I banned a good friend of mine who is a member of the Benidorm cast from reminding me how many weeks there was to go before we all head off to Sunny Spain. It’s not that I wasn’t looking forward to going as much as he was it’s just that it terrified me to think there was so little time remaining for me to finish the scripts. I must say for this series (or season if you’re reading this in the USA) I am worryingly behind schedule. Not only because of my usual excuse of being a lazy bastard (actually I’m not lazy, I just like to put things off until the last minute) but because so far we have had three people drop out of the series (for various reasons) and one cast member tragically pass away.
So now I know exactly how many weeks it is until I go to Spain (I can count them on one hand) and I only just finished episode five this evening. So I still have to start and finish episode 6 (traditionally a difficult one as I always assume it will be the last ever episode) then go back and rewrite episodes 1,2,3 and 4 (I’ve already rewritten the Christmas Special). Then on top of that I’ll have the other general rewrites, just going over the scripts trying to make them as good as I possibly can. During all this of course I have to attend casting sessions to find the new regular characters and all of the guest stars, meetings about scheduling, locations, accommodation and of course all of the other personal stuff one has to organise when planning 4 months away from home; house sitters, dog sitters, etc etc….
So why the hell am I sitting writing this when I should be starting episode 6??! Well, what can I say, I like to keep in touch. And since this is my only contact with my loyal supporters since my self imposed banishment from the world of Twitter I intend to keep it up (Matron).
Don’t forget you can always contact me in the form of questions at http://www.formspring.me/derrenlitten – and if you’re wondering why your question was deleted without being answered it will be for one of the following reasons:
1) It wasn’t a question
2) I’ve answered that questions many times before (scroll back over previous answers)
3) It’s none of your business!
And on that bombshell it’s good night from me and a goodnight from Charlie! x
