Here’s the trailer for the new episode of Vultures. We inadvertantly took a mid series break on the show as the summer ended up. That’s network talk for getting waylaid by all other kinds of summery noises and distractions. But now we’re back on foot to finish off the second series of the detective webcom we’ve been intermittently peddling since 2007!
The new episode is called Jim Vultour and The Mystery Writer Writing Mystery and sees us finally realising our ambition of shooting one episode entirely in a car. The story focuses on Jim Vultour’s attempt to stakeout a new character, crime writer Kate Marple, who he suspects of plagiarising his burgeoning detective literary attempts. So it’s a little bit of cat and mouse, and a lot of sitting in a car drinking tea. The episode was written by myself and directed by our acting/directing rogue Pete McGann. The trailer sees us continuing from episode two’s Ghostbusters dissection with the detectives asking who they would be in famous quartets. If it was The Beatles, Jack Street is definitely Pete Best.
We’re currently editing this episode and the fourth episode (no surprises, it’s Dan McGrain) and we’re also prepping for a new Christmas episode, which will round off this series of Vultures. There is still a chance that we’ll get flashbacks to how toe freezingly cold it was shooting the first Christmas episode (I wore three pairs of socks with my sandals) and throw in the towel.
Jim Vultour and The Mystery Writer Writing Mystery will go online at the end of September.
Photo by Ross Costigan. Or Compo if he was in The Last Of The Summer Wine.
