Have you ever appeared on Television?

[Neil Jones]

Pretty similar to cases in a "real" court I presume then, where they have to be more sure than not they're applying appropriate parts of law for the case in question, taking breaks on occasion to get advice? Judge Rinder cases tend to be more about who broke the vase and who should pay to replace it or "am I liable to pay for the DJ who played crap music" as opposed to more serious matters, but I believe (much like the American Judge Judy) any "you owe him £1500" comes out of the production fund, the matter is closed and you get the honour of having your fizzog on the TV for 20 minutes.

[Mr Q]

I was interviewed in studio on Danish TV. It was all quite surreal - a combination of imposter syndrome ("there must be some kind of mistake; why the hell would anyone want to interview me?") and TV geek (seeing behind the scenes, especially the difference between how a studio/set looks in person compared to what we see on screen). I arrived about half an hour beforehand, and got ushered through security into makeup, then (after a short wait) into the studio where I got mic'ed up and saw the start of the programme going out live. Then, under the cover of a short package being aired, I took my place up at the desk. I distinctly recall going to take a sip of water, but my hands were shaking so much that I realised the safest course of action was just to put the glass back down on the table as gently as I could! And then the interview started, and everything went fine. I mean, as far as I can recall - it all played out so quickly, it was a bit of a blur!

This all happened pre-pandemic - but it proved to be a useful experience for the current times in at least one sense. When I eventually watched the interview (some days later - I first needed to summon up the courage to watch myself...), I noticed my eyes tended to dance around. I was shifting my focus as I was talking rather than looking directly at the interviewer. So now, in a world where I'm in meetings, seminars and what-not via webcam, I have much greater awareness of where I'm looking (preferably straight into the camera) while I'm speaking.

[Rob]

I was interviewed in studio on Danish TV. It was all quite surreal - a combination of imposter syndrome ("there must be some kind of mistake; why the hell would anyone want to interview me?") and TV geek (seeing behind the scenes, especially the difference between how a studio/set looks in person compared to what we see on screen). I arrived about half an hour beforehand, and got ushered through security into makeup, then (after a short wait) into the studio where I got mic'ed up and saw the start of the programme going out live. Then, under the cover of a short package being aired, I took my place up at the desk. I distinctly recall going to take a sip of water, but my hands were shaking so much that I realised the safest course of action was just to put the glass back down on the table as gently as I could! And then the interview started, and everything went fine. I mean, as far as I can recall - it all played out so quickly, it was a bit of a blur!

You are Guy Goma and I claim my £5...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rjku6tAIK0

[XIII]

Pretty similar to cases in a "real" court I presume then, where they have to be more sure than not they're applying appropriate parts of law for the case in question, taking breaks on occasion to get advice? Judge Rinder cases tend to be more about who broke the vase and who should pay to replace it or "am I liable to pay for the DJ who played crap music" as opposed to more serious matters, but I believe (much like the American Judge Judy) any "you owe him £1500" comes out of the production fund, the matter is closed and you get the honour of having your fizzog on the TV for 20 minutes.

I assume much like Judge Judy, by appearing on Judge Rinder, you have to agree not to take the case any further once the dispute is settled.

[Aime E. Dangerously]

I was supposed to appear on television once! I spent a whole day filming an insert segment about disabilities for The Nolan Show (a local political chat show type deal), but it got pre-empted by... I want to say election coverage? And ended up never airing. I never got paid for the day's worth of labor either. :roll:

[Mr Q]

I was interviewed in studio on Danish TV. It was all quite surreal - a combination of imposter syndrome ("there must be some kind of mistake; why the hell would anyone want to interview me?") and TV geek (seeing behind the scenes, especially the difference between how a studio/set looks in person compared to what we see on screen). I arrived about half an hour beforehand, and got ushered through security into makeup, then (after a short wait) into the studio where I got mic'ed up and saw the start of the programme going out live. Then, under the cover of a short package being aired, I took my place up at the desk. I distinctly recall going to take a sip of water, but my hands were shaking so much that I realised the safest course of action was just to put the glass back down on the table as gently as I could! And then the interview started, and everything went fine. I mean, as far as I can recall - it all played out so quickly, it was a bit of a blur!

You are Guy Goma and I claim my £5...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rjku6tAIK0

I had exactly this scene in my mind when I was asked to come in! :lol: I had two phone calls with them during the day - one to a journalist, the other to the programme presenter - before I came into the studio that evening. So, I was at least sure that it really was me they wanted. I figured they must have been desperate!

[XIII]

Having been an audience member on many shows does make you realise how small some studios and sets actually are in real life. TC2 in particular I'm impressed with how flexible it is because when I was in the audience for Loose Women, there's not much room at all.

[IBM]

Just once intentionally, and I was too young to remember it. There was also some newspaper coverage I'm told.

I was interviewed on 3 national news (NZ) sometime during the early 90s. I have a disability, which was the result of medical misadventure. ACC (a state run accident compensation scheme) didn't want to cover it, so mum fundraised to get me treatment overseas, and there was an eventual legal battle, to get ACC to recognize that what happened to me was an accident. All of the above made me newsworthy for a brief moment.

[Josh]

Appeared on BBC Local News for 5 seconds when I was on a school trip. Our school was unsure if any of us weren't given permission to be filmed, so we were all given red "don't film us" stickers as a precaution. I don't think the cameraman was briefed though!

[Lewser]

Back in 1998 I was on all the news. All about the Bristol Royal Infirmary. I was eight and holding a placard saying "great massacre cover up".

I once spent three days on Coach Trip. I still have regrets.

I was later filmed in a series, Heathrow Britain's Busiest Airport. I was waiting for somebody there and they thought it was a good yarn.

I then went onto talk to Jack Dee on Election Helpdesk all about income thresholds.

My last TV appearance was in the audience of This Week behind Michael Portillo's brother.

Recently Saving Lives at Sea got in touch about using a photo I took, and a documentary crew may want to speak about the time I stumbled upon a murder scene near Boris Johnson's family home.

[TheMightyTRex]

I'm in the opening wide shot of the village in Manchester on queer as folk.
You can't see any people in the crowd clearly but I'm there.

Yes it's not a big achievement.

[Bennyboy84]

I’ve never appeared but I got a mention on Game Network (Sky 223) way back when on one of their chat/news programmes. I did get a few mentions on the Radio 1 Chart Show when it used to be on a Sunday at 4pm and you could go into the chat room, then the DJ would do shout-outs as the show started.

[Curto32]

I did manage to appear on both Reporting Scotland and The STV News at Six on the same night in 2011 when they were both covering a story about the Olympic Torch Relay coming to my city.

This remains to date as the only time I have ever got on Television

[Neil Jones]

Pretty similar to cases in a "real" court I presume then, where they have to be more sure than not they're applying appropriate parts of law for the case in question, taking breaks on occasion to get advice? Judge Rinder cases tend to be more about who broke the vase and who should pay to replace it or "am I liable to pay for the DJ who played crap music" as opposed to more serious matters, but I believe (much like the American Judge Judy) any "you owe him £1500" comes out of the production fund, the matter is closed and you get the honour of having your fizzog on the TV for 20 minutes.

I assume much like Judge Judy, by appearing on Judge Rinder, you have to agree not to take the case any further once the dispute is settled.

Well that goes without saying, surely? Defeats the whole point of having a court system otherwise, you'd have people going "don't like that ruling from Court A, I'll go to Court B and see if they'll give me a better one".

Can't recall at the moment but there is a term/process to agree to/follow to allow a TV courtroom to have legal enforcement which doesn't provide an option to go to another court afterwards, unless the case is dismissed (in the case of Judge Judy) without prejudice, not sure what the UK equivalent of that is.

[thegeek]

A few of note:
- being interviewed by John Nicholson on BBC Breakfast about some sort of student funding issue. They recorded a cover shot of me buying a pint in the union, but rather inconveniently he'd left his wallet back in the office so I had to pay for it myself. They did a live hit the next morning, and some of my parents' friends who saw it assumed I was drinking before the sun was up, never mind over the yardarm.
- appearing on Sky News to express my non-plussedness that I'd be losing Sky channels from my Virgin Media subscription due to a contract dispute. They actually turned up at my flat to record me watching Sky One go black at midnight. Apparently I remained on their system for ages as stock footage of 'person watching cable TV - a colleague spotted me on Five News.
- in a David Attenborough documentary, in my workplace, next to the man himself. For about two seconds.