The Tv Insider Podcast

Another week of self-quarantine is here and we have the shows you should be binging while sitting at home. This week Damian Holbrook chats with TV Guide Magazine and TV Insider’s Emily Aslanian and Paige Strout about their current Comfort TV, from Syfy classic ”Battlestar Galactica” to NBC’s “3o Rock.” Join us each week as we talk about the best in comforting, uplifting TV in the era of self-isolation!

This week Damian Holbrook chats with TV Guide Magazine and TV Insider’s Meredith Jacobs and Allegra Kuney about their current Comfort TV, from NBC’s hit series “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” to AMC’s short-lived “Lodge 49.” Join us each week as we talk about the best in comforting, uplifting TV in the era of self-isolation!  

Host Damian Holbrook chats with TV Guide Magazine and TV Insider’s Jim Halterman and Meaghan Darwish about their current Comfort TV, from NBC’s short-lived ‘Champions’ to FX Network’s ‘What We Do in the Shadows’. Join us each week as we talk about the best in comforting, uplifting TV in the era of self-isolation!

The fabulous Tim Gunn sits down with us to talk the new Amazon series, the elements that make it very different from 'Project Runway' and how he and Heidi Klum were able to shape the competition along the way. 

In this episode, we chat with Stephanie Beatriz, who has starred as Rosa Diaz on NBC's BROOKLYN NINE-NINE for seven seasons. We talked about the character having changed over time, what's next for Rosa's love life and her IN THE HEIGHTS movie role.   

Members of our team are isolating but they're also watching a LOT of television so offer up their suggestions - some new shows, some classics - for what you can be watching during your own isolation. 

Damian Holbrook sits down with LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE executive producer Liz Tigelaar to find out how she adapted the best selling book with stars Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon. 

Season 4 of FX's brilliant comedy BETTER THINGS is another fabulous mixed bag of comedy, dark comedy and a whole lot of rain. Our Jim Halterman sits down with executive producer/star/writer/director Pamela Adlon to talk it all out. 

If you're looking for that next, great musical TV show, NBC's ZOEY'S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST is for you! Our Jim Halterman chats with show creator Austin Winsberg about taking for his own life for part of the story. 

In the spoiler-filled post-mortem chat to the January 19. 2020 episode of Starz's POWER (don't listen unless you've watched...seriously!) Joseph Sikora talks everything that went down for Tommy Egan and wrapping up this intense television series. 

A lot has changed on the television landscape since 2010 but we're focusing on the good stuff here from Parks & Rec, The Walking Dead, Mad Men, the Arrowverse and more! 

There's a lot of TV but there's also a lot of GREAT TV and our intrepid team has put together their thoughts on the Best of 2019. Did your fave make the cut? Listen and find out!  

In episode 37, Kaley Cuoco and Lake Bell stop by to talk (and laugh) about the new, very adult animated series HARLEY QUINN. Senior Writer Damian Holbrook also weighs in on THE MANDALORIAN, AMERICAN HORROR STORY and the MAD ABOUT YOU revival with his latest Cheers and Jeers. 

Friends! The Office! We check in with our intrepid team of interns to find out how (and what) they're watching TV these days. Some of the answers are surprising! Episode 36.

In this episode, we talk to EMERGENCE Executive Producers Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters on not wasting time in telling the mystery story. Also, Damian Holbrook weighs in on EMERGENCE as well as NANCY DREW, THE POLITICIAN and more in his Cheers & Jeers segment. 

In episode 34, we look at one of the newest and brightest spots on the Fall TV schedule by talking with Walton Goggins of CBS's comedy, THE UNICORN. 

Mandy Moore tells us all about the new season of NBC's This Is Us plus Damian Holbrook offers Cheers and Jeers for Netflix's Dark Crystal and networks dragging their feet on renewals? 

In episode 32, 'The Good Place' star Manny Jacinto (Jason) talks about shooting the final season, working with TV icon Ted Danson and his role in the new TOP GUN movie! Also, Senior Critic Matt Roush previews A Very Brady Renovation, Ken Burn's Country Music doc series and Sacha Baron Cohen in Netflix's THE SPY. 

DAVID MAKES MAN creator Tarell Alvin McCraney, who won an Oscar for co-writing the movie MOONLIGHT with Barry Jenkins, talks to us about shaping the new OWN drama. 

Spoiler Alert! Only listen to this episode if you've watched the fourth episode of the new EPIX series PENNYWORTH. If you've watched, then you don't want to miss this chat with our Damian Holbrook and PENNYWORTH star, Jack Bannon. Enjoy!