Browsing: Interviews

Waaaaay back at Comic Con 2015, I was one of the few reporters allowed into the Starz pressroom for their new historical-fantasy-drama series Outlander, based on the world wide best selling novels by Diana Gabaldon.  The series recently was likened to Battlestar Galactica, which just happens to be one of my top five shows of all time. Here […]

One of the highlights of any convention in the last two years has been interacting with the cast and crew of History Channel’s Vikings.  This year’sVikings Cast Interviews pressroom hour at San Diego Comic-Con International was no different, and featured official…

One of the best scripted action/dramas currently on tv, History’s Vikings continues to get better and better. I was lucky enough to end up in their pressroom again this year, and they gave us drinking horns! My interview with the cast starts with Katheryn Winnick (Lagertha Lothbrook) and Alexander Ludwig (Bjorn Lothbrook): Katheryn:  (to me) Oh, hi!  Nice […]

by Mary Anne Butler, Reporter/Photographer Once again, it is that time of year when all good fanboys and girls converge on the five day city-state that appears in San Diego for Comic Con International, aka SDCC.  This was my fourth…

We were lucky enough to be included on a conference call with acclaimed writer and Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro and executive producer Carlton Cuse about their new show for the FX network, The Strain.  This vampire horror series is based on the novels of the same name, authored by del Toro and Chuck Hogan.  The […]

Diana Gabaldon was in San Francisco briefly yesterday before an appearance for a signing of her newest release, “Written In My Heart’s Blood”, the 8th in her multi-genre award-winning Outlander series.  Outlander chronicles the time traveling adventures of a nurse from the 1940s Claire Randall who encounters a circle of standing stones while on vacation in Scotland […]

We’ve done a lot of talking about Big Wow! Comic Fest in San Jose California, and that’s because big things happen there!  The convention started out as a small art show, and has blossomed into a destination location for talent, artists, cosplayers, photographers, and fans to enjoy a show devoted to comics. There were several […]

The New York Times ran a story back in 1983 detailing the dumping of a metric ton of Atari E.T. The Extra Terrestrial game cartridges in a dump in the middle of New Mexico.  No seriously, it happened.  This has been an ongoing to quest to uncover the truth of the matter, the team finally […]

From the runway to the resurrection ship, statuesque model/actress/activist Tricia Helfer (who most fans will know as Six or Caprica Six), keeps busy when not in front of the camera.  As I said in my previous interview with fellow BSG Alum Katee Sackhoff, Tricia is also an avid humanitarian; spending most of her free time organizing […]

With very few exceptions, reboots and remakes don’t usually please the masses for film or TV.  Myself, I consider Battlestar Galactica to be one of the few truly successful TV franchises to be rebooted, considering it’s now known life as 5 different series, and is currently in development for a full on film.  The Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles […]