Re: [CH] My 12 minutes of fame
Gary Bellinger (yesgaz@itcanada.com)
Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:17:24 -0400
Well, according to the listings for TLC (In Canada) tonight at 10 p.m. ET,
storm chasers are among the segments they are showing so I will have to tune
in and see a fellow chilehead in action. Lets hope the editors keep the
footage true to its mission.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chad A Gard" <gard@indy.net>
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Cc: <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>;
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:52 AM
Subject: [CH] My 12 minutes of fame
> I might be on TLC tonight, 10/9 at 10:00 ET, a 12 minute segment on
> the show "Beyond Tough". My storm chasing team, along with our
> "sister" team from Illinois (though actually everyone on the show is
> a member of both teams), filmed a segment with them this late-spring.
> Lots of interesting things happened, including my alternator dieing
> at the first shoot location.
>
> On the positive side, all of the footage used in the segment will be
> from that day (they shot 128 hours of video that day!) or from storm
> footage shot by team members - no stock footage and nothing from
> Roger Hill or Tim Marshal or anything like that. 100%
> INCHASE/ILCHASE. On the potentially-negative side, we don't know hoe
> they cut all of that footage. We did our best to make things
> realistic and play up the importance of Skywarn spotters and the
> service they provide to the community, as well as the importance of
> having saftey as a priority when chasing. But, we all know editors
> can make footage say whatever they want. While we have high hopes
> and reasurances from the producer that the segment will be very
> positive, we, of course, won't know for sure until we see it.
>
> There's some confusion in the listings (it seems tonight's episode
> will be a re-run of the show we're on, which will air the first time
> on the 16th. Apparantly the people from the "temporal physics"
> episode had a problem with a worm hole and the holodeck, and created
> some sort of temporal disturbance.... Anywho, it looks like either
> tonight or one week from tonight.
>
>
> --
> Chad Gard, KB9WXQ
> INCHASE: http://www.inchase.org Co-founder
> INSWA: http://www.insw.org Unit #21
>