The Saxon Files: So / So Television

Written by Mr Saxon

Imagine my surprise last Saturday to get an email from a TV production company - So Television (Graham Norton's company). The email was a request for information on the members of the Keepers of Croydon and my contact telephone number.

Naturally I asked for further information (as I try not to give my phone number out to strangers even when they dangle sweets) and I've not heard from him since!

However I know some people who have. Much less circumspect than little ol' me and clamouring for fame, some of my chums in Who fandom got back to Norton's bunch and the interim result was the news that several fans had been invited to the South Bank of the Thames to record the show tomorrow night (Wednesday 28th).

The set up (there always has to be one with this kind of crap) is that they would pretend to be 'ordinary' members of the public and then be invited by a roving reporter to ask questions to that chap that pretends to be Dr Who. Mr Tennant would be in a studio ready to answer the questions live!

I have to say the last thing I watched with Graham Norton in was "Rose" a couple of years back and I haven't missed his style of light entertainment lite. But let's face it he has a special place in Dr Who history just because of that accident.

The plans of Mr Norton changed at some point for our intrepid super fans though. The latest news is that the production team now want to make the interviews as realistic as possible so they're getting real 'ordinary' people in instead. I kid you not.

The fans have been told to stand down but as a special treat they get to see Messrs Norton and Tennant live in the studio and see the show being recorded. Well, it's a night out innit.

I was really looking forward to a game of 'Spot the Ordinary People' though. The rumour that the production team changed the plan after the photographs they'd requested of the fans came in is, of course, laughable. In many ways.

Anyway, as they'll all be there tomorrow night in the audience there's still a chance that these fame hungry anoraks could make it on to TV. The programme airs on BBC2 Thursday night at 10pm, I believe. See if you can spot anyone in the audience that might just be a Who fan. Answers via email to So Television.