Mamma Mia! Doris is still away from the drama Shades Of Bad, at now the ABBA Museum in Stockholm.

Doris is still celebrating, well, she never stops! Her husband left her and things have gone on just dandy in the last year as the drama series Shades Of Bad has unfolded and she has accidentally become a serial killer. Well, as she says, "she is a woman and a woman has needs - revenge is amongst them." But that is another story.

Now, celebrating a year of the drama series and numerous awards, she has taken the crew away with her on a cruise of the Baltic Sea, and the second stop is Stockholm; famous for Abba, Ikea and Noble.

You may have seen her films of the Denmark stop looking out to the night sky with a G&T.
Doris is watched and followed more than by just the crooks and villains in her series, Doris Visits film of the Great Belt Bridge is trending!
Click here if you missed it.

Doris has landed in Sweden, which is another collection of islands in the Baltic Sea. The medieval town of Stockholm is a collection of 14 islands. Stockholm Old Town which she walks round, offers many photographic opportunities, but her film will quickly orientate you, take you round the best of the Old Town then over to another island and Tivoli and ... yes, Abba.
Click here for the Stockholm film.


Doris also visits the Abba Museum which is a must. The top place in chic nostalgia that will just whoosh you back in time.
The Abba Museum is living history retold in an interactive magazine where all is possible including cutting a record and appearing on stage as one of them. Seriously take the tour!

Watch the Doris Visits Abba Museum film - click here.

The changing of the guards at the Royal Palace, which is on most tourist rosters to visit, takes place at mid day. 

It is a far more somber affair than the Abba museum but is a big plus to many, so we cut that into a separate film. which can be enjoyed here. Click here for the Changing Of The Guards.

If you like Royal matters Doris Visits has a Buckingham Palace film in the London section and a Royal Yacht Britannia in the Edinburgh section.

Finally, we have to include a stop on the way at the Tall Ships festival in Kiel. There, Doris lost it.... take 2! Click here for the Kiel Tall Ships Festival film.

More to come, the Baltic is a huge place that deserves time. Doris is off to Tallinn in Estonia.... follow the Daily Motion Doris Visits channel... next week we are back to filming the drama ... another killing!

The Great Belt Bridge in Denmark, the Cruise ship Arcadia sails under i

Doris is away from the series though it is still going out weekly. The travel show spin off is in the Baltic Sea this week.

Five big big stars for Jarrad and the Copenhagen Free City Walks ... more about that later ... but...

Denmark was the first of our cruise stops when off to the Baltic, and going under a bridge when you are in a ship that is the size of a small town is impressive. 

Here is The Great Belt Bridge, it is worth a watch even if you are not a fan of bridges. 

Click here.


The Baltic Sea was like a mirror, calm and the ship never rocked. With many stops along the way we have films in the edit to last weeks, but our first stop was Copenhagen. Here are the films.

The Little Mermaid is a well known Disney film, but how many people have read the dark disturbing book which is nothing like the film. Not many we guess. 

The statue of the Little Mermaid is a huge tourist attraction in Copenhagen, but as the tourists flock to have their picture taken by the statue they are often looking at themselves and not noticing that the Little Mermaid is not smiling, no, far from it.

We walked to the statue, then to the Royal Palace then found 'probably' the best cheesecake in the world... here is where ....        Click here.


One of the great thing about Copenhagen is the free city walks. They are fantastic. It is a collective of guides and the walks are all clearly listed on there web site. Click here for their web site.

The rain shower passed and the walk was mainly in the sunshine, I try and repeat just a portion of what is on offer, but Jarrad was fast and funny and informative and had time for everyone.

So, Denmark is famous for beer .... and we never had time to stop and have one. But, the guys also have a free evening pub crawl which I can imagine is a scream.

Click here for a glimpse of the tour.

Keep an eye out for the other DORIS VISITS films on the Baltic cruise ... there will be many.

11. Old Movie Stars, New Web Stars, Rio Olympics and Doris takes over the world in SHADES OF BAD 2016

Old stars and news stars, Rio Olympics... .... read on...

Episode 29 went up in December, a little early and we sighed relief.... but we loaded the wrong one. To be fair Buster is doing it while working nearly 16 hour days on a feature film so he can be excused and as we pulled Lynn who plays Wilma away from her Christmas Stage Show to film the left hand angles of our Christmas card, she watched the newly posted episode 29 in her car on the way to the shoot and said .... 'there's no music!'

Shades Of Bad is certainly credited for the full score and the title music and that is down to Mark Blackledge a long time collaborator. We first met when I was to shoot a musical version of Macbeth which started and had the art and production teams working in Liverpool, then stopped when the tax financier found a deal he could trust a little bit more. We went on to shoot Devil's Gate and have since done a few projects including the Status Quo rock film Bula Quo. So, whilst I love getting composers reels it is unlikely I will change. Mark is a genius. Seen here Bula Quo stars Jon Lovitz and my real life daughter Laura Aikman. Great behind the scenes material on YouTube playlist on the Shades Of Bad Channel all worth watching!  That is also meant to be done as a web series, we just need time.

Episode 29 is loaded with music..... Episode 32 is now up with James Whale, Christmas is behind us.

So the left hand side of the christmas greeting is shot, see the picture !  The right hand side of our Shades Of Bad Christmas card gets shot next week which is the only day our new star can join us. He will stand between Doris (played by Jean Heard) and Elsie (played by Donna Flinn). But we won't have Reg and Wilma. He is tall and dark and we can now reveal having shot 5 episodes with him, and he is great, that it is Derek Redmond.

His episodes will be out just before the Rio Olympics.... I can see availability challenging us next year, but it will be worth it. The Christmas card will be out about the 16th so watch out Idris, we have discovered a developing talent from a well known world sports star. I will alter this blog when the film goes live and the secret is released ... this is going to be a fun start to 2016. I can now report, our Idris was unwell and did not make the shoot, so we changed the script and shot it with the invisible man... you will get to see him next year.

The run up to Christmas has been great, with Doris having a great idea in episode 27, pick it up there and run with it to Christmas. She has started a 'service' for the elderly, to ensure their sexual needs are met, and calls a radio station. I play the DJ, but a real DJ joins us in episode 32, which reminds me I have an interview to cut to go with that. James Whale, the James Whale plays Detective Inspector James Whale and comes to arrest someone, well you will see on Boxing Day. James and I were both on the same radio station in 1978, Metro Radio in Newcastle. I was then transferred to take over Steve Wright's show at Orwell when he went to Radio 1, where I had come from a year earlier but never got off the bench ... long story.

We have been re-editing in the edit suit, we have cut episodes 1 to 5 together, and 5 to 10 together, and at just over 10 minutes each they make a perfect ITV ? Commercial TV half hour and we have 150 minutes shot (not all edited) and the rest where Doris does take over the world is shooting next. All good attacks on the world are sauced from a kitchen!!!  As well, Shades Of Bad has travel films in the edit, you must see the one on the beautiful island of Bequia and share it, this island is wonderful. There are series episodes in the edit, Behind The Scenes and the Christmas Card. Plus we have old movies to revisit and recut as web series, so please subscribe to our YOUTUBE channel if you do nothing else today. But, I see our first pressure hitting home hard next year as I have to go skiing, and that means more travel films!

If you are wondering what to get someone for Christmas as a little stocking filler, there is still time to get the Shades OF Bad book, WHO DIES TODAY from Amazon.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from me, Stuart St Paul, and the cast and other two crew members.... click here for our Christmas message film....

Check out our Christmas blog

10. The Travel Show rises from the sea with a bottled beer in hand.

AS Episode 27 of the Shades Of Bad dark comedy web series goes up this week, we cranked our output up, not as much as we would like, but on top of the episode, we loaded 5 travel films and set up the associated twitter account and also linked it to films we have already up on one of our feature film sites, Bula Quo.

The five places we have cover are Barbados where Doris had an overnight and went to Fish Night at Oistins, the beautiful Island of Bequia, Antigua, Port Canaveral where she walked down through Jetty Park and along to Cocoa Beach and Miami which could have done with 2 days.

So we are definitely not on the balcony watching the sun go down drinking a Banks Beer, we are back in cold, very cold north west London, in the edit suit working things through.

We hope to get at least twenty new travel films up in 2016, maybe one on Fiji from the Bula Quo shoot and we need to look at the footage we did in Norway and Barcelona when we shot Doris episodes of Shades Of Bad there. The other cast, who are left in her kitchen will be shooting their portions of episodes 43 to 51 (Norway) and 58ish (Barcelona) before and after Christmas and in bits as cast have duties and pantos. However we are having a Christmas break and then going to the Three Valleys where yes, we will shoot the ski resorts with Doris before going back to the Carribean to do three more islands in March. Also next year we have a Denmark / Russia cruise then will get to do the Canary Islands and also have a few days in Dubai. It sounds glamorous, but it is all about the output and we do not hover. See the promo.

If you have not caught up with Shades of Bad you might like to look at our first proper compilation of season 1, where Doris just recounts her best bits. We used to make these all the time when I was at Emmerdale, Emmerdales best Weddings, best punches, best whatever. The secret is having the product to do it because compilations are often as popular as the shows them selves. Take a look at Doris reflecting back on Season 1 of Shades Of Bad.


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Enjoy Shades, and if you wish to start from Episode 1 and binge watch, two tips, hit the next button as it ends to jump forward and ship titles. And when it asks for a payment for number 9, just go to the season 1 playlist and find it listed there.  The very first episode is here, and we have been in the charts every week since, so thanks for your support.

PS - The ASK DORIS spin off is also still on the table, it is just time and Christmas.....

9. Doris Travels, the new spin off travel show as the girl goes as a girl does!

Hi all, and just to make you envious I am writing from my balcony in Barbados with a Banks beer.  But as you can see I am working, or have stopped working to blog. Shades Of Bad the web series is quite an experiment. Those of you who who have read blog and articles from our website will know that I spent 26 years on a UK broadcast soap, and have a creep of directing both movie and second unit on major hollywood movies, so enough was enough, the world and viewing habits were changing and I decided to go alone. I started Shades Of Bad for actress Jean Heard at her suggestion. The show was then my idea and the content shocked her to the core, but there is no point in not being more edgy and more political when on the web.

So, why am I working in Barbados and what am I doing apart from the age old adage of rumours of the director and lead actress sharing a room are exaggerated. I have just finished editing 7 films and my portable hard drive is out of space, so hence the blog. We have been away travelling and have made seven travel films, one on Bequia (near Mystique), one on Miami, one on Cocoa beach Canaveral, another is on Antigua, this one on Barbados and my favourite was Key West a place I have always wanted to stop at. (films will go up end November and links will appear then)

Here is the logic and why the plan. Consider marketing can be looked at as speculative selling, selling

something people did not want or did not know they wanted, and the second selling something they do want or need. The drama series Shades Of Bad falls into the first. No one is looking for a web series. Looking seriously at the figures sport is worth 75 billion, the gaming industry 45 billion and the complete TV output is a poor third at around 30 billion. Drama is a proportion of the output along with the game shows, documentaries and entertainment shows. Travel shows however are a tool for the traveller and along with cookery shows still strike high.

So, the series Shades Of Bad we knew would be hard to market, and we needed content to be there. So now with 26 episode up as of mid November, and 42 finished, Doris could take a break. She even did a season one reflective compilation before we left which is an excellent catch up show.
She can take a break especially as her filming for episodes 43 to 47 is all done and dusted and was shot last year when we travelled to Norway. We may well cut a Norway film together and voice over it and add it to the travel shows. So in the drama Doris has been head hunted by a villain who you will meet in the spring, been sent abroad to collect a package; Norway. They can carry on without her and she can now start the travel shows as 'Doris Visits', which will have a market we have a small foothold in for other reasons. 'Doris Visits' will be available from end November 2015 with links to the drama and she will make references to it, as she is that character.

Similarly we could cut a travel show with the Fiji footage from when we shot their with Status Quo.

The logic here is the cross platform use that I have been used to for years. As you may know I madeThe Krays and Bula Quo with music stars, just as TV actors I have worked with, like Robson Green have fishing shows etc.... Once a character is established they can, because the public know them, share things with them. That is the logic, so the web opens up doors to allow us to create those and in three years from July 2015 when we started, we aim to have up and live over 100 episodes in their short form, have re-editied then to 11 minute mega cuts (which are then a half hour TV length joining two together, ITV is currently 21 minutes 30 seconds per half hour). We aim to have about 60 travel films and some others on 'How To'.  Then there is the book, WHO DIE TODAY which is out now and covers the first 40 episodes. I was to start writing the book for Freight while I have been away but I have been too busy. My work as an author is always pushed back and I have a new movie in prep when I get home.


The logistics work load and investment is huge but that will be a TV channel. If we have time we will cut some of our movies and the behind the scenes materials into other playlists. It is an interesting time to see how content works. We have yet to really get started with Maker Studios which is the Disney label we have signed to so the workload is endless.

So, the travel connection. I started my career as a broadcaster and radio DJ so have always presented and spoken at events. When on Emmerdale I was posted to a cruise ship as part of the PR to talk about how the soaps are made, and after 26 years on Emmerdale as well as stints on Corie, EastEnders and Take The High Road I have a few tales to tell and thousands of stills. I was then asked to expand and include how I went from DJ to TV and some of the huge movies I had been in. So, as a celebrity guess on cruise ships, I can make use of the stops and the footage may find it's way into all sorts of outputs whom we are talking to. But, I stay away from the front of camera, it is all done as Doris.