REALITY OF REALITY

Starting off 2020 with a bang! I have a wide ranging conversation about life and politics with Pete Dominick. Pete is a stand up comic, speaker, news commentator, activist, moderator and host of podcast Standup With Pete Dominick. We talk about Pete’s career and how he’s been coping with losing his gig of 12 years. […]

My last podcast for 2019 is a recap of all the great content of the year with my good friend and TV blogger Brian Samuels. We get into all of it: unscripted, scripted, documentaries and doc series. Even the shows that should have never been made (with one major disagreement on that front!). Here’s hoping […]

It’s a new company with a great mission! Vital Casting was formed by Rebecca Snavely, Alissa Haight Carlton and Jen DeMartino – three friends and former colleagues from PROJECT RUNWAY who decided to come together to do casting with a socially conscious mission. We talk about their refreshing approach to casting and building a company, how the #metoo […]

Daniel Sivan is an award-winning director who recently co-directed the new Netflix series, The Devil Next Door, a five-part documentary series that delves into the legal battles of John Demjanjuk, a retired autoworker in Cleveland accused of being a German-Nazi prison camp guard known as “Ivan the Terrible.” I highly recommend you watch this riveting […]

Rob LaPlante is the co-president of Lighthearted Entertainment – the production company responsible for hits like MTV’s ARE YOU THE ONE and DATING NAKED on VH1. Back in the day, Rob was on the ground floor of casting THE APPRENTICE and getting it off the ground. You can’t really blame him for Donald Trump but […]

I had the BEST time talking to Melissa Rivers about literally everything. We cover her career as a producer, writer, entertainment journalist and now host of the new podcast GROUP TEXT. We get into her iconic star turn on CELEBRITY APPRENTICE and what was really going on behind the scenes (and what she thinks happened […]

We mention it ALL on today’s Housewives recap with the brilliant and hilarious Erin Martin. Erin hosts the fabulous podcast Pink Shade with Erin Martin on Taste of Reality (same network as me!) and appears weekly on The Jenny McCarthy Show on Sirius XM. We’re breaking down Jersey, OC and the death march that is […]

HOUSEWIVES FANS! Get ready. President of Evolution, Alex Baskin, gives us the inside scoop on producing RHOC and RHOBH and answers all your questions. We FINALLY learn when Vicki knew she was being demoted to “friend,” what Shane really thinks about being on the show, which housewife was a big mistake, who did (or didn’t) […]

Today’s guest is the head of unscripted for AMC and Sundance and also a good friend. Eliot Goldberg first came on the pod in March of 2018 and talked about how he brought the Kardashians to our TV screens. Today, it’s a more somber conversation about his new compelling documentary series, THE PREPPY MURDER: Death […]

I have two of my very favorite people on the planet with me for this episode. My cousins – Sarah Kanter and Miriam Kanter. We love to gossip about everything and the Royals are one of our favorite topics. So today we’re breaking down HARRY AND MEGHAN: AN AFRICAN JOURNEY which aired last week on […]

I am THRILLED to welcome international pop star Debbie Gibson to the podcast today! All made possible by my co-guest and friend Doug Cohn, Senior Vice President of Music and Talent at Nickelodeon. Debbie has been famous since she burst on the scene as a pop phenomenon in 1987, and she has been working ever […]

Brant Pinvidic is back for a second time, and he has a whole new story to tell. He was one of my early guests back when I started the podcast in 2016. He was once a television executive, but Brant’s career has pivoted in a major way – transitioning out of television into the business […]

On today’s episode- Alex Stapleton. Alex is a super talented director and producer both of TV and film. I was excited to have her on to talk about the recent doc she just directed for Netflix – HELLO PRIVILEGE. IT’S ME CHELSEA.. It follows Chelsea Handler as she tries to figure out what white privilege is and how […]

Liz Astrof is an amazing writer – so much so that she does that for a living. She’s been writing and producing on many successful sitcoms for years, including 2 BROKE GIRLS, KING OF QUEENS, LAST MAN STANDING and THE CONNERS. She recently wrote an amazing true life memoir called DON’T WAIT UP – CONFESSIONS […]

Queen of all Podcasts Kate Casey and I gather for an emergency session to recap one of the craziest episodes ever of Real Housewives of Orange County. If you watched this week, you’ll see it was fight after fight with Kelly Dodd fully off the rails (so good!). Kate and I hold nothing back (is […]

So much fun today with repeat guest Jason Sarlanis. To get some background on Jason, you can listen to our great chat from June 11th 2018. We talk all about his career rising from young assistant at E! To SVP of development of unscripted at TLC. Jason wanted to come on again to talk about […]

Izzie Pick-Ibarra came across the pond many years ago to help get the US version of DANCING WITH THE STARS off the ground after she made it a hit in the UK. She ended up staying in LA, working many gigs in TV over the years, most recently as Executive Producer of the hit Fox […]

Back by (very) popular demand, Criminal Behavioral Analyst and Victims Rights Advocate Laura Richards is back on the podcast to break down UNTOUCHABLE – the Harvey Weinstein documentary now streaming on Hulu. We talk about the serial predator and monster who hid in plain sight for decades, the morally corrupt people and systems who enabled […]

Here’s the story… of a VERY exciting Brady podcast! I’m thrilled to have my friend and amazingly talented Discovery executive Loren Ruch on the podcast today. Among a million other things he’s done in his career, Loren helped bring A VERY BRADY RENOVATION to life which premieres Monday Sep 9th @ 9pm on HGTV. Loren […]