howie’s halfpipe

this evening wife and i went to the taping of the first new ‘Good News Week’ shows.

The ticket info said to be there at 5:30pm at the ABC studios in Sydney.
From experience of watching show tapings we knew it would be best to get there earlier.

We go to the ABC at 4:30 and went in to the main foyer. We sat down on some couches and commented on how empty the place was. After about 30mins of sitting we realised that we must have somehow slipped in at just the right time casue the rest of the audience members where lining up outside the building and the doors were locked. Every now and then a security man would walk past us but say nothing. At 5:30 the crowd outside was quite big and inside they had set up the holding pen for the audience around the couch that jenny and i were sitting on.
Eventually a man with a swanky pass asked if we were there for GNE, we said yes and he walked off. We got to sign our names off while everyone else was still locked outside. It meant that when they opened the doors to the building we were already inside and not just that but we were at the very front of the line to go into the studio. There was a lot of waiting infact we didnt all get ushered into the studio until 6:30pm.

As we were the first in we picked some primes seats in the front row right in the middle. A camera lady told me she might sit on my feet every now and then and an explosivs man told us there was a cannon beside us that was going to fire paper into the air and ver quite loud. It was a damn cool seat.

I love watching television being made. I guess thats why I studied TV production for 2 years, every time i’m in a studio i want to be a cameraman.

GNW was really good, Paul was funny, mikey was funny and all the guests were funny except pat cash he was a little quiet.
I think good news week will be much better this time around compared with its last stink on 10.
There was however some shameless cross promotion with the show ’supernatural’ which was a bit blerk….

It took 3 hours to tape the 1 hour show and was a pleasure to watch.

The guests are

Mikey Robins
Cal Wilson
Pat Cash

Claire Hooper
Frank Woodley
Craig Reucassel

9pm monday night, channel 10. I feel like a promo!

You may even see my beautiful face on camera!!!