Talking Pictures
Hosted by Ben Mankiewicz · TCM and HBO Max
4.8from 1,130 ratings
- 37
- Episodes
- 21
- Transcribed
- 1,130
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About Talking Pictures
From Turner Classic Movies and HBO Max, Talking Pictures is a podcast about movies, memories, and all the life that happens in between. Join host Ben Mankiewicz as he sits down with some of Hollywood’s most influential actors and filmmakers to discuss the movies that inspired them, touched them, and made them laugh. They swap stories, jokes, surprising moments, and endless movie recommendations then watch some of those very same films on the streaming service HBO Max.
- Publisher
- TCM and HBO Max
- Category
- tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Dec 2023
- Latest episode
- 2 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
21 of 37 episodes have a transcript.
2 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ron Howard
25 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Tony Goldwyn
18 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Hiro Murai
Inside a recent episode
Ron Howard
Published 2 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So I was inspired by that. And also I could feel that audiences really appreciated the authenticity that we achieved in Backdraft. So when it came to journalism, I did the same thing. I hung around the post. It was the greatest, uh, uh, the New York post. Pete Hamill was the editor at that time. And, uh, and also the daily news. And all I was doing was trying to pick up on language, um, uh, behaviors, um, expressions, um, uh, uh, tempo shifts, um, uh, overlapping. And, um, And it took a lot of notes and I got the actors to come down and hang around and watch as well. And so it means a lot to me that that that paid off for you in that way. […]
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- Ron Howard
- Tony Goldwyn
- Hiro Murai
- Sally Field
- Susan Sarandon
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 866 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 264 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 25 / 100
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- Quality
- 10
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts Talking Pictures?
Ben Mankiewicz host the show. Published by TCM and HBO Max.
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