Frank Buckley Interviews

Nigel Lythgoe is a TV producer, choreographer, dancer and show creator who is best known for executive producing "American Idol" during many years of its highly successful 15-season run on Fox. He also created (with Simon Fuller) and is the executive producer of "So You Think You Can Dance" on Fox. During this podcast, Nigel discusses his life and career including his childhood in Wallasey, Englan...

Andrew D. Bernstein is the longtime official photographer of the Los Angeles Lakers and senior NBA photographer. His photos are paired with Kobe Bryant's commentary in the new book "The Mamba Mentality: How I Play." During this podcast, Andrew discusses 20 years of photographing Kobe Bryant, specific photos in the book, and his career as one of only two photographers ever inducted into the NBA's N...

In this episode of Frank Buckley Interviews, Frank shares clips from some of KTLA's other podcast offerings from Spoken Dreams, The News Director's Office, and California Cooking. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/frankbuckleyinterviews. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Luke Davies is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, novelist and poet best known for the award-winning 2016 film "Lion" and for the novel "Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction" based at least in part on his own experiences as a heroin addict in the 1980s. Luke is the co-writer of the new film "Beautiful Boy" based on the true-life stories of David and Nic Sheff and David's efforts to save his son Nic'...

Sera Gamble is a TV writer and producer who is the co-creator and executive producer/showrunner of Lifetime's "You" and Syfy's "The Magicians." She is one of only a few women in Hollywood who are in charge of two TV shows. During this podcast, Sera discusses her career from "baby writer" to showrunner, her responsibilities as a female showrunner in the era of the Me Too movement, and her process w...

Gene Simmons is co-founder of the rock band KISS which has been performing and recording for 45 years. KISS has earned more gold albums (30) than any American band in history. In 2019, the band goes on tour in what it's calling the "End of the Road" farewell tour. Gene is also a prolific entrepreneur and co-founding partner of Rock and Brews restaurants. There are more than three-thousand KISS lic...

Ali Noorani is the executive director of the non-partisan National Immigration Forum which describes itself as bringing together "moderate and conservative faith, law enforcement and business leaders...in support of practical and common sense immigration, citizenship and integration policies." Ali is also the author of the book "There Goes the Neighborhood: How Communities Overcome Prejudice and M...

Victoria Arlen is an on-air personality at ESPN, a gold and silver medalist from the London Paralympics, and a survivor who was in a vegetative state for nearly four years as a child "locked" in her own body unable to speak, move, eat or communicate with the people around her. During this podcast, Victoria reveals what it was like as she emerged from the vegetative state and was eventually able to...

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize winning author. Her new book "Leadership in Turbulent Times" profiles Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. During this podcast, Doris discusses the human qualities that all of these presidents possessed, she reveals personal experiences she had working with President Johnson,...

Nate Boyer is a former U.S Army Green Beret and Iraq and Afghanistan veteran and former football player who in 2016 convinced then San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to kneel during his national anthem protests instead of sitting after Nate wrote an open letter to Kaepernick in the Army Times. Nate is also co-founder of Merging Vets and Players, a non-profit created for combat vetera...

Mirai Nagasu is a figure skater who at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games became the first American woman to land a difficult triple Axel in the Olympics. Her three-and-half revolution jump helped the USA team to win a bronze medal. But Mirai's participation in the Winter Games was marked by controversy after her comments during a press conference that many perceived as criticism of her American teamma...

Warren G is a rapper and hip hop legend from Long Beach, California. He was childhood friends with future hip hop stars Snoop Dogg and the late Nate Dogg and in 1990 they formed a group known as "213" after what was then the Long Beach area code. Warren G is one of the pioneers of G-Funk hip hop which became the most popular genre of hip hop of the 1990s. Warren G is probably best known for his so...

MaryLinda Moss is an artist, wife and mother who suddenly became a hostage when an armed gunman stormed into the Silver Lake Trader Joe's store on July 21, 2018 after he'd allegedly shot and wounded his grandmother and girlfriend and led police on a pursuit.   Trader Joe's manager, Melyda Corado, was shot and killed during the initial exchange of gunfire between the suspect, Gene Atkins, and polic...

Taylor Bisciotti is an anchor and reporter for the NFL Network and the youngest on-air person the network has ever hired. She hosts and anchors programs like "ICYMI: All 32" and "NFL Up to the Minute" on the NFL Network. During this podcast, Taylor discusses the challenges she faces as a woman working in the male-dominated NFL, the kinds of inside stories she sees that fans may not be aware of, an...

Taro Kono is the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Japan and has served in that position since August 2017. He is an eight-term member of Japan's House of Representatives and a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. During this podcast, Minister Kono discusses the state of U.S.-Japan relations including Japan's perspectives on the $68.9 billion U.S. trade deficit with Japan, President Trump'...

"Weird Al" Yankovic is a singer-songwriter best known for creating hit songs based on parodies of other hit songs. During this podcast, Al discusses his childhood, his career, and his biggest hits. He explains his approach to writing and performing parodies, reveals the reason why he continued a concert tour despite the sudden death of his parents by carbon monoxide poisoning, and his appreciation...

Jay Shetty is a former monk who now makes inspirational videos seen on Facebook and other platforms with the guiding principle to "make wisdom go viral." He achieved two billion views of his videos in 18 months and was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2017 as a game changer in media. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/frankbuckleyinterviews. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com...

Filmmaker Jon M. Chu returns to the podcast to discuss his latest film, Crazy Rich Asians. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/frankbuckleyinterviews. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Angelica Ross is a transgender actress and one of the stars of the critically acclaimed FX series "Pose," from the prolific TV producer Ryan Murphy. She is part of what FX says is the largest cast of transgender actors in “regular series” roles in TV history, and the largest recurring cast of LGBTQ actors ever for a scripted series. FX recently announced that Pose was renewed for a second season....

Bassem Youssef was a heart surgeon in Egypt who rose to fame in 2011 during the Arab Spring protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square after becoming a popular political satirist and TV show host. Bassem was known as the Egyptian Jon Stewart while hosting a Daily Show style program "Al-Bernameg" (The Show) that would at one point be seen by 30 million people each week--roughly a third of Egypt's population...

Chin Han is an actor currently appearing opposite Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in the summer blockbuster "Skyscraper." Chin is known for his roles in films like "The Dark Knight," "Contagion," "Independence Day: Resurgence," "2012," and the Netflix series "Marco Polo." In 2010, he was named to CNNGo's "Asia's 25 Greatest Actors of All Time." In June, he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictu...

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is the new owner of the Los Angeles Times and executive chairman of the Times, the San Diego Union Tribune and other publications that are part of the California News Group. He is also a biotech and pharmaceutical billionaire and the chairman and chief executive officer of NantWorks, a group of health-care and research companies. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com...

Rich DeMuro is the Los Angeles based tech reporter for the KTLA 5 Morning News and he appears in the syndicated report "Rich on Tech" for dozens of TV stations around the country. During this podcast, Rich discusses his new book: "101 Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone," providing step-by-step guidance on how to best use our iPhones. FUll show notes available at http://ktla.com/frankbuckleyinterviews....

Phil Rosenthal is a TV writer and producer best known for creating the hit comedy show "Everybody Loves Raymond." He was the show's executive producer/showrunner for its entire nine-year run. Now, he's the host/creator of "Somebody Feed Phil" on Netflix. Phil takes viewers on an eating tour to different countries and cities around the world and the U.S. Series One of the show is available on Netfl...

Ken Bensinger is an award-winning reporter with the BuzzFeed News investigations team. He is the author of "Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal." The book takes readers inside the investigations into the FIFA corruption scandal. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/frankbuckleyinterviews. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californ...