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Genuine triple threat Josh Gad is starring as Disney's first openly gay character LeFou in the live action Beauty and the Beast and he chatted everything from Robin Williams to Juilliard with Marc Fennell.
They say you shouldn't meet your heroes, but for Aussie musician Harts meeting his hero Prince quite literally changed his life.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle sits down with Marc Fennell to talk about his sequel to Trainspotting, using drugs and directing the Queen.
She has played a Disney princess twice, she's the first Asian woman to win a Tony Award and she's the voice behind Aladdin's A Whole New World.
Real-life Lion: meet the guy who inspired the hit film starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman
These interviews are the most fun thing I do. I love getting lost in someone’s work, I love editing them and I love getting to show them to you. Here is my 2015 list.
Christmas cracker jokes are renowned for being terrible, but stand-up comic and dad Andrew Barnett is making them funny thanks to a very unfunny situation.
From drug addict to viral sensation, 21-year-old musician Tash Sultana taught herself over 10 instruments and is now taking the world by storm.
I took the former head of 20th Century Fox Movie studio to a video store (yes, a few still exist) so he could talk smack about Rupert Murdoch, James Cameron, George Lucas, Independence Day and hoooo boy... did he deliver.
For the first time, Junee Correctional Centre let cameras inside their prison for an exclusive look at the surprising program that is changing the lives of inmates.
It's very rare for me to be speechless in an interview but here we are. She also talks about her Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots and the one song that makes her see angels when she sings it.
Umit Bali entered Australia on a tourist visa as a child, and spent the next decade hiding from authorities as they tried to gain residency. He's now a comedian who proudly calls Australia home.
Shot by Peter Mullins & Chloe Angelo
Edited by Marc Fennell
The SNL comedy stars Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer talk about how an accidental YouTube upload changed their careers. We also work out which company should buy Twitter and Snapchat release their own version of Google Glass. Sort of.
The interview is recorded as part of Marc's ABC Radio programme Download This Show which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher and where all good podcasts live.
What can you learn about human nature from animation? That is what Eric Darnell wants to know.
Eric is one of the pioneers of computer-generated movies, he was the director of blockbuster animations like ANTZ, the Madagascar movies, Penguins.
He's now decided the future of filmmaking is this: he has passed up the big bucks of Hollywood to run his very own Virtual Reality studio start-up Baobab.
He's realised that in order to make the ultimate Virtual Reality film, you need to understand the core elements of human nature.
Shot by David May
Edited by Marc Fennell
Hi,
As you may have read, on November 15, my tv home SBS2 will be transforming into a new channel in partnership with the one-time hipster bible turned Peabody and Emmy-winning youth publisher Vice.
The channel will be called....
My nightly programme The Feed will be a lynchpin of the channel alongside a bunch of shows. Some of those will be from Vice and some you already know from SBS2.
For me, It’s been super interesting to see the reaction to the SBS Viceland announcement. I kinda expected the usual “Ugh, why is SBS selling a channel to some US hipster douchebag corporation owned by Murdoch” garbage that comes with these things.
Translation: "Open your eyes, sheeple!"
For the incredibly-easy-to-Google record, 21st Century Fox has a 5% stake in Vice Media who, in turn, SBS is partnering with to build a new channel which SBS 100% owns and operates. No precious publicly owned spectrum is being auctioned off to Uncle Rupert. We are creating something new out of two broadcasters that have an incredible amount in common.
And special note for my beloved ABC colleagues who seem to forget that the ABC's entire publishing arm ABC Books is an actual part of News Ltd. I know this because they are lovely and I've released two books with them... which you should absolutely buy. #RIPMySoul.
And as for the hipster douchebag charge….. just you wait. When the Viceland move was first discussed internally at SBS months ago I took the time to go through all of the shows that Viceland had produced and I was floored. SBS will make an announcement very soon about the shows that will launch on the channel but let me assure you that I have seen stunning programmes on music, sexuality, feminism, technology, sports, food, alcohol, terrorism and yes, good ole fashioned drugs that simply blew me away. Beautiful filmmaking, great characters and stunning storytelling. There are programmes that both revel in hipsterism and utterly challenge it by showing you a world that almost never gets shown on tv. And certainly never shown with this panache.
For those wondering how the Viceland content fits within the SBS charter....
How is Viceland as SBS2 in line with SBS's charter?
— Gus (@gusk) October 4, 2016
....I totally get it. It seems like an odd fit, right? Except when you see the content you will realise that the whole goal of Viceland is to explore a multicultural world through the prisms of music, sex, the environment, film, food and more. It’s globally focussed, it’s diverse, it’s fun and defiantly open-minded journalism and entertainment. As some of you know, I've been a passionate SBS presenter since I was a teenager with questionable choice in neckwear (see below). I believe deeply in SBS's capacity to capture the diversity of the world in a way that is informative and utterly entertaining. Frankly, this move will bring SBS2 far more in-line with our charter than some of our existing content. Certainly not "losing our way" as some have suggested.
Marc Circa A Time We'd Rather Forget.
Is a lot of the Viceland content produced by UK & US producers? Yeah. But we’re also bringing you a lot of those iconic programmes that only SBS can. That’s why it’s a partnership.
Oh and as an aside: By simple virtue of having The Feed, SBS Viceland will still have more first-run, live, original primetime Australian content per week than ABC2 has ever had per week.
Ever.
Don't get me wrong, I love my weekly dose of Good Game and those sassy Tom Tilley specials but - on a per week basis - they don't add up to 3 years of live, nightly original journalism, comedy, forums and documentaries that The Feed has (and will) deliver.
Come November 15, SBS Viceland & The Feed will bring you Walkley and Logie-nominated Australian storytelling every night that is diverse, fun and generally bats way above its average for a multichannel. And as for the shows around us on the channel and on SBS OnDemand? Well, as I said…. just you wait.
Or give us a call and tell us what you want to see.
Around five years ago, Nicola Scott realised that all she loved to draw Wonder Woman all day, and there was an actual, real-life job where you got to do that. She talks about how she sold all her stuff and went and got it her dream.
Shot by David May
Edited by Marc Fennell
Shot by David May
Edited by Marc Fennell
