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My buddies were to appear on SM:TV a kids Saturday morning show. Their manager negotiated £600 a minute per band member whenever they were on screen. They were due to play a 3 minute song and then the singer would be on a panel for a quiz for 4 minutes. The whole band spent most of the show appearing in frame in the background. It was the biggest payday of their career, the bassist put a deposit on a house after that
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I was a waiter at the 40th birthday party for the producer of that show. And or Dec, no idea which is which, fell asleep in the sun during the day and had a beetroot face and was semi delusional, Judy from Richard & Judy was so shitfaced she opened the cage lift about two feet too early and fell face first into the foyer (Andy Peters helped me get her into a chair), Philip Schofield arrived in a helicopter too pissed to speak and in the morning I saw Cat Deeley stark naked when the birthday boy (her boyfriend) let me into their room without her knowing to deliver a tray of breakfast, and gave me £50 for the privilege
mrJL
I remember hearing that for shows where you have cash they have to use real cash due to counterfeiting laws. There was some Stephen Fry experiment thing where they saw what people would do if they found a bag of cash.
It gave me the idea of a heighst movie where an aging faded producer was struggling to finance their film and robs a TV show with the help of a talented, but under appreciated/estimated runner.
Lock-Stock with loveies set in Soho.