Lights, Camera, Action!

So Tuesday was the climax to the past 2 months. We filmed our show in the studios and it went amazingly well.

But it was the most intense day and night of my life.

I got in to work at 0800 and headed down to our make-shift Production Office in the studios and from 0815 until 2300 I swear we did not stop. Production is the first port of call for ANYONE so we were basically bombarded with queries, request, complaints and demands for 15 hours.

Not to mention the constant ringing of phones.

Reception isn't the brightest tool in the shed.

Ringing of phone

Miss M: Hello Production office

Reception: Hi, I have so and so downstairs

Miss M: Is there name on the list that I gave to you earlier?

Reception: Let me check. No.

Miss M: Then they need to go to door blah blah

5 minutes later

Miss M: Hello Production office

Reception: Hi, I have so and so downstairs

Miss M: Is there name on the list that I gave to you earlier?

Reception: Let me check. No.

Miss M: Then they need to go to door blah blah

5 minutes later

Miss M: Hello Production office

Reception: Hi, I have so and so downstairs

Miss M: Is there name on the list that I gave to you earlier?

Reception: Let me check. No.

Miss M: Then they need to go to door blah blah

I swear after the 5th time I wanted to murder them. And it went on for about 4 hours.

However throughout the day and night I

1) Peed in a stall next to Emma B and Geri from the Spice Girls

2) Directed Richard Branson to the exit

3) Got smiled at by Kevin Spacey

4) Got winked at by Russell Brand

5) Saw McFly, Dame Shirley Bassey, The Prime Minister, Michael Caine, the Olympic Gold Medal winners of the UK, Jason Donovan, Ronan Keating, Gordon Ramsey, Rachel Stevens and too many other minor English celebs to remember

It really was a night I will never forget.

More stories coming!

The Studios

I love the studios, they are so different to sitting in a Production Office. Studios smell of excitement, there is a raw energy and constant flow of action. Everyone feels as if they are running to a tight time deadline and things just happen so quickly. I don't really know how else to explain it.

I went down to the studios on Friday to get the carpenters to make me some plinths for Development and took a bit of a wander around. Each studio is like their own little world of people all running around, building sets, moving cameras and generally expelling this air activity. I love the people who have headsets and clipboards - they just look so important.

Plus there are men. There are men everywhere. Men building things. Men moving heavy objects. Men setting up large cameras. Men. Men. Men.

Production offices are starved of men. Well straight men that is. And those who are straight and working in Production tend to be those metrosexual type of men and I like manly men. I've become partial to muscles and rough looking men. And let me tell you the studios are full of them!

I think I need work on studio shows.

Either that or go visit there every day.

I think I'm starved of men.