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Today’s trailers, part 2: The Sex Pistols series, Pistol

Johnny Lydon isn’t happy about it, but Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle has turned the memoir of Pistols’ guitarist Steve

When Danny Boyle was announced as the director of a Sex Pistols biopic TV series, most people were quite pleased.

When The Price is Right starts taping shows without a studio audience like Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy are doing,

I’ve been lucky enough to see Henry Rollins a number of times doing his talking shows. At one particular show,

Have I mentioned how much I hate the flip-top lids on tubes of toothpaste? Who came up with these useless

The lavender redbud is blooming nicely in the front yard. It survived another rough winter. And now, the music news…

The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
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Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
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Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
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