Press Play with Madeleine Brand
'Transparent,' Tony Hale, and Free to Be You and Me
2014 was a huge year for television. We saw an explosion of on-demand services creating their own shows, not to mention all the high-budget, highly-acclaimed cable and network programming. Today, we look back at some of our favorite TV-related interviews of the year.
By Madeleine Brand • • 54m Listen2014 was a huge year for television. We saw an explosion of on-demand services creating their own shows, not to mention all the high-budget, highly-acclaimed cable and network programming. Today, we look back at some of our favorite TV-related interviews of the year.
Photo: Showrunner Jill Soloway on the set of Transparent. Courtesy of Amazon Studios.
In this episode
4 storiesJill Soloway's 'Transparent' Brings Trans Identity to TV
The Amazon series Transparent depicts a loving but dysfunctional Los Angeles family. In the pilot, the family patriarch announces that he's no longer going to hide his secret identity. Jill Soloway created the series. She was a writer on the HBO series Six Feet Under and she wrote and directed the feature film Afternoon Delight.
Read the story13 minActor Tony Hale on His Children's Book and Living in the Moment
You might know Tony Hale as Buster Bluth, the neurotic man-child on the TV show Arrested Development. Or maybe you're more familiar with Hale as Gary Walsh, the frighteningly loyal assistant to the Vice President-turned-President on Veep. Now Hale has a new project.
Read the story11 minShowrunners
These days, some of the biggest names in television aren't the actors and actresses on the screen, but the men and women behind the camera: Shonda Rhimes, Matthew Weiner, J.J. Abrams, and Joss Whedon, just to name a few. It would seem that the "golden age of television" has given rise to the celebrity showrunner.
Read the story15 minFree to Be You and Me
If you were a child in the 1970's, you probably remember the TV special Free to Be You and Me that aired 40 years ago this month. The show was one part of a multi-media project that also included a record and a book .
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