I now have a fully updated shop page on this site so please give generously. It has been a while since I properly got under the bonnet of this site to update things but at least the shop is now up and running. This is quite an important push because I have several projects on the go that can only be completed with your help, and you get to watch the finished result completely free of charge. If you donate one pound and it helps to make a short film that will get on YouTube then you can be proud that your quid helped, plus you get a film for a pound - can you go to the cinema for a pound? How much is your TV Licence these days? Is it worth it for all the shit that the BBC make?
This year I basically need to fund the pilot episode of Saturday Breakfast, a trailer for a potential (crowd-fund dependent) documentary, and hopefully I will finally finish The Woolworths Related Documentary (working title), the comedy I first wrote a draft for in 2008 when Woolworths closed down. It is written but I have had a few issues with locations for a start, there are scenes filmed in name-specific shops or supermarkets and I can't get anyone to agree to it as they don't want their names brought into disrepute, not that I intend to do such a thing. I was also warned about copyright but as I have tried my hardest to obtain certain permissions to no avail I am going to assume that the rights to the Woolly and Worth characters died when the shutters were pulled down for the last time. If I am contacted with information to the contrary then I will happily play along. It's going to be a free film on YouTube so it isn't like I am trying to make a fortune with a cinema release using characters I didn't invent.
To be honest I am expecting more bother when I release my children's programmes Postman Pete and Ben the Builder.
No podcast this week.
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May housekeeping
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