Somewhere in Vegas

With the Slamdance Film Festival just around the corner, Dekker Dreyer will be a busy man.


After leaving Participant Media (producers of such films as The Help, Bridge of Spies, Goodnight & Good Luck), Dreyer created his own company, Cleaver Fox Media, which focuses on virutual reality content, which is started to be a trend in the coming year.


Dreyer will be a juror at the festival, plus will host a fireside chat to discuss the growing trend of Immersive cinema.


Canadian teen Sophia Radisch is hoping to bring hard hitting guitar driven rock back to the masses.


The singer/songwriter has released her new album "Beautiful Sin" and produced a new single called "Hot Blooded". Both were produced by herself and fromer Megadeth member Glen Drover. 


We will also throw back to 2008 and an interview we did with fillmaker Chris Duddy. Brother-in-law of Carrie Fisher, he discusses his near death experience and how he got involved in filmmaking.

Lorna O has worked on many shows including "The Sheild" and "Daybreak" and now is looking to find success in her own tv show.

She has written a pilot for a tv show called "Mercy Road" and is asking for input from the public so she can produce so she can gage what the audeince wants. 

We will talk to her about her storyline and her thought processes in writing.

Then our friend Richard Oliver returns to talk about the relaunch of "The Rhyme Impersonator Show" and his busy 2015.

Having peformed with some of the great in rock and country, Donica Knight has been a road warrior. Having performed over 350 times across the southeast opening for Kid Rock, Luke Bryan, and the Band Perry, she also has sung duets with country legend Ronnie Milsap.

We will talk to Knight about her new single "Love Ain't a Prize" and writing music for television movies.

Actor and filmmaker Steve Nijjar started as a pro soccer player but like several in the sport has taken his talent to the big screen.

After producing two movies on his own, Nijjar producerd and starred on the Fox Sports show "Soccer Dreams". His current project, "The Last King" which tells the story of a Punjab's Koh-I-Noor Diamond and the man looking to recover part of his heritage.

We talk to Nijjar about the movie and his love of soccer.

Using his music to inspire, Franki Dennull has been rocking for almost four decades. His rock and blues sound bring you back to songwriter styles of the Beatles and Tom Petty.

We will talk to Dennull about his music and his new single "Butterfly".

The female pilots of the WASP squadron are some of the unsung heroes of World War Two helping support their brothers in arms. 

Producers  Hilary Prentice and Jess Clackum and director  Matia Karrel have documentry the stories of these warriors with wings for an upcoming mini-series "Flygirls". Through first person recounts and research into the lives of these women, their hope is to bring the story of these military vets.

We will talk to Prentice and Karrel about these heroes and their efforts to get the mini-series to the masses.

In a throwback interview, we will dig back to the first year of the show and our interview with chef Kerry Simon. Simon was considered the first "Rock and Roll Chef" having several restaurants in Vegas. The Iron Chef was a star in the early days of Food Network.We lost Simon a month ago after losing hisd battle with multiple system atrophy.

Simon talked to us about Thanksgiving at his restaurant and some holiday tips

We are back after a few weeks abense to do a the first of a few "mega shows" to kick off our 8th year on the network.

We will be co-hosted by Serena DeJesus, an amateur MMA fighter and actress who will be in the upcoming movie "Fight Valley".

Our first guests are movie producers Jennifer George and Christina Marie Austin who are opening up their project "Dancin’ - It’s On!” this coming week. The movie finds Jennifer, a high school junior from Beverly Hills, falls in love with the handsome young Ken, who works at her father’s Panama City Florida beach-front hotel. While preparing for the competition, they must overcome scheming dance partners, a meddling father and their own doubts in order for their love – and their chances at winning – to prevail.

Our second guest is Country singer/songwriter Madelyn Victoria. The rising star has opened for the Jonas Brothers, Charlie Daniels, and the Zak Brown Band. She just released her new single "He Only Loves Me on the Dance Floor" this past week.

Having cast for popular show "Dating Naked" and "Big Brother",  Jacqui Pitman has been casting for a new series "Were You Born into the Wrong Race?". The series will feature people who truly believe they have been misidentified racially. The series is partially inspired by recent news evets, including Rachel Dolezal, the former president of a local NAACP chapter and Shaun King, a prominent leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, have instigated far reaching conversation and made mainstream news headlines with unresolved issues concerning racial ambiguity. Both parties have been accused of masquerading as African American.

We will talk to Pitman about the new show, how she goes about casting, and the ins and outs of reality tv.

With the resurged popularity of blues and jazz, Zakiya Hooker is looking to make her mark.

 

The daughter of blues great Jon Lee Hooker, Zakiya has performed on some of the greatest stages in the world, including Radio City Music Hall, Fillmore Auditorium, The San Francisco Blues Festival and The Monterey Jazz & Blues Festival.

 

She has released her 5th and 6th projects "In The Mood" and the outstanding performance production "Zakiya Hooker Live at the International BluesFest Eutin, Germany".

 

We talk to Hooker about her influences coming into both projects, her new music video, and  performing across the planet.

DeAnna Lorraine  is recognized as one of the leading and most trusted female dating coaches in the world. Her appraoch to helping men and women from inexperienced, unpopular, shy, socially awkward, and single to instilling confidence has gained her the nickname "Ms. Hitch".


We will talk to Lorraine about helping people find love and happiness.

Having a successful column "Liz in the Loop" in th Chicago Trubube for 7 years, Liz Crokin to put her research and experience to use in her new novel "Malice".

The book is a political-romantic thriller which dives into the ins and outs of Hollywood and poltics as a jornalist runs down the biggest story of her career. The book also draws from her experiences surviving hsv2/meningitis. She hopes the book's message will help more people be aware of STD's and what actions you can take if you find yourself in her situation.

We will talk to Crokin about her career, overcoming illness, and fighting back. 

Working their way through the movie business, actors John Curleyand Tommy Otis are maiing their mark in the short movie "The Convicted".

Otis got his first taste in acting as an extra in the cult classic "The Wanderers" and a few dacades later has followed up on his passion. 

Having worked Wall Street for a number of years, Curley changed from finance to acting, having studied with some of the best acting coaches in Hollywood. 

We will talk to Curley and Otis about the movie and working their way up the Hollywood ladder.