Lively banter about entertainment industry news and in-depth interviews with directors, producers, writers and actors, hosted by award-winning journalist Kim Masters of The Hollywood Reporter.
ID series ‘Quiet on Set’ explores years of alleged abuse at Nickelodeon
ID’s docuseries “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” alleges years of abuse on Nickelodeon sets, with “Drake and Josh” star Drake Bell speaking out after years of silence.
Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira on ‘The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live’ and the franchise’s lasting power
When The Walking Dead actress Danai Gurira returned to the latest spinoff of the AMC series, she didn’t just stay in front of the camera. She wrote a script.
Composer Laura Karpman on ‘American Fiction,’ Marvel, and hard-won success
Composer Laura Karpman, now Oscar-nominated for her work on “American Fiction,” has managed to find success writing music for movies, TV shows, and games, even though the playing field…
SPECIAL PREVIEW: Tony McNamara on adapting ‘Poor Things’
PREVIEW: Kim Masters speaks to writer Tony McNamara, who adapted a 1992 Alasdair Gray novel into the Oscar nominated Yorgos Lanthimos film, Poor Things.
Mstyslav Chernov on Oscar-nominated Ukraine war doc, ‘20 Days in Mariupol’
Filmmaker and war correspondent Mstyslav Chernov shares how an Associated Press assignment in war-torn Ukraine led to his devastating Oscar contender for Best Documentary.
Documentarian Matthew Heineman on making ‘American Symphony’
Filmmaker Matthew Heineman shares how he made the Jon Batiste doc ‘American Symphony’ with credit cards, stealth Grammy footage, and notes from President Obama.
What Tom Cruise’s Warner Bros. deal means for ‘Mission: Impossible’ and ‘Top Gun’ franchises
Warner Brothers has announced a strategic partnership with Tom Cruise that will bring the star’s production company to the studio lot this year. What does this deal actually mean?
Jon Batiste on how ‘American Symphony’ went from ‘boring’ music doc to a portrait of intimacy
When singer-songwriter Jon Batiste set out to make what he now calls a “boring process documentary” about composing a symphony, he and director Matthew Heineman couldn’t have predicted…