Mr. Media Radio

By BOB ANDELMANHow well do you know your own father?If your stepmother died under suspicious circumstances and everyone around you harbored the belief that your father murdered her, could you stand by him no matter what?I hope, for your sake, that it’s ...

BY BOB ANDELMANTim Pilcher has a dirty mind!That’s what some people think, no doubt. He did just publish the edition Erotic Comics: A Graphic History and it is filled with cartoon images of men, women, aliens and even a cat dancer engaged in all manner ...

By BOB ANDELMANOne of the delightful surprises of last spring’s crop of replacement TV shows was a quiet little romantic comedy called “Castle” on ABC. It stars Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle, a police procedural novelist who gets permission to ...

By BOB ANDELMANI’m gonna be honest with you—I’m far more interested in talking with Guillermo Diaz about his last role—as, curiously, “Guillermo”—in “Weeds,” in which he played Mary Louise Parker’s drug dealer, teacher, friend, ...

By BOB ANDELMANI lived in a pretty male-centric world most of my life, idolizing certain baseball players, rock stars and even a writer or two.But when my daughter was born back in ’96, I made a marked effort to learn more about women who she might one ...

By BOB ANDELMANThink about seeing your life flashing before your eyes.Got the picture?Now think about Rick Fox’s life flashing before your eyes. First round NBA draft pick by the Boston Celtics in 1991.  Seven years—and three world ...

Flash Gordon. Has there ever been a cooler name or a cooler action hero anywhere?I can’t remember exactly when during the 1960s I first saw the old Universal serials repeated on television featuring Buster Crabbe as Flash, but I was hooked for life. As ...

By BOB ANDELMANJohn Hawkes is best known for his role as Sol Star, the co-owner of the hardware store and best friend of the sheriff on the beloved, cocksucker HBO series “Deadwood.”Hey—I don’t write these intros, folks, they just sort of write ...

By BOB ANDELMANI could put up a bit of a fuss, but what’s the point? My guest today, Air America morning radio host Lionel, is waaaaay smarter than me. I’m not going to offer any pretense that I can battle him to even a draw in a battle of wits: I ...

BY BOB ANDELMANI met cartoonist Howard Cruse in March 2004 at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. He was one of the featured guests at the college’s “Comics Summit on Diversity,” an event that included Mary GrandPre, ...

By BOB ANDELMANWho would have ever guessed that the art of the deal--the essence of how business gets done in America--would make compelling television?If you don't like the genre of reality business competition on TV, blame Mark Burnett, the creator of ...

BY BOB ANDELMANPatrick Muldoon needs to make a decision: What does he want to be when he grows up?The man has appeared in Starship Troopers, a season of “Melrose Place” and has an upcoming role alongside Kristen Stewart of Twilight fame, so we know ...

By BOB ANDELMANI have steadfastly avoided inviting soap stars to be my guests on Mr. Media Radio for a simple reason: I don’t watch soaps. Oh, I did for a year or two in the late ‘80s when my new wife was hooked on All My Children and she recorded ...

By BOB ANDELMANSomething was seriously missing from the episode of the season of Fox’s drama Lie To Me: punishment for Hayley McFarland’s character, Emily Lightman.Hayley, who plays a young high school student named Emily on the show, lied to her ...

By BOB ANDELMANWhoever cast the new NBC show “Trauma”—airing Monday nights at 9 p.m.—must have done some market research when it came to Aimee Garcia, at least based on what I learned about her within my own household.Besides being a beautiful, ...

(NOTE FROM Mr. MEDIA: This interview was recorded before NBC canceled "Southland" last week without airing a single episode of its season. But in the hopes it will turn up somewhere more appropriate--fX, Showtime?--I'm offering it up anyway.) By BOB ...

By BOB ANDELMANWhen did the TV show COPS become such a piece of irrefutable Americana?Probably when the first bar of “Bad Boys” played, back in 1988. It was the original docu-reality series when it debuted on Fox more than 20 years ago and took ...

By BOB ANDELMANWhen did the TV show COPS become such a piece of irrefutable Americana?Probably when the first bar of “Bad Boys” played, back in 1988. It was the original docu-reality series when it debuted on Fox more than 20 years ago and took ...

BY BOB ANDELMANI graduated from the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1982 and, to be honest, I was glad to be done. I never took much to life in a college town and I wasn’t one of those crazy gators.Heck, the football team was pretty bad back ...