2008
Masterpiece Mystery
PBS asked me to be the host of their Masterpiece Mystery series. I love PBS, and since the prevous hosts include Vincent Price and Diana Rigg, I was rather honoured to be asked. Basically I come out of the shadows and introduce some British TV mystery show. I love being a host. I feel I ought to come out of the shadows with a tray of sandwiches.
Just Ask The Locals
I was asked to talk about NYC and my favourite things about it for a campaign the city was doing called 'Just Ask The Locals'
Live Out Loud PSA
I shot a PSA with Michael Caulson for Live Out Loud's new initiative The Homecoming Project. Live Out Loud is a really great organistaion that connecst LGBT youth to community leaders and generally helps young people feel good about being themselves.
Oxonian Society talk
In January I did a talk for the Oxonian Society in NYC.
Here are some of my rambling thoughts, about the difference between British and American actors...
and here's what happened when I met Stanley Kubrick...
Celebrity Big Brother Hijack
I have always been a rabid fan of the UK version of Big Brother, so when I was asked to take part in Celebrity Big Brother Hijack, I leapt at the chance.
The format differed from previous years in that the celebs were Big Brother rather than the housemates, with a different person 'hijacking' the show each day. And also the housemates were all young and excelled in their various fields. So it made for a very interesting and unusual take on the normal way of things.
I was just so excited to get to say 'This is Big Brother' over the house speakers, and to ask people to come into the diary room.
2007
GLAAD The F word
I felt that the gay community needed to stop using the 'f' word. (It rhymes with maggot!) Just as the black community has taken responsibility about using the 'n' word, we need to with the 'f' one. For how can we expect the rest of the world to stop using it if we still use it ourselves? Even in jest, even if we think we have reclaimed it and made it something else, it is still a word of hatred and is often the last word people hear before they are beaten or even killed.
So I spoke to GLAAD and my friend Joe Mantegna, and we shot this PSA which premiered at the GLAAD awards in 2008.
Talk Shows
The lovely and hilarious Chelsea Handler, Shag for CTV, Regis and Kelly, the Morning Show with Mike and Juliet and the lovely Conan.
Speechless - in support of the WGA strike
At the end of 2007 I went and shot a couple of little films with the director George Hickenlooper in support of the WGA strike that was in full swing at the time. George made loads of these films with various actors under the banner Speechless.
I was really happy to be able to do something to support the strike, and I loved the angle that George took. I am also delighted to be on screen alongside the voice of Mr Moviefone!!
The T-shirt in the first one was given to me by Bianca, my publicist. Little did she know it would be immortalised!
Men.style.com: Obsessives
In September 2007 when I was enroute to JFK to catch a flight to go to London to film Boogie Woogie, I stopped off at the Core Club and shot this llittle piece about martinis for Men.Style.com
Midnight Snack
Not content with Honey being a co-host on this Sundance Channel film show that I host, I also got Leon, my chihuahua, in on the act too. Sing out, Louise!
Here we all are talking about the Joseph Losey film, Boom.