It's been a crazy hectic schedule: it had to be this way, as the first episode airs on June 5th (sorry, only in the U.K.-- good for Lo whose parents are in the States, bad for Em whose parents are in England). We shot some footage in New York City (the picture above was taken in Times Square) before hopping a plane to London. It's probably best that it's happened so fast, before we've had a chance to really think about what we've gotten ourselves into. talkbackThames has taken very good care of us, and included us in the process, but we're learning that television is a very different beast from books, where we have a lot more control over our image and message (um, yeah, we're control freaks). We pride ourselves on providing a very specific message to our audience--one that's feminist and funny and fair and fairly tame. So we'll see whether these subtleties translate into TV--and, in particular, British TV, where you can show full frontal nudity, male AND female, at 11 p.m. (our time slot). It's all a big leap of faith, one which we ourselves are taking fully clothed (in case that wasn't clear, it's the models who are nekkid). If the footage we've seen so far is any indication, we won't regret it: it's all been very cool, slick and tasteful. Yes, usually "tasteful nude work" is anything but--still, we're confident that's not an oxymoron here.

So if you have friends in the U.K., tell them to Tivo it (or whatever the U.K. equivalent of Tivo is).