Katie Puckrik
Birthday: Born in 1962-07-12 in Virginia, USA
Deathday: Alive
Katie Puckrik is a broadcaster, author and newspaper columnist. Born in Virginia, Puckrik is best known for hosting British youth magazine shows The Word and The Sunday Show in the 1990s. She also created and hosted the British television talk show Pyjama Party and subsequently its American remake Pajama Party.
TV Credits
I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock
Character: Self - Presenter
Offers a reappraisal of "yacht rock", a critically neglected era of music popularized by a boom in FM radio stations and its smooth sound. The gleaming yacht sound was, in part, always defined by a group of LA-based session players and composers who worked across a range of yacht bands, informing their specific tone and level of musicianship. Some of these artists talk about the yacht phenomenon and being part of the scene back in the day. The series explores how the music adapted from the the ...
The Word
Character: Co Presenter
The Word was a 1990s Channel 4 television programme in the United Kingdom....
Danger Decoded
Character: Narrator (voice)
Discovering what went wrong in a series of caught-on-camera disasters....
Movie Credits
ABBA: How They Won Eurovision
Character: Self
Celebrating 50 years since ABBA won Eurovision in 1974 with Waterloo, through the extraordinary and entertaining story of how international stardom almost didn't happen for the group....
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
Character: Self
Documentary that outlines the 1990s and the decade the changed the world....
I Can Go For That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock
Character: Presenter
Katie Puckrik explores the 1970s American music phenomenon of Yacht Rock, a halcyon period of Los Angeles studio craft that married R&B with themes of longing, aspiration and melancholy, before going on to explore how the genre adapted to the musical times of the 1980s....
The Sparks Brothers
Character: Self
Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band....
Loaded: Lads, Mags & Mayhem
Character: Self
Launched 30 years ago, Loaded magazine epitomised the 90s in its irreverence and appetite for hedonism. But how did it stand up to pressure to put more 'sexy babes' on the cover?...