'Kicks Off' kicks off
There are more and more new commenters at the moment, thanks probably to the fact that I’m touring the country to sign up new readers to the blog (officially, it’s a stand-up tour, but we all know what it’s really about). I just wanted to welcome everyone who’s new to the blog, and to direct your attention to the fact that it is going on for ten years. So you’re really only new in the same sense that, for example, the dinosaurs were new to planet earth at one time. When 2016 rolls around, you’ll be talking about the good old days of the blog before it sold out and was sponsored by Coke and I was paid £200,000 a year to do it.
My overall aim over this decade is to become an optimist – there are some auxiliary challenges which support this one big aim – and indeed the whole idea of the blog is an optimistic one. The idea that I can do this every day, and that people will keep reading, requires constant leaps of faith. So, that’s what I’m doing. You can set your own challenge for the remainder of the ten years by going to www.markwatsonfans.com/tysic (I think that’s the address). Lots of people have.
Tomorrow I film the first of my sports shows for ITV4, so it really is all about that at the moment. By ‘it’ I mean ‘my mental state’. I have done a fair bit of this sort of thing before, but it’s odd to have a show called Mark Watson Kicks Off and be called Mark Watson and have a title sequence where it’s me doing sporty things and so on. It’s a slightly less grand claim than making the world substantially better, but what with it being TV, there is more pressure on things like my hairstyle and whether I remember to bring my glasses. That’s right. I’m a pro.
So, I’m off to get into the zone. The zone in this case being a place where you sleep for a bit, get up, give a bottle to your baby, do some chores and then go to a studio. I’ll probably not blog until the recording is done and, if possible, dusted. If dusting threatens to go on beyond midnight, I’ll blog when it is merely done. See you on the other side of my small but exciting task.
Posted by Tibbs on October 18, 2010
Hope the taping went well! I’m sure the show will be wonderful and I really hope I’ll be able to see it somehow.
Posted by josie on October 18, 2010
good luck with the show
Posted by Rachael on October 18, 2010
When the sponsorship deals come rolling in I think you should seriously consider picking pepsi over coke. It’s just better.
Posted by Depraviato on October 18, 2010
Go on Mark – get your new sports related show presentation on my lad! Just remember though: if anyone attacks cricket for whatever reason don’t rise to it. Just take a deep breath and continue with the show, ignoring the comment made. If they contiune to press the cricket button then call them a dark orifice after the show or something.
Posted by Simone on October 18, 2010
Best of luck with the filming. I eagerly await the day when it appears on my telly.
Posted by Ally on October 18, 2010
Good luck with the show! I really can’t wait to watch it
Posted by Tracey on October 18, 2010
Best of luck with your show, Mark. Tracey x
Posted by Anna on October 18, 2010
Good luck for tonight! I’m looking forward to watching the filming- I’ll be the exhausted looking pregnant lady in the audience…
Posted by amycool on October 18, 2010
Good luck Mark! And hello new blog readers, you’ll wonder how you existed without it after a while.
Posted by Madeleine on October 18, 2010
Good luck with the show!
Hey new posters! Get around it!
Posted by Suz on October 18, 2010
Best of luck with the show!
Posted by Natalie-Helen on October 17, 2010
Hope everything goes well! I can’t wait to see it and will also inform my sports orientated family members that its on!
Hope Kit sleeps through too so you’re really prepared tmorrow!
^_^
xxx
Posted by Rachel/Pandora on October 17, 2010
Good luck with the show Mark, looking forward to seeing it.
New posters – why not pop over to the forum at http://www.markwatsonfans.com/ and introduce yourselves to your fellow Watsonians? We’re proper nice. AND as Mark said, you can create and update your TYSIC page from there too!
Posted by Kathryn on October 17, 2010
I’m also off to get in the zone. Of essay writing.
Good luck with the show. I’m sure it will be amazing.
Posted by Aislinn on October 17, 2010
GOOD LUCK!
(Not that you’ll need it.)
Posted by Ivan (@ivanbrett) on October 17, 2010
Good luck tomorrow!!
Also, hey new commenters. Make yourselves at home, I’ll fetch the hobnobs.
Posted by Melanie on October 17, 2010
Saw an advert for your show tonight! Not usually a sports fan, but will certainly tune in!
Posted by Misha on October 17, 2010
It’s actually http://www.markwatsonfans.com/tysic/home.php
But http://www.markwatsonfans.com will get you most of the way there, and you could sign up to the forum for biro based fun at the same time!/plug
Good luck for the filming, i’d love to go but I have that thing they call uni til 8, and then a pubquiz. Tonights comment comes to your from my room, not a wall outside edgeware road station.
Posted by Carl on October 17, 2010
Good luck! Can’t wait to come watch it on 29th November.
(Boring post I know, but it’s all true)
Man kiss – x
Posted by DeborahF on October 17, 2010
Good luck with the show – I’m keeping my fingers crossed that ITV4 behaves itself so I can watch it on Thursday. It’s the one channel that has the dodgiest reception where I live and presenters can end up doing impressions of Norman Collier (for those old enough to remember him). Not good – but in the spirit of optimism – I know it will be fine