Jo was approached through an agency to appear in a new television series called The Lookalike Show (working title). Granada Television are making the new TV series for the ITV2 channel which will be aired sometime this April.
The show uses celebrity lookalikes to create funny scenes with the general public. They are put into environments that are completely obscure to the real celebrity which results in very funny scenes.
There will be Camila Parker Bowls serving Tea and Coffee at a truckers stop and George Clooney auditioning the general public for his new blockbuster film which is being filmed in Bolton! These are the kind of scenes you can expect to see in this new series.
Jo was asked to appear as Xena and spent the day filming what Xena would do on her day off! Jo was filmed going around an Asda store in Manchester as Xena doing her grocery shopping and bumping into fellow super hero character, Wonder Woman! The 2 heroines are then seen going shopping together in the middle of Manchester amongst other silly sketches. It was a very cold day for filming but a lot of fun!
Further details of the television schedule of when it will be aired will be posted here when known.
*Update* The show was aired in November 2006 on ITV 2
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( 3 / 173 )Last year Jo appeared in a new TV series called "You Know You Want To", a lads mag style show that covers all sorts of cool and crazy past-times.
This particular episode reported on the stunt style "Fight Club" course that Men In Black run for members of the public. It's a fun course giving the participants the experience of learning a choreographed staged fight. Jo was one of the instructors for this course.
This episode was aired August 2005 on ITV South West region. Many thanks to the makers of this footage who kindly gave permission to post it here.
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When Jo was in LA at the beginning of this year she was asked to pose for a promotional poster for a new TV project called " Pop Noir". The project is in the early stages of development and it's gaining a lot of interest from people in the industry.
Synopsis
Pop Noir created by
Jody Newman and Shane Morton
On the night of Johnny Orlando's death, six desperate suspects, each looking for a way out of their current troubling situations, become fatally entangled to each others secrets and lies. What follows is a hilarious skewing of pop culture and the Hollywood lifestyle.
German Supermodel EVA SCHIEBELHUT is in trouble. And it isn't the first time. Following an "unfortunate incident" with her equally famous rock star boyfriend, JOHNNY ORLANDO, Eva is relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi down the winding turns of Laurel Canyon. Not accustomed to being vulnerable, Eva succumbs to her rage and pummels the photographers with her Prada pumps, only to be taken into custody by the police.
Several days later, at the DRAG-ON INN, a West Hollywood Drag Queen Piano Bar, Eva's overworked flamboyant manager AGENT ORANGE, meets up with MITRA CUMMINGS and her lover CORDELIA DARNELL. Mitra is 7 months hysterical pregnant and has a very secret connection to Eva. Cordelia is a British T & A actress whose work visa is about to expire. They make a pact to hide Eva until Agent Orange can repair her damaged reputation and in return Agent Orange will help find Cordelia work that will allow her to stay in the States.
While her agent is arranging the deal, Eva makes a stunning appearance at the Drag-On Inn despite her agent's advice. Every bar patrons is stunned and star struck. Everyone, that is, but ERIK RAMSEY, the bar's owner, who is much more occupied with a mysterious manila envelope that arrived for him in the mail that day. An envelope, whose contents he will share with no one, not even CONNER WOLFE, the young UCLA Mormon music student and piano player for the bar. Conner has problems of his own. He may have to pose nude just to pay for his last semester of college. Unaware of the problems of Eric and Conner, Agent Orange closes the deal and Eva leaves the bar to go into hiding.
The day the world finds out that Johnny is missing, Eva learns of another harrowing event: Britney Spears has renewed her vows and stolen Eva's tabloid press! Eva decides to come out of hiding, she has a plan to help Cordelia and save her reputation as a tabloid goddess. A wedding charity fashion event! She'll launch a Britney-inspired trailer park wedding line, while secretly marrying Cordelia to an American. Mitra too will wed in an attempt to throw off the INS. All they need are the grooms.
Later that night, at the Drag-On Inn, Eric, who is embroiled in an Anna Nicole like court case, discovers he is on the brink of bankruptcy. Conner is depressed over having to become a porn
star. Eva has found her grooms. Now all she has to do is make it impossible for them to say no. Who better to marry two lesbians than two gay men.
Meanwhile, the murdered body of Johnny Orlando is discovered somewhere off of Coldwater Canyon. Who killed Johnny Orlando? Well, in this satire of Film Noir's and Tabloid trash, everyone's a suspect. It's just the 'In' thing to be!
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Jo played the lead character "Zach" in this action/adventure tv pilot.
No Bounds Productions had their first promotional stand at the Annual Xena Convention in Burbank, California. With No Bounds now in postproduction, the stand gave people the opportunity to sample what's to come! With a trailer especially produced for the weekend, and promotional postcards to hand out, the interest was encouraging. With Jo (Zach) and Beth (Gillian) in attendance over the weekend, this gave attendee's of the Xena convention a chance to find out more about the production. The official website will be updated with the latest news and up and coming events.
Photo kindly supplied by Aleida Santiago
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