Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
August 8 - 14, 2021 l 3
BY JAY BOBBIN
Mike Minogue
OF ‘WELLINGTON PARANORMAL’ ON THE CW
The episodes of “Wellington Paranormal” airing
in America this summer were made a few
years ago. How is it for you and co-star Karen
O’Leary, who plays your police partner, to revisit
them now?
It’s like a walk down memory lane. It’s actually got a
little bit of nostalgia for us. It’s really cool to see the
stuff that you haven’t seen for a few years. When we
did the promotional stuff the first time around in New
Zealand, there’s only one newspaper here, so it was
quick.
Though it has a direct forerunner in “What We
Do in the Shadows,” how would you describe
the comedic bent of “Wellington Paranormal”?
I’ll circle back to the influence of the British stuff. When
we were growing up, most of the stuff we saw on
television was British ... so it was “Blackadder” and
“The Young Ones,” just heavily, heavily British. And it
took a while before we received a deluge of American comedies.
I think of it as an understated thing of when you can see a character thinking one thing, but saying
something else so that they’re not going to offend anybody. And you can sort of see the two things
conflicting at any one time. I think that’s kind of what’s going on, as well as other things. It’s hard to
explain humor. It’s just that you think it’s funny or you don’t, and you hope for the best.
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The fourth season of “Wellington Paranormal” is now in production in its native New
Zealand. What do you attribute its staying power to?
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There’s a fear-based thing around it as well, ‘cause I remember when I was a kid, I used to
love “Doctor Who” even though it was mostly scary. I think that’s the thing about “Wellington
Paranormal.” We’ve got so many kids that are fans of the show because it’s scary and funny at the
same time.
Mariette
Hartley
BY JOHN CROOK
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Questions:
1) Which actor and actress were so convincing as a
couple hawking Polaroid cameras that many viewers
became convinced they really were married?
2) What star of the 2011 feature film “The Lincoln
Lawyer” did TV endorsements for Lincoln cars?
3) Emmy winner Candice Bergen became known as “the
dime lady” for her TV commercials on behalf of what
long-distance phone service?
4) What Oscar-winning character
actor advised viewers that the folks
at the Wall Street firm then known
as Smith Barney “make money the
old-fashioned way: They earn it”?
5) The unmistakable bourbon-
and-branch-water voice of which
“Frasier” cast member was featured
on Hyundai commercials?
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2) Matthew
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3) Sprint
4) John Houseman
5) Peri Gilpin
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