Sunday, January 08, 2006

The chat show circuit

John Barrowman will be everywhere you look on the television one week from tonight on Saturday the 14th. He will be appearing in both The Sound of Musicals on BBC1 and Dancing on Ice on ITV1. Both shows will actually overlap each other by a few minutes on the schedule. My guess is that he will also be doing several interviews on UK radio and TV this week to publicize the events.

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Source: Screen grab from BBC1 New Year's Eve coverage

Now of course any JB interview means potential Torchwood news. The first Barrowman couch session spotted so far is The Richard and Judy show, airing Monday afternoon on Channel 4. Keep your eyes peeled for any other appearances. For those of us in the USA and outside the UK, we will have to rely on folks in the Isles to actually watch these horrendous talk shows and fill us in on any news.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It would be courteous that if you are going to continue to pull information from the official JB mailing list you credit your source.

curls said...

I'd appreciate it if you would be a bit more clear about what you are referring to. The JB mailing list has not given us any scoops, with perhaps the exception of clarifying the JB civil partnership story last week.

All these shows have been discussed in numerous places and I have linked to the information to promote the shows themselves, not the groups where people may happen to be discussing them. It figures that most folks will be chatting about the same stuff, but unless it is some inside info, an amazing revelation or I quote directly, I am probably not going to source the one spot on the web where somebody claims he talked about a JB appearance first.

I first heard about The Sound of Musicals on the BBC site a few months ago when they were looking for audience members. The Sun reported John would be in the ICE show weeks before it was ever discussed in the JB group.

The Richard and Judy thing was first mentioned on the Live Journal Torchwood Institute yesterday (at http://www.livejournal.com/community/torch_wood/12714.html not sure why linking isn't working), and I promote those guys all the time since they are the number one source for Torchwood and JB info.