With June at an end here’s a quick update on what I’ve been up to, in additional to my usual commitments…
The other day I provided the voiceover narration for two documentary programmes coming soon to the Crime & Investigation Network. They’re UK versions of two Dateline NBC programmes on the phenomenon of “Murder for Hire”, where a disgruntled spouse pays a hitman to “take out” their other half (and I’m not talking about wine and roses, either). The sting in the tail for the people in these programmes is that the people they thought were contract killers actually turned out to be undercover police using secret filming techniques to trap them. The shows feature some amazing footage and are currently slotted for first transmission on Wednesday 29th July and Wednesday 5th August at 9pm (but you’ll find up-to-date billings in my TV schedule here).
This week sees me doing my first voiceover session for London-based Travel Channel International, which I’m very much looking forward to. The Travel Channel have recently expanded their channel line-up, and I’m thrilled to be joining their pool of voice talent as they go from strength to strength.
Meanwhile online networking site, Facebook, recently announced that users would be able to claim “vanity URLs” for their profile pages, and in the last couple of days this has been extended to include what they call (rather confusing, in my opinion) “Facebook Pages” for businesses. They also moved the goalposts and insisted that only Pages with 100 or more “fans” would be able to do this. A big push from my Facebook friends, their friends, and anyone I could find to help on twitter meant I reached the milestone today and can now be found at www.facebook.com/MikeCooperVoiceover in addition to here on my own site. Thanks to everyone that made that possible!
Finally, as we head into July, I hope to have news before too long of new agency representation outside the UK, through which I hope to reach clients in other markets around the world. Watch this space, and if it’s as nice where you are as it is here in London – enjoy the hot weather while it lasts!
