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Last week I spent several happy hours with the incredibly long Avengers Doomsday cast announcement video running in the background. This was a LIVE video feed, thrillingly showing pictures of CHAIRS. Every 15 minutes there would be a short blast of some sort of theme music and then the camera would pan along to the next chair. The chairs all had actor's names on them, and I was amazed to see people in the live comments feed guessing who it would be next just by the tiny bit of pre-panning music. All in all it was a lovely thing to have pootling away, kind of like the live feed of the queue to see the Queen's coffin, except with slightly more famous people and less worried curtseying.

The next day I had a surprising and wonderful email from The Radio Time asking if I had any THORTS about the video and what it might PORTEND for the actual movie. At that point I had had one main thought which was "Cor that's a lot of chairs", but I was fairly sure that that wasn't what they were after so had a good old THINK and came up with some slightly more INTERESTING ideas which, over a couple of email back and forths, we got into shape for an ARTICLE.

This was VERY exciting but also NERVE-WRACKING. When I had my FIRST article in The Radio Times last year it came about because I'd emailed to ask them if they'd like one, and then the whole thing was like a weird DREAM. This time around they'd got in touch with ME, so I felt hugely responsible for getting it RIGHT, and so spent AGES on Thursday evening and the Friday morning writing and re-writing it to make sure it was PACKED with a) GAGS b) informative information c) further jokes about Zack Snyder movies.

To my ENORMOUS relief the final article was accepted and is now live on their site. At the moment it's right there on the (bottom of the) front page, but I guess it won't stay there for very long. Either way it fits in rather nicely with the sensible and grown-up plan to promote myself as Someone Who Knows About This Sort Of Thing ready for when RDJ starts appearing in movies, but more than that it's just dead exciting. It's the Radio Times!!

posted 28/3/2025 by MJ Hibbett

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