Nov 30, 2005

what's on TV... on tv... on tv

The young lad, yesterday, had a phone conversation with his current favourite person on TV. Without considering it at all unusual to have that kind of access.

How different would life have been if I could have casually picked up the phone and chatted with Captain Kirk... suggesting alternate plotlines and inviting him over to visit. (On second thought, scratch idea 2!)

The plan, the boy revealed later, was to talk Vrajesh into joining the best TV show in the world.

The little fixer.

Is the difference in how TV shows today are made? He feels totally involved in the process, the characters talking directly to him. Rather than as an outsider looking in, as I did with Giant Robot and Star Trek.

Then again, it's probably because of having a dad who can, in fact, pick up a phone to... [got to top]

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