What's That About? - The Casino

Awwright! This Friday's broadcast will be the third episode of What's That About? and was the toughest for me to write. That's mainly because they kept switching things around on me, because casinos are the hardest places to get permission to shoot in (well, outside of Fort Knox, Area 51, or the Womens' Locker Room.) Notice in these kinds of shows a lot of the gambling shots are either stock footage, or done from mid-range, trying not to show the player's faces.

Of course, whether an episode looks good or not, and is entertaining, is mainly due to the director. It was great working with Laura on this one, however briefly. (But the team that actually works on the show is huge! Hence, I think, all that second-guessing. But this actually waters down the product in my opinion, rather than making it "better." That's the story in a lot of movie and TV production, I think. And why the really good ones are often the vision of one or two people, who can organizse everything, or assemble a great team with the same focus).

Next week will be "The Aquarium," which, while I'm told this will be the most visually beautiful of the episodes (that's thanks to Michel, the genius director), it will have written by somebody else. I only wrote four of these shows: the first three, and the last one. Hoping reruns happen, so I can actually see one of these on the air!

Unfortunately, time and other pressures stopped me from being as involved on my last episode, number ten, The Construction Site, which will air later in September. They liked the script a lot, but I'm afraid there were a lot of changes in shooting, due to what they could and could not get. Still, I've finally got the hang of writing these things, I think!

What's That About? visits the Casino, this Friday, 8 pm Eastern, 5 pm Pacific, on Discovery Canada.



The Blog site is not being my friend today, a drag, especially because I'm trying to post and revise a lot of complicated stuff. Of course, there's a little demon somewhere waiting for me to do this so that he could screw up all the connections. These things are organized on a worldwide basis purely to annoy me, personally. Oh yes, and the BBC is reading my thoughts, from London.

The above, though, comprises some additions I made to a page I already posted. Nothing earth-shattering, but people seem to like the watercolour pictures of kitties.