Fooling Nobody

NEW MARC NEWS....L.A.........

2008-05-02T16:56:00.010+01:00

U.S.A. ...news just in...from Variety by Josef Adalian

Showtime Imports Marc Wootton
Special Report:

Ullman

Showtime is bulking up its comedy slate for 2009, ordering a series from Blighty comedian Marc Wootton and greenlighting a second season of Tracey Ullman's "State of the Union."

Moves come as Showtime moves closer to giving series orders to its Edie Falco and Toni Collette pilots, both of which are comedies. Nothing's been decided yet, but both projects are highly likely to move forward sometime this summer, joining a Showtime laffer slate which already includes "Weeds" and "Californication."

"We're on a bit of a comedy kick right now," Showtime entertainment president Robert Greenblatt told Daily Variety. Exec is particularly high on Wootton, who's well known in the U.K. (and to BBC America auds) for characters such as theatrical psychic Shirley Ghostman.

"I believe he is the new Sasha Baron Cohen," Greenblatt said, noting Wootton's ability to mine comedy by fooling everyday folks into thinking his characters are real.

In an unusual move, rather than developing a pilot, Showtime is giving Wootton a blind, six-episode series order and is allowing him to create a character-driven, alternative comedy in which his characters interact with unassuming real people.

It also helps that Showtime is flush with cash, thanks to the $300 million or so it will begin saving once its movie output deals expire in 2010. Execs at the cabler have made it clear that the extra coin will be funneled into more original series.

In addition to toplining the BBC "High Spirits With Shirley Ghostman," Wootton also wrote and starred in the comedy quizzer "My New Best Friend" and the BBC sketch comedy "Marc Wootton Exposed."

Wootton's Showtime project will be exec produced and directed by Misha Manson-Smith ("Death in Gaza"). Wootton and Michael Rizzo will exec produce.

As for Ullman's "State of the Union," Showtime has ordered a second season of seven episodes. Skein will return next year.

"State of the Union" premiered March 30 and wrapped its five-episode frosh season on Sunday.

and U.K.
from Chortle

Making his Marc...
Wootton lands his own US series
BBC	Marc Wootton has landed his own American TV series, after Hollywood executives branded him ‘the new Sacha Baron Cohen’. The comic, best known for playing oddball stage psychic Shirley Ghostman, is to make a six-part series for the upmarket cable channel Showtime. Unusually, the show, which will air next year, has been commissioned without a pilot episode to test he water. Showtime entertainment president Robert Greenblatt told Hollywood trade paper Variety: ‘I believe he is the new Sacha Baron Cohen,’ citing his ability to fool people into thinking his characters were real. ‘We're on a bit of a comedy kick right now,’ Greenblatt said. Showtime already broadcasts comedies Weeds and Californication and is piloting at least two more comedy series.

to read the article in full go to: LINK TO ARTICLE

MARC - GAVIN & STACEY

2008-03-30T18:09:00.005+01:00

tonight at 9pm BBC3 - Marc as Duncan...

thanks to Oran!

FAQATT NEWS...update

2008-03-26T23:06:00.005Z

for those of you asking/searching the blog...

...latest from BBC Films...

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel

BBC Films and HBO Films present a Doglamp production

Shaun Of The Dead meets Back To The Future in Gareth Carrivick's debut feature Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel.

Chris O'Dowd, Marc Wootton, Dean Lennox Kelly star as three ordinary blokes who may hold the fate of the entire world in their hands when they discover a rift in the space-time continuum in the gents' of their local pub.

Starring:: Chris O'Dowd, Marc Wootton, Dean Lennox Kelly, Anna Faris
Directed by:: Gareth Carrivick
Directed by:: Jamie Mathieson
Producers:: Neil Peplow, Justin Anderson Smith
Executive Producers:: Joe Oppenheimer, David M Thompson
Sales Agent:: HBO Enterprises
UK Distributor:: Lionsgate
UK Release Date:: TBC
CREDITS NOT CONTRACTUAL

MARC IN GAVIN & STACEY - CLIP NOW ONLINE AT BBC 3

2008-03-24T01:49:00.009Z

SEE IT FIRST
see Marc in Gavin and Stacey...

click HERE to watch

this episode will be broadcast on BBC3 on Sunday 30th March at 9pm

something quite beautiful about that, isn't there?

Marc News...Exposed and Gavin and Stacey...4 on Demand

2008-03-16T20:23:00.022Z

Marc appears in the second series of Gavin and Stacey which begins on BBC3 tonight at 9pm - read more in the interview below...

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ALSO you can still access EXPOSED on the BBC3 site on their Video Hub

HERE

and download clips of MARC to your mobile

MARC ON YOUR MOBILE HERE

Interview by Luke Knowles with Ruth Jones:

Last week I was lucky enough to speak to actress and Gavin & Stacey writer Ruth Jones. The series which premiered on BBC3 last year has become a favourite of mine. The series scooped Ruth and writing partner James Corden the best comedy newcomer and best new TV comedy prizes at the 2007 British Comedy Awards. Ruth might be known now for her role as Nessa but she’s had a long TV career from ITV1’s Fat Friends to playing lesbian barmaid Mafanway in a little-known BBC3 series called Little Britain. And with Gavin & Stacey returning for a seven-part second series on Sunday, it was scoop I wanted.
Q - How Have things changed for you and James since the success of the first series and what’s the best thing the success has bought you?
Nothing essential has changed - we've become a lot busier with work that's for sure and it's all very exciting, but we haven't bought a holiday home in Florida or anything!

Q - Has the success surprised you?
We've been delighted by how popular the show has become - and particularly the universality of its appeal. All ages seem to like it - it's a real one-size-fits-all kind of a show I think.

Q - Congratulations on your British Comedy awards. Can you give us an exclusive on where you keep the awards? Are they hidden in an underground lair somewhere?
The production company, Baby Cow, keeps the best new comedy award and James and I have got our newcomer awards, Mine's well displayed, don't you worry, I make sure people pass it when they come through the door - "What - that? Oh that's just my best female newcomer award."

Q - What are the benefits of airing on BBC3 then moving to BBC2?
Primarily, being on BBC3 means of course that it gets more airings so more people get a chance to see it if they miss the original broadcast. But more people actually watch BBC2 because it's terrestrial so it's swings and roundabouts. We feel very grateful to BBC3 - they were fully behind it from the start. They did a great job with the publicity - did you see our trendy trail first time round? And then BBC2 have shown it twice which is brilliant! Last Saturday, they did a whole Gavin & Stacey night and showed the whole series back to back. We've had so much support from both channels - we've been really lucky.

Q - Was this series easier to write as you knew the cast and their characters or did you find it harder to follow it up knowing how well the first series was received?
The second series was sometimes harder to write - mainly because we were under more pressure timewise. We started writing last April and had to get it finished to film in October. Also when we were writing the first series, would be going out and often we'd get these positive reviews the next day which made us think 'oh my God, can we do it a second time?' Having such a great cast of actors really helped us though with writing for the characters that they had essentially brought to life.

Q - At the end of the last series, we knew Nessa was pregnant with Smithy’s child. Nessa approached Smithy at the wedding but couldn’t bring herself to tell him. Does the second series continue where we left off and do Smithy and Nessa have any feelings for each other?
Smithy and Nessa aren't ever going to have feelings for each other - they just happen to have had some good sex together but that's as far as it goes. And of course now they're left with the prospect of possibly being parents to the same child - if Nessa chooses to have the baby that is!. Basically the story picks up after the honeymoon.

Q - The show is called Gavin & Stacey but it is as much about their friends and family. Is everyone from series one back?
Yes - everyone's back including Pete (Adrian Scarborough) and Dawn (Julia Davis) who are such brilliant characters. We're also really lucky to have Sheridan Smith in a couple of episodes playing Smithy's sister. She's fabulous.

Q - Can we expect any guest appearances in the new series?

As well as Sheridan, we've also got the lovely and brilliant Marc Wootton in one of the episodes. James and I are big fans of Marc's. He's such a talented performer.

to read the interview in full click HERE

AND you can watch Marc on Channel 4's on demand service 4oD by clicking: HERE

MARC IN BIZARRE MAGAZINE

2008-03-10T18:46:00.020Z

FROM BIZARRE MAGAZINE - March 2008

Weird World: How Bizarre Is...

Marc Wootton

The strangest thing Marc Wootton has had in his mouth was
'his teacher's cock'. and it gets worse

Marc Wootton was the talent behind Cyderdelic, My New Best Friend, and the magnificent Shirley Ghostman. And you really should already be watching his new show Marc Wootton Exposed (Sundays, 10pm, BBC3). He likes apes,
Muppets and all animals, despite an unfortunate incident with a mouse...

What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever had in your mouth?
Umm, I can’t think. My teacher's cock? That’s not
actually that weird is it? That’s just what most school
kids go through. Erm, I don’t know. Can we move on?

Do you collect anything weird?
I’m obsessed with monkeys, and I collect lots of
monkey things, Planet of the Apes especially.
Anything from Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet
of the Apes, Escape from Planet of the Apes, Conquest
of the Planet of the Apes. I’m not that into Battle of the
Planet of the Apes because it got a bit weak by then.
I also collect a lot of Muppet memorabilia. I’ve got a replica
Kermit and BT phone cards of each of the Muppet characters.

Why monkeys?
I think the reason that I love monkeys is that people complicate
life when in actual fact it is about playing, eating and shagging.
And monkeys do just that. They don’t bother with mortgages,
stupid
little concrete houses, pavements, silly little
monkey cars, emails and mobile phones. You wouldn't
find a monkey forcing a another monkey to work extremely
long hours for low pay just to keep himself in trainers. They just
shag, play, eat and sleep. And that’s
what we should do. I always look to the monkeys for guidance and think,
‘What would a monkey do here?’

What’s the biggest animal you’ve ever killed?
Shirley Ghostman killed a dog by shoving all the
pieces of Buckaroo up its arse. But me, it’s a mouse.
I caught a mouse using one of those humane traps but then didn’t know what to do with it, so I let him go in some water thinking he might drown, but he swam and swam. I felt really guilty and awful. I couldn’t just leave him to drown, so I scooped him into a
carrier bag and… killed him. I don’t know what came over me.
It was weird. I feel terrible.

Do you ever hear voices?
My nan was a paranoid schizophrenic and she definitely heard voices. She came to stay with us at one point and it was just the weirdest time, feeling quite unnerved by this quite ancient lady
kind of having proper full on
conversations with kettles and people “on the air”.
I would help her act out these huge flights of fantasy
and encourage her.

Once she put a pillow up her front
and went round to our
next-door neighbours
and told the wife that her husband had got her
pregnant. She once told my mum that she had my
sisters and I at the bottom of the garden and was
going to kill us. She hadn’t at all, We were all sat round
the table waiting for dinner to be served. Scary lady.

What’s the closest to death you’ve ever come?
We’d always end Cyderdelic by laying in traffic.
I had a few close shaves on that show. After a while you’d done the
show so many times you started thinking
that unsuspecting motorists know the end, but of course they
don’t. I had some close shaves and I got hit
once, which was a good ending to the show.

What’s the biggest animal that you’ve ever ridden?
I rode my next-door neighbour’s cat and broke its legs.
That’s not true. I just threatened to do that. I said, “If you come round here any more, wise guy, I’m going to ride your cat
and break its
legs.” I didn’t really. I wish I had.

Do you have any fetishes?
I wish I was a bit more unusual and I could say that I loved
fucking people’s eyes in but I really don’t have any extreme
fetishes, I’m quite boring.
Is wearing women like shoes a fetish? No, I don’t
have that fetish. I’m trying to think
but I don’t have anything weird. I don’t think, ‘Oh god,
I like disabledies rubbing up against me’. I’d love to say
something rock and roll but I’d be lying.

Have you ever wet yourself through fear?
No, but I wet myself when I was doing an episode
of at Bayswater ice skating rink. I was told
that I couldn’t wet myself for health and safety reasons
but I just drank loads and weed all
over the ice. You got that mistiness.
It looked like an old Top of the Pops dry ice
number. It was the episode that never got shown
because the guy flipped out about it.

Have you ever had an imaginary friend?
Spanner Man wasn’t an imaginary friend but more like a kind of
another version of me. You’d never see us in the same place.
I used to get out an adjustable
spanner and be like, “Where’s Marc? Have you seen Marc?
No? Oh well, Spanner Man’s here!”

If you had to have sex with an animal, what would you choose?
A little marmoset. Not intercourse sex because it would
find that pretty stressful with its tiny little orifices.
But marmosets have mini little hands, and those around
your cock would make it look huge.

If you had to choose between necrophilia,
coprophilia and bestiality, which would you choose?
I think it would have to be necrophilia because it
would be the least stressful. If there was a crowd of
people watching me doing it with my dead nan and clapping
in time with the strokes, I would find that really quite
stressful. But if it was just me and my nan and we were in
a little place and no one knew, she’s dead so she’s not really
there, so it’s just a case of closing your
eyes and pretending it’s someone else. And
their hands would be able to grip stuff, like my
little replica Kermit that you can move and pose.
I imagine that you can pose dead people to do stuff
if the rigor mortis has set in, which would make it all easier.

Not an ape then?
I reckon that they would be pretty rough. I think I’d be
pretty scared. You’d get thumped on the back. I don’t
think that I would be able to get it up because I would
be so anxious that it was going to hit me with its big
thumping fists. At least with a dead person you wouldn’t
have to think about their feelings. It’s a guilt free bit of fun.

EXPOSED/GAVIN AND STACEY news....

2008-03-04T21:08:00.017Z

HUGE thanks to the wonderful Adrian Myers for these amazing new images from EXPOSED

to read more about Adrian and the shoot - click HERE

****AND Marc will be appearing in the second series of Gavin and Stacey which starts on BBC3 on March 16th 2008 - more news coming soon....***

EXPOSED

2008-02-26T20:05:00.007Z

New Marc news soon...in the meantime...

EXPOSED episode 6 is still available to watch online on the BBC IPlayer here:

BBCIPLAYER

and clips from the entire series on Youtube here:

YOUTUBE

EXPOSED EPISODE 6 NOW ONLINE

2008-02-16T22:38:00.009Z

***FINAL EPISODE REPEATED TONIGHT 24 FEBRUARY 2008 AT 11.45 PM AND 3.35AM BBC3 AND ON THE BBC IPLAYER

"...We Cried"

Final episode of EXPOSED is now available to watch online by clicking

HERE

- this episode will be broadcast on Friday 22 February at 11pm and 0240am

Episode 5 is available on the BBCiplayer by clicking

HERE

and is repeated on BBC3 tonight (Sunday 17th February 2008) at 00.15am and 0335am

EXPOSED EPISODE 5 NOW ONLINE

2008-02-10T17:37:00.001Z

UPDATED - EXPOSED - 5/6 ON BBC3 TONIGHT AT 11PM AND 0240AM

...see RUFUS V Lady Lumsden

also Marc's appearance on Annie Mac's Switch is still available (until 17th Feb) to "Listen again" - follow links below...

Meanwhile Episode 4 featuring Noodle's Rebelesque exhibition; Candy getting political, Gill's "unique technique"; continues to be repeated on BBC3 tonight - 11.45pm/3.35am and online at the BBC i player here:

EXPOSED ON THE BBC IPLAYER

Penultimate Episode 5 is available to watch online now by clicking HERE

and following the links at the top of the page - Episode 5 features new character Gary, Ian's "Candy Floss", Una's denouement and Doris...it's different for girls...

MARC ON RADIO 1 - ANNIE MAC

2008-02-09T20:00:00.000Z

Marc will be appearing on Radio 1 with Annie Mac tomorrow night Sunday 10 February 2008 from 7pm-10pm

click to link to the BBC sites and read more...

COMEDY ON SWITCH

RADIO 1

MARC WOOTTON EXPOSED...

2008-02-02T22:02:00.000Z

NEW!!!...Episode 4 - now available to watch online at BBC3 - this episode is on BBC3 on Friday 8th February 2008 at 11pm.

Click HERE to watch

...Anything you don't understand...regard as significant...

MARC WOOTTON EXPOSED NEW YOUTUBE CLIPS

2008-01-30T23:04:00.001Z

UNA...b.l.u.e.

PAUL PEARSON
Day 11

Day 13

Day16

Day 20

MARC IN ATTITUDE...

2008-01-30T21:34:00.001Z

Marc's Attitude interview

and a review from OK! Hot Stars...

MARC...speaks.....

2008-01-28T18:52:00.000Z

Interviews from MAXIM and LONDON TOUR DATES

ALSO.....Marc will also be featured in the next issue of ATTITUDE magazine (out end of January 2008)

MARC WOOTTON EXPOSED EPISODE 3...

2008-01-21T16:41:00.000Z

...somecandytalking

Candy's improv...now available to watch online...

...new...Dave Bishop...

WATCH EPISODE 3 ONLINE NOW

episode 2 continues to be repeated on BBC3 on Friday 25 January at 12.45 am and 3.10am and Saturday 1.40am and 3.35 am

MARC ON JONATHAN ROSS - TOMORROW FROM 12.30PM

2008-01-18T14:30:00.000Z

The Jonathan Ross show, Radio 2 - Saturdays 10am-1pm

Marc will be a guest from 12.30pm

LINK TO JONATHAN'S RADIO 2 PAGE

AND on Sunday 20th January:

Marc is being interviewed live at around 1:30pm on the comedy programme on XFM Manchester.

click

HERE

to listen online.

MARC ON VIRGIN RADIO - LISTEN AGAIN

2008-01-16T13:11:00.000Z

If you missed it....listen to it now!!!
Click on the link below:
LISTEN TO MARC CHRISTIAN AND ROQUE

MARC NEWS...

2008-01-15T11:36:00.000Z

Marc was the first Dictator of the Week for 2008 on the Christain O'Connell Breakfast Show on Virgin radio with Christian and Roque - his National Anthem was War of the Worlds; Food was Roadkill; and Laws he would introduce included compulsary playtime for adults and lowering fences in zoos; Marc wanted smoking outside banned.

The second episode which will be on BBC3 on Sunday 20th January 2008 at 9.30pm of Marc Wootton Exposed is now available online at BBC3 to watch -

click HERE

Also new clips being added to Youtube here:

MARC WOOTTON EXPOSED ON YOUTUBE

AND Break dot com

HERE

UPDATE: MARC ON VIRGIN RADIO

2008-01-14T10:26:00.000Z

***UPDATED****

MARC's appearance on the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on Virgin radio has been rescheduled to tomorrow - Tuesday 15th January 2008 - from 7.30 am onwards

MESSAGE TO YOU - FROM MARC

2008-01-12T07:55:00.002Z

Dearest people what support the Marc Wootton,

Firstly thanks for logging on and coming to have a poke around the site. It’s run by a fabulous web mistress who goes by the name pin-gli. Thankfully for me, she locates, copies and files everything Wootton.

I’m really excited about the show going out this Sunday, please tell everyone and anyone to tune in and have a gander.

My personal favourites are Paul Pearson (The Dracula), Ian Jackson (The psycho child), and Doris (The old lady). It’s pretty obvious if you watch the series as I’ve put them in all six shows!

There are a few surprises coming up in the series, Prudence (The wife who is in denial about her gay husband) is introduced in week 2 and after that each week there is a one-off stand alone character. Dave Bishop (The celebrity driver with a dark secret) is one to look out for, oh and Gary (FREAK).

I really do hope you enjoy the show. Thanks again for taking the time.

Marc x

MARC ON VIRGIN RADIO - MONDAY 14TH JANUARY 2008

2008-01-11T12:09:00.000Z

Marc will be a guest on the Christian O'Connell radio show on Virgin radio on Monday 14th January 2008 at 7.30 am

Marc will be the Dictator Of The Week - to read more about past Dictators click

HERE

CHRISTIAN O'CONNELL PAGE ON VIRGIN RADIO - which has a listen online and listen again feature etc:

CHRISTIAN O'CONNELL PAGE

CHRISTIAN'S PROFILE

MARC CHORTLE INTERVIEW

2008-01-10T00:51:00.001Z

Winding up the wind-ups
Marc Wootton on his new BBC Three sketch show
BBC	Marc Wootton has pretty much built his career on tormenting people. This reached its apex – or nadir, depending on your point of view – with the Channel 4 show My New Best Friend, in which contestants had to convince their friends and relatives that the appalling characters Wootoon portrayed were their best mates. He forced people to hand in their notice at work, pretend to come out as gay, or tell their parents they had a secret child to win £10,000. But it was only, perhaps, the logical extreme of his wind-up comedy. In The Pilot Show, he duped various wannabes and once-weres with the promise of bizarre TV ventures. As one third of spoof eco-warrior collective Cyderdelic, he took part in various silly anti-capitalist protests – and had a scene censored by BBC governors because it included an excrement-covered crucifix and the phrase ‘Jesus Christ is a bell end’. And when he appeared on the Jonathan Ross show as ‘phoney’ psychic Shirley Ghostman – is there any other kind? – the BBC apologised after 350 people complained. Perhaps surprisingly, given the grief he’s caused them, the corporation has given Wootton another show. But this time there’s not a hidden camera or unsuspecting chump to be had. Nor even any supporting cast to speak of. Mark Wootton Exposed is just him, delivering character monologues to camera, for half an hour. Talking Heads for the YouTube generation, you might call it. ‘It seemed natural,’ Wootton says of his transition from improvised shit-stirring to scripted sketches. ‘Maybe it’s some sort of personal development.’ Recurring characters in the BBC Three show include 70-year-old widow Doris, posh rapper Rufus, conceptual artist/vapid social commentator Noodle, right and Paul, who believes he is turning into a vampire. ‘What links them all is that they are deluded,’ says Wootton. ‘They don’t drop their masks.’ Quickie sketches in which the characters pose in a photographer’s studio are designed to add to that feeling, he explains: ‘The photography thing – though its not overt – hints at that delusional state. We all smile for the camera, maintaining that delusion that we’re happy.’ With a plethora of sketch shows currently filling digital channels’ schedules, how did Wootton try to make his stand out? ‘It’s less sketches, more monologues, which I think helps define it,’ he says. ‘That and it’s all me – there’s no one else in it – and it was written by just me and Liam Woodman, who was Frogger in Cyderdelic. That should give it a distinctive voice you don’t always get with a big team of writers.’ The show has been 18 months in the planning. He first performed some work-in-progress character nights in London’s Tristan Bates fringe theatre in summer 2006; then follow-up nights in the capital’s Drill Hall at the end of that year led to the BBC commission. ‘It’s much easier to show people what you want to do, rather than pitching an idea on paper,’ he says The finished shows were also screened for a live audience, which gave him the chance to make late edits to the monologues. ‘I was slightly swayed by the audience reaction,’ he says. ‘But ultimately you have to go with what you think is funny.’ Although his certainty seems to waver when it comes to the decision to add the laughter track that audience provides. He asks whether I found it intrusive. Which it was, a bit, although I soon got used to it. ‘We had lots of conversations about that with Jeremy Dyson, who was the script editor,’ Wootton says. ‘There was a laughter track on League Of Gentlemen – quite in-your-face in the first series – but people forget that. And if it’s good enough for them…’ The one character that was filmed in front of an actual audience is Candy, left, a brash American stand-up comedienne with bags of attitude – but no actual jokes. ‘I was just mucking about in the shower with the character of Candy, and it made my partner giggle,’ he says of her Genesis. ‘She is part Roseanne Barr, as well as all those other female comics who are full of spite. It’s the madness of someone who doesn’t know how a joke’s even supposed to work. It’s observational comedy of the sort Peter Kay does, but she just yells out the subjects, nothing more.’ Wootton’s never been a straight stand-up himself, but he’s been close to it throughout his career, and cites Sean Lock and Simon Bligh as favourites. He started performing at school in Portsmouth, and an early creation was the Russian Gavroski Brothers (‘Don’t look it up,’ he pleads, fearing embarrassment), which he took to the Edinburgh Fringe. ‘They were three agitprop activist peasants trying to spark a revolution,’ he explains. ‘Like a Soviet Cyderdelic?’ I suggest – and he reacts as if this has never occurred to him before.’ He moved on to directing and ran the Canal Café pub theatre in West London. Despite his connection with Jeremy Dyson, he wasn’t there at the time the League Of Gentlemen were doing their now legendary residency, but did see the likes of Ardal O’Hanlon, Lee Mack and Catherine Tate on its modest stage. From there, Cyderdelic was born, with stand-up Barry Castagnola completing the trio with Wootton and Woodman, and they became a hit of the 2000 Edinburgh festival. Though not, as Wootton is quick to mention, with Chortle. He can still quote verbatim from the withering one-star review nearly eight years on. But he’s graciously good-natured about the pasting which, after all, doesn’t seem to have done his career any lasting harm. Not only has he completed his solo series, but he’s also about to star in the forthcoming Britflick Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel – and Hollywood beckons. He’s already signed up with the Endeavor talent agency in LA –whose clients include Ben Affleck, Chris Rock, Goldie Hawn, Keira Knightley and Jude Law – and he revealed: ‘NBC and Showtime have both offered me a show.’ But he didn’t elaborate, other than to say it would be his own show. As for Frequently Asked Questions…, he has high hopes: ‘It’s the best script I’ve ever read, and Chris O’Dowd is very funny in it. I play a geeky bloke who likes Forbidden Planet and wants to go back in time. ‘It’s all in the can. We re-shot the ending in September, which leaves the door open for sequels, and there have been test screenings – but we weren’t allowed into them. The trailer looks quite good, and it should be a good sci-fi comedy – but I’m not culpable if it isn’t.’ Which is hardly the case for the BBC Three series with his name in the title and in the writing credits, not to mention his prosthetically-disguised face on screen the entire time. ‘I’ve done the best I can,’ he says, ‘And all I can hope is that people like it. Marc Wootton Exposed is on BBC Three at 9.30pm on Sunday. Click here to watch the first episode now.
LINK TO CHORTLE PAGE

MARC IN TODAY'S ZOO MAGAZINE

2008-01-08T12:40:00.000Z

Marc is interviewed by Lucy Vine in ZOO magazine...and featured in the TV section -
out today.

NEW MARC WOOTTON BBC WEBPAGE

2008-01-07T19:49:00.000Z

featuring links, profiles etc - to visit Marc's new BBC page click here:

MARC WOOTTON EXPOSED BBC3 PAGE