Here Comes Pod

Send us Fan Mail Avi Armoza joined Here Comes Pod to talk about building Armoza Formats into one of the world's leading entertainment formats businesses, how big is beautiful when it comes to pitching a show to US buyers, and how development can be inspired by the venture capital model. Enjoy!   You can find Here Comes Pod on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon or most other podcast outlets. If y...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever had a nightmare where you go for a job interview but you don't know any of the questions being asked of you, and the whole process is being broadcast to the nation on live TV? For Guy Goma this nightmare came true in one of the most infamous moments in TV history. Elliott Gotkine, the BBC news executive responsible for the mix-up, joined Here Comes Pod to talk a...

Send us Fan Mail Marina Williams joined me on this week's episode of Here Comes Pod to share her experience of building businesses in TV, firstly within corporate giants like CNN, Fox Kids, Fox and Endemol Shine before co-founding Asacha Media Group. Along the way she worked with some of the most inspirational leaders in the TV industry, but which ones did she choose as her TV Power Rangers?...

Send us Fan Mail This week Midge Ure, the man behind Band Aid, Live Aid and some of the greatest music of the last 50 years, joined Here Comes Pod to talk about his fascinating career in the music business. From his first number one with boyband Slik, through turning down Malcolm McClaren's invitation to join the Sex Pistols, embracing the New Romantic era with Visage and transforming music a...

Send us Fan Mail The IPL is back, and as the league heads towards becoming the world's most valuable sports franchise, it's a great time to chat with Michael Grindon and Andy Kaplan about the establishment of the league. SET India was the first broadcast partner for the IPL and Michael and Andy shared their perspectives on the establishment of SET India, securing the funding for the init...

Send us Fan Mail Known for decades as Pro7's man in Hollywood, Ruediger Boess knows how to tell a story, so when I sent a message to Rudi asking him to be a guest on Here Comes Pod I was delighted when he agreed. Rudi and I talked about his amazing career buying the biggest movies and series in TV history; why honesty was the best policy when giving feeedback on shows to Hollywood executives;...

Send us Fan Mail The Buggles claimed that video killed the radio star, but this week's guest on Here Comes Pod, Steve Ackerman, joined the show to share his thoughts on how video is helping to build the podcast stars of today and tomorrow. We chatted about the evolution of podcasting into video as well as audio, his experience of the medium in the US, the power of building a community of inte...

Send us Fan Mail The Men's T20 World Cup has begun in India and Sri Lanka, so what better time to chat with Lalit Modi, the man who revolutionised the world of Indian cricket and arguably world sport with the creation and launch of the T20 Indian Premier League. Even if you're not a fan of cricket it's a fascinating dive into Lalit's career: launching a JV with the Walt Disney...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Bird joined me this week on Here Comes Pod to chat about being lectured by Francis Ford Coppola, educated at Momentum Pictures, inspired at Lovefilm and given a platform for success at Amazon Prime Video where he ran the UK service. To paraphrase a famous quote about TV in the UK, we talk films, football and Clarkson farming. Enjoy!  You can find Here Comes Pod on Apple Podc...

Send us Fan Mail Oscar-winning producer, writer and actor Grant Heslov joined me on this week's episode of Here Comes Pod to talk about a career filled with good nights and good luck. We chatted about the importance of the script in all of Smokehouse Productions movies and TV series, why he remains a devotee of the big screen experience for movies, why his friend and business partner George C...

Send us Fan Mail Life's not Fair - It's Fabulous! That's the message of the hit stage show Burlesque, based on the 2010 movie of the same name. This week's guest on Here Comes Pod, Clint Culpepper, put the movie together during his phenomenally successful career at Sony Pictures' label Screen Gems, and has brought the movie to the West End and beyond. I asked Clint if he c...

Send us Fan Mail Steve Mosko joined me on Here Comes Pod this week to talk about a career in TV that has included TV station management in Philadelphia, running Sony Pictures Television and heading up Village Roadshow Entertainment. From Breaking Bad to the Blacklist, Seinfeld to Shark Tank, Steve has been at the forefront of US entertainment for decades and he shared the Mosko rules for success i...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode of Here Comes Pod, Hollywood royalty Kim Masters talked about her amazing career as a reporter, broadcaster, author and host of the industry flagship radio show and podcast, The Business. We chatted about her early career working for Ben Bradlee at the Washington Post, her big stories at The Hollywood Reporter, writing the definitive Hollywood studio bo...

Send us Fan Mail It's London Screenings week and the start of a new chapter as Mip comes to London, so who better to chat to this week than industry legend Dermot Horan, Director of Acquisitions and Co-productions at RTE. We talked about the importance of co-productions to the drama landscape, what makes a good buyer and salesperson, how best to navigate international events like the London S...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode of Here Comes Pod I was joined by Jon Farrar, SVP Group Editorial and Content at SVOD service Britbox. Jon's career trajectory has taken him from the mail room at ITV franchise Carlton Television to UKTV, MTV Networks, Universal Networks, BBC Studios and Sky Showtime before returning to the BBC fold at Britbox. Jon talks about the importance of put...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode of Here Comes Pod I was joined by Peter Andrews, Head of Network Programming at SBS Australia. In a fiercely competitive market, SBS continues to brilliantly balance its public service and commercial remits as well as  innovating in its phenomenally successful SBS On Demand service. Peter shares his insights into how this has been achieved and the lesso...

Send us Fan Mail Fernando Szew joined me on Here Comes Pod this week to share his experience of transforming MarVista Entertainment from a small family business to a global powerhouse for TV Movies, family entertainment and the Power Rangers franchise; the transition of MarVista into the world of Fox; and his new role overseeing Fox Entertainment Studios. As well as MarVista, we talked Messi, Mara...

Send us Fan Mail My guest this week on Here Comes Pod, Peter Schlessel, is best described as a movie mogul. His career has included the acquisition, production, distribution and finance of feature films, with roles as President of Production at Sony Pictures, founder of indie label Film District and CEO of Focus Features. We talked about his start at RCA/Columbia, working with talented filmmakers,...

Send us Fan Mail Danna Stern joined Here Comes Pod this week to talk about her fascinating media career. We discussed her start as a journalist and radio producer, acquisitions and deal making with the Hollywood majors at Israeli satellite platform yes DBS, launching yes Studios which brought iconic series like Fauda and Your Honor to the international market, and her new company In Transit Produc...

Send us Fan Mail Football finance guru Kieran Maguire joined Here Comes Pod this week to share stories from a career as an accountant, lecturer and co-host of the wildly successful and simply brilliant podcast, The Price of Football. Kieran is the go-to guy for fans, journalists, investors and government ministers who want to know what is happening with the business of the beautiful game and Here...

Send us Fan Mail Insigniam founding partner Nathan Rosenberg is this week's guest on Here Comes Pod. Nathan has advised over 85,000 individuals and 12% of the world's biggest companies on organisational transformation, business breakthroughs and executive coaching. From a career as a military pilot to advising Hollywood studio senior management, Nathan has some fascinating insights into...

Send us Fan Mail Antony Root came on to Here Comes Pod this week to talk about a storied career at the BBC, ITV, Working Title, Sony Pictures and HBO. In the week that Dr Who hit global screens we talked about script development on this iconic show, the role the BBC plays in curating British writers, breaking into the US TV market and the evolution of HBO as it brings Max to the global market. Enj...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Here Comes Pod, Will Harrison shares insights from a stellar career that has included senior roles at media giants including Warner Brothers, Disney, HBO Europe and Britbox UK. All of these media companies have strong brands and there is no one better placed to discuss the importance of media brands and the power of franchises than Will, and so this was a big to...

Send us Fan Mail Here Comes Pod has attempted to provide answers to some of the important questions in the media business, and this week's query is: who advertises TV to the advertisers? In the UK the answer is Thinkbox, and CEO Lindsey Clay joined me to explain how the the company, established by the UK's commercial broadcasters and recently joined by the streamers, advocates for TV as...

Send us Fan Mail When Netflix launched Formula One: Drive To Survive it heralded the golden age of sports access documentaries. This week's guest on Here Comes Pod, Box To Box Films co-founder James Gay-Rees,  is very much in pole position to talk about this golden age. Having started his film career at Miramax, James then segued into producing award-winning documentary features like Senna, A...