J.K. Rowling to Appear on Jonathan Ross, Today Show
J.K. Rowling
While we are still pondering over the third and final WOMBAT which now available on JKRowling.com (yes yes the third time is the charm, as the door is FINALLY OPEN, so go take that test now!) there is some additional news about Jo this morning. NBC's The Today Show announced they will be airing a three part interview with our favorite author, with the interview segments to air Thursday, July 26 and Friday, July 27 and on "Dateline," Sunday, July 29. The press release on this states that this interview "will explore the Harry Potter phenomenon, including Rowling's notable impact on literacy, her readers, on the publishing industry, and the inspiration she has given young writers." NBC also says this interview, scheduled to take place in Edinburgh, Scotland will be " the first time she will talk about the worldwide reaction to the final Harry Potter volume and the much anticipated and guessed-about Potter finale, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." TLC will be sure to capture this video and post as soon as we can, so stay tuned!
Also Jo will be a guest on the Friday Night with Jonathan Ross program, which will air Friday 6 July at 10.35pm on BBC One. Anyone who can capture this video interview, please send it in!
Update: As a reminder of what we told you last month, Jo will also be a guest on the Blue Peter children's show, which is running a contest to attend the taping of this program. If you have not entered yet, submissions are due by June 15. The show, which is being taped July 5, will be broadcast on July 20 on the BBC.
Thanks blanch and muttley!
*flail* Oh I think I just nearly had a heart attack. I can't wait to see Jo on the Jonathon Ross show! ♥ Does anyone know a way to get VHS material to the internet? Because I'll definitely be recording this programme [and have a lot of other HP stuff!] on video =P
There is a 3rd TV appearance for Jo: BBC One's The Blue Peter show. Here is more: http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=3&id=925462007
OOOOO this is very exciting. The Jonathan Roos. I am a major fan - can hardly wait.....
yay! JKR on Jonathan Ross. That's my fave talk show, I record it to hard disk every week. So I guess I can process it and get it to Leaky by early Sat morning (US time).
Jonathan is fantastic with guests. He tries to get them off guard, sometimes by embarrassing them and very often by being extremely politically incorrect.
Only the peole who take themelves a bit too seriously get put off by him. Others love him. I'm sure Jo will be just fine. And besides, he's a bit of a geek when it comes to "childrens' books" He's a huge fan of 1950's sci-fi 'B' movies as well as Dr Who and other TV series.
He's interviewed Dan Radcliffe, Helena Bonham-carter and others in the last couple of months, so he must have a good idea of the books.
This is going to be great !
Jonathan Ross highly rates the Harry Potter films. His verdict of GoF was extremely good and looks forward to taking his children to see Order of the Pheonix. He is a real motor mouth though - extrememly funny and as Kidas says, rather un-pc at times! Look forward to see how JK will react to him - but to be fair, Jonathan is also a very good judge of who he interviews. he knows when to be respectful and when he can get away with taking the mick out his guests!!
I am looking forward to this with great anticipation already! July can't come soon enough!
Thanks everyone! I just took the WOMBAT!
LaQuesha
Jonathan Ross is a chat show but not in the normal 'we-take-ourselves-seriously' format. He's a very funny man and is good at getting humour out of people. His chat show is probably the biggest on UK TV and attracts major stars including Hollywood, sports stars etc. It is very un-pc, hence the time of night it's scheduled.
How do you get a student identification code to take the WOMBAT? Please forgive my ignorance.
schmitty, you were suppose to have gotten it the when you took the first WOMBAT test.
schmitty
you don't need student ID to take the test. they ask you if you have one from the other ones, and you just say no and continue on with the test. you get your student ID after you summit the test. keep that one for the result.
Mmmm... due to the fact that I'll be probably still too busy reading the book(s), I don't think I'll see those interviews untill very later. Good thing they'll be captured and saved here :). I'm looking forward to seeing them :)
The Jonathan Ross Show is a pre-taped interview show, in which he often flirts relentlessly with his guests. This should be very amusing. Jonathan Ross is usually a more fun interviewer, so we'll probably see a side of Jo that we haven't seen yet in interview, which will be nice. What would really rock is a Parkinson interview. That man has this weird ability to make people divulge incredible things about themselves.
Its cool the today show is doing Harry Potter trivia too! Apparently you can go to the website todayshow.com and answer questions and whatnot. Of course since my only internet access is on my blackberry I can't access the regular site to do that stuff myself! Argh! Check it out for me please?!
Did anyone else see David Yates on Blue Peter today? It wasn't very long but he seemed really nice. I only say it because I was watching Who Peter beforehand!
