I really enjoyed this London Expo as the free talks really made all the difference for me which meant I stayed far longer than I thought I would. Although to be honest, we didn't manage to get our Eliza and Shawn autographs until fairly late as we were just over ticket number 500 so it's not like we would have left early!

The last Expo I attended was early 2003 and layout was no different - you walk into what looks like the inside of an aircraft hanger with all the stands spread out all over the place. At least this time you walked straight in to the shiny tv and film cars from Knightrider (Kitt), Back to the Future, Starsky & Hutch, Dukes of Hazard (General Lee), and James Bond.

On this occassion the signing tables were evenly spread around the hall. I don't think there were any big queues happening but with only a handle of guests ( Eliza Dushku, Shawn Reeves and Amber Benson) operating a virtual queue system it was hard to tell as people mingled around the dealers tables or watched the talks.

The guest tables were seated as follows

Eliza Dushku (Buffy/Tru Calling) and Shawn Reeves (Tru Calling)
Amber Benson (Buffy)
Tom Braidwood, Bruce Harwood, Dean Haglund (The 3 Lonegunmen) and Gary Jones (SG1)
Colin Salmon (Resident Evil/James Bond)
Edward Furlong (T2), Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters), Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster)
Jennifer Lien (Voyager), Carolyn Seymour (Star Trek) and Robert O'Reilly (Star Trek)
Maryam D'Arbo (JB Living Daylights), Michael Billington (JB Spy Who Loved Me), Caroline Munro (JB Spy Who Loved Me)

Colin Salmon was only doing Saturday. Today, there would have been the added bonus of Melissa George (Alias) and Claudia Christian (Babylon 5) but luckily I've met both the lovely ladies before.

The talks done by Ernie, Gary, Dean, Tom and Bruce that I saw were fantastic and the ticket entry for them was worth it all alone. I may have to consider fast track for next year

Hello to everyone I managed to bump into, and sorry to those I missed. Certainly I'll be looking forward to the next one a whole lot more.

Glad you had a good time.
My plan to get out of my family commitment went horribly wrong as I accidentally got drunk and was in no state to drive home on Saturday.
I can't believe I missed it!

So did Eliza and Shawn say anything about Tru Calling being cancelled at all?

so who else thought that amber benson was like one of the best guests........

she took time to talk to everyone, she remembered names, she stayed signing until like 6.00, she did a talk, i was just amazed at how nice and genuine and friendly she was.....

i think most of the guests were pretty great, they were all ok with getting photos and stuff.........

only thing that i didnt like was that i couldnt get my wrong turn poster personalised, cos by the time i got too eliza she was only signing......

anyway amber benson is my new favourite convention guest, i was tempted to go back on sunday to see her again, but too many bags to carry

all in all had a great day, even though i had to stay til like 6.00 to get my photos, and im well pleased that ive met eliza dushku and amber benson......

Amber has always been my fave as well, since N3K as my profile pic will attest

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by Whistler
So did Eliza and Shawn say anything about Tru Calling being cancelled at all?

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I spoke a little to Shawn as his queue wasn't too bad when I got there, being the last batch of tickets. All he could say was that it depended at this stage on the fans. I mentioned that by the time most good things get going over here, unfortunately they are normally well on the way to being finished in the states.

I don't think many ladies were taken by the alice band he was wearing. When you are a man is not cool at all - I really wished I'd asked if he was growing his hair for a reason!

The Lonegunmen had a similar demise as the ratings in the US weren't deemed good enough, yet the UK seemed to enjoy the show.

The general feeling seems to be that reality shows have caused the latest batch of decent shows being cancelled as they are easy to manufacture without much cost.

Dean Haglund it seems is now a bit of an inventor. Recently he had published a comic book of behind the scenes stuff from the X-files that he produced the drawings and writing for (more on that later when I've read it ) Now with short hair (his cut-off long hair is now in a bag) one of his best jokes was that a trading card company tried to offer to put locks of his hair in a costume card type thing. He was saying like "yeah, I can imagine it now, people breaking the card open and leaving locks at crime scenes and me getting calls saying that I'm wanted for murder ... again".

The Lonegunmen series is going to be released on dvd early next year (I assume this will be R1 initially)

There are rumours of another X-Files movie taking place. If it goes ahead the storyline is likely to be darker than the Home episode (for those who remember this was the one about inbreeding with the ugly mutated mountain men)

Ernie Hudson was asked on several occassions if Ghostbusters 3 would take place and hinted that only Bill Murray was the one holding up the possibility of the original four characters taking part. Ernie himself is going to be working on a show aptly entitled "The Ernie Hudson Show"

I noticed Amber was signing well up to 6pm, I'm not sure if it's true though that she had only reached ticket numbers in their 300s !!

There was a guest at CM6-MK who was just as slow. In some respects it would be nicer to hand out batches of tickets throughout a day and be guaranteed for an autograph that day rather than wondering how fast or slow, or whether at all your ticket number will come up.

(Edited by Samphirette 19/10/2004 00:03)

Hey does anyone have the eliza talk recorded, cos I didnt go on sunday so didnt know, if anyone does and would be willing to make a copy, i'd pay, please email me if you have.....

Thanks

Helen

email> angel_luva_uk@hotmail.com