{"id":26768,"date":"2026-07-11T22:12:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=26768"},"modified":"2026-07-12T10:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:20:46","slug":"frakes-spiner-interview-actors-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/frakes-spiner-interview-actors-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Frakes &#038; Spiner interview actors &#038; writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner, known for their roles on <strong>TNG<\/strong> and <strong>Picard<\/strong>, have joined forces to interview people. They know lots of people, of course, and they&#8217;re both very funny.<\/p>\n<p>The channel is called <strong>Dropping Names with Brent and Jonny<\/strong>. The &#8220;Dropping Names&#8221; part means part of their show is that people are supposed to tell them about famous people they&#8217;ve met.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve only been going a few months but they&#8217;ve already interviewed actors Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, and Ron Perlman, writer John Logan, and creator Bill Prady.<\/p>\n<p>LeVar Burton talks about <strong>Picard<\/strong> season 3, <strong>Reading Rainbow<\/strong>, <strong>Roots<\/strong>, Sidney Poitier, and the Obamas:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kjkhxe9A8Qk\">After all these years, back together again with LeVar Burton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom Bergeron talks about <strong>Hollywood Squares<\/strong>, <strong>Breakfast Time<\/strong> which was all improv, his brief time on <strong>Enterprise<\/strong>, and how Marie Osmond fainted on <strong>Dancing With the Stars<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VFE5t0wQtoY\">From Hollywood to Star Trek Adventures with Tom Bergeron<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jane Leeves talks about <strong>Frasier<\/strong>, <strong>Hot in Cleveland<\/strong>, how nice Betty White is, and how she&#8217;s writing a memoir:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qJeiJhDR82o&amp;t=615s\">Jane Leeves Reveals What Betty White Was REALLY Like On Set<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner, known for their roles on TNG and Picard, have joined forces to interview people. They know lots of people, of course, and they&#8217;re both very funny. The channel is called Dropping Names with Brent and Jonny. The &#8220;Dropping Names&#8221; part means part of their show is that people are supposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-26768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26768"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26782,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26768\/revisions\/26782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}