Friday, May 25, 2007

And a Long, long, long weekend it was....

Tacked on a few extra days to last weekends long weekend up at the cottage because I knew that it was going to be the last weekend in quite a while before I get a chance to get up to the cottage again. This weekend and every weekend over the next couple months I am scheduled to be shooting short films with a new crop of aspiring and unknown film makers who were all chosen to be a part of a brand new season of "IN THE CAN with JR DIGS" that goes on the air in a few weeks.

There was no scheduled live taping for "Another Crappy Canadian Latenight Talkshow" this week but it sounds like a few of you guys showed up thinking there was. Sorry about that guys, I hope you aren't too bummed about that! Over the next three months we will be continueing to shoot shows at The Legendary Red Rooster Vintage Cafe but it won't be every Tuesday. Some very cool people are starting to agree to come on the show as guest so what we will be doing all summer long is sending out event invitations on facebook a few days in advance of the shows. I'll probably blog about it here as well in case some of you aren't into the facebook thing.

I like blogging about stuff that I know you guys might be interested in but with respects to my little latenight talkshow experiment, unfortunately, I have been asked not to talk too much about a couple of very very very cool meetings I had resently regarding the future of the show. It seems as though big things are on the horizon for "Another Crappy Canadian Latenight Talkshow"! Its all very exciting for me and I can't wait to fill you guys in but for now, I need the play it smart, shut up and try not to screw myself out of an opportunity to turn the show into everything I always wanted it to be!

All the shows we will be taping this summer from this point forward will air in the fall and that's all I can really tell you. Oh and it looks like Mike Bullard has changed his mind and agreed to come on the show as a guest now. It's going to be awesome!!! I hope to see you guys there when we tape that show for sure.

On Saturday night all you "Huricane Andy" fans should absolutely tune in and then next Saturday night we will be airing one last Crappy Canadian Latenight Talkshow until the fall. It's not the last you will see of all the regulars on Tv for the next three months though. On June 9th a brand new season of "IN THE CAN with JR DIGS" goes on the air and you can expect to see one of the regulars in each and every short film being featured as part of the series every week.

Call time for me and my crew on Saturday morning is 8:00am and I'm taking one of the regulars with me this weekend and casting them in the film. As of right now, the film maker isn't even aware of this little suprise so it should make things interesting.

I'm so pumped to start shooting these short films and I really hope you guys stick with me as I switch gears into a new series for the summer. I think this series is exactly the kind of show to be on the tube late on a Saturday night in the summer time. Last summer when I aired season one, ratings ended up being suprisingly good and although most of the episodes were not really as good as I would have liked them to be, I learned alot about how to make the show better. This time around, I've got a pretty good handle on how to make these episodes way more interesting and fun to watch.

So have a good weekend everyone. I'll be busy making of the regulars a movie star!