UK TV Tonight - Porn Shutdown - last years HIV scare addressed
 

I thought some people might be interested in knowing that Channel 4 in the UK is doing a show tonight on last year's HIV chaos in the industry.

Porn Shutdown
Monday 25 April, 11.05pm

When porn actor Darren James was diagnosed HIV Positive in early 2004, the American porn industry ground to a halt as a 60-day shutdown was declared. Porn Shutdown is a candid and heart-rending film about a time of panic and recrimination in an isolated community.


It is part of a series of shows all week on the channel called 'The Dark Side Of Porn'

Should be interesting and hope that it covers issues on both sides of the Atlantic.

Tomorrow night
 

Sahara is featuring in the series on 26th April at 11.05pm on Ch 4 and my ugly mug is in it for second or two...

Also she was in the UK magazine Closer last week and there is a two page story on her today (25th) in the Sun....

I can imagine that their angle on this will be just highly critical.

not sure..channel 4 has been good to us lately

About tomorrow night
 

As I was around for 99% of the filming with Sahara I can tell you that the programme called "Diary of a Porn Virgin" just follows her as she started out in the biz full time. The filming was done between Sep and Nov 2004.

It isn't anti porn at all... There will be some funny moments, but my funny part is missing. I met Sahara at Gatwick after she did a trip to Portugal. The camera was filming us talking on the train back to London, over my shoulder pointing at Sahara. In the middle of it a middle aged woman came up and asked me for my autograph as she thought she'd seen me on tv... It took a lot to convinve her that it wasn't me being filmed and the cameraman cracked up.. But they had to cut that out as it didn't really fit in..

Excellent - hope you're right about it not being too anti porn Joe.

In one write up I read, it started "In the first of a series about the Dark Side of Porn (Is there a light side?)".

I hope the overall message in this series isn't as one sided as it seemed to be in the article I read.

Let me know if u see me in it-
I did so much press in the UK I forget all the stuff when it actually airs-

I wondered if you guys were in this one or not..two hours to go..will let you know

KBizzle
 

You won't be in tomorrow night programme as it is about new models to the UK porn industry and it follows them around their work, that's why it's called "Diary Of A Porn Virgin" :) Sahara was given a dv cam to record her little diary, and from what I gather her part ends with her saying that we don't work together any more... But that was filmed last Nov. when we'd had a little row ...

Good stuff, I'll make sure to catch it man

about to start :)

fyi..do not watch 'Pornography the Musical' that is on afterwards. It is a repeat and it was crap the first time.

dugmor..first GFYer

Yep he was on...

I did a huge piece for BBC as well that featured Rick Saloman - Did that ever air?

It was supposed to air in March

for the BBC? There was one that aired on channel 4 that I posted about here and you guys were in it a good deal. If it was in the BBC I don't think that played yet.

yea to date we did two specials for Tobey Dye at Making Time Television and they were for Channel 4 London.

I know one aired recently where I had to watch old British porn from the 60's and 70's and make fun of it.


This other special was a huge piece on Rick Saloman and it was filmed in a dope house in Beverly Hills with a porn star in the pool frolicking ( Teagan)

unless it ran when I was on my trip to the Pheonix Forum then there hasn't been anything on the BBC. The one where you were making fun of old porn was the last one I saw you both on.

It was good documentary...

BP4L on UK National TV! :1orglaugh

Shit & shit again

I missed it, was busy watching the Arsenal match.