JOHN BARROWMAN and DAVID TENNANT at San Diego Comic Con!!!

[lv2bliberal]

Officially announced this morning! Although, I already knew John would be there...hearing David and Russell T. Davies will be there is just the icing on the cake. Also, Russell Tovey for the BEING HUMAN panel and Noel Fielding for THE MIGHTY BOOSH  panel. It just doesn't get any better than this!...well...OK...having Gareth there too would make it

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[fairyd123]

I'm pleased for you. He'll probably be foolish enough to do a signing stint for Holzheimers while he's there so maybe you'll get your Torchsong stuff signed belatedly.

[lv2bliberal]

Oh, I'll guarantee he'll be at the Holzheimer's booth signing. According to Mary Lee, they have first right of refusal for his appearances. Something to the effect that BBCA has to ask THEM for permission to use him. Obviously, John has signed some kind of contract with them. Whatever.

Yeah, I'll be taking all the stuff I packed for TorchSong, so we'll see what kind of "deal," if any, they'll be offering to us TS attendees.

[fairyd123]

No way in hell does BBCA have to ask Holzheimers for permission to use him at a publicity event. It just does not work that way. Mary Lee is talking bollocks. If very big tv company connected with the company to which JB is contracted wants JB at event then they get him at the event - noone has to ask the silly little autograph dealer first

[lv2bliberal]

Well, I can tell you this...Last year I asked at the BBCA booth WHY John wasn't signing there instead of at Holzheimers small booth near the back of the venue. They told me that John had signed with Holzheimer's and they couldn't have him. Personally, I found many ways his appearance in the Holzheimer's booth could have been improved upon last year and have actually spoken with Mary Lee about them, but she said that Comic Con puts so many restrictions on them that she wouldn't be able to implement most of them

[fairyd123]

Appearing at a publicity event like the BBCA Torchwood panel and signing at a publicity event are entirely different things. So yeah I can very easily see John having done the Torchwood panel at SDCC as part of his contractual publicity requirements with the BBC but having agreed separately to do a signing for a fee with Holzheimers. I mean I note this year that neither the Torchwood or Who cast are signing for BBCA which means if they are signing at all it will be a signing appearance for a fee at one of the commercial booths. Not quite the same thing as the BBC not being able to have him appear without Mary Lee's permission!! I'm sure she was just bigging herself up

[lv2bliberal]

Well, it was all the same handlers at TorchSong as at Comic Con last year, so it seems they've mellowed a bit. At least now they'll likely recognize some of us and be a little more friendly than when we first met them at Comic Con last summer.

Know what you mean about the registration line for the cocktail party. When the schedule first came out I think several of us told them it had disaster written all over it, but...what can you do? I hear they are definitely going to put on the event again next year, so it's likely the same mistakes won't be made. :-) We can only hope.

[fairyd123]

Well assuming that they still have a business next year! Most people I know are putting in credit card disputes against them and I'll probably have to (although I'd prefer not too) if they don't refund the extra photo shoot money. I did think the event was quite poorly organised and that they would have struggled desperately if John had been there - it was just one long queue after another. Personally I'd prefer it that John didn't go near them again - I know lots of people have written to Gavin about how awful the organisers were to them.I didn't have huge issues with the event itself - just how incredibly rude and uncommunicative Mary Lee and Jonathan especially were. And failure to listen doesn't bode well...