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Hi all. Billy, I corrected the director in the early stages of production, long before the CGI was done, and told him not to put in the second door, which he took on board... and did anyway.
The recreation of Dutfields Yard was done from my photograph, by the way, so you can still sort-of see what it contains once the photo is taken off-line later today.
Yep, they cut me off mid-sentence every time by saying that it was all too graphic... in spite of showing Foster's Eddowes sketch. They used most of what they shot with me, just didn't use much of it. I often find this in programmes I do. I think it's only the Swedish one I did in 2006 that used all I said to them.
Still, not like the French one last year, where I organised an entire guided tour with a whole audience I'd assembled myself and found them loads of Ripper historians (most of the people in it except at the Maybrick Conference are people I put them in touch with) and in the end they're all through it and I have literally ten seconds at the start! I mustn't complain too much, though, as I got paid nicely for it (not as nicely as the new one paid me, however).
I'm afraid that the amount of airtime Ripperologists get on TV is usually in proportion to their looks and not what they can say.
PHILIP
The recreation of Dutfields Yard was done from my photograph, by the way, so you can still sort-of see what it contains once the photo is taken off-line later today.
Yep, they cut me off mid-sentence every time by saying that it was all too graphic... in spite of showing Foster's Eddowes sketch. They used most of what they shot with me, just didn't use much of it. I often find this in programmes I do. I think it's only the Swedish one I did in 2006 that used all I said to them.
Still, not like the French one last year, where I organised an entire guided tour with a whole audience I'd assembled myself and found them loads of Ripper historians (most of the people in it except at the Maybrick Conference are people I put them in touch with) and in the end they're all through it and I have literally ten seconds at the start! I mustn't complain too much, though, as I got paid nicely for it (not as nicely as the new one paid me, however).
I'm afraid that the amount of airtime Ripperologists get on TV is usually in proportion to their looks and not what they can say.
PHILIP
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