{"id":10728,"date":"2021-02-04T20:38:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T02:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=10728"},"modified":"2021-04-18T14:39:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T19:39:39","slug":"jann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/04\/jann\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Jann Arden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>TV Interview!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10727\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/jann1.jpg\" alt=\"Jann Arden, star of &quot;Jann&quot; on HULU\" width=\"439\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/jann1.jpg 542w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/jann1-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong> Interview with Jann Arden of &#8220;Jann&#8221; on Lifetime by <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/13\/biosuzanne\/\">Suzanne<\/a> 2\/2\/21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was fun! I haven&#8217;t done many Zoom interviews before. Jann is very professional and yet very charming and endearing.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ardenvideo.mp4\">video<\/a> of our call!<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> Hi, how are you?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> Good. How are you doing? Oh, that&#8217;s a nice background.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> Thank you. I didn&#8217;t know if I had it on or not &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> We\u2019re in Hawaii!<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> I wish.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> Yeah, you and me both.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> Are you up in Canada?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> I am. I&#8217;m in southern Alberta, just outside of Calgary.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> So, it&#8217;s a bit cold and snowy up there?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> Oh, my God. It&#8217;s minus twelve today.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> Wow. Yeah, I can&#8217;t complain then. I&#8217;m sick of the cold, but we only get in the thirties and forties.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> Where are you?<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> Southern Arkansas, near Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> Oh, nice. Oh, I love that part of the world. It&#8217;s pretty.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> Not as pretty as the palm trees, but it&#8217;s pretty.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> Aww, come on. We&#8217;ll get there. We&#8217;ll get there.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> I actually lived in Hawaii for three years.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> Okay, now you&#8217;re just bragging.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> So, what gave you the idea to make a TV series based on your life?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> Well, it&#8217;s very loosely based on my life. Yes, I&#8217;m a singer-songwriter, and the person in this show is a singer-songwriter, but that&#8217;s where the similarities completely end. It&#8217;s completely fictitious. My mother passed away years ago, and I actually have a mother in this show. I don&#8217;t have any sisters, but I have a sister in the show. I have a lot more dates; TV Jann has a lot more dates than I do. I&#8217;m just living alone here in the trees with my dog, but the TV version of me is out there dating and having fun, so that&#8217;s very exciting. I just got presented with an opportunity four or five years ago and worked with a friend of mine, Leah Gauthier, and we just sat at my kitchen table. We&#8217;re like, \u201cOkay, what can we do here?\u201d And we just spent a weekend laughing our butts off and kind of coming up with this concept of a woman trying to find relevance and sorting out of relationships and trying to see if she can get her career going and has a mother that has dementia, and we&#8217;ve just been really, really lucky to get the show made.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> What did you have to do to learn how to write for TV, because you are a songwriter?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> I can honestly say, I don&#8217;t do the actual writing for the show. I&#8217;m involved in all the storyboards. So, we get together here in my home, and I&#8217;m with the writers. We have five writers on the show, and everybody sleeps here. I stick them in bedrooms; I stick them on floor mattresses, and we do all the storyboards. So, I&#8217;m very happy to say that I&#8217;ve been involved in all of that, then those guys go away, and they do something called scripts. I don&#8217;t know how the hell they do it. So, thank God I&#8217;m not.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> Were you familiar with the other actors before they auditioned for your show?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> There are a few of them that I was familiar with. Zoie Palmer, who plays my sister, I&#8217;ve long admired her.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> She\u2019s great.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> She was one of the stars of of Lost Girl; she was in Dark Matter. I happened to see her when I was working out one day in a movie called Sex After Kids. It was an indie film, and she was hilarious. I just got it in my mind. I&#8217;m like, \u201cI want Zoie Palmer to play my sister.\u201d I think she&#8217;s the perfect foil for me. She&#8217;s straight laced, and she&#8217;s uptight, and she just wants to do stuff right, and I just drive her crazy. And it&#8217;s really fun working with Zoie. Her husband, Dave, is a gentleman named Patrick Gilmore. I&#8217;ve known him for years. He&#8217;s in a show called Travelers. He&#8217;s done a lot of stuff. You might recognize him from other things.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b><br \/>\nYeah, the name is familiar.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> Elena Juatco, who plays Cale, she was new to me. I didn&#8217;t know her until I saw the audition tape and was able to meet her in person, but the whole cast, I think everyone really steps into their characters, and they&#8217;re all so funny in their own right.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> I see that two seasons aired in Canada. Will there be a season three, or do you know yet?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> We&#8217;re just doing season three right now. So, I had my first COVID test yesterday, and I do all my wardrobe fitting on Wednesday. So, yeah, we&#8217;re full steam ahead. It&#8217;s all written. We&#8217;re ready to go, and it&#8217;s pretty damn great to have another opportunity to do this.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> If it were up to you, how many seasons do you think you would like it to go?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> I&#8217;d like to do eight<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> That&#8217;s a good number.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> Why not? Letterkenny&#8217;s on its tenth season.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> Oh, wow. How did it come about, that Hulu picked it up?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> You know, I don&#8217;t know a lot about the business side of that. My producers, Andrew Barnsley and Ben Murray, are the two fellows that own a production company called Project 10. Andrew was one of the producers on Schitt\u2019s Creek. So, I think Andrew had a relationship with some of these people and has been working really this past twelve months with Hulu to figure out when would be a good time to release it, and if it would be a good fit, but we&#8217;re very thrilled to be with Hulu. They&#8217;ve been amazing partners and have just been nothing but supportive and kind for us.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> Yeah, I really love how all these services, and even now, some of the broadcast networks, keep bringing in Canadian and other shows outside the US. I love that. It&#8217;s great to see others.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> I think it&#8217;s good for all of us. I mean, we love seeing all your shows, too.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> I think, internationally, people see more American shows than we see international shows up until recently.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> I think you&#8217;re right.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> Of all your songs, do you have a favorite?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> I do, and it&#8217;s a song called \u201cGood Mother.\u201d I wrote it about my mom years and years ago, but it was the single in the States. This would have been in the \u201890s, so it was a long time ago, but I get so many letters and so many direct messages about that song. It&#8217;s one of my long personal favorites. I mean, I love \u201cInsensitive\u201d as well, but a song called \u201cGood Mother\u201d is right up there.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> I\u2019ll have to listen to that. When I was listening to some of your songs on YouTube &#8211; I&#8217;m a few years older than you, and so I stopped listening to music mostly in the \u201880s more or less.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> I get it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> But now I know. Which singers or groups inspired you most musically?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> Oh my gosh, I had so many favorites growing up. I loved, loved, loved Shirley Bassey. You might not know who she is.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> \u201cDiamonds Are Forever (sung)\u201d &#8211; loved her. I love Tears for Fears. I love Janice Ian and Olivia Newton-John and Carly Simon and Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, James Taylor. I was really a singer-songwriter kid growing up. Then I started to like Kiss, because my older brother loved Kiss. So, I decided I liked Kiss, and then I started listening to his Nazareth record. And Boston &#8211; \u201cMore Than a Feeling (sung).\u201d Bread, with David Gates; I listened to a lot of Bread. I mean, so much music. I don&#8217;t know if you remember the Columbia Record Club?<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> Way back when &#8211; \u201cFor one cent, you can buy ten LP records,\u201d and when you&#8217;re a kid, you&#8217;re begging your parents. \u201cPlease, it&#8217;s only one cent for ten records.\u201d Well, then they ding you. Every month they send, you know, Herb Alpert &amp; the Tijuana Brass, for God&#8217;s sakes, but that costs you $27.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> Yeah, I was in that in high school, the Columbia Record Club.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> Yeah, and it&#8217;s impossible to get out of! Anyway, I just listened to so much music, but yeah, there was a just a whack of girl singer\/songwriters that I just adored so much. Natalie Cole, I just love Natalie Cole. And then of course, late \u201880s it started changing to, you know, Nirvana and Sinead O&#8217;Connor. I mean, I even loved Enya.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> I like Enya. So, last question. Are you working on more songs for a future album?<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> I am. I&#8217;m right in the middle of just finishing up a record now. I actually just need to mix it. That&#8217;ll be my fifteenth record with Universal Records.<\/p>\n<p><b>Suzanne:<\/b> Wow.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jann:<\/b> I know, it\u2019s nutty!<\/p>\n<p>Interview Transcribed by Jamie of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifivision.com\/\">http:\/\/www.scifivision.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/05\/jann2\/\">Our Review of &#8220;Jann&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE INFO:<\/p>\n<p>In <span class=\"il\">Jann<\/span>, <span class=\"il\">Jann<\/span> Arden plays a fictionalized, self-deprecating version of herself: a singer songwriter of a \u201ccertain age\u201d in severe denial of the harsh reality that her former music career is slowly (okay, rapidly) fading away. But it\u2019s not just <span class=\"il\">Jann<\/span>\u2019s career that\u2019s on life support \u2013 she\u2019s newly single (don\u2019t remind her), her sister may disown her, and her mother may be showing early signs of memory loss. <span class=\"il\">Jann<\/span>&#8216;s personal life is in shambles and she&#8217;s convinced that the cure-all is to enlist a new manager to help rebrand her image. Filled with plenty of LOL moments, she embarks on a quest to return to greatness and go viral, but instead gets tangled in the pressures of her \u2018real\u2019 life. <span class=\"il\">Jann<\/span> is at the crossroads between who she was and who she wants to be. Can <span class=\"il\">Jann<\/span> stage a comeback, reclaim fame\u2026and be there for the people who love her?<\/p>\n<p>Proofread and Edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/20\/biobrenda\/\">Brenda<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/interviews\/\">Back to the Primetime Articles and Interviews Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10726\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/jann2.png\" alt=\"Jann Arden, star of &quot;Jann&quot; on HULU\" width=\"392\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/jann2.png 474w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/jann2-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/p>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV Interview! 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