions 'So Help Me Todd,' starring Marcia Gay Harden, springs from a son's quest for justice Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a weekly podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

One last fill-in episode before we're back with new episodes, but this is a good one. Our very own Bruce Miller was a guest on Across the Sky, a weather-centric podcast hosted by Lee Enterprises meteorologists, counting down the 10 greatest weather movies of all time. Here's the description from their side of the dial: "Grab a bucket of popcorn and get comfortable. If you like weather and movies, you have to listen to this! Weather plays a role in lots of films, but in some it has a starring role. With the help of Bruce Miller, from Lee Enterprises' TV, streaming and movie podcast Streamed & Screened, the Lee Weather Team takes a look at the best weather movies ever made. Listen along as the gang counts down the movies from ten to one. What makes these films stand out? Do they accurately portray the lives of meteorologists? Do they get the science right? Or are they just too much fun to leave out?! Find out if your favorite weather movie made the cut and which film the team crowned number one on this week's episode of Across the Sky." More on Across the Sky Matt Holiner of Lee Enterprises' Midwest group in Chicago, Kirsten Lang of the Tulsa World in Oklahoma, Joe Martucci of the Press of Atlantic City, N.J., and Sean Sublette of the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia host a fast-paced weekly podcast that tackles hot (and cold!) topics plus what’s trending in meteorology, science and climate. The show isn't limited to hard science as our hosts and guests tug at your emotions from stories out in the elements. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Google | Spotify Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of theSioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises. Follow Streamed & Screened: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened

Halloween is just over a month away, so in this special encore presentation of Streamed & Screened we are looking at some of the scariest movies around. Expect some horror classics for sure but also some curveballs including an unexpected pick you can stream on Disney+. Below is our roundup along with links to where you can stream them. Psycho 1960 Mr. Sardonicus 1961 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974  Black Christmas 1974 Friday the 13th 1980 Pee-wee’s Big Adventure 1985 Flight of the Navigator 1986 Fatal Attraction 1987 The Exorcist III 1990 Ernest Scared Stupid 1991 Funny Games 1997 Contagion 2011  The Conjuring 2013 Green Room 2015  Midsommar 2019  Streamed & Screened is hosted by Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises, along with Bruce Miller, the editor of the Sioux City Journal, and Jared McNett, a reporter for the Globe Gazette in Mason City, Iowa.

A summer dominated by "Top Gun: Maverick" is nearly over, so in this special encore presentation of Streamed & Screened, we look at some of our favorite summer blockbusters of the past. Links to where you can stream or rent all of our picks can be found below: Friday the 13th 1980 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 RoboCop 1987 Die Hard 1988 Jurassic Park 1993 True Lies 1994 Die Hard: With a Vengeance 1995 Independence Day 1996 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 1999 Spider-Man 2002 The Dark Knight 2008 Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 Just to be Nominated is hosted and produced by Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee, along with Bruce Miller, the editor of the Sioux City Journal, and Jared McNett, a reporter for the Globe Gazette in Mason City, Iowa.

This week we've got an abundance of interviews with the cast, crew, and creatives behind the new Disney+ hybrid docu-series "Growing Up." Created by Brie "Captain Marvel" Larson and production company Culture House, the show premieres September 8th as part of the Disney+ Day programming jamboree. Bruce Miller's interviews with Brie Larson, Nicole Gavlovski, Athena Nair, Gavin Arneson, Sage Dolan-Sandrino, and more, pull the curtain back a bit on the production process and the real life autobiographical stories that lie at the heart of the show. Where to watch: Growing Up (Disney+) Recent articles by Bruce Miller: Made in a 'Minute': Wisconsin observations help Charlie Berens launch a big career Wishful thinking doesn't make new 'Pinocchio' any better The steam rises off 'Tell Me Lies,' a new series with Jackson White and Grace Van Patten 'Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris' deserves the right audience 'Growing Up' shows how messy situations can still have happy endings Brie Larson shares about her life while uplifting others in news Disney+ series 'Growing Up' 'The Invitation' doesn't require any real buy-in Held hostage? 'The Patient' tests Steve Carell's will Recent episodes of On Iowa Politics co-hosted by Jared: Iowa’s Pipeline, Parents First, and Unopposed Candidates Student Loans, Education Funding, and State a Fair Report Biden's Big Bill, Fair Food & Speeches, and IRS Agents “Ready to Shoot” Insulin Votes, Law Enforcement Messaging, and Reynolds' Heartbeat Bill Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

On this week's episode we preview 'Mike,' the new Mike Tyson biopic series on Hulu, and the new animated series 'Little Demon' on FXX. We take a moment at the top to critique Beast, opting to recommend a much more harrowing film in its place, and discuss expectations for 'House of the Dragon,' the 'Game of Thrones' prequel series that premiered this past Sunday. Lastly (but far from leastly), we gather up the best biopics. A quick programming note: We'll be changing some things up with the format with the next episode, but don't touch that dial while you pardon our dust and we'll back with even more great stuff for you shortly! Where to watch the movies and shows we talked about: "Mike" "Little Demon" Beast Roar Tyson The Invitation Samaritan Me Time Best Biopics Malcolm X Chaplin Ed Wood Ray I'm Not There The Social Network Lincoln Behind the Candelabra Love & Mercy Spencer Recent articles by Bruce Miller: Movies in a Minute - “Beast” 'House of the Dragon' is a more accessible 'Thrones' 'This is Going to Hurt' may be one of the best series; here's why Danny DeVito plays Satan in 'Little Demon' but he's not what you think 'Naomi' was 'one-and-done' series but it holds up 'She-Hulk' helps the Hulk find humor in dire situations 'Mack & Rita' wastes time -- yours and Diane Keaton's Drew Minard brings Iowa cred to Broadway's big 'Music Man' revival 'She-Hulk' addresses 'fitting in' among all walks of life Recent episodes of On Iowa Politics co-hosted by Jared: Biden's Big Bill, Fair Food & Speeches, and IRS Agents “Ready to Shoot” Insulin Votes, Law Enforcement Messaging, and Reynolds' Heartbeat Bill Ernst's Vet Vote, Iowa First-in-Nation Status, and Abortion in Kansas Kim Reynolds Court, Republican endorses Democrats, and a close AG campaign Iowa Polls, Contraception & Marriage Equality, and Red Flags Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

With "Lord of the Rings" out next week, "Better Call Saul" wrapped up, and "House of the Dragon" coming in for a (king's?) landing this very weekend, it's safe to say we've got prequel fever! And the only cure ... is to make a list of the TV show prequels we wanna see! Also we preview the new Marvel show "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law," air some grievances about what we think are the worst movies of the year, and there's even an interview with Garret Dillahunt and Martha Plimpton who you can see in the new Freevee show "Sprung!" Where to watch: Beast  "Better Call Saul" Bodies Bodies Bodies Day Shift Glorious "House of the Dragon" Look Both Ways Orphan: First Kill "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" Spin Me Round "Sprung" Mack & Rita The Black Phone Recent articles by Bruce Miller: It's a new game for 'League of Their Own' Testing COVID's bounds: Freevee's 'Sprung' takes a comic look at lockdown and looters Meet Greg Garcia, producer of “Sprung” Kids highlight '13: The Musical'; adults don't Fred Grandy scores new role but 'Love Boat' didn't help Movies in a Minute - "Bullet Train" Too many characters spoil 'Jurassic World: Dominion Changes are coming to the 'All Creatures Great and Small' dynamic What's ahead for 'All Creatures Great and Small'? We've got answers Recent episodes of On Iowa Politics co-hosted by Jared: Insulin Votes, Law Enforcement Messaging, and Reynolds' Heartbeat Bill Ernst's Vet Vote, Iowa First-in-Nation Status, and Abortion in Kansas Kim Reynolds Court, Republican endorses Democrats, and a close AG campaign Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

For the bonus episode this week Chris has been thinking a bunch about Netflix's new adaptation of The Sandman, Neil Gaiman's iconic comic book series which was long described as "un-filmable." As you'll hear, the source material has been close to Chris's heart for a long while, so who better to compare notes with on the translation than someone who's just getting acquainted with the characters and story: HIs mom! Where to watch: Sandman (Netflix) Jack Reacher (2012, Amazon Prime) "Reacher" (2022, Amazon Prime) LOtR: Fellowship of the Ring (2001, Amazon Prime, HBO Max) Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

This week Bruce Miller interviewed Abbi Jacobson and Chanté Adams about "A League of Their Own," the new Amazon Prime show that takes its source material further. We catch up with our feelings on "Bullet Train, Prey" and "Sandman," as well as offer up preview Netflix's upcoming "13: The Musical." In honor of the new horror movie "Bodies Bodies Bodies" premiering in theaters we've got a list of movies that incorporate some high stakes games. Down below we've got links to all the stuff we talk about and places you can connect with us and subscribe to the show! Where to watch: Bodies Bodies Bodies (Aug. 12) "I Am Groot" (Aug. 10, Disney+) "A League of Their Own" (Aug. 12, Amazon Prime) 13: The Musical (Aug. 12, Netflix) Bullet Train (theaters) Prey (HULU) High Stakes Games! The Last of Sheila (1973) Marathon Man (1976) The Deer Hunter (1978) Funny Games (1997) The Game (1997) Battle Royale (2000) 13 Tzameti (2005) Cheap Thrills (2013) Game Night (2018) Ready or Not (2019) Promising Young Woman (2020) Recent articles by Bruce Miller: 'Dr. Strange' serves as preview of coming attractions 'Reservation Dogs' returns with more heart, tears Despite all the saccharine, 'Mrs. Harris' offers smiles Is there crying in baseball? Kelly McCormack explains Amazon's new 'League of Their Own' tells more female baseball stories Eye-popping 'Pam & Tommy' delves into that chaotic world of celebrity Recent episodes of On Iowa Politics co-hosted by Jared: Federal abortion ban, Reynolds red flags, Scholten joins Team Franken Iowa Polls, Contraception & Marriage Equality, and Red Flags Kim Reynolds Court, Republican endorses Democrats, and a close AG campaign Ernst's Vet Vote, Iowa First-in-Nation Status, and Abortion in Kansas ALSO: "Cat Person" by Kristen Roupenian (The New Yorker, Dec. 4, 2017) Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

The bonus episode is all over the place this week but it's still a load of fun so tune in to hear Bruce go all in on Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris, drop a solid teaser for an upcoming FXX animated show starring Danny Devito as the Devil, and we take some unexpected detours that touch on Y2K Beanie Babies, a weirdly specific kind of action figure, and we even find the time to recommend some off-the-beaten-path movies you might want to check out. Where to watch: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) High Noon (1953) La Grande Bouffe (1972) Recent articles by Bruce Miller: 'Dr. Strange' serves as preview of coming attractions Neil Patrick Harris' 'Uncoupled' looks like another 'Sex and the City' 'Nope' offers great theories about those things that can't be explained B.J. Novak makes impressive directorial debut with crackling good comedy 'Vengeance' Jeremy Allen White learns the ins and outs of a restaurant in 'The Bear' DVD REVIEW: Brad Pitt sparks 'The Lost City' but he's not the film's focus Sioux City-bound comedian Jo Koy is eager to get back to work (but he hasn't been idle) Check out Jared on the 'On Iowa Politics Podcast' here: On Iowa Politics Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

We take a while to work up to it, but the consensus for this coming week/end of streaming and screening is loaded with lots of potential surprise breakouts. The big fish in the pond is Bullet Train, the assassin action comedy starring Brad Pitt and a stacked supporting cast, but don't discount the long awaited Sandman series (based on Neil Gaiman's comic series) that's hitting Netflix on Friday, the Predator prequel Prey hitting HULU (and its alternate audio dun entirely in Comanche), the LGBTQ+ conversion camp slasher They/Them on Peacock that connects Kevin Bacon back to his horror roots, and honestly there are too many other great options to rattle off here so you'll just have to listen in to get the lowdown on the highlights. Where to watch: Beavis and Butt-Head (Aug. 4, Paramount+) Bullet Train (Aug 5, theaters) Carter (Aug 5, Netflix) Easter Sunday (Aug 5, theaters) I Love My Dad (theaters) Lightyear (Aug 5, Disney+) Luck (Aug 5, AppleTV+) Prey (Aug 5, HULU) Reservation Dogs (Aug 3, HULU) Sandman (Aug 5, Netflix) They/Them (Aug 5, Peacock) Thirteen Lives (Aug 5, Amazon Prime) Recent articles by Bruce Miller: 'Dr. Strange' serves as preview of coming attractions Neil Patrick Harris' 'Uncoupled' looks like another 'Sex and the City' 'Nope' offers great theories about those things that can't be explained B.J. Novak makes impressive directorial debut with crackling good comedy 'Vengeance' Jeremy Allen White learns the ins and outs of a restaurant in 'The Bear' DVD REVIEW: Brad Pitt sparks 'The Lost City' but he's not the film's focus Sioux City-bound comedian Jo Koy is eager to get back to work (but he hasn't been idle) Check out Jared on the 'On Iowa Politics Podcast' here: On Iowa Politics Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

We spend the first chunk of this episode weighing in (spoiler free!) on Jordan Peele's spin on the flying saucer genre, Nope, which was filled to bursting with big concepts, memorable images, and over-the-top set pieces that deserve to be seen on the biggest screen you can find. We also offer up a preview of Vengeance, a fictional riff on the true-crime podcast genre that was written and directed by B.J. Novak who many will likely know better as Ryan from The Office, as well as a look at Paper Girls, a soft sci-fi time travel series premiering on Amazon Prime that's adapted from a comic by the absurdly prolific writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Runaways, Saga). Make sure you're subscribed to Streamed & Screened (wherever you get your podcasts!) so as to not miss our next bonus episode which rounds up the most exciting movies of the dozens that dropped trailers this past weekend. Where to watch: Nope (official site) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (official site) Vengeance (official site) Paper Girls (Amazon Prime) DC League of Super-Pets (official site) Not Okay (official site) Resurrection (official site) A Love Song (official site) Recent articles by Bruce Miller: 'High School Musical' brings the Bleu back to performing Tim Federle tells why “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" has been a star maker Jeremy Allen White learns the ins and outs of a restaurant in 'The Bear' Brad Pitt sparks 'The Lost City' but he's not the film's focus Three actors aspire for Broadway after “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" Little Big Town offers up another great summer song Check out Jared on the 'On Iowa Politics Podcast' here: On Iowa Politics Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

On this episode we list our favorite movies of the year so far, yes, but before we get to that we have a nice chat about Where the Crawdads Sing, which landed in theaters last weekend, Nope, which opens this weekend, Netflix's latest attempt at a "blockbuster," The Gray Man, and Ethan Hawke's HBO Max love-letter to Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, The Last Movie Stars. After that (or scroll down if you want just the list), you'll get "our favorite movies of 2022 so far," which is a segment that ran last week for everyone who has subscribed to the show (available wherever you get podcasts). Every week we have an extra chunk that doesn't get the same big promotional push that the main episode gets, and we thought we'd plug a taste of that here for you. Where to watch: Nope (official site) The Gray Man (Netflix, July 22) The Last Movie Stars (HBO, July 21) Our favorite movies of 2022 so far: Ambulance The Batman Deep Water Everything Everywhere All at Once Fresh Jackass Forever The Northman RRR The Survivor Top Gun: Maverick X Recent articles by Bruce Miller: 'Arthur' marks 25 years as a PBS staple Movies in a Minute - “Thor: Love and Thunder” 'Fleabag' techniques don't serve Dakota Johnson's 'Persuasion' 'Thor: Love and Thunder' yields a universe of ideas that don't all work Check out Jared on the 'On Iowa Politics Podcast' here: On Iowa Politics Articles we mentioned: 'Where the Crawdads Sing' Author Wanted for Questioning in Murder (The Atlantic) The Hunted (The New Yorker) Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

On the bonus episode for this week we're rounding up our favorite movies of the year so far, with each of us bringing some sort of caveat to our personal selections. It's true that the list is right there below, in alphabetical order and with links to streaming and/or rental destinations, so give a listen if you wanna match the who and the why to each of them. Where to watch: Ambulance The Batman Deep Water Everything Everywhere All at Once Fresh Jackass Forever The Northman RRR The Survivor Top Gun: Maverick X Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

Theater marquees this weekend will be topped with Where the Crawdads Sing, the adaptation of Delia Owens' wildly successful, Reese Witherspoon approved, novel, along with the cuteness overdose of Jenny Slate's Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. At home we've got the latest season of What We Do In The Shadows on HULU, a new series premiering from Nathan Fielder, The Rehearsal on HBO, and the last set of episodes kick off Better Call Saul's curtain call on AMC. All that plus we kick things off by getting into the nitty gritty of our Thor and the #GentleMinions phenomena. And make sure you're subscribed to Streamed & Screened on whichever podcast player you prefer, because over on the bonus episode this week we're rounding up our top films from the first half of the year! More from Bruce Miller: 'Thor: Love and Thunder' offers a universe of ideas that don't all work Movies in a Minute - “Thor: Love and Thunder” Aliens invade Zombie world, teach lessons in 'Zombie 3'' Montana Story' peels away layers of family hurt It's all in the details: 'Sea Beast' takes audiences on a big sea journey 'Sea Beast' roars with spectacular effects, animation FLASHBACK: 'Magic City' gives Caan chance to revisit 'Godfather' aura Where to watch: Where the Crawdads Sing (official site) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (official site) Better Call Saul (AMC; season 6B) The Rehearsal, series premiere (HBO) What We Do in the Shadows (Hulu) Thor: Love and Thunder (official site) Minions: The Rise of Gru (official site) Links to stuff we mentioned: Hordes of Teens in Suits Are Showing Up to the Minions Movie. The Studio, for Once, Did the Right Thing. American Ninja Warrior Episodes - Season 14 (2022) Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

Another Bonus episode for the Streamed and Screened faithful! With this one we're hopping into the question of what time of day is the best to go to the movies. For sure, this is not the most pressing of matters but it's the sort of thing we have some legit opinions on and even pepper in some fun stories. After that bit of chat we submit to the midnight society a few more or less random shows or movies worth checking out if you haven't. Listen in to hear what we've got to say about them or, heck, take a quick peek at the list below and click the links that will take you to where you can rent or stream or buy or whatever these fine examples of cultural pleasantness. Thanks for being a subscriber and we'll see ya next week! Where to watch: Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) What We Do In The Shadows (2014) What We Do In The Shadows (2019; Hulu) What's Up Doc (1972) Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

We've got a preview of the new Marvel movie, Thor: Love & Thunder, that gives some comic book context without getting too far into the weeds, we hash out some thoughts on Rise of Gru, the latest entry in the Minions franchise, breaking $100 million in box office receipts over the weekend and whether or not that means movies are officially back in theaters for good, plus our very own Bruce Miller interviews Chris Williams, the director of Netflix's fantastic new animated feature, Sea Beast. Even with all that, we somehow manage to cover even more topics but, dear listener, you'll have to give a listen to find out what else we've got in store! More from Bruce Miller: Minions get shortchanged in 'Rise of Gru' Origins story explains why 'Flowers in the Attic' was so dark 'Everything Everywhere' has moments that linger FLASHBACK REVIEW : 'E.T.' stands for 'extra terrific' Liya Chu shares the secrets of 'MasterChef Junior' “Crawlspace” actor Henry Thomas, the former star of E.T., talks about new role Werewolves get pulled into the drama between zombies and aliens in "Zombies 3." Where to watch: Thor: Love and Thunder (official site) Sea Beast (Netflix; July 8) Doula (official site) Zombies 3 (Disney; July 15) Minions: The Rise of Gru (official site) Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

For Independence Day, enjoy this special bonus episode from the archives. Themed "American Movies" it was just our tenth ever, back when the show was called "Just to be Nominated" and functioned as more of a themed top-5 show since Covid had only just recently shut theaters down and our fledgling show about movies had to reformat its concept. Here's the description from July 2020: Last time you heard from us, we picked out some of our favorite films and shows on the new HBO streaming platform HBO Max. For this episode, which we recorded on the Monday after Independence Day weekend, we attempted to assemble a collection of movies that paint a well-rounded picture of America. Listen all the way to the end and you'll hear our unexpected recommendations for ridiculous new game shows! Where to watch: McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Italianamerican 1974 The Conversation 1974 Nashville 1975 Rocky 1976 National Lampoon’s Vacation 1983 Crumb 1994 Dead Man 1995 The Cable Guy 1996 Saving Private Ryan 1998 25th Hour 2002 The Master 2012 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 Get Out 2017 BlacKkKlansman 2018 Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

Baz Luhrmann's new biopic, Elvis, tied Top Gun at the box office this past weekend, and we've got some thoughts on all two hours and forty rhinestone-scarved minutes of its overstuffed runtime. It's not a wildly busy weekend at the theaters, what with Independence Day pushing most people out of doors, but that doesn't mean we can't have some fun with the latest Despicable Me spin-off, Minions: The Rise of Gru. Lastly, Bruce has a great conversation with Henry Thomas about his claustrophobic new thriller, Crawlspace. Thomas is best known from his role forty years ago as Elliot in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, but he's been a working actor ever since, most recently making a name for himself in Mike Flanagan's series of creepy films and shows you can find on Netflix. More from Bruce Miller: Austin Butler's 'Elvis' captures the singer's electricity 'What We Do in the Shadows' has plenty planned for Season Four New 'Downton Abbey' lets everyone check in MasterChef Junior's Liya Chu cooks up a winning season 'Great American Recipe' searches for hidden tastes (and tacos) 'Lightyear' provides insight into Buzz's background Movies in a Minute - "Lightyear" Where to watch: Minions: The Rise of Gru (official site) Crawlspace (official site) Elvis (official site) The Black Phone (official site) Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

The format of Streamed & Screened is focused on working through the shows and movies whose release dates are fast approaching, which means we don't usually get to revisit things we've talked about, or put a spotlight on new discoveries. Also: We chew through our favorite theater snacks. Links to the movies we mentioned: For All Mankind (Apple TV+) For All Mankind (Criterion Collection) E.T. (Peacock) A Walk Among the Tombstones (Netflix) As always: See something good! Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.

The King is in the building! The assuredly bombastic new 'Elvis' directed by Baz Luhrmann is hitting theaters this weekend and we're pretty excited to see what that twelve (or was it ten) minute standing ovation was all about that it got at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Along the way, we scour the archives for some relevant Elvis content that will entertain, illuminate, and amaze, which we have linked below so as to edify. Also coming out this week is a new horror movie, "The Black Phone," starring Ethan Hawke as a serial killer whose previous victims are, from beyond the grave, trying to help free his current victim. We're predicting the movie is not entirely as it appears, but we've been burnt before, so who knows.  Also on tap is the latest Dr. Strange movie landing on Disney+, "Loot" on Apple TV+, a new Beavis and Butt-Head movie on Paramount+, and the premiere of Westworld's fourth season on HBO Max. More from Bruce Miller: Grammy winners like Jennifer Nettles help tell heroes' stories in 'American Anthems'  'Unbearable Weight' gives a slight nudge to Nicolas Cage's career Emma Thompson gets intimate in 'Good Luck to You, Leo Grande' 'Bob's Burgers' serves up tasty big-screen fare Jeff Bridges deals with his own mortality while making 'The Old Man' Movies in a Minute - “Jurassic World: Dominion” 'Jurassic World: Dominion' makes you regret there were dinosaurs  'Hacks,' season one, shows why Jean Smart is such a treasure Bob Dylan's music comments on Depression-era story Where to watch: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Hulu) Elvis (official site) The Black Phone (official site) Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Disney+; June 22) Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (Paramount+; June 23) Loot (Apple TV+; June 24) Would It Kill You to Laugh? Starring Kate Berlant & John Early (Peacock; June 24) Westworld, season 4 (HBO Max; June 26) Links to other fun stuff we talked about in this episode: "Siouxlanders still remember the day Elvis came to town" (Bruce Miller, Oct 13, 2014) "The Night Elvis Presley Stopped A Fight In Madison, Wisconsin" (Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicles) Follow the show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreamdNScreend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streamedandscreened Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreamedAndScreened Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, an entertainment reporter for multiple decades who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal, Jared McNett, a reporter for the Sioux City Journal, and Chris Lay, the podcast operations manager for Lee Enterprises.