Pat Huba has long been the unofficial REG Temple "merchandiser" for some time now, creating postcards, fan club membership cards, calendars, collages and various bits and pieces for other REG fans, using her vast array of graphics programs.

Pat is also the prime instigator behind the popular "Birthday Books", in which either a web-based or a real (hold-in-the-hand) book is presented to REG by the fans to celebrate his birthday on May 5th. It’s usually Pat who collects, collates and designs the books to be presented, and we at the Temple are very grateful to her for spending the time in doing that each year. For those of you want to have a look at the Birthday Books, just click the links on the menu bar.

In 2003 the REG Temple opened up the official REG Temple online store, but Pat still keeps us supplied with her latest creations. To see more of Pat’s artwork just click on the links.

Trial And Retribution III sketch by Pat Huba.

Calendar Pages

Magazine Covers

Collages

Other Stuff

The Official REG Temple Online Store is now open! The product range isn’t huge just yet but that will soon change. What IS available at the moment though are REG Temple T-shirts, sweatshirts, caps, mousepads, postcards, greeting cards and lunchboxes.

I still have to do a bit of “fiddling about” with some of the designs as I fine tune things and add new products. This shouldn’t really affect people too much though.

Keep in mind that almost all of the profits from the sale of items in the store go towards bursary funds for the Waterford-Kamhlaba school in Swaziland – Richard’s main charity. To read more about Waterford, just click here.

To check out the store, just click on the “Fan Stuff/REGiment” button below.

Denise informs me that Gosford Park is being shown on Sky Premiere at 8pm next Sunday

Sky Premiere is part of movie package and therefore ‘free’ to most subscribers (as opposed to Box Office which is pay to view).

Finally, I’ve just been sent a bunch of REG articles that I’ll type up and scan some time soonish. Thanks to Pat for sending me those.

Tuesday 22nd July, 2003

Screen On The Green – Islington, London

Exclusive Temple Report Number 5 – 21st July, 2003

Testing…One, Two

Richard talks about Game shows, voiceovers & Dr. Who

By Richard E. Grant

I have just recorded an episode of Q.I. Hosted by Stephen Fry and Alan Davies for ITV which gets aired this autumn.

An highly enjoyable show recorded in front of a live audience and involving Stephen Fry asking ‘quite interesting’ but totally obscure questions that each contestant is free to press their buzzers to answer.

The result is a mixture of conjecture, general knowledge and surreal invention on the part of the contestants. Fry is such a generous and funny host, that you are guaranteed a good time of it and each episode features new guests, with comic Alan Davies acting as Fry’s stooge or fall guy.

Dr. Who? – I am probably one of four people on the planet who has never seen Dr. Who as I grew up in a country that did not have television. Tom Baker is the actor who is most frequently quoted to me as being the definitive doctor.

The advantage of doing a voice-over for a cartoon, or reading an audio book, is the speed of it all. Dr Who took four days to record which is a nano-second in relation to how long it takes to complete the animation process. It requires no costume, make-up, special effects, script learning or lighting requirements of the actor, as you simply show up, get plonked in front of a microphone and given the green light to start recording. So it is a much less time consuming, easy going atmosphere than filming or doing a play in the theatre.

Plus you get to work with a great bunch of actors, in this case Sir Derek Jacobi, whom I knew from Gosford Park, and Diana Quick.

However, unlike any other animation voice-over I’ve ever done or audio book recorded, there were journalists and Who aficionado’s around every day doing interviews with the cast , writer and director and asking the kind of detailed questions that I couldn’t answer, being a Dr Who ignoramus.

From the experience of recording the scripts, I concluded that  this Dr. Who is essentially an intergalactic “Sherlock Holmes” figure. It will now be up to the audience for this animated cartoon version to decide whether a cartoon cuts the mustard.

I have been offered convention autograph signing days already and declined on the grounds that as I am not playing Dr Who in a film or tv version, I don’t honestly feel I’ve earned the right to do so, having just done the voice for this incarnation.

That’s it from me.

Cheers
reg

Testing…One, Two

I am probably one of four people on the planet who has never seen Dr. Who as I grew up in a country that did not have television.

Yup! It’s been a while, and we at the Temple apologise for that, but the latest installment of REG’s “Exclusive Temple Reports” is now up on the site for all to read. In it he talks about game shows, voiceovers and, of course, Doctor Who! You can read all about it here.