As Live Production: Contacting Celebrity Guests

In planning the ideas of our studio production me and Jack came up with the idea of having a 'Soapbox Corner' which was inspired by 'David Mitchells Soapbox'.
The dictionary defines a soapbox as: "an improvised platform, as one on a street, fromwhich a speaker delivers an informal speech, an appeal, or politicalharangue." Because the show is regarding political/social topics, current and topical affairs it would make sense to have a segment in the show to discuss 'Pet Peeves' as it were. "A pet peeve is a particular thing that bugs you every time."


This would be a good place to include humour for the audience and guests to bounce off in a live studio environment. It then occurred to me that it would be even better to have a celebrity guest come on for the soapbox corner, something I felt very inspired by The Grand Tours 'Celebrity Brain Crash' on series 2 of 'The Grand Tour' where tow celebrities go head to head in a timed track race and have a discussion with Jeremy Clarkson about their lives, careers and driving experience. Currently we are undecided on having one or more celebrities for each show. For our pilot it would be difficult to get hold of even one celebrity. However, after working on BBCs 'Watchdog Live' over the summer I became good friends with its presenters, especially Nikki Fox, who said she would be happy to help me with anything in the future. I decided to try my luck by getting in touch with her to see if this studio production is something she would be interested in getting involved in. And to my great appreciation she was! She Replied:

 Hello George

So lovely to hear from you and all about your project - that's a strong idea and I really like the title - those kind of irreverent show's are BIG. I really hope you get to make it, then you'll have your very own pilot and yes, count me in, I'd love too - you know the most difficult thing will be making the date work, with Watchdog and my day job, but Maidstone is nearer where I actually live, than Manchester so I'm sure we can do something. We can try and rope Steph and Matt in as well (shah).



So not only was she really keen to be involved, she also said she would get hold of Matt Allwright and Steph McGovern for me too





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