Despite his initial excitement at the role, it was nothing compared to the first read-through when he came face to face with Anthony Head, star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
“We were sort of gathered in this church in West London and I turned up and just sort of saw the faces of the people involved, one of which was Anthony Head,” James says.
“Now I’d been a Buffy fan and when I saw him, my jaw dropped. And I said to someone, ‘What the hell is he doing here?’ And they said, ‘He’s playing your dad.’ It was unbelievable. I kind of went up and said something stupid like, ‘By the way, I’m going to tell you this now, I’m a Buffy fan so the first few things I say to you are going to be complete nonsense’.”
The BBC commissioned a second season of the show after the first aired in the UK last year to an average audience of over six million.
Falling into the category of television that the whole family can enjoy together, much like Robin Hood, which airs on the ABC, it comes as a surprise that we won’t be watching this show on Aunty.
“I know Australian television quite well, and, yeah, the ABC in a way is more like the BBC so it’s interesting that Ten has picked it up,” Capps says. “I think Network Ten realises, in this commercial world, you have to appeal to a younger audience as well as the older audience, because they’re your future viewers.”
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