Not so long ago I was thinking that I’ve been using characters a little too much as something to hide behind. There was a big difference, in terms of what I wanted to communicate, when speaking as myself compared to the double coded messages that pass through Sandy or Simon.

I first noticed this when DK and myself were interviewed on the Gadget Show. Of course since then I’ve been recording the occasional episode of my audio blog (more soon I promise) but a new opportunity presented itself to me last week.

Across the road from me in the ‘other place’ Bournemouth University, (not connected to the art college where I study) the students run a student TV station. I noticed a poster advertising auditions for a new presenter. Expecting it to be the usual magazine show style format I’m used to seeing I was shocked to discover I was in fact auditioning to host a LIVE(!!!) quiz show and, I discovered later, that I in fact had won the audition, as such, and was to host the first episode.

I sit here now, on the eve of writing a script - which will be fed into the autocue - which I will then have to read (harder than it looks) without Sandy to laugh it all off or Simon to pause and go ‘errrr’. By far this has to be one of the most challenging endeavors I have taken part in for at least a year.

I am nervous but confident, knowing that an experience like this will either toughen me (and potentially make me more professional) or provide fuel to the Spainful furnace.

I’ve heard it will be streamed online, I’ll post a link as soon as I know it.

Armando Iannucci has given a major speech claiming comedy is becoming vitally important because politicians and the media are failing to treat anything seriously.

“I think we sometimes see comedy as an inferior art form. This irks me. Comedy allows the imagination to be at its most revolutionary. Because, when you treat something comically, you can do anything. You can distort or exaggerate, you can break out of the form, you can be as real or as unrealistic as you like.”

Full article from Chortle

Well I’m back to Bournemouth now, ready to start my third and final year of a rather pointless film degree.

Though accidental I think it’s worked out rather well that series three should begin around now. With a academic year ahead and a new flat to live and film in I’d rather be doing something new than be half way through and existing series.

After copious amounts of notes, both on paper and in SpainfulX the scripts for season 3 are coming to together rather well. Unlike in the past where the two shows that make up a season would be released simultaneously on alternate weeks each show will have a solid run of it’s own. First we are getting SpainfulX (a documentary series based on the wiki) and then of course season 3 of Fashion. But I won’t say anything else apart from that.