h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So, at 7.30 this morning (yes, there are two 7.30s in a day, apparently), I got a call from Paul at GMR - Greater Manchester Radio. It's okay, I knew he would be calling, so I was already up, dressed and coffeed, but he was just giving me a courtesy call to make sure I was awake. Then at 7.45 he called back and put me through to the Breakfast Show studio to talk to Heather and Mark about the new Hitchhiker's movie and how h2g2 is the continuation of Douglas's legacy.

Having to play Devil's Advocate for the listeners, Mark asked me if the site was really geeky - to which I replied that there might be an element of that, but we have all sorts here, and besides it's always the people who can retain facts and figures that you turn to when compiling your pub quiz team so that's not necessarily a bad thing.

The next thing was my reaction to the movie (love it - loads of new stuff for the fans to enjoy, and it's an easy entry-level for newcomers too), before Heather asked the ultimate demon question - do Hitchhiker fans dress up? As an experienced Whoovian, I know how to answer this one: No, we don't - unless you consider jeans and t-shirts to be dressing up

(Now, I know that some of us do, but people always get the wrong idea about that - or as the great man said 'in an infinite universe they're so near to none as makes no odds'.)

On the way into work this morning I saw a man reading a newspaper with a full-page advert for 'The World Premiere' (a minor detail we weren't sure if we were allowed to mention when we ran the competition last week), while the London Underground is adorned with posters galore.

Last year, SFX magazine ran a small piece about the Hitchhiker's movie being trapped in Development Hell while the Red Dwarf movie was nearing pre-production. How strange to have Hitchhiker's first - and a brand new Doctor Who series, AND h2g2 on mobiles. AND (finally) a lot of lovely people wanting to take an interest in us, because they realise that h2g2's 'a bit of alright' really.

Truly, it's a great time to be a fan.

Jims

Traveller in Time part time fan part time presse papier
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'Quandary and Quintessential Phases', well something new anyway.


Perhaps we do not have a dress code but we know where our towel is ! "

Jimster, soon you'll be too famous to want to talk to us anymore.

Do I know you?

I have only the tiniest element of iness about me. I refuse to be a Life's too short

Good on yer Jims Our famous italic

As I've often told some people I'm not a geek, but then again most of the people I know to say the same I'd simply just say '011011001001001010111111100000100101101001001001', sometimes it is useful to speek biniary *prostrates himself to the famous

So you're gonna be dressed up as 2legs?

I'd say

You'll find me quite digital wearing a towel wrapped round my LED

Does GMR archive any of its content Jims, like the BBC Listen Again feature? I'd love to be able to hear the interview

In the nicest possible way, I do hope not. I always have this nagging fear of live broadcasting - but only *after* it's finished - that I inadvertantly said something scatalogical.

True story: Appearing on a live daytime show once to talk about Hitchcock, I was asked if he ever made any bad movies. I replied 'Sure. There are many classics, but there were the odd two or three that sucked and blowed at the same time.'

After the show had ended I got a text from a friend saying 'I know you got that phrase from The Simpsons, but it sounds obscene coming out of your mouth'.

And then there was the time on a live discussion programme about '24' when I expressed the opinion that a character in the show was really dumb. It would have been fine had I left it at that, but then I pulled a facial expression which might be fine in the playground but on a live TV show is possibly a little offensive.

Oops.

Still, they had me back on two more editions, so they must have forgiven me.

I liked it when you mentioned me on a radio show, but I would have liked it more to hear you say some movies 'sucked and blowed at the same time'.

Oh, deary. I'm going to have to vacuum my carpet...

Jimster- a Deacon impression? From an enlightened new man like yourself? Never .

You've just reminded me of a piece in DWM which revealed that RTD's pre-live appearance routine consists of muttering "Mustn't say fxxk, mustn't say fxxk, *mustn't* say fxxk". So you're in good company, really.

Mine is generally post-appearance ('Did I say "poo"?).

Given that you've done interviews on S'poo'ks, it seems more than likely.

B

Oh no. I said Poo!