The Point Radio: Pauley Perrette Tackles SCOOBY And KISS

It’s the team up of the summer, SCOOBY DO MEETS KISS new on DVD and digital video. Among the people along for the fun is Pauley Perrette who talks about the differences in acting and being animated as well as her connections with both off the franchises. Plus radio host Mike Catherwood, fresh from DANCING WITH THE STARS, is helping reboot the 80’s game show CHAIN REACTION and he shares the rules with us.

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The Point Radio Hey, it's Mike Raub. Paulie Ferrett has stepped into a new role. This time it's animated. We'll find out about what it was like for her

to be part of Scooby Doo Meets Kiss. Plus fellow radio guy, Mike Catherwood, talks about acting and his new gig as part of the reboot of Chain Reaction on the Game Show Network.

Let's get to The Point. This is The Point, The Point Radio. Get The Point Radio. Actress Paulie Ferrett has been solving crimes for quite a while with the guys at NCIS,

but now she's involved with a different group of detectives and the new animated feature Scooby Doo Meets Kiss. And she told me that the world of animation is still a little new to her. What's super interesting about whenever you do any animation

is you're usually working by yourself. That's the biggest difference. So, you know, on NCIS, part of everything that's awesome about being on the CIS, which is everything, is that, you know,

especially we've been together 13 years, so we have a really amazing, like, dance that we do, like between us and the other characters. And we all, like, kind of work together. But with this one, with the Crimson Witch,

you know, when they called me, I was like, because I just played Lova Slain for Warner Brothers. And they called me, and it's like, literally, I think the conversation was something like this.

Hey, do you want to be part of Scooby Doo Meets Kiss? Yes, because I've got me, come on. And then I get the thing, and you're in there, and it's like, you know, you're by yourself. You don't, they don't give you a script.

You don't know what the hell you're doing. You don't get to read the whole thing. So I'm, and you're doing this crazy, like, thing, this witch character, and like, and all I see, there's no reason for them to show me anything,

except for, like, the cells that I'm voicing. In the beginning, you just have, like, the picture, right? When I go back and did, like, some stuff other that I saw the animation. But then by the time, like, my parents and fiance,

I was gonna watch it the other night, because I had no idea what I've been doing. I had no idea. I didn't know who, what would you, I don't know what was happening.

And I'm watching this movie, and I'm like, this is insane. Like, this is, the movie's so crazy. It's so perfectly nuts. And I, you can't put the pieces together

about what you're doing until you actually see the whole film. Did you buy yourself? Parrot Boyce, come out of a much different looking character, was also a new experience. It's just kind of weird, it's funny,

because, like, I'm used to hearing my voice, and when it's attached to my head, you know, my own actual head. Because, especially with Abby, like, I associate all that with her, Abby has a little bit different voice than I do.

But it's just, it's always kind of weird when you see, like, a completely different being with your voice coming out of it. Like, that's true. Any incarnation of your voice,

even if I had, like, changed my voice, or playing, like, somebody younger, I'm like, it's still my voice, on that 14 year old young woman. Polly had connections with both Scooby Doo and Kiss,

beginning with a relationship with Gene Simmons. I love them both, I really do. I mean, not only does Eric kiss, who doesn't love Kiss, but I've been friends with Gene for like 15 years. So we've actually done,

we did another project together a while ago. Yeah, he actually produced a, he was, in the beginning, before he was like, in his new TV thing that he was doing, he produced a TV show, it was a thing,

and he hired me as his lead actress. We had a blast, it was so much fun. We did this TV show, and like, it was, and we would call it the F-O-G, it was the Friends of Gene, it's like,

everybody was in it, it was like, we had, it was me and Gene, and then it was like, Hugh Hefner, and Tommy Lee, and Mark McGrath, and Pat Boone, like, I mean, it was every,

we had a blast, and I adore him, so, Uncle Gene, so that was what, that was, you know, of course, doing the cram. And as for Scooby Doo? Oh, gosh, well, I did, when I was little,

I wasn't really allowed to watch much TV, like, I was literally in church all the time. I'm from the South, I'm very much from the South. But, for some reason, I don't know if my dad was gone, or whatever, I remember watching Scooby Doo.

I do, because I loved it so much, and that started our whole thing on NCIS, it's like, we are very Scooby Doo, like on there, like very much so, like, we have our capers, we have our thing,

and pretty much every episode, there's a moment where we'll go like, this is so Scooby Doo right now, like it's totally, and we actually do those things, like our heads pop around doorways and stuff, you know.

But yeah, I love it, I mean, like I said, who doesn't love Scooby Doo? Catch Polly along with Matthew Lillard, and of course, Kiss in Scooby Doo Meets Kiss, available right now on Blu-ray DVD and Video On Demand.

Looks like Gambit is a go, all that and more, as we check the latest in pop culture. Production has begun on the sci-fi version of The Hunters, which is based on the best-selling novel, Alien Hunter, it'll premiere on the network in 2016,

Gaylan Hurd is one of the executive producers, and Natalie Sheddance from 12 Monkeys will also be an executive producer and showrunner when the show premieres again sometime next year. Here's one time where the internet rumor mill got it wrong,

it looks like Channing Tatum will be doing a Gambit film, both producing it and starring in it for Fox. There seems to already be a script in place, which came from a treatment by Gambit co-creator, Chris Claremont, no official word yet though from Fox.

It looks like the entire upcoming third and final season of Stars, Da Vinci's Demons will be released simultaneously on the Stars Play and Stars On Demand apps as well. That'll also include the new limited series as well, Flesh and Bone from Stars.

Both are done in the hopes that you create some buzz for the final season of Da Vinci's Demons, and of course, the first run of Flesh and Bone. Meanwhile, Black Sails seems to have a few more years left in it, the drama has been highly rated on Stars,

and it'll be coming back for a third season next year with already a fourth season planned for sometime in 2017 by the network. Thomas the Tank Engine has debuted with a new app in the App Store, produced by Mattel and Toy Talk.

The app is interactive, and again, it's rated as Kid Safe to certify to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. It is available, as we said, in the App Store right now. A success of Lifetime's Unreal series seems to be spreading,

not only has the network already announced plans for a second season, but now there's a possibility of a spin-off from one of the characters as well, although no official word yet on that, from Lifetime. The point, the point.

Mike Catherine Wood is a guy who's all over show business. You've seen him sitting next to Dr. Drew on Love Line. He's been on shows like Undateable, and of course Dancing with the Stars. And then there's his daily radio show on KABC in Los Angeles.

And now he's involved with a reboot of an 80s game show called Chain Reaction. And he talked about the basics of the show. The theme of the show, it's chains of words and you try to connect them.

You're given the first word in the chain and the last word in the chain, and you and your team have to, teammate have to come up with all the links of words in the middle.

And it's pretty simple, straightforward, and it's kind of fast-paced and it sets people up to say a lot of dumb answers, which is awesome. So looking back at the 80s version of the show, what's different about this one?

Well, the difference about the 80s version and this one is that there's a lot less cocaine in this version and a lot less stubble in white sport coats. No, the difference is it's pretty much the same basic game, but there's now the added bonus round

where you can kind of beef up your winnings. And besides that, the game itself is pretty much the same. And that's one of the things I actually like about it is that we're kind of inundated with a lot of new twists on game shows, and Chain Reaction is very much

a classic game show. There's no serious twist. There's nothing too heady. It's all about having fun and it's very straightforward. And I like it.

I really, really enjoy being part of it. From all of these other gigs, was becoming a game show host and natural evolution? I don't know if it was natural in the sense that people involved in my career,

my people would have ever saw that coming, but it definitely was something I always wanted to do. I was not at all, he is like a person to it when the opportunity came my way. When I was a little kid, I definitely

wanted to be a game show host. I know that sounds so canned and quarantined and tried, but it's totally true. When I was a little kid, I used to watch Chuck Barrett, and I used to watch Bob Barker at the beginning of his tenure

there, and I thought, it's so cool. You're surrounding yourself with people that are all in a good mood and having fun, and you just kind of bus shop, and that's it. That's a guy's job.

I want to do that. And so sure enough, here I am. But I never, to be honest, no. When I really came to the realization that I would have a career in radio

and that this is what I was going to do, I would have never thought that that would have been a natural progression, but I'm certainly happy that it is. So any more acting roles coming up? I'd love to start making more of a career as a talk show host.

Do what I do in radio and then start to transfer over into doing it on television. But to be honest, I'm just so happy to be able to say that I can make a living. I mean, I hate to sound unambitious,

but just to be able to live a comfortable life and know that I can support my family or at least contribute to supporting my family and doing something that I really love, I don't take that for granted.

And if I can continue doing that till I retire, that would be beyond my wildest dreams. So I'm not taking anything that's thrown my way for granted, and I'm just kind of doing the best I can with that. But I know I should probably work on, at least according

to my age, and I should start having these concrete goals. But I just don't. I'm just really kind of happy to be where I'm at. How do radio begin for Mike? Kind of by accident.

I always was a real radio geek. I loved it. I had a passion for it. But I wanted to be a rock star. I wanted to be a musician when I was in high school.

And I got a little bit of success doing it. But I let the lifestyle catch up with me a little bit more than the actual music. And when I moved back to Los Angeles, which is where I'm from, I was looking on the East Coast at the time.

I was down and out. I was trying to get my life together. And I got a job at a local rock radio station here in LA, Clay Rock. It has a straight job, like trying to just pay the bills

while I look for other work in music. And that, just by utter circumstance and chance, turned into a career in radio. The morning show after a short amount of time put me on the air.

And things are kind of snowballed in there. Being a guy who still does radio on a daily basis, like some other folks we know, I was curious about Mike's opinion about the current state of the industry.

The podcasting and streaming is radio, as we've known it, pretty much over. I think a very good question. I think a very, very good question. And radio, as we know it, is kind of basic terrestrial radio.

I think is just because that may be a dime medium as we know it. And I think when people deny that, they're just kidding themselves. With streaming, with podcasting, with satellites, look, it's an archaic kind of way to receive media.

But that doesn't mean that there's not ever going to be, there's always going to be a need for talented broadcasting, for men and women who can be charismatic and compelling, well-informed, and articulate.

There's never going to be a time where there's not a career for those guys and gals. And so if you do that, if that's what you want to do, just know that it may come out on the other end in a different way than my father

listening to radio the way that I'm in radio. In 10 years, it may be a different thing, but it doesn't mean that the center of it, the heart of it, is any different. And that's saying something interesting,

and people are always going to want to tune in to that. Catch Mike playing Chain Reaction with new episodes every Thursday on the Game Show Network. That's it for now, but on the way, we'll take a look at the new DC Direct to DVD feature

and tie in to LEGOs, the JLA Legion of Doom. Plus, a talk with a cast of the hit FX series, Married, back for a second season. All that and more, you'll find us on great websites like ComicMix.com, get the point radio.com,

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