Jennifer Peedom: Reaching New Heights – Who, March 31, 2022
/Leaving her desk job behind, Jennifer Peedom took a camera to the mountains and found a new career
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Elisabeth Moss: Time to shine – TV Week May 2, 2022
/Elisabeth Moss, star of The Handmaid’s Tale, leads an award-winning ensemble through Shining Girls, a twisty new thriller on Apple TV Plus.
Bethany Joy Lenz: Scream queen – TV Week April 25, 2022
/Actor Bethany Joy Lenz is fending off the forces of evil in new thriller So Cold the River while also revisiting One Tree Hill with her costars in a successful podcast.
Memory Blank: Dichen Lachman interview, TV Week, March 5-11, 2022
/Lucky me! I reconnected with Dichen Lachman for this chat about her new series, Severance, on Apple TV+.
Contributing to Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now, March 2022
/It’s not often you get invited to be a part of such a monumental project. Thank you, @originalspin @wongfuphil and @angryasianman for letting me write about Asian American representation on reality TV (shout out to @daniellueofficial and @williamhungofficial) and the Dance Crew Revolution. Order at @riseaabook! Rise will be out March 1 from @harpercollins. In Australia, you can buy it at Dymocks, Booktopia, and other outlets. Thank you also to artists @taktoyoshima and @jef.with.one.f for making the pieces come alive! #risereveal #riseaabook#asianamerican
Books and bookazines 2021 through February 2022
/Although I have spent my whole career in the magazine business, I learned much more about it in 2021. That’s a good thing, I suppose, that I can still pick up new things this far along in my working life! Along with a core team of writers, editors, and illustrators, I’ve helped conceive, edit, and write 10 bookazines for Jacket LLC and 10TenMedia, distributed by Bauer North America. And there’s more to come! Thank you to the Pod for making these possible.
Below the collection of covers is the main cover and masthead for ESL: Moving to the Next Level, a commemorative bookazine for the Electronic Sports League’s 20th anniversary. I helped edit and wrote four stories for this issue, available in a digital presentation through Zinio and on ESL’s main site.
Living for the Moment on The Walking Dead, Foxtel Magazine, February 2022
/I talk to Angela Kang, the showrunner for The Walking Dead, on the achievements of the groundbreaking series and what viewers can expect as it heads toward the end of its eleventh and final season. As a bonus, there is more from my 2021 chats via virtual press junket with Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride.
An unforgettable role for Christopher Eccleston, Foxtel Magazine February 2022
/What a treat to speak with Christopher Eccleston for this piece about the series Close to Me. (No, I did not pester him about Doctor Who.)
Rebecca Gibney: 'I Feel Alive,' TV Week, January 22-28, 2022
/Always a pleasure to speak to Rebecca Gibney, a versatile actress who is now venturing more into producing.
Timeless Tale: A Chat with Author Diana Gabaldon, TV Week, January 8-14, 2022
/While the television series is on its sixth season, Diana Gabaldon’s ninth novel in the Outlander series is out now.
Crikey! It's Shark Week with Madison 'Shark Girl' Stewart, Foxtel Magazine, December 2021
/I learned a lot about sharks from conservationist and shark activist Madison Stewart and hope others will, too.
Deborah Mailman: She's in Total Control, Who Magazine, November 4, 2021
/Interview Deborah Mailman? Why, certainly! Any time. This piece is pegged to the second season of Total Control, a series with international reach now, and deservedly so.
Five minutes with... Ewen Leslie, Who Magazine, October 28, 2021
/Always up for a chat with Ewen Leslie. Based on the interview, I got tickets to see him, Geraldine Hakewill and Zahra Newman in Julius Caesar at the Sydney Theatre Company. Well worth it!
The Walking Dead from A to Z, Foxtel Magazine, August 2021
/Weaving in quotes from an international press call with talent from the long running AMC series, I had fun putting this piece together.
Lucy Lawless on the second season of My Life is Murder, Who Magazine, Aug 21, 2021
/The fabulous and down-to-earth Lucy Lawless spoke to me via Zoom for this Who piece!
Latifa's escape recounted in Tom Steinfort's book, Who Magazine, August 12, 2021
/I spoke with journalist Tom Steinfort about his first book, Sins of the Sheikh, and the details he presents about Princess Latifa. Thank you to Tom for his time.
Clare Dunne writes her own script for success with the Irish indie Herself, Who Magazine, July 12, 2021
/Actress Claire Dunne co-wrote and stars in Herself, a hopeful drama that fuses her research on surviving domestic violence with the Irish cultural ideal of maitheal. I spoke with her about it for Who Magazine in their July 12, 2021 issue.
Before diving into the new Gossip Girl, revisit key moments from the original series, Foxtel July 2021
/When Gossip Girl first aired in 2007, its delicious dialogue and designer fashions were a heady mix. We look back on the key episodes and quotes that made it such a cult teen series in Foxtel Magazine’s July 2021 issue.
Geraldine Hakewill returns in season 2 of Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries, Who Magazine, June 21, 2021
/Two years ago, I was on the fabulous Elsternwick set of Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, speaking to Geraldine Hakewill in her trailer. For 2021, Zoom will have to do! We catch up on her series, and her life, since 2019, to preview season 2 on Acorn TV.
Chats with Hailie Sahar of Pose, and Raechelle and Karina Banno of the VC Andrews' Landry series on Lifetime, for Foxtel June 2021
/Zoom interviews became great Q&As with Hailie Sahar on the final season of Pose, and Australian twins Raechelle and Karina Banno, both starring in the VC Andrews’ Landry series on Lifetime, in the June 2021 issue of Foxtel Magazine.
