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So Northern Exposure starts filming next week. You have one more week to suggest where Gary & Danielle can visit on their trip to Northern Ireland!
To be honest, I can’t wait for filming, I feel like I haven’t been out on the road in ages, and although it’s really long hours, it is fun. We’re [...]

Yay for me! I found out a couple of weeks ago I’ve got another TV series commissioned. This one is COMPLETELY different to Northern Exposure, and it’s a kind of programme that the BBC haven’t tried before. So I’m excited about it, even though I know already it is going to be very, very hard [...]

It’s been pretty hectic recently with me, which is why I haven’t been posting that muc h. Also I haven’t found that much intersting stuff going on recently out on the ole’ World Wide Web.
Anyways, it’s been hectic as I prepared for the launch of my new series, which I’ll be working on from now [...]

Last week (bear with me, catching up!) I helped out at Do You Remember The First Time? A gig organised by Belfast City Council and broadcast live by ATL and recorded for TV (being broadcast this Tuesday, details at the end of the post).
The gig was held to celebrate the re-opening of the Ulster Hall [...]

So on Saturday night, I was at the Irish Film & Television Awards in Dublin – that’s me, the crew and presenters in the picture above. Unfortunately I didn’t win an award (that’s a fake one in my hands), we were there putting together a show for BBC Northern Ireland.
It was quite a fun night really, [...]

Working. That’s the short answer! Tomorrow I’m heading down to Dublin for the Sixth annual Irish and Film Television Awards. It’s being broadcast live on RTE, but I have to turn round a one hour version with red carpet interviews and backstage award winner interviews for broadcast on BBC Two at 7pm on Monday.
It’ll be [...]

I’m back at work this week, so needed to replace my “I’m out of the office until…” voicemail on my ‘phone. This is the button sequence I had to press to do this and go back to my normal voicemail message….
VOICEMAIL NUMBER, #, PASSWORD, #, 8, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, #, 8, 1, 2, [...]

I had the great opportunity of hearing a talk from and then taking part in a small Q+A session with Andy Parfitt yesterday. He’s the head of Radio 1, 1 Xtra and the BBC’s fairly new teen offering, Switch, and was in Belfast for a speech to the Radio Academy here.
It was a really interesting [...]

If you are mad enough to have missed Laurence & Jackie’s Northern Exposure, episode 1 is now available on the iPlayer.
This week’s programme, 9pm on BBC One Northern Ireland repeated on Sunday evening, sees L&J take to the roads of County Armagh. Tune in and see Laurence micro-lighting! (BBC One NI is avilable on [...]

Taking a bit of a break from getting Northern Exposure ready for TX every week, I joined me old mucker Feargal and the ATL / ATL TV crew (I’m not producing this series) for a trip down to the Glasgowbury festival near Draperstown on Saturday.
Glasgowbury is a small, growing festival – their slogan is “small [...]