Billie Rae Bates

A journalist of both print and broadcast, Billie Rae Bates' work over the years has included interviews with all manner of actors and other Hollywood pros, as well as many artists and writers in the comics industry for her on-camera work with TV shows based in Washington, D.C., and Detroit. In 1994-1995, she hosted several episodes of the half-hour "Red Cross Currents" TV series produced by the Bay, Genesee and Saginaw County (Michigan) chapters of the American Red Cross and airing on WNEM, Channel 5. After years of print work, she returned to television in 2010, working for the then-brand-new "Comics Continuum" half-hour entertainment series based in Detroit, hosting several on-the-road episodes from locations such as the San Diego Comic-Con, C2E2 in Chicago and Mega-Con in Orlando. She also did a wealth of correspondent work for the series, then in 2011 began hosting and correspondent work for the Washington, D.C.-based "Fantastic Forum" series, airing on several stations in D.C., B