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It was a very wet afternoon in June when the Central TV film crew showed-up at the Samaritans office in Derby, in the north of England. Andre the Canadian Mountie and I had sent Central TV a press release beforehand, but we didn't seriously expect them to send a film crew. Central TV were obviously having a bad news weekend. Andre and I were on what I termed the "M1 publicity tour" (the M1 being a main road north in England). We'd visited the Samaritans in Leicester earlier that day, and after Derby we were scheduled to go to Nottingham. The following day we had press calls in York, Leeds and Sheffield. But on that wet afternoon in Derby we suddenly found ourselves on television. The Central TV guys firstly made us drive the wrong way down a one-way street, just so that they could get a shot of us passing the Samaritans office. I then had to do an interview to camera, with Andre the Canadian Mountie standing (very surrealistically) in the background. Despite the pouring rain, a small crowd gathered there on the side of the road. We told them we were making the sequel to Due South. Central TV ran the one minute long piece on their main Sunday afternoon news broadcast. Yup, they were definately having a bad news weekend. |
