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Ben Mankiewicz’s ‘Talking Pictures’ Movie Interview Podcast Renewed for Season 2 at TCM and Max
Ben Mankiewicz's 'Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast' has been renewed for Season 2 by TCM and Max.
He announced the renewal on the Season 1 finale featuring guest Bill Hader, star, co-creator and director of HBO’s “Barry” and former “Saturday Night Live” cast member. In addition to Hader, guests in the 10-episode Season 1 of “Talking Pictures” included Mel Brooks, Nancy Meyers, Patty Jenkins, Emerald Fennell, Steven Soderbergh, Errol Morris, Damien Chazelle, Alexander Payne and Cord Jefferson (who recorded the episode prior to his adapted screenplay Oscar win for “American Fiction”). Prior episodes of “Talking Pictures” Season 1 featured Jenkins (“Wonder Woman,” “Monster”) on superheroes, female serial killers and being a woman director in Hollywood; Chazelle (“La La Land,” “Whiplash”) on his childhood as a budding filmmaker inspired by Walt Disney; Payne (“Election,” “Sideways,” “About Schmidt”) about the inspiration for “The Holdovers” and working with actors Paul Giamatti and George Clooney; documentarian Morris (“The Thin Blue Line,” “The Fog of War”) on interviewing, grave robbing and serial killers; and Brooks (“The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein”) about Gene Wilder, David Lynch, his wife Anne Bancroft, best friend Carl Reiner and a hilarious dinner with Alfred Hitchcock.
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