Welcome to Decorating the Set: From Hollywood to Your Home with Beth Kushnick! Ever wonder why TV shows have bottle episodes? Or why the lush quality of a show may fall off after a season or two? TV and Film productions needs to run on a budget and when they don't, trouble can follow. This week, Beth and Caroline speak with the man keeping the budgets on track, production accountant, Andy Wheeler! Listen in for a fascinating look behind the curtain on how television is made. The Interview with A...
Apr 04, 2024•52 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Shogun Season 1 Episode 6 "Ladies of the Willow World". Image by F/X. Copyright 2024. In our latest episode, we dive into "Ladies of the Willow World," the sixth episode from F/X's "Shogun." This episode explores the histories and connections between Lady Mariko and Lady Ochiba, offering a narrative departure from James Clavell's original book. The focus on these characters provides new depth to the series. Gabby was particularly struck by the episode's emphasis on the women's stories and brings...
Mar 29, 2024•1 hr 46 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Shogun Season 1 Episode 5 "Broken to the Fist". Image by F/X. Copyright 2024. In this week's episode, we dissect the gripping developments of "Broken to the Fist," the fifth episode of the season from F/X's "Shogun." This episode weaves a complex tapestry of loyalty, manipulation, and survival as Lord Toranaga confronts the aftermath of his son Naga's actions, manipulated into killing Jozen and his men. Meanwhile, Blackthorne finds himself in a precarious situation when forced to host Buntaro, l...
Mar 22, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Welcome to Decorating the Set: From Hollywood to Your Home with Beth Kushnick! March is one of our favorite times of the year; as the weather warms and the snows thaw, it is a time when all things seem possible. With that in mind, on this week's new episode, Beth and Caroline celebrate the start of Spring with a look at the the current trends in home decor! Beth is the Decorator By Your Side and now, you can shop her Amazon Store! CLICK HERE! ### For over 35 years, Beth Kushnick has created char...
Mar 21, 2024•34 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Shogun Season 1 Episode 4 "The Eightfold Fence" This week on our journey through F/X's riveting series "Shogun," join Paul, Gabby, and Inez as they unpack the intricacies of the fourth episode, "The Eightfold Fence." Dive deep into the heart of the series with us as we explore the richly drawn character dynamics between Mariko and Blackthorne, characters who captivate with their depth, resilience, and evolving relationship. Amidst the backdrop of feudal Japan, their interactions offer a mastercl...
Mar 15, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Welcome to Decorating the Set: From Hollywood to Your Home with Beth Kushnick! A favorite part of doing this podcast is the chance to sit down with not only long time friends and colleagues, but longtime friends and colleagues who are the best at what they do. And this week, we have a great one. On this week's episode, Beth and Producer Mike sit down with Kevin Rupnik, an Emmy-nominated Art Director who has been working in theater, television and film for 30 plus years, at the highest levels. Th...
Mar 14, 2024•58 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Shogun - Season 1 Episode 3 "Tomorrow Is Tomorrow" In the latest episode of our podcast, for the episode entitled "Tomorrow is Tomorrow," Paul, Gabby, and Inez dive deep into the heart-stopping moments of F/X's "Shogun" series. This week's focus is on the gripping narrative where Toranaga and his allies narrowly escape an ambush in the dense forest between Osaka castle and the harbor, showcasing their resilience and strategic prowess. Join us as we unravel the layers of loyalty, betrayal, and su...
Mar 08, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Shogun Ep. 1 - Anjin Embark on an epic exploration of F/X's latest sensation, "Shogun," with your insightful hosts Paul, Inez, and Gabby on Tales From the Shogunate. Our engaging trio has just unveiled their thought-provoking analysis of the miniseries' riveting first two episodes (Anjin and Servants of Two Masters), setting the stage for a journey filled with intrigue, power struggles, and a rich tapestry of cultural confluences. In our inaugural episodes, we peel back the layers of Shogun's co...
Mar 03, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Welcome to Decorating the Set: From Hollywood to Your Home with Beth Kushnick! One of the unsung positions in your favorite TV show or movie is the Production Manager. The Production Manager is charged with keeping many aspects of a production on time and on budget, to say nothing of securing the perfect shooting locations. This week, Beth and Caroline speak with one of the best Production Managers in the business, Tom Whelan. With over 30 plus years in film and television, Tom is a treasure tro...
Feb 29, 2024•35 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Welcome to Decorating the Set: From Hollywood to Your Home with Beth Kushnick! In the age of technology, the landscape of making television and films has changed with the rise of the graphic designer. Whether it's creating Peter Florrick's bespoke political campaign posters that hang on a wall in the background of a shot or creating a seamlessly photoshopped picture that will sit on a character's desk, Beth has one man she turns to for her graphic designer needs, the talented, Lyle Booth. This w...
Feb 22, 2024•54 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Welcome to Season 5 of Decorating the Set: From Hollywood to Your Home with Beth Kushnick! Beth and Caroline are back for a brand new season of pulling back the curtain on the magic of making television and film, and bringing the tips and tricks of the pros right into your home! This week, the ladies sit down with Noelle Giddings, an immensely talented artist whose tremendous career has taken her from being one of the first female comic book artists to Beth's go-to artist for creating bespoke, s...
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 1
Welcome to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast! Join Caroline and Mike each week as they discuss HBO's period drama, The Gilded Age! Photograph by Barbara Nitke/HBO This week on New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast, Caroline and Mike (finally) discuss The Gilded Age Season 2 Finale, Episode 8, "In Terms of Winning and Losing"! Join in the conversation on Twitter at @podclubhouse and our Facebook Group, The Gilded Age Fan Group (HBO Series)! Listen, rate, review, and subscribe to...
Jan 24, 2024•3 hr•Season 2Ep. 8
Beacon 23 Season 1 Episode 8 "Adamantine". Image by MGM+. Copyright 2023. The inaugural season of MGM+'s Beacon 23 comes down to "Adamantine". In an episode invoking an unbreakable quality in its title, the occupants and visitors to the beacon each made their case as to whom the title best describes. Aster's drive to learn about the rocks she came to know as relics has never wavered. Halan's commitment to Aster, which might have looked in doubt has also shown to be unbreakable. What about the ze...
Dec 21, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Beacon 23 Season 1 Episode 7 "End Transmission". Image by MGM+. Copyright 2023. Suddenly, Aster remembers that she was born and partially raised on Beacon 23. Alright. Let's just accept that so we can move on with the story. After all, many more important things happen in "End Transmission" than Aster's conveniently timed epiphany. Kier returns to the beacon, but this time he has Column hard-liners Saldana and Finch in tow to add brawn to his now religious-minded brain. While those two add a cer...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Beacon 23 - Season 1 Episode 6 "Beacon Twenty Three". Image by MGM+. Copyright 2023. Another episode outside the timeline concerning Halan and Aster, "Beacon Twenty Three" fills in even more of the Beacon's story. In Bart's possibly biased retelling of his own history, we learned about Dr. Ree Avalon's tenure as the Beacon's first keeper. It was during her time there that people began interacting with the Artifact. Similar to Aleph's transcendence from a couple episodes ago, Avalon's close conta...
Dec 11, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Welcome to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast! Join Caroline and Mike each week as they discuss HBO's period drama, The Gilded Age! Photograph by Barbara Nitke/HBO This week on New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast, Caroline and Mike discuss Episode 7 of Season 2, "Wonders Never Cease"! Join in the conversation on Twitter at @podclubhouse and our Facebook Group, The Gilded Age Fan Group (HBO Series)! Listen, rate, review, and subscribe to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Pod...
Dec 11, 2023•2 hr 47 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Welcome to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast! Join Caroline and Mike each week as they discuss HBO's period drama, The Gilded Age! Photograph by Barbara Nitke/HBO This week on New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast, Caroline and Mike discuss Episode 6 of Season 2, "Warning Shots"! Join in the conversation on Twitter at @podclubhouse and our Facebook Group, The Gilded Age Fan Group (HBO Series)! Listen, rate, review, and subscribe to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast o...
Dec 04, 2023•2 hr 35 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Beacon 23 Season 1 Episode 5 "Rocky". Aster (Lena Headey) and Halan (Stephan James) in the cupola watching Rocky's friends outside the beacon. Image by MGM+. Copyright 2023. When you saw the title of this episode, were you thinking of the fictional boxing hero from Philadelphia? Or did you think it referred to a talking space rock? Given the wacky directions things are starting to go on Beacon 23, no one would blame you for expecting the Italian Stallion himself to set foot on the space station....
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Beacon 23 - Season 1 Episode 4 "God in the Machine". Image by MGM+. Copyright 2023. With a quick jump back in time 180 years before the previously seen events of the show, viewers were given their first glimpse of the size and galactic impact of what's been happening on Beacon 23. In "God in the Machine", we met Milan Aleph, CIO of the mysterious, expansive QTA and a man on a mission to force humankind to move beyond mortality. Countering his cold, logical indifference stands beaconkeeper Sophie...
Nov 28, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Welcome to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast! Join Caroline and Mike each week as they discuss HBO's period drama, The Gilded Age! Photograph by Barbra Nitke/HBO This week on New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast, Caroline and Mike discuss Episode 5 of Season 2, "Close Enough to Touch"! Join in the conversation on Twitter at @podclubhouse and our Facebook Group, The Gilded Age Fan Group (HBO Series)! Listen, rate, review, and subscribe to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Po...
Nov 27, 2023•2 hr 56 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Beacon 23 Episode 3 "Why Can't We Go On As Three?". Image by MGM+. Copyright 2023. If you're looking at this podcast, wondering where our coverage for the second episode of Beacon 23 is, look at our premiere episode. That episode covers both the premiere episode of the series as well as the second since they both came out on the same day. THIS podcast is for the 3rd episode - " Why Can't We Go On As Three?" This episode spun the action dial back down a little from the pirate boarding escapade de...
Nov 20, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Welcome to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast! Join Caroline and Mike each week as they discuss HBO's period drama, The Gilded Age! Photograph by Barbra Nitke/HBO This week on New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast, Caroline and Mike discuss Episode 4 of Season 2, "His Grace the Duke"! Join in the conversation on Twitter at @podclubhouse and our Facebook Group, The Gilded Age Fan Group (HBO Series)! Listen, rate, review, and subscribe to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podca...
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 52 min•Season 2Ep. 4
"Beacon 23 Premiere" Episodes 1 + 2. Image by MGM+. Copyright 2023. This has been a big year for Hollywood, but maybe even more so for novelist Hugh Howey. After the long build up to getting his landmark novel Wool translated to the small screen in the form of AppleTV+'s "Silo", Howey's fans may not have expected to get a second dose of his work so soon. With MGM+'s Beacon 23 Premiere, Howey's fans and science fiction fans at large have something to rejoice about. Not to mention some good TV for...
Nov 13, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Welcome to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast! Join Caroline and Mike each week as they discuss HBO's period drama, The Gilded Age! Photograph by Barbara Nitke/HBO This week on New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast, Caroline and Mike discuss Episode 3 of Season 2, "Head to Head"! Join in the conversation on Twitter at @podclubhouse and our Facebook Group, The Gilded Age Fan Group (HBO Series)! Listen, rate, review, and subscribe to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast on...
Nov 13, 2023•2 hr 55 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Why are we, as humans, so certain that not only will we live to see the end times, but also that along the way, we will turn against each other in fundamentally brutal ways? At the heart of that brutality, at least with this episode's movies, lies our own ability to continue on as a species. When forces conspire to prevent people from conceiving, what dystopian population control measures will we put up with? In The Handmaid's Tale, in the fascist post-America called Gilead, the new authorities ...
Nov 09, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Welcome to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast! Join Caroline and Mike each week as they discuss HBO's period drama, The Gilded Age! Photograph by Barbra Nitke/HBO This week on a super-sized episode of New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast (yes, every week is super-sized as of late - we've missed talking about the show), Caroline and Mike discuss Episode 2 of Season 2, "Some Sort of Trick"! Join in the conversation on Twitter at @podclubhouse and our Facebook Group, The Gilded Ag...
Nov 06, 2023•3 hr•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast! Join Caroline and Mike each week as they discuss HBO's period drama, The Gilded Age! Photograph by Barbara Nitke/HBO This week on a very late (we explain in the episode) and super-sized episode of New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast, Caroline and Mike are back to discuss the Season 2 Premiere, "You Don't Even Like Opera"! Join in the conversation on Twitter at @podclubhouse and our Facebook Group, The Gilded Age Fan Group (HBO Ser...
Oct 30, 2023•2 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Houston Horror Film Fest 2023 Exclusive Interview with Anjanette Clewis In a moment of serendipity, while visiting with a friend attending the 2023 Houston Horror Film Fest who was there exclusively to see Billy Zane, a woman sat next to me and started saying the most interesting things I'd heard all day. Terms like "scream queen" (in the context of actually being one) aren't the kinds of things that one hears in the course of normal conversation, and if you know me at all, then you know that I ...
Sep 30, 2023•39 min
In this interview, Paul chats with a filmmaker he met briefly at the 2023 edition of the Houston Horror Film Festival. Her name is Victoria Wallace Kinkead and she was at the fest with her 1 minute horror short "In the Dark". Victoria, with her producer Jason Leal, describes the process they used to create this short, some of their influences, and what they'll be working on next. For more info on Victoria: Instagram | In The Dark (short film) | Youtube Channel For more info on Jason: Youtube Cha...
Sep 06, 2023•39 min
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 5 Episode 9 "Four Minutes" - Credit: Philippe Antonello/Prime VideoCopyright: Amazon Studios 2023 Description: Rachel Brosnahan (Miriam 'Midge' Maisel), Alfie Fuller (Dinah), Alex Borstein (Susie) It all comes down to "Four Minutes". Four minutes for Midge to either set up her future or prove all of the naysayers right. Listen as Paul and Caroline finish up their coverage of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel! Listen to our coverage of previous seasons! Season 5 1 | 2 | 3...
Sep 06, 2023•46 min•Season 5Ep. 9
