Christina Jeurling and Tomas Seo podcast about the most important pop cultural happenings in general and about television in particular! Discussions, banter and interviews with interesting people behind the scenes of film and television.
Christina Jeurling is a television journalist. She has worked as chief editor for Stina Lundberg Dabrowski (30 min interviews with international leaders and cultural personalities), the talk show Late Night with Luuk, Henrik Schyfferts Dokument:Humor and many more.
Tomas Seo is a marketing consultant specializing in corporate identities. He is the chairman of the board of the Association of Swedish designers (Sveriges designer) and has worked with major identity cases for among others: The Swedish Armed Forces, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprises, and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation.
A special thanks to Mr. Alan Kalter of The Late Show with David Letterman for recording the Swedish version of our intro. Thank you, Mr Kalter!
Interviews
Here below you will find Voccines’ interviews. They are in English.
Voccine No 39 – Larry Ribstein, Apr 2008
Voccine is honored to interview Professor Larry E Ribstein, he is the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law at the University of Illinois. Professor Ribstein has written or co-authored hundreds of articles on subjects including corporate, securities and partnership law, constitutional law, bankruptcy, film, the internet and much more. He has written extensively about portrayals of business in films and why filmmakers seem to delight in depicting big corporations and business men as evil.
In this episode voccine is honored to interview Mr Clint Van Zandt a 25 year veteran of the FBI. He worked with the Behavorial Science Unit as well as in the Special Operations and Research Unit as Cheif Hostage Negotiator. Mr Van Zandt speaks with us about how the FBI has been depicted in popular culture.
Voccine No 36 – Sergeant Major James Dever, Nov 2007
Sergeant Major James Dever is one of Hollywoods most sought after Military Technical Advisor. He has worked with among others Clint Eastwood, Sam Mendes, John Woo, JJ Abrams. Mr Dever talks to Voccine from Puerto Rico where he is on location working with Steven Soderbergh on The Argentine about Che Guevarra.
Maitland McDonagh is a film critic and Senior Movies Editor of TV Guide, and the columnist FlickChick. She also talks about film and television on the TV Guide podcast TV Guide Talk.
Phil Johnson is a freelance monologue joke writer for The Late Show with David Letterman. He has also written for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and contributed material to The Colbert Report. He runs the site www.chumworth.com and is the creator of www.joelateshow.com. Phil Johnson talks to Voccine about the art of the late show monologue and writing the perfect joke for David Letterman.
Voccine interviews David Carr aka The Bagger. He talks to Voccine about who the frontrunners are in this years Oscar race! The Carpetbagger is a seasonal blog covering the Oscars written by David Carr, a culture reporter and media columnist at The New York Times.
Voccine interviews Rich Cole, trailer producer at Pacific Titles. He has produced trailers for films such as The Departed, Happy Feet, Blood Diamond and Letters From Iwo Jima, just to mention a few.
Raney Aronson is a documentary film maker and producer and writer at PBS frontline.
Producer Raney Aronson talks to Voccine about the process of documentary film making, working for PBS Frontline and two of her powerful films: The Jesus Factor and The Last Abortion Clinic.
Voccine talks to Jason Schulz about his film The Swedish Princess, a romantic comedy Jason has written and hopes to direct in the near future.
Jason has visited Sweden from LA on numerous occasions looking for and meeting with co-producers and partners. Jason talks to voccine about the film, how to nurture a project from start to finish, keeping the dream alive and why giving up is not an option.
Chris Regan is a former writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Voccine interviewed Mr. Regan ,again, right after his 5th Emmy win to congratulate him and to hear his thoughts on his big night and the 58th Emmy Awards ceremony.
Corey Miller is a co-producer and writer on CSI:Miami.
Mr. Miller talks to Voccine about everything from the methods and techniques behind the writing of a procedural show, thoughts on how CSI:Miami is different from Las Vegas and shares scoop on what Horatio and the crew will be up to in the coming season.
Liza Anderson is a Hollywood publicist who represents clients such as Eva Longoria, Victoria Silvstedt as well as actors from the TV series Lost and Veronica Mars.
Voccine talks to Ms Anderson about what a publicist actually does for their clients. What are the basic steps to good publicity? Is all publicity really good publicity? And what would she have done if she represented Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson this year?
Bobbin Bergstrom is a registered nurse and the on-set medical advisor to the series House.
Bobbin Bergstrom talks to Voccine about a day on the set of the medical series House. She talks about how she instructs and guides Hugh Laurie and the other actors through the many operations and procedures showed on House. She also helps the guests actors to act out their various symptoms.
Dr. Kevin Grazier is a scientist at the Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the science advisor to the series Battlestar Galactica.
As we await season 3 of Battlestar Galactica Voccine interviews Dr. Grazier about his role as science advisor to the series. Dr. Grazier talks about what kinds of questions the writers of the show ask him, the goal being to always find the most real and reasonable explanation to any Sci fi scenario they want. Dr. Grazier also shares what his colleagues at Nasa watch on television!
Chris Regan is a former writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Chris Regan shares a behind the scenes look at writing political humor for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. What is a day like for the writing staff? He also walks Voccine through what it entails it to get and hold on to a career in television writing; from spec-script to staff writer to sold pilot.
Robert Bianco is USA Todays TV critic and host of the daily video podcast The Critics Corner.
TV-critic Robert Bianco talks to Voccine about the latest TV trends such as serialized, 24-like TV-series. Mr Bianco give us some tips on the best and worst of summer television and looks ahead to fall series such as The Nine and Kidnapped.
About the Voccine Podcast
Christina Jeurling and Tomas Seo podcast about the most important pop cultural happenings in general and about television in particular! Discussions, banter and interviews with interesting people behind the scenes of film and television.
Christina Jeurling is a television journalist. She has worked as chief editor for Stina Lundberg Dabrowski (30 min interviews with international leaders and cultural personalities), the talk show Late Night with Luuk, Henrik Schyfferts Dokument:Humor and many more.
Tomas Seo is a marketing consultant specializing in corporate identities. He is the chairman of the board of the Association of Swedish designers (Sveriges designer) and has worked with major identity cases for among others: The Swedish Armed Forces, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprises, and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation.
A special thanks to Mr. Alan Kalter of The Late Show with David Letterman for recording the Swedish version of our intro. Thank you, Mr Kalter!
Interviews
Here below you will find Voccines’ interviews. They are in English.
Voccine No 39 – Larry Ribstein, Apr 2008
Voccine is honored to interview Professor Larry E Ribstein, he is the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law at the University of Illinois. Professor Ribstein has written or co-authored hundreds of articles on subjects including corporate, securities and partnership law, constitutional law, bankruptcy, film, the internet and much more. He has written extensively about portrayals of business in films and why filmmakers seem to delight in depicting big corporations and business men as evil.
Voccine No 37 – Clint Van Zandt, Dec 2007
In this episode voccine is honored to interview Mr Clint Van Zandt a 25 year veteran of the FBI. He worked with the Behavorial Science Unit as well as in the Special Operations and Research Unit as Cheif Hostage Negotiator. Mr Van Zandt speaks with us about how the FBI has been depicted in popular culture.
Voccine No 36 – Sergeant Major James Dever, Nov 2007
Sergeant Major James Dever is one of Hollywoods most sought after Military Technical Advisor. He has worked with among others Clint Eastwood, Sam Mendes, John Woo, JJ Abrams. Mr Dever talks to Voccine from Puerto Rico where he is on location working with Steven Soderbergh on The Argentine about Che Guevarra.
Voccine No 35 – Maitland McDonagh, Oct 2007
Maitland McDonagh is a film critic and Senior Movies Editor of TV Guide, and the columnist FlickChick. She also talks about film and television on the TV Guide podcast TV Guide Talk.
Voccine No 33 – Robert Bianco, Aug 2007
Robert Bianco is USA Todays TV critic and host of the daily video podcast The Critics Corner.
Voccine No 30 – Paul F Tompkins, June 2007
Paul F Tompkins stand-up comedian and pop-culture commentator on VH1:s Best Week Ever.
Voccine No 28 – Phil Johnson, June 2007
Phil Johnson is a freelance monologue joke writer for The Late Show with David Letterman. He has also written for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and contributed material to The Colbert Report. He runs the site www.chumworth.com and is the creator of www.joelateshow.com. Phil Johnson talks to Voccine about the art of the late show monologue and writing the perfect joke for David Letterman.
Voccine No 21 – David Carr, December 2006
Voccine interviews David Carr aka The Bagger. He talks to Voccine about who the frontrunners are in this years Oscar race! The Carpetbagger is a seasonal blog covering the Oscars written by David Carr, a culture reporter and media columnist at The New York Times.
Voccine No 20 – Rich Cole, October 2006
Voccine interviews Rich Cole, trailer producer at Pacific Titles. He has produced trailers for films such as The Departed, Happy Feet, Blood Diamond and Letters From Iwo Jima, just to mention a few.
Voccine No 19 – Bill Zorzi, October 2006
Voccine interviews Bill Zorzi former Baltimore Sun journalist, currently a writer on The Wire.
Voccine No 18 – Raney Aronson, September 2006
Raney Aronson is a documentary film maker and producer and writer at PBS frontline.
Producer Raney Aronson talks to Voccine about the process of documentary film making, working for PBS Frontline and two of her powerful films: The Jesus Factor and The Last Abortion Clinic.
Voccine No 16 – Jason Schulz, September 2006
Voccine talks to Jason Schulz about his film The Swedish Princess, a romantic comedy Jason has written and hopes to direct in the near future.
Jason has visited Sweden from LA on numerous occasions looking for and meeting with co-producers and partners. Jason talks to voccine about the film, how to nurture a project from start to finish, keeping the dream alive and why giving up is not an option.
Voccine No 15 – Chris Regan, August 2006
Chris Regan is a former writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Voccine interviewed Mr. Regan ,again, right after his 5th Emmy win to congratulate him and to hear his thoughts on his big night and the 58th Emmy Awards ceremony.
Voccine No 14 – Corey Miller, August 2006
Corey Miller is a co-producer and writer on CSI:Miami.
Mr. Miller talks to Voccine about everything from the methods and techniques behind the writing of a procedural show, thoughts on how CSI:Miami is different from Las Vegas and shares scoop on what Horatio and the crew will be up to in the coming season.
Voccine No 13 – Liza Anderson, August 2006
Liza Anderson is a Hollywood publicist who represents clients such as Eva Longoria, Victoria Silvstedt as well as actors from the TV series Lost and Veronica Mars.
Voccine talks to Ms Anderson about what a publicist actually does for their clients. What are the basic steps to good publicity? Is all publicity really good publicity? And what would she have done if she represented Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson this year?
Voccine No 11 – Bobbin Bergstrom, July 2006
Bobbin Bergstrom is a registered nurse and the on-set medical advisor to the series House.
Bobbin Bergstrom talks to Voccine about a day on the set of the medical series House. She talks about how she instructs and guides Hugh Laurie and the other actors through the many operations and procedures showed on House. She also helps the guests actors to act out their various symptoms.
Voccine No 10 – Dr. Kevin Grazier, July 2006
Dr. Kevin Grazier is a scientist at the Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the science advisor to the series Battlestar Galactica.
As we await season 3 of Battlestar Galactica Voccine interviews Dr. Grazier about his role as science advisor to the series. Dr. Grazier talks about what kinds of questions the writers of the show ask him, the goal being to always find the most real and reasonable explanation to any Sci fi scenario they want. Dr. Grazier also shares what his colleagues at Nasa watch on television!
Voccine No 07 – Chris Regan, June 2006
Chris Regan is a former writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Chris Regan shares a behind the scenes look at writing political humor for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. What is a day like for the writing staff? He also walks Voccine through what it entails it to get and hold on to a career in television writing; from spec-script to staff writer to sold pilot.
Voccine No 05 – Robert Bianco, June 2006
Robert Bianco is USA Todays TV critic and host of the daily video podcast The Critics Corner.
TV-critic Robert Bianco talks to Voccine about the latest TV trends such as serialized, 24-like TV-series. Mr Bianco give us some tips on the best and worst of summer television and looks ahead to fall series such as The Nine and Kidnapped.