Will someone be able to record it for those of us here in the USA who won't be able to see it ?

Thanks
Vicki

dont think acting skills are a big matter on this one...

will be the first time i will watch kids tv in years.....lol....

Hooray! Luckily both of my boys are into cITV at the moment, (mainly for Horrid Henry) so I'm sure I'll be made to catch it anyway...

I think it's a fantastic idea ... it's great promotion for Meat, and he's doing it for a worthy cause.:-)

Vicki

probably, but i still dont think his acting skills are a big matter on this show

To a degree I'll disagree with you here, whilst not needing the acting skills of say his role in Fight Club not everyone can sit down and deliver a monologue and make it believable, especially for kids.

Couple of points worth mentioning, not sure how this show will do it (and I know it's not on the same scale) but Bob Hoskins said that interacting with a cartoon was one of the toughest gigs he'd had to do and also that at many auditions for many different acting roles the first step is to deliver a monologue.

I agree Vicki, I think it's a great idea too and will be good for Meat, plus being for a good cause as well. I think being a good actor will help, he'll be more animated and make it really interesting, I think he'll be very entertaining. If I lived there, I'd definintely be watching a kids show for the first time in years.

Carole

I think Meat will give it his best shot ... and I bet he used to read to his own kids when they were younger which will help! Children are fantastic critics. Good luck to him ... but I think he'll do great.

i dont know about germany but in the uk we have had a show called jackanory for many years where celebrities...especially actors read a story.

This seems to be just a different take on jackanory with the celebrities reading the story to a puppet dog instead of looking straight at the screen.

I've seen a small clip of the show, not meat's one, but i think it will be fun, and i think Meat's personality, gestures and general way of speaking makes him ideal for this.

As far as him being an outlaw rocker, i remember watching him on many childrens shows when i was a kid. You are never too cool or wacky or 'outlaw' to entertain the kids, and Meat doing this should be applauded.

Meet Bookaboo

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...m19-168492.jpg

He supposedly a drummer in a big rock band (so maybe not such a weird thing to bring in a rocker after all ;) )

I agree, I think Meat's personality will be ideal for this and I think he should be appluaded too.

Carole

Yay! And well done Meat for supporting better reading skills :D

:twisted: With Michael on this one.
Have you ever tried to get kids to sit down and pay attention? :lmao:

Just because he doesn't have to pull a Brando out of the bag, he's still going to have to put some energy into it.

I just found THIS just now :cool:.

WTF? :wtf: Some people are taking Meat Loaf reading a kiddies story to a drumming puppy far too seriously :nuts: You don't need great acting skills to read a story and you don't to try and make the story believable, just interesting. Basil Brush had me glued to the TV when I was a kid and that's a stuffed fox with a mans hand up its ass.

I'm expecting the show to be entertaining 'FOR KIDS' not critically acclaimed and Emmy nominated.

Pud :twisted:

Airing tomorrow (Monday 2nd) at 12.15, 3.15 and 5.45 on CITV
Sky channel 621 (Sorry but I don't know the other 'suppliers numbers!)

This takes you to the Bookaboo site where you can see the opening credits that include Meat. Unfortunately they have mispelt his name further down the page!
http://www.citv.co.uk/page.asp?partid=583

Help I've just found out I can't get CITV on my frreview box! Can somebody please record the prog and put it on You Tube please? Thanks Luv cx

ch 75 on freeview... was excellent... definitely one his best performances!!!!!

http://www.citv.co.uk/page.asp?partid=583 just a snippet sadly

That was brilliant, really good fun!! Bookaboo has definately got a touch of the Spinal Taps about him lol!!

I think Andy and I just regressed to being about 6! :lol:

Got to say I loved that!! Somehow, despite having read the threads, I didn't realise that Meat was actually in it, I thought it was just his voice, so that was a big suprise!!! Brilliantly done, very funny, and after last year's debates over concert quality, bad reviews etc it was great to see something that fun and light-hearted, loved it :up:

Regressed? Some of you never left that age :))

If John ever decides to leave the NLE, I think we've found his replacement in the drumming puppy who won't play unless he gets a story a day!

Me too! Loved it, was so happy! :D Meat read well and was really funny - particulary the things that weren't in the script! :cool:

Hmm. I seem to have lost the ability to quote messages. I'm gonna blame it on the excitement ;)

... fixed ...

Ta very much hun x