Television
For the month of the 2010 World Cup, I’ll be a part of Working Dog’s nightly comedy show, ‘Santo, Sam and Ed’s Cup Fever’. It features Santo Cilauro, Sam Pang and Ed Kavalee, although Santo said I should consider myself the Fourth Musketeer, indicating the sort of regard the show intends to have for our lord and saviour, Kevin Muscat.
My job each day will be to present and produce reports and stories from the streets of South Africa. I’ll be creating the pieces with the designer of this website, Cam Fink, whose job description is almost identical to his first name, which is convenient in the unlikely event that I forget what he’s there for.
In Germany, the default chant for every team was ‘Berlin, Berlin, We’re going to Berlin!’ In South Africa, it will be ‘Johannesburg, Johannesburg, We’re going to Johannesburg!’ which will be a mouthful in English, and a strangulation risk in Afrikaans.
The show premieres on June 11th, 2010 and will run every night of the tournament before the serious coverage starts. Go Socceroos!
Other TV Work
I have been on television enough to get listed on the IMDB database, which also has Jack Nicholson, although I’m not sure Jack gets such a kick out of self-searching as I do. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0934242/
My break into television occurred in 1998 as part of the second series of Race Around the World. As part of my travels, I visited Bolivia, Idaho, Alaska, Italy, Lebanon, France, Israel, Kenya, India and China. Each of the eight Racers travelled solo, and in each country had to find, film and edit a four-minute mini-documentary. My subjects ranged from a ten-day advertising stint performing as a cockroach in a Kenyan travelling roadshow, to a Lebanese wheat farmer who couldn’t shoot pigs that were eating his crops because his land was only 800 metres from the Israeli border. If he pulled out a rifle, he risked being mistaken for a Hizballah rebel.
In recent times, I’ve presented stories for Fairfax Online and have been a regular member of the Brains Trust on ABC TV’s quiz show, ‘The Einstein Factor’.
Offsiders - 2007
I appeared on The Offsiders during the AFC Asian Cup. 10.30am Sundays in July.
The Ashes - 2006/2007
I presented an internet Ashes preview show called ‘The Third Umpire’ that features Dean Jones.
