This fair and sceptred isle

[lonelybrit]

It seems the Brits have been schmoozing with the US press as various BBC shows prepare to be aired over in the land of the free. Steven Moffat earned my undying love for, almost literally, telling the NBC to go f**k off at his press interview (Taxi for Moffat!), and then the interviewer met Barrowman, Barrowman's sister, and Julie Gardner.

Barrowman and the sis are working together to produce John's autobiography. He dictates into an iPod all the tales of his life and she, and I'm sure all siblings will sympathise, not only has to hear it but then puts it into prose. (Apparently she's already gone 'Ewww, I don't want to know' five times.) A gorgeous extract from their interview is:

Reporter: To follow up in your earlier remarks...

John Barrowman: You’re not going to let it go, are you?

Reporter: I’m letting you dig yourself out of the hole –

John Barrowman: No. I quite like being in holes.

Julie Gardner: Oh, my God ...

John’s Sister: That’s number six.

Comments

[cyberducks.livejournal.com]

I don't think the American press is ready for John.

Carole Barrowman is great.

[lonelybrit]

He is a bit of a force of nature, and to think used to be so sweet and innocent on Live & Kicking :)

She is the best big sister ever. Just went back to check and she was the same sis who did the article about shopping with John in Tescos. She has a great way with words, so I'll be interested to see how the biography comes out. Though, honestly, she does have my sympathies, because there are some things no big sis should have to know about their baby brothers ;)

[sweet-exile.livejournal.com]

John is great and good on Steven. Do you know why he said that to NBC?

[lonelybrit]

It wasn't so much as to NBC as about them. Someone asked Mr Moffat his thoughts on how/why the US version of Coupling tanked. He responded by voicing in no uncertain terms his thoughts on NBCs behaviour, saying how they responded to the show flopping by publicly blaming the writers/actors/etc etc which he thought disgraceful.

[sweet-exile.livejournal.com]

Ha ha! I'll bet they were not expecting an honest answer good for him.