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On the Set
It’s always pleasant to work on a set where visits by family members are welcomed. It makes for a nice atmosphere. On Friday, the father of our cameraman Eric Roizman came in to watch some filming and meet his son’s co-workers. I got to lend him my chair in the video village. If you’re wondering…
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Edward Woodward
I just heard on the news that actor Edward Woodward has died at the age of 79. This is a post that I wrote in September 2008.I came across my old autograph album when I was straightening the study a couple of weeks ago. Back when I was a child I used to study the…
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Titans Will Clash
Have you seen the new trailer for the remake of Clash of the Titans? “Titans Will Clash!” I’m cool with it, because I thought Clash was a way less than perfect movie and was far from Uncle Ray’s best work… that crappy mechanical owl that has to have been inserted by the studio as a…
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Best Clearance Note Ever
From the memo detailing the legal clearances on names, brand names and any other identifiable object involved in my current script:
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Scripts Online
Over at his Complications Ensue blog, Alex Epstein provides a handy link to a site called Pilot School where downloadable scripts for a host of pilot shows can be found. I don’t know where they’re sourced from, but they include one of my drafts for the British pilot of Eleventh Hour along with Mick Davis’s…
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Richard Williams
You could do worse than hop over to Blowing my Thought Wad for this piece inspired by a recent Foyles event featuring ‘veteran animator’, Canadian-born Richard Williams. Williams is an animator of eclectic achievements, the most well-known of which I imagine to be Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I suppose Williams is to drawn animation what…
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Star Wars
Star Wars? I was right there at the beginning, I tell you. Well, when I say the beginning, I mean I got into the press show. In Manchester. All right, so it was hardly the creative coalface, but looking back on it I can feel that I was a witness to something. I saw the…
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The Forgotten
Just a quick heads-up – tonight’s story is one of mine: The team investigates the killing of a John Doe found buried at a popular vacation destination; a stray dog standing vigil over the grave is the only clue in the case. On ABC, right after Dancing with the Stars.
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A DVD Competition and a Trailer
Over at the Are You Screening blog, reviewer Marc Eastman writes about the Eleventh Hour DVDs and offers the chance for readers in the US and Canada to win a set simply by adding to the comments section. “Starring Rufus Sewell, on the short list of most underrated actors, as one of the world’s leading…
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The Avengers Guy
I had to miss last month’s UK Fantasycon, but I’d already been asked to write an appreciation of Guest of Honour Brian Clemens for the Convention’s programme book. Here’s what I said. It was one o’clock in the morning and I had stuff on my mind. I turned on the TV for distraction. In a…
Hauling Like A Brooligan
Stephen Gallagher
