Articles by Barb Oates

I Am the Night is directed by Patty Jenkins and stars Chris Pine and India Eisley
Drama

Wildly Addictive: TNT’s ‘I Am the Night’ — A Patty Jenkins and Chris Pine Collaboration

January 26, 2019 Barb Oates 0

Revered Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins has long been a connoisseur of a good story. However, never did she anticipate a story of this magnitude when she met Fauna Hodel for coffee roughly 10 years ago. At their meetup, a then 50-something-year-old Fauna unraveled a story that was truly unbelievable. If you’re not from California, chances are you won’t be familiar with the Hodel name. Fauna was the granddaughter to the infamous Los Angeles physician George Hodel, who in 1949 was accused and acquitted of molesting his 14-year-old daughter Tamar (Fauna’s mother), as well as being linked to the most […]

TV News & Program Updates

Discovery Takes Us Live To U.S.-Mexico Border in “Border Live”

December 5, 2018 Barb Oates 8

What side are you on? Where do you stand on the U.S.-Mexico border war? These are just a few of the questions explored and discussed as Discovery Channel takes us live to the border in their new six-part series Border Live beginning Wednesday, Dec. 5 at 9-11 ET/PT. The series will broadcast live each Wednesday from its New York-based studio where journalist Bill Weir tracks the action and stories as they unfold, engaging with a panel of experts and field reporters live at the border. Don’t let the title or the format of the show fool you, as this is […]

Interview

Interview: “Gold Rush” Star Rick Ness Stands to Lose Home and Friends Working His Own Claim

October 12, 2018 Barb Oates 12

After six years working under Gold Rush’s most successful miner — the 23-year-old Parker Schnabel — Milwaukee’s Rick Ness is going out on his own. Season 9 of Discovery’s No. 1-rated show returns Friday, Oct. 12 at 9/8c to find Ness as his own mine boss with a claim of his own and everything on the line. Ness spent the offseason caring for his moving, who passed away months prior to him departing for the Klondike. Never having mined a claim of his own, he recruited his Wisconsin buddies (almost all who had no experience) to join him on what […]