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If you were glued to your TV set during the 1990's, you might remember this commercial where a guy talks about his problems with acne. He mentions how people think he has it because he eats too many chocolate bars or that doesn't wash his face.

What you might not know is that the guy in the commercial was a real person who wanted to share his story about his skin condition in an authentic way.

Tim Hamilton, the director behind the ...

"It was a character that demanded all of me not just a part of me," says Scott Cohen about his character Wolf from the 10th Kingdom.

Wolf is a barely contained explosion of a character. He has complex motivations, he's at times hilarious and at other threatening, but he's the real heart and soul of the 10th Kingdom.

Scott joins the podcast to talk about how he got the role, the toll 9 months of travel took on him, and his hope that...

The 10th Kingdom originally aired in 2000 on NBC. It starred Kimberly Williams-Paisley as Virginia, a waitress who gets sucked into the world of the 9 Kingdoms. These kingdoms are based on the fairytales, but not the ones we might have grown up with. Creator Simon Moore wanted to take viewers into a world well past its happily ever after to examine the darker roots of the tales. What soon discover is that Virginia has a dark past o...

Brianne Banigan Eleanor Leary sat face-to-face with Judy Price, the Queen’s of children's television production at CBS with a pilot in her hand for The Sticklers, a show about a dysfunctional family trying to get by. Judy told her to play the tape and they sat in silence as the VHS played.

“She stood up from her desk, leaned in, and said, ‘I like this.” And then she went around the desk and said, ‘I want...

Stickin’ Around’s stick figure aesthetic was, “An illusion in simplicity,” says Robin Steele, co-creator of Stickin’ Around.

In fact, the show, which aired from 1996 to 1998, was on the forefront of digital animation production, but the origins of the aesthetic goes back to his work on Stick Figure Theatre on MTV's Liquid Television.

Robin joins us this episode to talk about how he joined t...

Did you know Nanalan is a real place? In fact, "Nana Land" is what Jamie Shannon called his grandmother's backyard when he was a kid and his time spent there as a kid directly inspired the creation of his puppet show that played on YTV, Nickelodeon, and CBC. Jamie joins us this episode to talk about inspiring wonder in kids, what happens when you switch broadcasters, and how this show helped launch a number of successful shows lik...

Steve Schnier remembers dancing down the hallways at his day job when his producer John Delmage called him to say Freaky Stories had found its financing.

Starring Larry de bug and Maurice the Maggot, Freaky presented four cartoons per episodes to kids around the world with writing inspired by tales of Schnier's family.

In our interview, we get into the creation of the show, why puppetry really "sucks", and why the show ended after ...