ta-da

August 9th, at 9.30pm, just after a repeat of Gavin and Stacy.

is when the Inn Mates pilot will air.

I'm rubbish at this blog aren't I.

just so busy seemingly doing nothing. Presently writing non-jokes for Mencap.

Right... well the pilot has been shot. And edited and is now in the hands of the people who will decide whether or not they like it.

It was a hell of a process. A good hell. And a real eye-opener.

I'm going to update this more fully later, but enough for now to say the show will be aired on BBC3 at some point. Not sure when.

It was filmed on location at Corban's Gallery in Halebarns, for the pub parts and Overdraft in Manchester, for the nigh club scenes, as well as some various bedrooms in the Hume area.

Castwide it features:
Brian - Neil Morrissey
Josh - Joe Tracini
Kaney - Bev Rudd
Chiz - Andrew Ellis
Blue - Rachel Rae
John - Jonny Dixon
Sharon - Poppy Jhakra
Pete - Liam Garrigan
Maisie - Charlene McKenna
Gina - Rachel Elizabeth
Mad Keith - Kevin Davies
Elf - Aisling Bea

will update very soon, inc detaiks of how i failed to get aa part.

secret squirrel

lots and lots of things have happened and been happening with the production of Inn Mates.

we had the read through yesterday, the cast seem great, the director is superb and the producer is brilliant.

this isn't how it's supposed to be... surely.

Filming starts next week. Will update more soon. I'm just not sure what I am and aren't allowed to say. It's all a bit secret squirrel.

scarf man

bloody hell... now that is snow.

here is the view from the office this morning... it's not actually that blue. I think that's either the early morning light - 8am, or my phone camera is jiggered.

hope you had a nice chrimbo and a happy new year. I am currently engaged on a new year detox which basically means now booze, no bread, no red meat and no potatoes. And nothing processed.

It's five days without booze today. I honestly can't remember the last time I went that long without a drink. Got to be done though, for the sake of the liver. Poor thing. It had some hammer over christmas. Actually it's had some hammer over the last 20 years so my new years resolution is to be nicer to it. that and to wear more hats. Although I don't suit hats, so I might have to re-evaluate that one.

There are people who do suit hats, they are people like Brad Pitt, Tom Baker, Samual L Jackson, my mate Matt and Sir Ian McKellen.

Other people, like me, don't suit hats. And I have tried. I've tried beanies, but I look l.ike Cartman. I've tried a flatcap, but it just made me look desperately northern. I used to wear a Kangol, backwards... for about a week. Then I think the style police took it away for my own safety. I've evern tried one of those Nepalese things that come down over your ears but I look like a Blade Runner fugitive. First hat I had was aged 10... I think. It was a Stetson with 'I Shot JR' emblazoned upon it. It was from a market somewhere in the mists of time, a present from an auntie who said: "that's your birthday present," six weeks before my birthday. I didn't even really want it.

I'm not brave enough to try a fedora, or a trilby, they either trap my ears or just perch up on top making me look like a pretentious Mr Potato Head.

No, I'm more of a scarf man.

Anyway, off to the kitchen to make a nice plate of salad. Just what you need on a day like today, then back in here to start doing my tax.

Oh happy days.